With the news that places like the Victorian Cameron barracks near the centre of Inverness may be used to house male asylum seekers, people in Buxton (Derbyshire, England) are worried that some of their empty facilities may be also be re-purposed for processing migrants.

The BBC reports that young people in the town are not too hopeful about their future:

[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgkpjdzv74o]

A couple of the teenagers at the school actually want to leave Britain, never mind Buxton, so furious are they with the state of the country. One young man says he regularly argues with his grandmother and father over the small boat arrivals as "both say as soon as they set foot in Dover, they should just be put on a boat and sent straight back".

The sense that Buxton's best days - Britain's best days, even - lay behind it has permeated the minds of these teenagers, too. Few feel optimistic, with worries about student debts, jobs and affordable housing being mentioned as well as the general state of the nation. One young woman does stand out, however. Asked what made her feel hopeful, Jodie says it is mainly because "things can't really get much worse, to be honest".

That says it all.