What Kind Of A Place Is Clacton?

[sandyRoe]

Would it be a place where Reform might prosper?

 

[DTCwordfan]

sandy beaches - huh? More like mud. As is often said, where there's Clacton ...., there's brass.

[douglas9401]

Big fan of Dr Feelgood back in the night.

[sandyRoe]

Wasn't there a television production about the Brexit campaign that set a scene in Jaywick?

[naomi24]

You've never been there, DTC.  

[naomi24]

Jaywick is the pits... but it isn't Clacton.  

[sandyRoe]

Brexit: The uncivil war, it was called.

[DTCwordfan]

actually I have, a long time ago.

[gulliver1]

19 47 Big round of applause now DTC has been to Blackpool.

[DTCwordfan]

Clacton-on-Sea is rather like Rome:
Everything's built for the dead,
and all the Nuns prefer to stay at home.

[naomi24]

And there's me thinking it's one of the few places you haven't been to, DTC - you being a man of the world and all that.  Well all I can say is if you'd been there you would know what it's like - but you don't. 

[DTCwordfan]

Not exactly on my list of places to go back to - I was, for a while, based further up the Anglian coast. The beaches do not compare to anything down here and Devon, excluding Carlyon Bay..or in fact those one finds in Northumberland or Northern Scotland on the 500. However, Clacton's are far better than those of the mud-flats of Blackpool or up to, heaven help those that visit there, Morecambe. Now they truly are ghastly - and the towns too.

[naomi24]

Pathetic.

[DTCwordfan]

bit damming - wot.....no rhyme or reason to insulting like that -and you're a Mod???

[Togo]

Must say that when I was there the beach at Clacton was all golden sand. I am aware that on that stretch of coast a storm can strip a beach and replace it again in days. They call it climate emergency now though. 

[DTCwordfan]

More seriously, I have never been impressed with the coastline of the Thames Estuary on its north shore until one gets round to Aldeburgh - and then forget the disaster called Great Yarmouth where I was based for a year, living in Gorleston. North of there has some lovely coastline though.

[naomi24]

DTC, merely an observation.

[DTCwordfan]

For example, how well do you know the south coast of Fife?  That to me is some of the most understated coastline in the UK. Politically, N.East Fife is with the Libs but the whole area, inc.Dunfermiline and Kirkcaldy could be a fair tussle with the SNP, Libs and Labour going head to head. I doubt Reform will have that much of an impact in that neck of the woods.

[naomi24]

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[Untitled]

does nigel farage have any connection to clacton? it seems like a particularly bad example of "parachuting"

[Untitled]

a Farage quote from The Times, Feb 11th 2024

"Richard Tice probably does want me to replace him. But do I want to be an MP? Do I want to spend every Friday for the next five years in Clacton?" 
 

well he doesn't seem to think very much of the place :/