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Poverty and weariness in Nigel Farage’s Clacton | Letters

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Poverty and weariness in Nigel Farage’s Clacton | Letters

Vanessa Scanlan says the constituency is desperately in need of a decent MP who would offer genuine support for the problems it faces.

Plus letters from Leila Roberts and Richard Ellis I live in the Clacton constituency, in one of the surrounding villages, some distance from the town, and I agree with Sarah Elizabeth Cox’s characterisation of the town ( Farage has turned Clacton into a human zoo.

Here’s the truth about what’s happening here, 12 August ).

When I go to Clacton to take my kids to the beach or to the cinema, there is a sudden shift in the character of the area.

The deprivation radiates in some streets.

It is painful to see the residents so keenly in need of a decent MP to offer genuine support for a town with so many problems being exploited by Nigel Farage.

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