The town's newly elected Liberal Democrat MP Josh Babarinde never misses a chance to repeat his claim that Eastbourne is the sunniest town in the UK.
So it's a shame that Talking Pictures TV is showing the short film Eastbourne: Sun Trap of the South from 1966 at 4.40 tomorrow morning - an hour when, Lord Bonkers maintains, all new MPs should be in bed.
The film will probably be available afterwards on the channel's catch-up service TPTV Encore. But in case it's not, I am posting Sun Trap of the South here for Josh and everyone else to enjoy.
Josh Barbarinde also pointed out in his maiden speech that Eastbourne has the busiest food bank in the country. My grandfather lived in Eastbourne and died in 1966, which must have been aound the time that the holiday industry started to decline with the disastrous results that one can see today. A free market economy has no social conscience, and when a town loses its function it is beyond the resources of the state to invent a new one (apart from a few exceptional cases) which is why 'levelling up' was never going to work structurally - but no government is ever going to admit that. I wish Josh well - but Eastbourne's glory days are never going to return.
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