The residents of Swindon have defended their home after the town was named as one of the worst places to live in the UK.

A report published this week on the infamous iLiveHere website featured some choice words about the Wiltshire town and its features.

“Swindon is Britain’s most average town. The conclusion we must draw from this is that Britain is broken, and not worth saving,” read the report, as it named Swindon as the eighth worst place in the UK.

“The town centre has long had its lifeblood sucked away by the designer outlet (parking and traffic hell) and the Orbital shopping park, and is now a post-apocalyptic, boarded-up, wasteland of tramps and drunks screaming at each other.”

Swindon’s larger businesses of past and present were also given a mention with both Honda and Amazon namedropped.

“Once it was proud of its huge railway works. That was closed down and some workers found alternative well-paid manufacturing jobs at Honda,” continued the report.

“That’s gone too, but never fear – a huge Amazon warehouse has appeared so you can slave away there on minimum wage until they build a cheap enough robot to replace you.”

Each of Swindon’s individual geographical areas were also targeted with no stone unturned in the vicious written attack.

“Eldene, Pinehurst, Penhill and the Parks are full of hoodies on stolen e-bikes delivering drugs and occasionally stabbing one another to death,” added the report.

The report then ends with a final sarcastic remark about the high presence of fast food restaurants within the town.

“Swindon voted Brexit and has a streak of racism, publicised when the resident founder of National Action was recently sent down for 8 years,” concluded the report.

“Oh well, it has six McDonald’s.”

Swindonians have taken issue with the unnecessarily cruel article after the Adver asked for their opinions on the matter.

“Apart from the town centre I like living here as we have good parks and plenty places in the area to visit,” said Adver commenter Graham Dickinson.

Adver reader Shelley Louise Taylor said: “Definitely worse places to live. It’s central if you want to visit nicer places not far away and it’s being improved currently…slowly, but it’s happening. Every town is suffering right now!”

Swindonian Adam Foresti said: “It has good employment opportunities and wages as well as it being one of the more safer places to live.

“There are plenty of places within a hour of Swindon that are way worse for crime and employment.”

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