Nathalie’s in Blackpool – star role in poverty porn article

[A Decent Fist]

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Thoroughly depressing read. 

[chrishornx]

Not a good read but pretty accurate

[Fac51]

Christ that is a depressing read 

I have happy memories from Blackpool day trips as a kid....not sure I would want to visit now 

[Blackpool Rock]

Christ that is a depressing read 

I have happy memories from Blackpool day trips as a kid....not sure I would want to visit now 

There was another thread on here a couple of months ago, the front is OK but you only have to go back a couple of streets in certain areas to see a shithole 

Personally I don't see the full horrors of what the article portrays but then again I avoid the shitty areas and i'm very careful where I go at night.

The article opens with a shitty parlour (I went once about 15 or so years ago) which immediately implies that the town is a hotbed of parlours and prostitution however punting wise it really isn't.
Again by implication it's almost trying to say that the towns issues are down to prostitution whereas it's more down to drugs and the place being generally rundown and unfortunately a magnet for those who are down on their luck meaning the cycle just continues

[Dickled]

The last time I was in Blackpool was about 8 years ago. Having read about Cookson Street, I had a walk down it.
I remember it was a dull, drizzly day, but that notwithstanding, the area just seemed to radiate an ugliness and a sourness that I found totally repelling.
Added to this I remember reading a news report some time ago where a guy had tried to buy sex off some woman in the area. She took him to some back alley spot where they were interrupted by two of the woman's male accomplices, one of whom proceeded to virtually gut the hapless punter, leaving his innards hanging out.
Miraculously, the guy survived, but I remember reading, in police interview, the perpetrator showed not a whiff of contrition or regret.
I'm reminded of a Stephen King novel, where an area can exude a kind of canker and potential menace in terms of the kind of people it attracts.
Possibly a bit OTT I suppose, but those are the impressions I have about that part of Blackpool.

[scutty brown]

A lot of inaccuracies in the article
For instance there's no way Nathalie's would have been the only place open: the Blackpool Thai parlour would have been, along Thai Paradise round the corner. Also usually one of the EE parlours the other side of Cookson st would probably have been open during the day.
The Central Drive comments are a bit OTT: yes the street is pretty much derelict, but there's usually only a couple of houses holding Rom prossies, not a whole street of them. Having said that, it is a dangerous place to wander at night.
Interesting that in the comments about the MP and the teen sex workers (which was ten years ago) they seem unaware that the SW was a gay Brazilian escort, who later went on to try blackmailing another MP.
The bit about a Rom newsagent trying to procure young girls is new to me - I would have expected  to have heard about that if true, unless it happened a long time ago.
Overall there are elements of truth in most of what they say, but much of it is overegged

[bdyno]

Overall there are elements of truth in most of what they say, but much of it is overegged

That's standard journalism isn't it?

[scutty brown]

That's standard journalism isn't it?

unfortunately so