Southport is a seaside town in the northwest of England that looks quite a bit different than it did twenty years ago. There used to be a lot of young people living there, for one thing. And back in 2001, only around 4% of the population of Southport said they were born outside the UK. It was a pretty homogeneous place.
Twenty years later, a lot’s changed. And for the most part, it hasn’t changed for the better. As a longtime Southport politician named John Pugh p …