It's hard because as you say, 'everybody has a story' and nobody wants to live like that. And we are all closer to it than we might think. Stoke is my old home town, well 'castle was. And it's so sad to see it like this. Whilst I don't quite know would could be done just leave them to fend for themselves seems less than kind.

@DJMtv1938

4 ай бұрын

A very grey area my friend wish I had the answers. The only answer I can think of to removing the initial problem with the city centre is to remove these places that are the drug rehabilitation Centre further away from the city centre but that is just kick the can down the road really. I really don’t know the answer.

@5688gamble

4 ай бұрын

@@DJMtv1938I think addiction is part of a deeper societal failing. When such a high number of people rely on alcohol, prescription drugs and street drugs to cope, what does that say about the environment they are living in that there is really nothing to do but obliterate yourself. Addiction is connected with poor mental health, why does our way of life tend to generate so many mental health problems? Why do we have so much depression, anxiety, hopelessness and despair? If you can't cope with the demands of your socio-economic status, you are cast aside, then when you try to numb yourself from the many daggers stabbing at you, you are criminalized and people hate you more.

What people actually got to understand is that some people take drugs because they been in the care system and have been sexually abused as a child that what people don't actually understand about drugs and alcohol abuse addiction is all about what happened from what people have done to them remember that

@ianhunkin5384

4 ай бұрын

Well said...more often than not crap childhoods...thats why children are so special,they are a gift to be loved and nurtured,sadly many never experience that from the adults in their world

@PhillipplaistedPlaisted-qu7nc

4 ай бұрын

Respect thank for agreeing 😀

@gary_248

4 ай бұрын

Some do but not all . Many do so because they enjoy it and it just gets a grip. It’s not always about the so called trauma our social services would have you believe

@Mat-kr1nf

3 ай бұрын

@@gary_248Very true, I had a loving family, great childhood but dabbled in drugs, went to India, got into heroin there and took years to get free.

This really emphasises the 'abject misery of addiction'!! My compliments for your humane approach, and being prepared to give that first person the time of day!!

@DJMtv1938

4 ай бұрын

Thank you my friend for your wonderful and kind comments ❤️much love

@adrianbrowne7874

4 ай бұрын

@@DJMtv1938 And thankyou also! That's very kind, DJ TV!!

Where do they get the money for the drugs? This is so sad and unacceptable for 2024 when we take all the economic migrants in and provide them with luxury when the government should be really helping these persons.

@jimg492

4 ай бұрын

Absolutely!

@truefact844

4 ай бұрын

The strange thing is a lot of them have had housing, when you have mental health and drug problems. If you were a landlord would you want your property turned into a trap house? They are very vulnerable and most places that will help with the mental health, have strict drugs guidelines. It’s catch 22 the drug stop the mental health problems in their minds. The drugs don’t really help, the truth some people have such noise in their minds they just feel like screaming to stop it. I wonder would you not take drugs?

@MultiScampi

4 ай бұрын

I knew a homeless person who used to hang around the train station, he'd ask people for just a pound because he didn't have enough for a ticket, he would make easily over a hundred pounds a day

@hawkhoskins4250

4 ай бұрын

The government gives them money for drugs as they do in Portland USA. Our government would rather kill these people than help them. Just like Handcock and Johnson trying to kill off our pensioners in Nursing homes during Covid. Our government is responsible for this and its the Navy who bring in the drugs. Most of Britains town centres are going this way now. So sad.😢

@user-dr7by9dx8l

4 ай бұрын

They all receive benefits. They beg they shoplift and the women sell sex.

Makes you wonder what it is going to be like in a few years...

@DJMtv1938

4 ай бұрын

The future is scary it really is I fear for my kids 😔

I live in Stafford, really sad to see how poor SOT has become , through my work i got to know some really good lads from Newcastle and SOT , always helpful and decent..........

Its nice of you DJ...to have a talk with these poor people....let them know there is caring people out there .... Your doing a good service to the community of stoke on trent ..

