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@Flaretree

3 күн бұрын

great video jimmy

@mrkiplingreallywasanexceed8311

3 күн бұрын

Great video, nice historical context given (although you meant George IV not George I) and I take your point about our tendency to just leave things behind - but equally just LOOK at the people on holiday in Benedorm and Magaluf. Just LOOK at the people interviewed in our shitty seaside towns. People with no teeth and tattoos all over their face, unironically referring to the fact that the locals are lost to drink and drugs, while gesturing with a friggin beer can. Again, another pair sat in a doorway in the middle of the day with the left hand one looking off to his right while taking a swig. For what it's worth, I do agree the government has been disgraceful in its neglect and allowance of the wealth gap to widen - but for fuck's sake we're all doomed if we just wanna blame the government for everything. To sit there having done so much coke and amphetamines your gnashing your own face off, nihilistically turning a demented ink gun on yourself and spending the whole day slurping cheap canned cider and barleywine direct from the tin and in the street? Where's the quality? Where's the altruism? Where's the clubbing together?Where's the motivation? Where's the innovation?? Where's the self help? Where's the sacrifice? Where, above all, is the PRIDE?? The reason the post war years were successful is was people a) were glad to be alive b) were grateful for the little they had c) had a sense of community d) were willing to work hard and earn any improvement in their lot - not expect it be to be given and e) to scrimp and save towards lasting, worthwhile goals - like a house - and not piss it all away on Sky subscriptions, package holidays, credit card interest, car finance payments, takeaway food (doesn't anyone know how to cook any more??), throwaway fashion (damaging the environment and enslaving more and more Bangladeshi child workers), endless electronic gadgets - games, phones, gimmicks as well as TVs and computers - it's not the government driving people into poverty - it's themselves. Further still, god forbid in this day and age of "personal choice" and freedom, that we should ever have to do anything we don't want to.....with what's going on in Ukraine, even though I don't have the SLIGHTEST fear it will inveigle us here in the UK (Putin is weakling and a coward and WHOLLY incapable of doing shit to anyone - with the greatest of sympathy and respect to the Ukrainian heroes notwithstanding) - there WILL come a time when our national borders ARE seriously threatened (even if it won't be by clapped out, alcoholic queer bashing Russians and their hilariously bitter, spiteful, crapulous, embarrassing, small dicked leader). Who's gonna defend us? The army? The government? Gaaahhhh the programs I've seen where the interviewer asks "what would you do for your country if we got attacked" which has almost uniformly been met with a blithely nonchalant dismissal - with a sort of nervous laugh, a wave of the hand, a sucking of the teeth and an attitude - as if to say not just "I dunno - but I ain't gonna do nuffink" - but also "I don't care". We have become SO SPOILED AND ENTITLED AND SELFISH, well, we get the results we saw in your video. I refute the "Victorian" comparison - during the 19th century people expected NOTHING and we're prepared to do ANYTHING. Now they expect everything without doing anything for it. Yes, there must be government led initiatives - but there must be people to man them who aren't so far gone down the rabbit hole because they've given in to escapism and resignation to their Fate. I personally support the reintroduction of National Service - I think it would instill a sense of duty (to comrades, if not to country), a sense of purpose, a sense of community/cameraderie, a sense of deprivation/economy/stewardship, a sense of achievement, a sense of having a goal, a sense of reward earned - in short, a sense of pride. What's happening in Ukraine is not some distant war - it serves as a very timely and salient reminder of what the world is really like and that just because the chavs now go to Spain for their holidays and we had a mini plague, doesn't mean the country north of the Watford gap should automatically fall apart

@antonmarshall7269

2 күн бұрын

Love your style of videos and humor! Been watching you on off for a while but recently your videos been so interesting ! Thankyou for keeping me entertained gained a new sub

@vercingetorixwulf9298

2 күн бұрын

I subbed ...... (few of my comments are allowed, sorry) ..........

