Frinton actually, nobody with money would buy a house in Clacton
Fair point.
Just to make a small point, which I’m sure will be ignored, but the snobbery actually really irritates me.
I live in Clacton. I was born here, I moved back here (using my own money cheers Marky) and bought a property so that I can look after my elderly parents who it made sense to be closer to. I did so after a few years living closer to London for work.
There’s this idea online that everyone in Clacton is some idiot, scumbag who couldn’t possibly live in the, I’m sure, absolutely perfect areas people making these type of comments reside in.
Around me, I’m mostly surrounded by people of retirement age and older who fancy living out the rest of their lives by the sea, or, first time buyers who take advantage of being able to get on the housing ladder with property here being cheaper due to it being a seaside town. Since I’ve been back, I’ve had no issues, there are people here who aren’t the worlds best, but believe me, those sort of people live in your areas too.
What we do have is a rather large community of people who still believe in old fashioned community - a school uniform shop where you can donate the stuff your kid grows out of so people who can’t always afford new bits can pop in and get some help. For work, I drop into numerous support groups for various health conditions and keep them running and look for funding options, I work with the local volunteer service who help people with disabilities find employment by working on their CV’s and interview techniques with them. There are so many little family run businesses here that are still here from when I was a kid.
However since Nigel arrived and conned a lot of the town into thinking he cared about them, all I see online is that we’re all racist, we’re all idiots and the town isn’t worth anything. Whether that be from locals in Frinton who fought for years to not have a chip shop inside the gates in case it “lowered the level of the town” or people from across the UK who have never even been here.
Not everyone voted, and not everyone who did vote, went with Reform. The idea that Farage and his millionaire mates give a toss about me, or indeed any of you is insane. They’re grifters, and their only aim is to sew division and make you think it’s migrants underfunding your services, cutting your police, raising your energy bills, and making your weekly shop more expensive, because if youre blaming the migrants, you aren’t looking at Nige and co. (For what it’s worth, I don’t feel I belong to any political party, I couldn’t name a single party currently who I think genuinely have the best interests of the general British public at heart).
I absolutely hate where this world is headed currently, say you are happy for people to claim asylum? You must be a “lefty”, raise your countries flag? You must be “far right”. When did people stop being able to have any nuance of thought and be able to explain that actually a bit of a, and a bit of b is where you’re sat, and you don’t entirely agree with either side.
I apologise, you two I’m sure were making a bit of a light hearted jibe at a town, but this is about the 20th time today (and what feels like the 1000th time recently) I’ve read something slating the town I live in that I happen to know truly. It’s starting to grate.