@DJMtv1938

4 ай бұрын

Thank you my friend ❤️

Why didn’t this happen years ago when people had nothing. They didn’t act like this

People turn to drugs and alcohol out of desperation, simple as that. These people need Help and primarily housing. But this country / government would rather import and pay for the third world to come here Illegally and live in comfort than help their Own.😡😡

Great video. Highlights and shows them in ways alot wouldn't ever see them in. What a horrible way to live. As the saying goes you can only lead a horse to water.

@DJMtv1938

4 ай бұрын

Thank you my friend ❤️👍Yep it’s certainly a eye opener and very sad really when you sit back and absorb it.

Someone told me on the bus to Hanley that Hanley has become the shop lifting capitol 😂

this green and pleasant land.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂

Great video. Lived and worked near there for 30 years. Decent people, completely unacceptable how it has ended up. Politicians have a lot to answer for- no vision and promoted way beyond their capabilities. Only solution I can see is a mass non payment of council tax and income tax by the populace. The council and government are clearly not providing a service which is fit for purpose. A mass regeneration, billions not millions required. Those deserted areas will never recover, flatten them and return the land to pasture. Build only low level, high quality social housing overseen by the likes of Dyson and Bamford, on no account let the council be involved.

@DJMtv1938

4 ай бұрын

Thank you my friend ❤️👍I heard an interview on the local radio couple of months back with different experts from different areas and they all admitted they could not see any major investment In stoke for at least the next 15 years.

What A Hole This as Gone lived in Stoke all My Life never seen it as Bad Great Channel Mate

@DJMtv1938

4 ай бұрын

Thank you my friend ❤️👍

Hi I have watched all of your videos and they are excellent. I went a walk round Hanley yesterday for the first time in a long time and its exactly as per your video. It feels unsafe. Please keep up the good work with the videos.

@DJMtv1938

4 ай бұрын

Thank you my friend it’s a dire place that no one in there right mind would want to visit for a social outing

@user-ze9pl9lv4j

4 ай бұрын

Agreed i wont be going back any time soon and I would never let my daughter go there on her own. Your video on the potteries shopping centre was spot on also. I had a walk through around 5pm yesterday and it was deserted. I think there were more shop and security staff than customers. I use to visit Debenhams went i went previously but cannot think of any shops i could actually shop in now. You were bang on about the the hive also , i remember going to cine world and then the hive afterwards sitting outside with a meal at Cost to Coast with all the restaurants open - you are right the hive did provide some optimism when it was opened which now has disappeared. Is a sad and depressing place now. I feel sorry for the shop and security staff who work there. Thanks for the reply and like i say i think the videos are excellent and very reflective of reality. @@DJMtv1938

I use to see him in wheel chair down stoke asleep in the morning next to weatherspoon

its not just your town its happening everywhere think we have to except this is the way its going or adapt to doing it the french way and i can see that its coming sooner than we all think

@DJMtv1938

4 ай бұрын

You are absolutely right I’m afraid we are skipping along to hell holding the peoples hands who want to take us there. No passion for a fight back it seems just give folks their football and reality tv shows and they are happy with that.

Just seen rogsys tattoos 1610. I had my first tattoo there in 1997 I think . Is he still going. I live in Sheffield now and it's sad to see the decline of Hanley I have fond memories as a teenager pounding the streets in the late 80s and early 90s

@DJMtv1938

4 ай бұрын

Yes rogsy is still going strong 👍

Another Great video you should invite Charlie Veitch over mate.👍

@DJMtv1938

4 ай бұрын

Don’t think Charlie veitch would be interested in little old me mate 🤣would love to though because i could certainly learn a thing or two from him

I like when you hear 'proud of where we live' on Radio Stoke, then you watch videos and see what it is really like. This city is behound repair, it's depressing.

@DJMtv1938

4 ай бұрын

Yep it’s a favourite of mine 👍along with the people are lovely 🙄has if it’s just a stoke thing? I travel around a lot and all the people I encounter are lovely. And stoke is the most depressing place I’ve personally encountered

It is certainly a grey area and a very mixed bag of reasons why people end up on the street from mental health, finances, alcohol and drugs. Its disheartening to see people like the last chap you were speaking to in that nightclubs doorway, he clearly looks as though he has both drug and mental health problems. He shoulnt be sleeping rough on the streets, he should be in safe accomodation where he can be looked after.

