Originally Posted by
KornerKabin:
“Sounds very similar to my glorious home town - Hartlepool. Brexit central and UKIP's pet project for whipping its narrow-minded residents into a frenzy. Similar things with the council too, which seems to be made up people who argue and have fights during each council meeting. Oh and we also have two screaming queens as mayor and mayor...both of whom are shrouded in scandal 
I have lived elsewhere in the past but never quite managed to crack it long term.”
I know all about Hartlepool and the frenzy with UKIP and Brexit. Weston-super-Mare is Tory central, we have a head honcho who has been councillor since 1976 who represents a village on the outskirts of the town, two local Lib Dems councillors round here who have done f--k all, and the town centre councillor a rich businessman who is a Tory who bought his own election win (I stood against him and was 200 off beating him). UKIP have a councillor in the North of the town, and she's a cut and shut job - ignored the issues at a local secondary school, crime gone up in her ward and she has moved out of the borough! This is also pro-Brexit.
Mad world isn't it? In five to ten years, if things don't change I can see Weston being a ghost town. Where I live in the town centre, there is always trouble and we have the police out to one block almost nightly. You can't sleep most nights!