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By *ssex_tom OP Man
over a year ago
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A Tory MP has been slagging off both Birmingham and Blackpool. Now Tom has never really been to Birmingham but the people that he has met from Birmingham have been great. Tom remembers Blackpool fondly from trips to see the lights, the piers, the tower and the prom and trams. Yes it is a seaside town, like many others, in some decline but that MP was bang out of order.. Tom is no animal lover but he loved watching the donkeys on the beach..
Hope this MP is not reappointed. Any Blackpool lovers on here ... ? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I hate the centre of Birmingham. If depression had a capital city that would be it. It's just grey and dirty from all the vehicle fumes.
I've not been to Blackpool for over 10yrs but I wasn't impressed last time I went either. |
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By *tooveMan
over a year ago
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"A Tory MP has been slagging off both Birmingham and Blackpool. Now Tom has never really been to Birmingham but the people that he has met from Birmingham have been great. Tom remembers Blackpool fondly from trips to see the lights, the piers, the tower and the prom and trams. Yes it is a seaside town, like many others, in some decline but that MP was bang out of order.. Tom is no animal lover but he loved watching the donkeys on the beach..
Hope this MP is not reappointed. Any Blackpool lovers on here ... ?"
Why is Tom speaking in the third person? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Blackpool is....fine. I live just south of it, but used to live and work there.
The prom itself is lovely and, by and large, a nice walk. The buildings on the prom need knocking down and starting again. The town centre is nothing special. And a large large chunk of the people here are transient and..... interesting. There are a lot of really good people there, but they are hard to spot inamongst the dossers and the tourists. Mainly cos they tend to stay out of it |
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"Sadly, a lot of major cities are depressing & dirty in the uk. I hate London for the same reason. Everywhere has beautiful parts too. Blackpool is a dump, I don’t disagree! I’ve seen worse though  "
Parts of Birmingham are lovely, parts are like a war zone. I no longer visit Birmingham.
Blackpool pleasure beach is the only draw for me, not really bothered with the rest of the place. Was great when I was young. I visited about 5 years ago and couldn’t believe how run down it looked.
If people fly of for sunny hols and don’t spend their money at uk resorts, this is typically what happens to them.
Blackpool isn’t as bad as some uk resorts though.
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Since im both lancashire and yorkshire both sides of the family 
We actually call it muckypool.
But theres a few reasons for it one is where all the sewage is dumped into the sea.
Theres alot more now than when it was.
The other being the nuclear power station at heysham morecomb.
Whilst they both dump there waste into the sea, the sewage side has always had a bad rep.
Whilst ive never had my feet in the sea or swam it my father has and was coated in some sort of stuff. he also beccame very ill and had a sever reaction.
Only place he ever has done.
Whilst ive been to events and partys there i stay well out of the water.
Have been for the lights and funfair, trams and horse and cart.
Its not the place for me
More so when blackpool added casinos to the place.
Blackpool has changed but not for the better its worse than I remember it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It’s hilarious that this Tory MP is shitting on Blackpool and Birmingham whilst being a constituent MP for Derby South. I’ve lived in Derby and they place has deteriorated to a ghost town shit hole . Talking about the pot calling the kettle.
It’s typical of these Tories and their so called levelling up programme. Disingenuous toads the lot of them. |
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By *ssex_tom OP Man
over a year ago
Chelmsford |
"A Tory MP has been slagging off both Birmingham and Blackpool. Now Tom has never really been to Birmingham but the people that he has met from Birmingham have been great. Tom remembers Blackpool fondly from trips to see the lights, the piers, the tower and the prom and trams. Yes it is a seaside town, like many others, in some decline but that MP was bang out of order.. Tom is no animal lover but he loved watching the donkeys on the beach..
Hope this MP is not reappointed. Any Blackpool lovers on here ... ?
Why is Tom speaking in the third person?"
That's what we both do ..  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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not wanting to disagree with you and your opinions, but as of a couple years ago, the beach and water ratings in Blackpool ranged from good to excellent.
the pollution thing is very old and outdated now |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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blackpool has been run to the ground breaks my heart had many good time as a kid there as adults we still pop up for a naughty weekend here n there ...black pool need major money poured in for the local people first then major rethink to get the fun back ..
brum is home the place i was born and lived til i was 18 we watched it go down hill when i moved to somerset took me a while to adjust lol ... the money spent in the city center with the new bullring and other project have been a mess the've killed the markets they killed people traveling in from all around ...but some areas on the outskirts like solihull have really improved of late ... the citys are all the same all looking down trodden until london stops being the major vacume for money it will always be the same ...