@DJMtv1938

4 ай бұрын

I’m afraid we don’t look after our own folks only them who have arrived here illegally then it seems like there is a endless pot of money. It may not be true but to the ordinary man and woman on the street it certainly feels that way mate.

@hugobose2254

4 ай бұрын

Where I live now (Out of Stoke) . We helped to rehome a youngish guy (was sleeping rough), He only lasted a few months as he couldn't handle sleeping under a roof 😞. He's still knocking around town begging (last I saw)

@DJMtv1938

4 ай бұрын

@hugobose2254 yep unfortunately you just can’t help some of them 👍

Back in the day Hanley was alive, so many night clubs and shops, now everything is shut and decaying.

@DJMtv1938

Ай бұрын

Yep it’s all so sad 😢

Stoke has got nothing left for it's self it's a failing city

@DJMtv1938

4 ай бұрын

I think we can safely say it’s fell mate 👍

I live in stoke and yes theres a massive drug problem but ive lived here my whole life ive learned to just ignore them, i love stoke its quite funny, saw a women on drugs making zombie noises once 💀

@DJMtv1938

Ай бұрын

It’s a 💩🕳️ though still

@Isla_isbetter1

Ай бұрын

@@DJMtv1938 yea ig but I still love it here and alot of places are shit holes not just stoke

@DJMtv1938

Ай бұрын

@Isla_isbetter1 but we are in the top poorest areas and it’s known as the monkey dust capital of England

What has happened to my city 😢

@DJMtv1938

4 ай бұрын

Very sad to see

I reckon a lot of it is due to decline due to deindustrialisation and loss of hope and puropse

He looks drunk and had something to but no matter what there issues they need to be warm at night as u said temperature drops drastically

You guys are doing a great job of highlighting this stuff

@DJMtv1938

4 ай бұрын

Thank you my friend 👍I enjoy it but also feel very drained after doing these videos because the whole lot makes me sad seeing what has become of my hometown 😔

Poor man was probably eyeing up your bike, he'd take it in a heartbeat if he had the opportunity.

@DJMtv1938

4 ай бұрын

Oh I know that👍 I’ve had many eyeing it up and making it known they would like it that’s why I keep a reasonable distance.

See what u do dj u take a few minutes to talk to these people but u always think safety first well done dj

The dichotomy of the whole situation is surreal. Stumbling upon a homeless person in a random shop doorway, whilst mere feet away someone has parked their 90k Land Rover.

@DJMtv1938

4 ай бұрын

Absolutely 💯 ❤️👍

@gary_248

4 ай бұрын

That’s life

It's some of the expensive cars parked in these areas that are a bit strange.

@ThehulkGreen

4 ай бұрын

Foreign drug dealers. I used to be around drugs.

@glenjarnold

4 ай бұрын

@@ThehulkGreen I did wonder that if I'm honest 👍🏻

@gary_248

4 ай бұрын

@@ThehulkGreenor people at work maybe ?

@ThehulkGreen

4 ай бұрын

@@gary_248 maybe, of course, but if you have been around these people you know. Where are the cars parked,????.

4 police cars turns up in middle hanley they had to arrest the drunk. Causing havoc he scared me so much I was in a bank just checking my account as I was leaving this loud bang came to bank door this same drunk guy scared the wits out of me

@DJMtv1938

4 ай бұрын

Yep I’ve seen the dust heads all in the bank up Hanley sitting inside and the staff have done nothing whilst the customers have been scared witless. Happened a few months ago when I took my mother in the bank couple of them sitting on the floor in the bank when I complained the staff member said if we leave them alone they eventually go? Yea and so do your customers I told her.

