US Congressional candidate misuses image of English village

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BBC News: Essex village used in 'appalling' Trump candidate advert

"A United States congressional candidate has used a picture of a British seaside village to show what could happen if voters do not back President Trump.

An advert used an image of Jaywick Sands, near Clacton in Essex, to attack Nick Stella's Democrat opponent.

The campaign picture, which showed an unpaved road and rundown homes, said: "Help President Trump keep America on track and thriving."

It has received angry criticism from locals and Tendring District Council...

Jaywick was the most deprived neighbourhood in England in 2010 and 2015, according to the government's deprivation index.

Since then Essex County Council has completed a £6.5m programme to improve the roads and drainage.

Paul Honeywood, Tendring District Council Cabinet Member with special responsibility for Jaywick, said it was appalling to use the old image for political gain and said the village was on the up."
 
Or is it the opposite, voting Republican prevents English towns from teleporting to the US? Sounds like a case for Doctor Who!
 
Jaywick is one of the oddest places in Britain. It's more like a permanent gypsy camp crossed with an artists' collective than it is a village. It's dishonest to use it in the way it's been used, without context, and I'll bet it wouldn't be hard to find some far more run-down areas in the US.
 
Jaywick isn't representative of anything, it's very much unique in the UK and well known for it. As if they couldn't find a run down area in the US, there are millions of people over there living in far, far worse places.
 
dudalb said:
I presume that Jaywick has a large population of people with Brown Skins?
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No. From what I saw it was very much white. They just seemed like people who didn't want to live in mainstream society. Lots of artists. It's a hippy commune for the 2000s, sort-of.
 
Looking here, it appears to be one of the whitest places in Britain, albeit the figures may be interpreted as being for the whole district of Tendring rather than just Jaywick. The inhabitants are older, worse educated, and more likely to be on benefits than the rest of Essex and the UK, but more likely to own their own homes.
 
baron said:
Jaywick isn't representative of anything, it's very much unique in the UK and well known for it. As if they couldn't find a run down area in the US, there are millions of people over there living in far, far worse places.
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There are places in the US where just seeing a photo of them requires a tetanus booster.
 
MikeG said:
Jaywick is one of the oddest places in Britain. It's more like a permanent gypsy camp crossed with an artists' collective than it is a village. It's dishonest to use it in the way it's been used, without context, and I'll bet it wouldn't be hard to find some far more run-down areas in the US.
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TragicMonkey said:
There are places in the US where just seeing a photo of them requires a tetanus booster.
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Detroit?
 
baron said:
No. It's possibly the whitest demographic in the UK, around 99% white.
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Actually, that's not true, there are many whiter areas, including where I live now (I never knew that).
 
TragicMonkey said:
Is not as bad as people think. I was actually thinking of some of the worse-off rural areas. At least in a city, even a bad one, there are services and infrastructure.
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There are some small communities in the California Central Valley that look like something right out of Steinbeck's "The Grapes Of Wrath".
 
MikeG said:
No. From what I saw it was very much white. They just seemed like people who didn't want to live in mainstream society. Lots of artists. It's a hippy commune for the 2000s, sort-of.
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OK, the UK's answer to Sedonia, Arizona....which has to be seen to be believed.
 
Compared to some actual images from the USA that I've seen on Google Streetview, that place looks positively thriving.

Detroit, anyone? Or any number of one-horse-and-a-dirt-road "towns" in some of the southern states.


ETA: I see someone already said Detroit. I rest my case.
 
Hercules Rockefeller said:
(Sedona) Looks really nice, but why did someone feel the need to ruin it with a big-ass church?
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You have to actually visit Sedonia to understand it's craziness. It basically sort of Ground Zero for Hippie Style New Age Nuttiness. And ,yeah, it is some beautiful high desert country.
 
Rolfe said:
Compared to some actual images from the USA that I've seen on Google Streetview, that place looks positively thriving.

Detroit, anyone? Or any number of one-horse-and-a-dirt-road "towns" in some of the southern states.


ETA: I see someone already said Detroit. I rest my case.
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Oh,Sedonia is a beautiful place but the description of Jaywick as a "Lots of artists. It's a hippy commune for the 2000s, sort-of. " fits Sedonia to a T and is what led to my post about Sedonia.

I do get the feeling that the hippies of Sedonia are more affluent then the hippies of Jaywick, though.

And I nominate Bakersfield, CA as a place I would not want to live.....
 
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autumn1971 said:
There are reservations out west that brought my wife to tears just driving through them.
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dudalb said:
Yes, a drive through any Native Amereican Reservation is a sobering experience.
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My first thought as well. Even the ones with all the casinos. The more remote ones are simply sad. Try visiting the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in Montana some time. Pretty much middle of nowhere and poverty city. 43.1% of Lame Deer below the poverty line and that's the big city on the rez, probably worse elsewhere.

The location is southeast of the Custer battlefield, and that's not a coincidence. The Crow tribe, "good Indians" who scouted for Custer, got the good land. The Cheyenne, who fought him, got put in the worst place the feds could imagine at the time.
 
And concerning Hippies, last place on earth to see real hippies and dropouts is the Hatigh Ashbury district of San Francisco. It has become a big Hippie themed Tourist Trap.
 
MikeG said:
Jaywick is one of the oddest places in Britain. It's more like a permanent gypsy camp crossed with an artists' collective than it is a village. It's dishonest to use it in the way it's been used, without context, and I'll bet it wouldn't be hard to find some far more run-down areas in the US.
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That's the connection,we know that Republicans hate caravans even more than Jeremy Clarkson does!
 
dudalb said:
Oh,Sedonia is a beautiful place but the description of Jaywick as a "Lots of artists. It's a hippy commune for the 2000s, sort-of. " fits Sedonia to a T and is what led to my post about Sedonia.

I do get the feeling that the hippies of Sedonia are more affluent then the hippies of Jaywick, though.

And I nominate Bakersfield, CA as a place I would not want to live.....
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Used to have some nice music, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakersfield_sound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XYTSqC55DA
 
Why use a photo from there? Did they not do any checking before using it?

Perhaps the photo should be captioned "one of the most deprived areas of the UK, 100% health coverage including pre-existing conditions, this is what you may get if you vote in Democrats"
 
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