Welfare cuts: Blackpool takes stock

[@lukestephenson2704]

Thanks FT for showing a fair and balanced piece about the town, talking to its people and not doing a sneering hatchet job. As a Blackpool lad, I appreciate someone in the national media taking the time to do a bit of serious reporting regarding it.

[@MrTomadevil]

I've been living here for 1 year on minimum wage. I am working 30-35 hours per week. I don't get any benefits. This money is more than enough for an ordenary people. I have money for socializing, for fun, and I can buy mid-range clothes and whatever I want. The city is dirty, trying to be posh, but it can't be because of the tawdry rotting building and the rubbish. I am going to move from here. To live here is easy, but tolerate this city and its people very difficult.

[@Guronie]

@4.20. I hate to burst your bubble, Pastor, but your greatest fear for your country IS reality. Cf. recent huge survey with seven social classes in UK: The elite at the top and the precariat at the bottom, the poor, precarious proletariat. My heart bleeds. Regards y'all, Roger

[@raydematio7585]

Nothing to do with drugs, alcoholoism, benefits scrounging eh?

[@RB-yw9xv]

Hi I would love to be the person that helps be the person that helps bring people together to get Blackpool back on the path it needs to go there has been lots of construction work in Blackpool gowing on but unfortunately the workforce as been from other towns there are lots of good workers here why not yous them

[@chipbuttytime3396]

Council has money to house asylum seekers (border hoppers), what jobs there are get taken by Poles who save their money to take back to Poland for land and property, not spending it in the local economy. Recipe for disaster repeated all over the U.K

[@kopynd1]

they dont know what its like to struggle, weak as water, credit is the issue, if you cant pay cash u cant afford it, end ov, no prisoners