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"It’s hilarious that this Tory MP is shitting on Blackpool and Birmingham whilst being a constituent MP for Derby South. I’ve lived in Derby and they place has deteriorated to a ghost town shit hole . Talking about the pot calling the kettle.
It’s typical of these Tories and their so called levelling up programme. Disingenuous toads the lot of them. "
new labour did just as much damage both as bad as one another ....london rules stuff everywhere else |
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"not wanting to disagree with you and your opinions, but as of a couple years ago, the beach and water ratings in Blackpool ranged from good to excellent.
the pollution thing is very old and outdated now"
You need to shut up with what you dont know.
just do a google search blackpool has always been a raw sewage area since 1937
recent ones
https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/blackpool-among-lancashire-beaches-contaminated-21996592
https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/environment/mass-pollution-alert-after-sewage-released-into-sea-from-fleetwood-to-st-annes-3721860 |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"A Tory MP has been slagging off both Birmingham and Blackpool. Now Tom has never really been to Birmingham but the people that he has met from Birmingham have been great. Tom remembers Blackpool fondly from trips to see the lights, the piers, the tower and the prom and trams. Yes it is a seaside town, like many others, in some decline but that MP was bang out of order.. Tom is no animal lover but he loved watching the donkeys on the beach..
Hope this MP is not reappointed. Any Blackpool lovers on here ... ?"
So because a person dislikes an area in the UK, they should not be reappointed, yet the Crime Minister has parties in lockdown and no one bats an eyelid. What a bizarre sense of outrage people have. |
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"not wanting to disagree with you and your opinions, but as of a couple years ago, the beach and water ratings in Blackpool ranged from good to excellent.
the pollution thing is very old and outdated now"
"You need to shut up with what you dont know.
just do a google search blackpool has always been a raw sewage area since 1937
recent ones
https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/blackpool-among-lancashire-beaches-contaminated-21996592
https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/environment/mass-pollution-alert-after-sewage-released-into-sea-from-fleetwood-to-st-annes-3721860"
The OP is right, the Fylde coast's beaches range from good to excellent. Since the completion of the works at Anchorsholme, water quality has improved significantly.
The first of the news articles you posted above is just a scare piece from Surfers Against Sewage, saying that water quality "may be affected". In the middle of that article there is a link to another news story talking about how good the water quality is at most of the beaches. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"not wanting to disagree with you and your opinions, but as of a couple years ago, the beach and water ratings in Blackpool ranged from good to excellent.
the pollution thing is very old and outdated now
You need to shut up with what you dont know.
just do a google search blackpool has always been a raw sewage area since 1937
recent ones
https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/blackpool-among-lancashire-beaches-contaminated-21996592
https://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/environment/mass-pollution-alert-after-sewage-released-into-sea-from-fleetwood-to-st-annes-3721860
The OP is right, the Fylde coast's beaches range from good to excellent. Since the completion of the works at Anchorsholme, water quality has improved significantly.
The first of the news articles you posted above is just a scare piece from Surfers Against Sewage, saying that water quality "may be affected". In the middle of that article there is a link to another news story talking about how good the water quality is at most of the beaches."
Beat me to it. thanks dude.
also, the gazette article is literally about a situation in extreme circumstances, and one that is legally permitted I might add. Not something that is the norm at all |
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As someone who grew up and lived in Blackpool/Cleveleys/Fleetwood for over 40 years I've seen a lot of changes in the town.
Firstly the water quality. In the 70's/80's and early 90's I fished the waters of the Fylde coast both from beach and boat and in those days the water was bloody horrible.
When we used to go down at low tide digging bait we even had nicknames for our discoveries. "Sea Mice" were very common as were "Sand Balloons" and "Richards" were everywhere.
That was then. Nowadays only treated water is pumped out into the bay and the general water quality is vastly superior.
Blackpool itself is doing a lot to try to clean up its image and the sea front and town centre is coming along even in these difficult times. There is still plenty to do and the national high street crisis isn't helping.
Blackpool's tourist industry has been in decline since the late 60's. The days of families having 2 weeks in a guest house are long gone, Benidorm and Mallorca (among many others) saw to that.
Which is why many of the old guest houses were converted into cheap low quality flats which in turn (as someone commented above) has attracted a transient population with all its associated problems.
