Hartlepool: angry voters make fertile ground for Ukip

In the run-up to the general election, six Guardian reporters are embedded in constituencies across the country to find out what matters to you and your area. In the first of our Voices and votes series, Josh Halliday talks to residents in Hartlepool who feel abandoned by Labour and could seek solutions elsewhereIt emerged out of the mist like a “giant modernist cathedral” in the middle of the North Sea. Hundreds in Hartlepool stood transfixed as the world’s biggest ship, the P