todayistheday
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Most dangerous town in Lancashire.
Murder capital of Britain.They said `In Britain' on the radio.
It's a rate of crime not absolute numbers, which is more meaningful as it tells people how likely they are to be a victim of crime.Heard this on TalkTV this morning that was announced on the programme by Nicola Thorp who's born and bred here. I thought at the time what utter bollox, how can it be more dangerous than London? Not sure how this has been measured but doesn't sound right.
No, light governance of absentee landlords has done this.We have taken in the dregs from the rest of the country
Removed, offensive content.Let them pitch a tent in your back garden. You could provide them tea, coffee, cake and your wisdom.
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No, light governance of absentee landlords has done this.
Thatcher saved this country - she didn’t ruin it, that’s happened since!If the cheap bedsits and HMO's weren't here, people in desperate straits might think twice about settling in Blackpool.
The Council and the Housing Associations have done a great job in building homes to rent around Rigby Road. If Tory Governments hadn't hamstrung them, they could buy up and demolish the eyesore houses around Central Drive, Dickson Road etc, and replace them with public sector housing.
Like nearly all of my contemporaries, I was brought up in a Council house. We then had the bitch Thatcher who socially engineered the demise of Council houses - and left the crap we have now.
She did untold damage to this country, and we're still suffering over 30 years after she was ousted
Maybe the millions of visitors just come to gawp at the poverty and crime before going back to the leafy suburbs.I read Lancashire, I’m surprised anyone wants to come here, dangerous, deprived,life expectancy, shithole
She sold off the Family Jewels and fucked the Country fir short term gain. And I say that as someone who had a boyhood crush on her.Thatcher saved this country - she didn’t ruin it, that’s happened since!
The UK was the diseased person of Europe in 1979 when she came to power - mainly down to the Unions and a terrible Labour government.
What I would have given for her to be in power at her prime for the last 10 years at least.
Maggie
Who got rid of her? It wasn't the Conservative Party was it? Well who'd have thunk it?Thatcher saved this country - she didn’t ruin it, that’s happened since!
The UK was the diseased person of Europe in 1979 when she came to power - mainly down to the Unions and a terrible Labour government.
What I would have given for her to be in power at her prime for the last 10 years at least.
Maggie
You had what?....That explains a lot.She sold off the Family Jewels and fucked the Country fir short term gain. And I say that as someone who had a boyhood crush on her.
Afraid so… I still go weak at the knees when I see the image of her in the tank..You had what?....That explains a lot.
No l get that. Blackpool like any other town, city, village in the UK has a crime problem but the criteria that we are potentially being measured by is skewed by the vast number of visitors and that’s never mentioned! Its just another gutter assessment that wants to blemish the town further without comparing the facts. How can Blackpool be more dangerous than London where stabbings are out of control? I watched a TV interview today where the interviewee said it was safer to live in Israel than London!It's a rate of crime not absolute numbers, which is more meaningful as it tells people how likely they are to be a victim of crime.
She sold off the Family Jewels and fucked the Country fir short term gain. And I say that as someone who had a boyhood crush on her.
Not really…That's a very brave admission BFC3. We all make mistakes in our youth. You've obviously realised the error of your ways.
Really - what about parts of the east end of Glasgow, parts of south east London etc
I can think of lots of areas more violent
The media loves the bad news. Blackpool could improve from the worst at something to 20th worst, going in the right direction let's say.174th most dangerous location out of all towns, cities, and villages.
Copied from The Gazette.
But the most dangerous place in Lancashire which hasn't had Manchester & Liverpool and all it's surrounding towns in it for ages and gets millions of visitors every year.
As ever utter bollocks.
Maybe the millions of visitors just come to gawp at the poverty and crime before going back to the leafy suburbs.
Even a Preston man thinks it's lovely...You've really hit the nail on the head there MAC.
Blackpool is not perfect but there is no way that it would still be able to attract so many families - many wiith young kids - if it really was a dangerous place.
Utter propaganda from the same people who brought you 10 million Turks are coming to swing the Brexit vote.Thatcher saved this country - she didn’t ruin it, that’s happened since!
The UK was the diseased person of Europe in 1979 when she came to power - mainly down to the Unions and a terrible Labour government.
What I would have given for her to be in power at her prime for the last 10 years at least.
Maggie
Rubbish!Utter propaganda from the same people who brought you 10 million Turks are coming to swing the Brexit vote.
That woman destroyed the fabric of the North of England and it has never recovered.
In what way?Rubbish!
We wouldnt have all this shit now if Maggie was here , we would lead our own country.Thatcher saved this country - she didn’t ruin it, that’s happened since!
The UK was the diseased person of Europe in 1979 when she came to power - mainly down to the Unions and a terrible Labour government.
What I would have given for her to be in power at her prime for the last 10 years at least.
Maggie
Really? Over London, Birmingham, Nottingham, Manchester?Murder capital of Britain.
They should ban advertising them.And now we’re one of the unhealthiest because we have more take aways than anywhere except London
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It is not just the front, Blackpool zoo is a cracking little zoo and a massive visitor attraction. And the visitors to the zoo also see how nice Stanley park is.You've really hit the nail on the head there MAC.
Blackpool is not perfect but there is no way that it would still be able to attract so many families - many wiith young kids - if it really was a dangerous place.
Based on population I would say so.Really? Over London, Birmingham, Nottingham, Manchester?
I don't. It's bedsit land and the undesirables that are on the streets in these areas of Blackpool.I blame all the destitute and homeless pitching their tents in the town centre
Stuff like this needs a proper investigation, where is the investigative journalism when you need it?I was talking to a paramedic a while ago, he was telling me they had just picked someone up in Blackpool town centre. He had no ID apart from a letter of release from Brixton prison with a Blackpool address he could stop at. Allegedly they seems to give them these addresses in "Blackpool" for them to stay. Obviously I cant vouch for the truth in this, but it really wouldn't surprise me.
But those decisions created a void that hasn't been filled with anything that generally makes the country a better place for most of us to live inTh country (including the North) was screwed before she became PM.
Yes she made some tough but correct decisions.
Did you miss Brexit? That's what it was all about.We wouldnt have all this shit now if Maggie was here , we would lead our own country.
And one positive you can say about Thatcher is that she didn't advocate leaving the EU, it was good for business and our economy was nosediving after the Suez situation and before we formed closer links with Europe.Did you miss Brexit? That's what it was all about.
She made it possible to improve your lot, from council house purchase to flexibility of work force.But those decisions created a void that hasn't been filled. Most of the decisions, were and are, made to benefit a few who inflict trickle down economics on the rest.
I understand the people who benefitted financially loving Thatcher and voting Conservative what baffles me is the poor sops who vote for them on the back of a sense of misguided/warped patriotism.