The councils dont give a 💩 nor do the police ( I know that for a fact), this is being done deliberate IMO, the same thing is going on in America too

@DJMtv1938

4 ай бұрын

America is really having it bad 👍💯

its hard watching a homeless man spilling his tea like that

That poor chap

Like watching Sean of The Dead

Hope street is one place definitely not safe to walk

I stay away from Hanley now not safe one bit Longton is by far much worse

@DJMtv1938

4 ай бұрын

I think the only place to feel safe locally when shopping is Trentham gardens but Sadly the shops are rubbish.

Sad to see.

@DJMtv1938

4 ай бұрын

Very sad 👍

Double yellow lines where you meant to park up its no wonder

Think about protesting boycotting calling in complaining and smiling.

Bro, with respect,I follow your channel for long time..I'm gonna get straight to the point..Why you being 2 faced?,one hand you slagging off homeless and drug use,on the other,you stop & pretend you give a toss,when quite obviously, your constantly running them down...Now which is it?🤔

@DJMtv1938

4 ай бұрын

If you read the comments on here I’ve made no secret of my feelings towards them with the problems they are causing in the city and the mess they are causing (bin dipping) and some of them are absolute useless cases that have abused every help going. But has I say in the video and many other videos it’s a grey area some are not junkies and are homeless for many reasons and some are out and out junkies who are a having a devastating impact on this city. Now I’m not sure what your confusion is? I’ve made it clear on all my videos it’s a grey area no one is pretending anything. It’s very sad to see and when you hear some of the story’s it’s very sad. But it’s also sad for the good people in the community who lives are been impacted by hopeless junkies and drug dealers so I’m showing a balanced view hope that has cleared any confusion

@MotermouthMedia

4 ай бұрын

@@DJMtv1938 Respect your reply, thanks for taking time to answer 👍

New England

Those People have been mentally scared from their bad and upbringings charity starts at home 😢

@ThehulkGreen

4 ай бұрын

I won't go into it, but a severely bad upbringing brought me to drugs. I now am a 20yr long carer and have a nice place to live and I keep myself to myself. It's all about the will to be better. Hope your good.

are these all on Monkey dust (mdpv) and spice around there now, its funny 40 miles down the road it really isn't a thing.... well the dust not the spice, all the homeless do that shite now init

@DJMtv1938

4 ай бұрын

Yep we have just been given the title has the capital of monkey dust according to official figures

Riding a bike in Hanley not very smart 😂

@DJMtv1938

4 ай бұрын

Anywhere in stoke is a risk to be honest

why isit alot of people think with someone whos homeless is an addict or alcoholic?

@courtneywilliams4143

4 ай бұрын

Because most are.

@eddiebhoy1973

4 ай бұрын

I disagree , I know plenty of homeless people and they dont even drink or take drugs

@courtneywilliams4143

4 ай бұрын

@@eddiebhoy1973 that's a small percentage then

@eddiebhoy1973

4 ай бұрын

@@courtneywilliams4143in the the town where i am theres loads of homeless and not one of them are caught up in addiction apart from 2 of them i know

U can never judge a book by the character

Maybe voting Labour will help.

@Tea-n-Biscuits

8 күн бұрын

Already a labour council, can't wait to see the next 5 years though!

Thank the Tories and Brexiteers. The country has been stripped to the bone. The richest few have made a lot of money over the last 15 years, and this is the cost.

@gary_248

4 ай бұрын

Don’t talk absolute rubbish. People will take drugs regardless of the Tories,Labour or the Raving Loonies

@Dewsta26

4 ай бұрын

@@gary_248 dont project. This is what forced austerity causes. Its class war. Look it up.

@gary_248

4 ай бұрын

@@Dewsta26 drug use/abuse is a choice. Many suffer Austerity but don’t hit the foil or needle

@Dewsta26

4 ай бұрын

​@@gary_248many do though. It's known as escapism. Then addiction takes hold, and the public services needed to break addiction has been cut.

@gary_248

4 ай бұрын

@@Dewsta26 mate,no disrespect but I’m very much involved in that world,from being an addict to counselling . And many will use because of “trauma” and many will use for enjoyment