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‘Low-quality’ Brit tourists who ‘drink cheap beer, lay in the sun and eat burgers & chips’ in Tenerife told to ‘go home’

Huge protests are planned as locals demand a tourist tax and clampdown on flights to the island

TENERIFE has gone to war with sun-soaked, beer-drinking Brits partying the Easter holidays away and told them all to "go home".

Residents of the largest Canary island have blasted UK holidaymakers as a "cancer" as costs soar and they claim drunken partygoers are ruining their paradise.

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Tenerife's locals say they are 'fed-up' of Brit tourists who only come for the beer, beaches and sunCredit: AFP
Angry residents have been sending holidaymakers a clear messageCredit: Canarian Weekly
Residents are fuming that lazy, beer-loving tourists are causing a spiralling cost of living crisisCredit: Alamy

Tenerife's locals have been fuming that they are "fed-up" of "low quality" Brit tourists who only come for the cheap beer, burgers and sunbathing.

Now, they are demanding a tourist tax, less flights to the island and a clampdown on foreigners buying houses.

They claim that AirBnBs and other holiday rentals are driving up the cost of living and that they are sick of the noise, traffic and rubbish that accompany the avalanche of vacationers that visit every year.

It follows a wave of new anti-tourist graffiti that has been sprayed across the island to tell Brits they are not welcome.

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Bitter messages outside tourism hotspots read "your paradise, our misery" and "tourists go home".

"Locals are forced to move out and YOU are responsible for that," said a furious printed sign.

But they were just a warning of what locals hope is to come as residents petition the island's authorities to enact new measures to curb tourism.

On Tuesday, a protest is planned in Santa Cruz as campaigners will lay out their demands and hold a march.

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Later this month, a second larger protest is planned by social and environmental groups who want to protect natural hotspots and create tougher regulations for foreigners buying properties.

Tech worker Ivan Cerdeña Molina, 36, is helping to organise the protests.

He told : "It's a crisis, we have to change things urgently, people are living in their cars and even in caves, and locals can't eat, drink or live well.

"Airbnb and Booking.com are like a cancer that is consuming the island bit by bit."

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