TeaA residential road in the suburbs of Blackpool, Talbot is not the kind of pub that expects you to travel from all over the country.
And yet, thanks to your Grand Rebrand as the world’s first Improvement UK Pub -Complete people with a new turquoise-blue paint job Nigel Faraj Fans have created pilgrimage as Scotland and Northern Ireland to tell their comrades that they have a pint in the new political pub.
As soon as you enter, your eyes are adjusted with bright lankashire incense outside the flicker of GB news on every screen. Fruit machines are exploded from the Dulaset Ton Jekebox of Jingle and Belinda Carlisle. This, the locals are hurry to tell me, a “real buzzer”.
As I reach the bar, I think of Carling Export for a Pint £ 2.60, although it is not given to the European Heavyweight Stella, Madri and Cruzcampo to European Heavyweight Stela, Madri and Cruzcampo.
The Vinky ‘Vote for Reform’ posters are hung next to the offerings of three shots for £ 5 – both are designed using the same 90s Microsoft Clip Art – while other notices tell the locals that a tribute act will take place in August, which will be all the way from the benidorm.
It is a standard northern community pub from the bar; Elderly couples stare at each other in silence on hot Els, local trademen play a few rounds of pool (20p A game) on their lunch brake, and in the corner, stress on the dart graj match.
Talbot started life as a conservative social club about 100 years ago, but blamed it for some extent in today’s political scenario for some extent, thanks to landlords Nicolas Lowe and Peter Fline.
The pair have run the pub for more than 15 years, but with the increase in electricity bills in the last six months and lagging behind in the footfall, they decided to see if a ribrand could reverse its luck after the widespread success of the reform during local elections, which raised the party 677 counsel seats.
The 86-year-old Raymond Head covered a distance of 200 miles from “Labor-controlled” Steven after watching the pub on GB News.
He said: “I thought, if I am going to support someone, I want to support this man. I want to come here and drink a drink here. It is cheap and cheerful and we all talk a lot in the same language.”
Mark Bachar, the Chairman of the Regional Reform UK, who came third as a candidate for Blackpool South in the general election last year, is equally strong about the new identity of the pub.
They called the pub a “bold statement for the local community” stuck in Blackpool’s Labor Heartlands, saying: “Together, we are re -defined the story and promoting a place where every voice matters.”
70-year-old Clifford Dyson, who is across the road from the pub, said: “The food here is fantastic, I should accept, and the 5-Stara Cleanliness Rating-You want more to boot-what else do you want?”
The dishes are undeniably fair price – £ 2 from black pudding and sausage sandwich to £ 5 Sunday Roasts – but it is £ 3.50 chicken curry that takes my fancy.
Sitting in hot sun for just one minute, a thick custard -like skin trembles on the surface of the dish, reminiscent of school dinner.
Struggling with me with my lunch, Barry, 74, a self-ensured “proud racist” who lives nearby, breaks the snow by launching about small boats and hotels in a solred. Facing the owner, I ask him if he knows that “proud racist” moves his bar forward.
Mr. Flyn replies: “No, I didn’t know this. I don’t like extremism. I am not standing for it.”
47 -year -old Lenny Thompson, Drinking alcohol in a bad Vatherspoon close to Fed Seized Primenade, said that he would never visit Talbot soon.
He said: “There are also zenophobic people in Blackpool but also all over the country. But we need immigrants to come to the country so that NHS does not collapse.
“They are a populist party and target people who have this fear about foreigners. They get a lot of support here, but people do not realize that Faraj wants to get rid of NHS.”
To improve the Brexit Party from the UKIP of Mr. Faraj and now to improve the UK, the “change” of Talbot seems to be a case of slapping some fresh paint at an archaic establishment and selling something new to the consumer.
But the words of a party member echo in my ears: “Improvement is just more than a political party, it is a movement – and it is just the beginning.”
