Like many people I can remember waking up on the morning of the EU referendum and feeling a sense of numbness that the UK had decided to leave the European Union. Truth is it’s never really left me.

One of the interesting features of the Brexit debate is that it has laid bare a schism in British society which runs much deeper than the conventional Labour-Conservative, North-South divide.

When visiting the seaside, particularly since the brexit referendum you realise there’s a life lived where you’re born and raised in decline and in an area where you see and feel the best days are behind you. I suspect this is what got weaponised during the brexit referendum. It’s my view these areas and the people around them were let down. Wherever these people turn within their hometown they’re constantly reminded things used to be better so they look to the past for answers rather than the future. That’s where the buzz words of WE'LL GET OUR COUNTRY BACK resonates with so many people along the British seaside towns.

Uncertainty over Britain’s future relationship with the EU has sent the pound tumbling since the referendum, pushing up prices for goods
It also looks increasingly likely that it’ll become much more expensive to go to Europe for our holidays in the future. The dirt-cheap flights bonanza that led the British hordes to France, Italy, Spain and Greece may well become a thing of the past. I took this opportunity to explore seaside towns up and down the UK since the referendum and look into the idea of perhaps staying put for the summer and revisiting, maybe even reinventing the British seaside holiday, sandy sandwiches, windbreaks and all.