It’s a strong Tory area. Voted overwhelmingly for Brexit. Actually, it’s a strong far-right area and Farage is popular here, in fact he has visited a few times. It’s just the place that a Tory would get a good welcome.
The Island is full of the sort of leave voters I despise. Poorly-educated uninformed knuckle-draggers who will fall for/believe anyone that appeals to their prejudices. The sort of people that actually believed that an extra £350m per week would be spent on the NHS or that leaving the EU would stop immigration from Asia and all the rest of the bullshit peddled by Farage, Johnson etc.
I can’t wait to leave. Every time I go to the supermarket I feel like punching someone.
It’s interesting that they go the areas where their support is strong rather than trying to win over people in areas where they are less strong. I guess a lot of party members are in the south of the country??
Bless your heart for NOT saying “north of Watford Gap” which is the rankest of rank geographical and cultural idiocies perpetrated so many times by many crackpot metropolitans who have never driven 76 miles up the M1 to Northamptonshire, location of the Watford Gap Motorway Service Station, which has nothing to do with Watford, Hertfordshire, on London’s northern fringes.
No different to Clacton innit… Both places should be pushed out into the North Sea
What’s particularly interesting about Canvey is the heavy dutch influence in their architecture.
You have to feel sorry for them really.
The place is nothing more than a floating petrol tanker with Shell Haven on its doorstep and a massive gas storage facility. One very unholy explosive mix.
There are two roads on/off the Island into Benfleet (where Hughie Green and his bit of stuff Monica Rose used to live).
In the event of some disaster befalling the island, one road is closed off for emergency services access to the island and the other for ‘escape’ by the islanders.
Asked once at emergency planning meeting in the '70’s where he would deploy his men and equipment in the even of a major fire/incident on Canvey involving Shell Haven (like if the everlasting flame stack went out) The Chief Fire Officer responded “somewhere north of Colchester Sir”.