@stephenclarke2206

2 күн бұрын

No mention of Brexit which many people in these towns voted for & how come if they're so poor they always have money for tattoos? To be fair to these places they are still used as holiday destinations, I've never been to Blackpool but Skegness & Cleethorpes get quite busy in the summer

Britain is basically a poor Balkan nation with Singapore attached to it Edit: I have started a war, whoops Edit 2: Okay to clarify what I mean, Britain is like a Balkan country like Romania or smt, and we have Singapore (which is London), even though they are differant, economical they are similar with being London and Singapore major trading hubs and cities of wealth while the rest of the the country being significantly poorer similar to a moderately wealthy Balkan country (I say that as some countries like Kosovo and Bosnia are significantly poorer), as lots of the population live on a budget and in council estate shit like that, this is only a comparison I am not saying England is a exactly like a Balkan country or Singapore is ex a fly like London but there is heavy similarities hat can be compared

@pigknickers2975

3 күн бұрын

lol

@bangdobrich

3 күн бұрын

I'm sorry but the Balkans have nicer nature, food and actually - culture. Britain feels like the balkans though as all ethnicities don't get along and the same gypsy tricks and mentality has developed here...

@Chevy-jordan

3 күн бұрын

Not really

@idokwatcher2062

3 күн бұрын

It's Londongrad twin city of Moscow, and the countryside. We in Balkan don't even have that.

@Robstrap

3 күн бұрын

You stole that one straight from brit monkey

I have a friend from Japan who is a massive Blackpool FC fan. His entire room is decorated in god-only-knows how many thousands worth of tangerine memorabilia imported from the UK. He knows it's a dirtpoor place and says that's why he loves it. It is a true authentic piece of Britain. While everyone plastically supports teams in the Premier League, he wears his tangerine and white scarf like a right proper geezer in his boozer in Musashino and cheers them on from League One. Legend.

@CloudCoderChap

3 күн бұрын

Plastically supports teams in the premier league? What am I suppose to do as a Manc. When both teams are in the premier league. Do I just support a team in a different city. Same can be said for Liverpool having two premier league teams. Also, I feel like it’s wrong to take pleasure in liking BFC because the area is poor. It’s a little crass to me. Why not try help fix the issue rather than importing useless football merchandise.

@Caerdan

3 күн бұрын

​@@CloudCoderChapYou've taken that way too personally.

@rollthetape88

3 күн бұрын

@@CloudCoderChap butt hurt united fan by the sounds of it.

@CloudCoderChap

3 күн бұрын

@@rollthetape88City fan actually for 42 years.

@CloudCoderChap

3 күн бұрын

@@Mr.PDF_FileWelp at least I don’t spend my time insulting people online from my basement. If you ever need a friend and you’re in Manchester I’ll still be nice to you, perhaps you can learn some social skills. Have a top weekend rkid. 😊

I am an American who lives in Texas and I see this everywhere here in the USA. Small towns built on one factory or company are dying and have been for twenty years. By everyone living off the internet for shopping and work, most people are separating from their community and when the community dies so does all the small businesses. Great video!

@tziirkq

2 күн бұрын

Peter Santenello did a series of videos around Appalachia, and it was kind of grim. In one video, a big shop moved into a tiny town. Every other shop closed, the new big shop wasn't seeing any profits, so it closed too. Now there are zero shops.

@dennislogan6781

2 күн бұрын

@@tziirkq I have seen his videos before. He is very good.

@derin111

2 күн бұрын

Dennis, I believe the problem is somewhat different in Britain, compared to what is happening in parts of the USA. If you care to, please read my lengthy recent post. It is more fundamental and entrenched in the national psyche problem in Britain. I don’t believe America and Americans have quite reached this level….but the British example serves as a warning as to where arrogance and complacency can lead. It is easy to see how America and Americans, albeit that they are not yet, could follow suit if they continue on the same path. I don’t know America well, having been there only a few times, but I didn’t get the impression that the American psyche was one of when things go badly either for the nation or the individual, to immediately reflexly blame someone else. As with everywhere, America has its faults but there still seemed to be a belief or spirit that individuals, and the country as whole, are still the ultimate arbiters of their own destiny and not “everything is someone else’s fault”. Would you agree?

@user-vp6cq4sv3d

2 күн бұрын

​@@derin111I swear I just keep finding ignoramuses like you on this comment section. You've not paid any attention to american politics have you? You've got the most common talking points against Americans swapped round with us lot. You're out of your element.

@baronvonjo1929

2 күн бұрын

Well lots of these small communities don't make it very fun to stick around. Other than food prices for small shops are typically higher. There is no investment by the towns into infrastructure. Takes forever to get anywhere cause the driving distances are long and there isn't much to do. I do kinda romanticize small towns but then I visit one and think what terrible places to live. Just how think large cities suck.

As someone who did a masters degree on the decline on the highstreet the effect of online shopping has happened, but it is well overstated. Rich areas use online shopping more than poorer areas, yet you go to a rich area ajd their town centre will be full and vibrant. Go to the poorest areas and it's empty. It's poverty and inequality that is the largest cause, not the internet. The vacany rate on the highstreet tripled after the 2008 recession.