Blackpool now rely's on day trippers to the lights, Pleasure Beach Etc. And weekenders who tend to spend most of the day sleeping off the previous nights booze.
In the last 10 years I lived there I very rarely ventured into Blackpool centre at night, even though I was single then. It was just way too troublesome. My regular Friday night out was always in Poulton.
So going back to the MP's comment.
Yes Blackpool has got some "Godawful" parts but I can take you to dozens (if not hundreds) of towns and city's in the UK with the same.
Blackpool is working hard to move forward so don't write the place off just yet. |
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Just to add on the water quality.
Many people think that because the water nearly always looks a dirty grey/brown colour that it is polluted.
That is not true.
It is from a combination of 6 rivers (from the Dee to the Kent) that drain into the sea on a small stretch of coastline, and the prevailing south westerly wind which keeps the silt (sand) in an almost permanent state of suspension. Nowt to do with sewage. |
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Been to Birmingham once and wouldn't plan on going again or recommend to anyone
Likewise was in Blackpool a few years back found it to be a grim horrible place.
No offence to anyone that lives there, just my own experiences of those places. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Been to Birmingham once and wouldn't plan on going again or recommend to anyone
Likewise was in Blackpool a few years back found it to be a grim horrible place.
No offence to anyone that lives there, just my own experiences of those places."
Massive underinvestment is the root cause, with vanity projects which don’t address the social and economic decline.
This government is all about window dressing, no substance, it’s like the Hapsburg’s all over again, with a blubbering incompetent slob as the last in its inbred line.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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50% correct Blackpool is a run down shit hole best thing is to lift the trams and demolish it and start again boarded up shops charity shops and laundrette and don't get with the shit bb on Albert Rd area. |
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By *abioMan
over a year ago
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Why is Tom speaking in the third person?"
Sod everything else in this thread this is the main question……
P.s I had Tom not even going anywhere north of the a14… let alone Blackpool
P.p.s the third person thing… mucho creepy!!!! |
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By *ssex_tom OP Man
over a year ago
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Why is Tom speaking in the third person?
Sod everything else in this thread this is the main question……
P.s I had Tom not even going anywhere north of the a14… let alone Blackpool
P.p.s the third person thing… mucho creepy!!!!"
Begone you fool.. |
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By *atEvolutionCouple
over a year ago
atlantisEVOLUTION Swingers Club. Stoke |
"A Tory MP has been slagging off both Birmingham and Blackpool. Now Tom has never really been to Birmingham but the people that he has met from Birmingham have been great. Tom remembers Blackpool fondly from trips to see the lights, the piers, the tower and the prom and trams. Yes it is a seaside town, like many others, in some decline but that MP was bang out of order.. Tom is no animal lover but he loved watching the donkeys on the beach..
Hope this MP is not reappointed. Any Blackpool lovers on here ... ?"
Last time I went to Blackpool they had built a new Travelodge and shut 19 seafront hotels - stepped over puke 11 times at 3am on the Sickly Yellow Mile - dodge 3 groups of people fighting - had to go across to the promenade side of the seafront to avoid being involved in a fight just inside the outer eating area of Yates - Watched two girls pulling each other hair out outside the Manchester because of a Karaoke song that one thought she was better at an got a parking ticket (from an un signed street that didn't allow our 9 seater mini-bus.
Yea. The Politician called it right. It's a hole.
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By *atEvolutionCouple
over a year ago
atlantisEVOLUTION Swingers Club. Stoke |
"And between 8am and 6pm families enjoy their family holiday "
https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/blackpool-among-lancashire-beaches-contaminated-21996592
'Blackpool among the Lancashire beaches contaminated by human waste amid raw sewage scandal
'Warnings have been issued to visitors at Blackpool, St Anne's, Cleveleys and Bispham'
Lovely. What Family holidays are made of. |
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By *atEvolutionCouple
over a year ago
atlantisEVOLUTION Swingers Club. Stoke |
"Just because you visit Blackpool does not mean you have to swim in the sea "
That famous seaside town called Blackpool? You mean?
'Mum. Dad. we want to go to the beach. Sorry kids, there is too much poo - let’s go start a fight in Yates instead'.
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"And between 8am and 6pm families enjoy their family holiday
https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/blackpool-among-lancashire-beaches-contaminated-21996592
'Blackpool among the Lancashire beaches contaminated by human waste amid raw sewage scandal
'Warnings have been issued to visitors at Blackpool, St Anne's, Cleveleys and Bispham'
Lovely. What Family holidays are made of."
