Those poor soldiers in Liverpool.

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What on earth did they do to deserve to be housed at that "holiday" camp.
It's a dump.
I'm sure camp Bastian would be have better facilities and be cleaner.
Dear God.
Our own precious soldiers at a Pontins.
Cant wait to read the tripadviser reviews.

If you were to ask any soldiers about having to go to Pontins, they would be ok about it, as they have to be ok with most thing. It will be better than sleeping in a tin hut, or tents.They are not on a holiday, but doing some serious stuff.

It's just shining a light on how we treat both our current and past serviceman and women.
In the US, they are treated with huge esteem, a friend from the US said that if you see a serviceman or woman in the street you thank them as you and brought up to do that. I said we don't do that here and she was like, why not and I didn't have a good answer really.
When you realise how many ex service personnel are currently homeless here, it's really poor actually.

@CuriousaboutSamphire

What in earth are you on about! It's a holiday park! Easy access and all amenities on site. Good security too!

just Google all the sad face articles in Liverpool Echo!

But confused with the liverpool trial thing, are we supposed to just go and get tested or wait to be asked/ have symptoms?

I found this comment on a local thread - "I live a few miles from here and can say in full confidence I’d rather be bunked back in 1994 Crossmaglen when 16 of us lived in a bomb proofed Sanger on a dark country lane than pontins in Southport. It had an emphatigo outbreak last year. The year before infested with fleas."

@SchrodingersImmigrant

Locals are feeling sorry for them too😂

I'm local. They'll pick up more germs at Pontins than they'll be testing for! 😂

Our minis rugby club stayed at a Pontins on tour a couple of years ago. A couple of families didn't even make it to check in, they turned round and drove straight to a Premier Inn instead. The rest of us only managed by remaining in a semi-drunk state for the whole weekend, there was definitely a bit of a 'Blitz spirit'

My friend sent this to me yesterday!

@NoWordForFluffy

My friend sent this to me yesterday!

I'm pinching that

Maybe it’s survival / psych testing.

“Who Dares (stay at Pontin’s) Wins”?

@growinggreyer

If there is one thing you can't be as a soldier, it is "precious". These are people who are issued with a shovel so they can dig themselves latrines and holes to sleep in. I'm sure they will survive the rigours of Pontins.

Unfortunately they probably won't be allowed the shovels to improve things at pontins.

@zigzagbetty

But confused with the liverpool trial thing, are we supposed to just go and get tested or wait to be asked/ have symptoms?

Everyone goes because many people are asymptomatic. Essentially it is to get especially them off the streets to stop unknowingly spreading afaik. If I am not mistaken Slovakia did similiar countrywide.

@NoWordForFluffy

My friend sent this to me yesterday!

😂😂😂

@FunkyPolar there is a joke about the force that goes

"What would you do if you woke up and there was a scorpion in the tent?

Army : I'd crush it with my boot.
Marine: I'd stab it with a bayonet.
RAF: I'd phone reception and ask which dickhead put a tent in my room."

@NoWordForFluffy

My friend sent this to me yesterday!

They’re the RAF not the Army

I stayed in pontins Southport last year and it was absolutely awful. The apartment actually seemed ok apart from the fire alarm beeping every 40 seconds 24/7 . Then the meter needed £5-10 a night to run the tiny panel heaters but they didn't make a bit of difference. In the night I woke up freezing and walking to the loo I couldn't understand why the floor was shining in the light coming in through the windows. Then I realised my feet were wet and the walls, floor and surfaces were all covered in damp and it was literally trickling down the walls.

The pool was just awful, the tiling was so degraded they basically had a giant rubber pool liner made but you can feel broken tiles under it and it's just nasty. Smelled like piss and misery.

The bar wasn't much better. Smelled like Poundland pasties and sweat. I got a bottle of beer so I could wipe the top and I put it on a table and the circular table top just slid off and drunkenly wobbled all the way to the stage. The floor was sticky. I even went home on the Saturday to have a shower and get warmer clothes.

However, my children, need and our friends kids still talk fondly about Pontins. Not the umpteen foreign holidays we have been on , but bloody pontins 😂.

It's just something meant to be a bit amusing, @TheFairyCaravan, not a thesis requiring spot-on accuracy!

Barracks would absolutely be cleaner and warmer!

doubtful but nice and optimistic.

I get it, OP, said the same to DH when it was reported

@HotPatootiebootie

I stayed in pontins Southport last year and it was absolutely awful. The apartment actually seemed ok apart from the fire alarm beeping every 40 seconds 24/7 . Then the meter needed £5-10 a night to run the tiny panel heaters but they didn't make a bit of difference. In the night I woke up freezing and walking to the loo I couldn't understand why the floor was shining in the light coming in through the windows. Then I realised my feet were wet and the walls, floor and surfaces were all covered in damp and it was literally trickling down the walls.

The pool was just awful, the tiling was so degraded they basically had a giant rubber pool liner made but you can feel broken tiles under it and it's just nasty. Smelled like piss and misery.

The bar wasn't much better. Smelled like Poundland pasties and sweat. I got a bottle of beer so I could wipe the top and I put it on a table and the circular table top just slid off and drunkenly wobbled all the way to the stage. The floor was sticky. I even went home on the Saturday to have a shower and get warmer clothes.

However, my children, need and our friends kids still talk fondly about Pontins. Not the umpteen foreign holidays we have been on , but bloody pontins 😂.

Have never been and zero intention to However this is precisely my image of the place.

Out of curiosity, when you booked, what did you expect?

@Funkypolar

They should have joined the RAF instead - five star hotels.

😉🙂

All good character building stuff op.

My first thought was that given he sent troops to war without proper equipment, Tony Blair would consider this a luxury for soldiers.

@NoWordForFluffy

It's just something meant to be a bit amusing, *@TheFairyCaravan*, not a thesis requiring spot-on accuracy!

If you're describing a bunch of garage mechanics as Army, that's tantamount to a declaration of civil war

It can’t be worse than Brean surely?