The UK seaside town where 1 in 4 people are on benefits

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2059402/uk-seaside-town-benefits

Posted by SoggyWotsits

23 comments

  2. But but the immigrants! /s

    edit: sorry forgot the /s thought it was implied…jesus with the downvotes

  4. Never been to Blackpool. Was it good back in the day?

  5. Come here to Yarmouth, bet we can beat that record.

    Or maybe not, because so many people here don’t sign on preferring crime.

  6. 91% white Central Blackpool, 50% on benefits. Try spinning that one, Nigel.

  7. These benefits, do they come from the income tax we pay? 

  8. High OAP population and a Seaside town. No surprise.

  9. Problem with seaside towns is that their economy that gives rise to employment is based on tourism .

    If no one goes to seaside towns the economy suffers and unemployment becomes rife

  10. But this is what happens when you privatise everything & close down manufacturing industries, most people if they go on holiday go abroad, the internet is killing off shops & most other things are in the south

  12. Now do how many smack and crackheads are in Blackpool

  13. To add to what has already been said, it is worth considering what the national ratio of pensioners is. And in fact somewhere between 18-20% of the population is 65+, so pensioners aren’t massively overrepresented in Blackpool.

    There are be some calculations to be done about the relative proportion of adults 18-65, and what this has to tell us, but the takeaway is that if you count the state pension as a benefit, you would expect one in five people everywhere to be “on benefits.”

    To its meagre credit, the article does distinguish between the state pension and what it terms “a quarter of people claiming out-of-work benefits, such as universal credit, jobseeker’s allowance, and housing benefit.” If none of those people is also in receipt of the state pension, then in fact 45% of the total population including children are “receiving benefits.”

  14. Wonder how many people who don’t live there own all the property though….

  16. I still never understand why it’s given to say younger people should move to where the work is, but if you start that people over 35 do so it’s somehow seen as wrong. I think we need to start thinking about it just because someone wants to live somewhere doesn’t mean they should receive government money to do so if there is no economic reason for a settlement to exist.

  17. We really need to get away from calling them benefits and instead get back to what they are, welfare payments to keep people from literally dying of destitution. The only people it serves calling them benefits are those looking to gte rid of them entirely.

  18. We need better transport links for places like this,I would love to go to the beach for just a day.

  19. We keep propping up dying towns, hoping they’ll come back to life. Either we let them die if there’s no reason for them to exist, getting the residents into work elsewhere, or we pump money into an industry that they could thrive in. We can’t just leave the residents trapped there, depressed and unemployed.

  21. Before even clicking on the article, I thought it must be Blackpool

  23. “Reject and pay”… no thanks, I’ll just not read the article instead lol
    Fuck these news sites that make you pay for not wanting cookies…

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