I wish they’d stop

[Matesrates]

Sky news report once again stressing that 8 out of10 of the most deprived areas in the country are here. This was a report looking at whether Liz Truss will get the vote here.

 

[poolseasider]

Sky news report once again stressing that 8 out of10 of the most deprived areas in the country are here. This was a report looking at whether Liz Truss will get the vote here.

• Income
• Employment
• Health deprivation and disability
• Education, skills and training
• Crime
• Barriers to housing and services
• Living environment

You can look at each individually how they work work out a deprived area and brings us down
Income-Holiday town when average is min wage
Employment-Seasonal locals lose their jobs or hours cut when season shuts down.
Crime-19 million visitors who some will get arrested.
Health-As above some will get ill.
Living enviroment-Nonsense great place to live

 

[Malced]

I love Blackpool but it actually does have all these problems.

Saying it’s cos of seasonal work and low pay doesn’t merely explain the problems away. They’re just well known causes.

Lower pay and people out of work leads to crime and poor health.

I’m all for the surveys if they lead to policy makers doing something for Blackpool.

A bit of mis-placed pride in our town isn’t gonna cut it.

 

[Ollygon]

This is difficult.

I've lived in Blackpool for over 50 years. All of that has been north of the Gynn, but once you go south from there until you get to the old railway bridge on Lytham Road, most of the area in between really is a shit hole.

Because of the nature of the housing, it's inevitably inhabited by people who are on low incomes, and/or benefits. This cheap housing does attract people from other towns who are on very low incomes, and so the downward spiral continues.

I don't know what the answer is, but large scale raising to the ground would be a good solution for quite a few of the streets off Dickson Road, Devonshire Road, Lytham Road and Central Drive.

And yet in Stanley Park we have probably the best park in the country, and a fantastic open space called the beach.

I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

 

[TangerineBayern]

This is difficult.

I've lived in Blackpool for over 50 years. All of that has been north of the Gynn, but once you go south from there until you get to the old railway bridge on Lytham Road, most of the area in between really is a shit hole.

Because of the nature of the housing, it's inevitably inhabited by people who are on low incomes, and/or benefits. This cheap housing does attract people from other towns who are on very low incomes, and so the downward spiral continues.

I don't know what the answer is, but large scale raising to the ground would be a good solution for quite a few of the streets off Dickson Road, Devonshire Road, Lytham Road and Central Drive.

And yet in Stanley Park we have probably the best park in the country, and a fantastic open space called the beach.

I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

And we have a promenade stretching from Starr Gate to Fleetwood that is the best in the country.