Yes warnings were issued for 48 hours last October after severe weather caused a one off problem with storm water causing the system to overflow.
Storm/flood water overwhelming sewers can happen anywhere. And quite often does.
However when it happens in Blackpool it seems to be a bandwagon that the knockers of the town like to jump on.
BTW. Who the hell would want to swim in the sea of Blackpool in October anyway? Hypothermia would be a much bigger problem. |
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"https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/blackpool-among-lancashire-beaches-contaminated-21996592
'Blackpool among the Lancashire beaches contaminated by human waste amid raw sewage scandal"
That article is just a scare piece set up by Surfers Against Sewage, who say that there have been storm overflows, and "water quality may be affected".
If you read on, the article states that all of the beaches in the area have been rated either 'good' or 'excellent'. In the middle of that article there is a 'read more' link, that takes you to another article which talks about how good the beaches are. |
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"https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/blackpool-among-lancashire-beaches-contaminated-21996592
'Blackpool among the Lancashire beaches contaminated by human waste amid raw sewage scandal
That article is just a scare piece set up by Surfers Against Sewage, who say that there have been storm overflows, and "water quality may be affected".
If you read on, the article states that all of the beaches in the area have been rated either 'good' or 'excellent'. In the middle of that article there is a 'read more' link, that takes you to another article which talks about how good the beaches are."
Yes. Well pointed out.  |
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Makes me laugh people who slag blackpool of nobody forces you to come here. Like everywhere in the country it has good and bad points .lived here all my life and yes it's not like it use to be here boarded up shops.a lot of druggies . (Which most have moved to the resort from other towns ) unfortunately all our council care about is the promenade so it looks nice for visitors. If you don't like blackpool don't come simples |
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By *tokie62Man
over a year ago
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This tory mp has probably never been to Blackpool or brum yet she thinks she is clever enough to slag it off, why people vote for these dinosaurs is beyond me.
For the record Blackpool has both good and bad parts just like any other town in the UK. |
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By *irldnCouple
over a year ago
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"A Tory MP has been slagging off both Birmingham and Blackpool. Now Tom has never really been to Birmingham but the people that he has met from Birmingham have been great. Tom remembers Blackpool fondly from trips to see the lights, the piers, the tower and the prom and trams. Yes it is a seaside town, like many others, in some decline but that MP was bang out of order.. Tom is no animal lover but he loved watching the donkeys on the beach..
Hope this MP is not reappointed. Any Blackpool lovers on here ... ?"
Why do you talk about yourself in the third person? |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"A Tory MP has been slagging off both Birmingham and Blackpool. Now Tom has never really been to Birmingham but the people that he has met from Birmingham have been great. Tom remembers Blackpool fondly from trips to see the lights, the piers, the tower and the prom and trams. Yes it is a seaside town, like many others, in some decline but that MP was bang out of order.. Tom is no animal lover but he loved watching the donkeys on the beach..
Hope this MP is not reappointed. Any Blackpool lovers on here ... ?
Why do you talk about yourself in the third person?"
He's always sits in front of the mirror when on fab.  |
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By *amish SMan
over a year ago
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With any city, any place it's preconceptions that are the problem. I often travel to Birmingham for work purposes, and just love it. Likewise Wolves, Dudley, Coventry, all very different.
Maybe I'm just a one off but I also like Djibouti and also Freetown in Sierra Leone, rough and tough, but once immersed in the places not hard to see a nicer side. |
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I went to Blackpool once as a teenager. Never thought about it again until this thread emerged.
Can't remember much now, but I do recall a tower thing.
I recall thinking it was less impressive than the Empire State Building which we visited the year before, and I wondered if I'd been naughty and this holiday was a punishment.
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"First and last impression of Blackpool was it's a shithole but that's more of a reflection on the people that visit it than the place itself "
people who are old before there time should visit Eastbourne instead then lol
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By (user no longer on site)
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Blackpool is like anywhere….
It is what you make it! If you want Party you will find Party, if you want pub crawls, you will find pub crawls, if you want luxury, you will find Luxury!
BlackPool isn’t just a Promenade! It has much much more to offer and usually what people don’t see! |
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"Blackpool what a dump if Russia was to invade Blackpool I would fight with the Russianssays someone from Manchester wtf lol"
id rather live here in shitty blackpool than manchester anyday.why would Russia invade Blackpool what a pathetic comment.take it you agree with everything russia is doing at the moment killing innocent people.sad sad man.
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