@lemsip207

3 күн бұрын

I have been out delivering leaflets in middle class streets and I am sometimes there at the same time as an Amazon delivery driver who leaves a parcel at almost every other house.

@Only-one-life-68

3 күн бұрын

@@lemsip207Amazon is a virus,it’s contagious in that people sit on there phone getting fat getting the best deal. So all the companies on there market place are actually in down fall as the cheapest gets your order.. It’s ruined so many mom and pop Businesses yet pays next to nothing in corporate tax’s.

@Alex-cw3rz

3 күн бұрын

@@danielduggan7126 retail parks have have cause a decline however that is mutiple factors and a lot on the business side as well. Parking is a factor but much smaller than you have said, bus routes and bus times have been halved since 2010, which has had a larger impact.

@notmenotme614

3 күн бұрын

@@danielduggan7126 Traffic isn’t the problem. Paying £10 for a days carparking on what literally is a 4 billion year old field with some gravel thrown on it, is the problem. I’ve also experienced no stock in high street shops yet can buy what I’m looking for online.

@user-bk7gv7kz5r

3 күн бұрын

Shopping malls too.Major almost all over. Then category killer mega retail stores in food clothing and hardware.

The trouble is, i dont see how they can ever come back. When round trip tickets to spain cost £50 and everything there will be cheaper anyway, why would you ever go to these towns?

@michaellongobardi91

3 күн бұрын

They can’t. It’s over for these towns unfortunately.

@OLI-vx1md

3 күн бұрын

Round trips to Spain for £50 whilst the trains to the airport in the UK cost more than the flights.. its nonsense

@Nickelodeon81

3 күн бұрын

For the pie and mash.

@olliestudio45

3 күн бұрын

Maybe you can promote local culture, attract hipsters to gentrify the place and pull in the middle classes with them. Promote music, the arts, remote workers and build up local services. Maybe start out with a music festival or two. Alternatively you could try to attract business or inject a lot of money, like they did in the old rustbelt cities. I think small projects to create a new cultural scene could be a good way to go. edit: although according to the video (22:00) the opposite is happening.

@linmorell1813

3 күн бұрын

A train from London to Newcastle is £160! This is all too real.

Mate you're so right. That whole attidue shift following Thatcher. I'm from Sunderland. People always go "Ah, I've heard it's a shit-hole". I'm always like "Aye. And why do you think that is?". People are willingly blind to the long-term systemic deprivation of areas of the UK that have been totally left out to dry. It's why when people like Rishi Sunak nonchalantly boast of taking money from deprived areas and giving it to "more deserving" places, it's not just him being out of touch. It's an active policy of class war in the UK. Those responsible for the past decades of austerity should be made to tour these places and explain themselves to the public, but they never will.

@Alex-cw3rz

3 күн бұрын

Exactly!

@grodesby3422

3 күн бұрын

It is less class war, more the desperate need to radically decentralise the UK so that local tax revenue stays local, and local administration can learn from each other. Class war ideas inevitably devolve into identity politics and the associated stupidities.

@masere

3 күн бұрын

You've got a nice riverside and beach in Sunderland, and a day ticket gets you up to Newcastle and all the coast around there. There's worse places to live than there. Shame there's no more airshow though 😢

@defaultdefault812

3 күн бұрын

Pull yourself together and start innovating.

@MorningNapalm

3 күн бұрын

@@defaultdefault812 Can you give us an example of how you personally have innovated your way out of trouble? I didn't think so.

what boggles my mind is the rent to live or cost of buying a home in these crumbling seaside towns is still stupidly high

@frankfahrenheit9537

Күн бұрын

In the 70ies people broke into empty houses and started living there. Why not doing it again? If you join forces ( don't do it alone) you can start living cheaply. In Italy you can buy houses which are empty for years for 1Eur. Same should be done in UK

@uweinhamburg

Күн бұрын

@@frankfahrenheit9537 'In Italy you can buy houses which are empty for years for 1Eur.' if you can show the means that you can bring these places back to a modern living standard. And you have to show results after 2-3 years as well...

@pbplauralfilms

Сағат бұрын

​@@frankfahrenheit9537they've done it in Liverpool. You just need a progressive enough local authority and buyers who can afford the caveats of purchase

I can tell you, in the late 1980's Britain already had a thriving rave scene. We didn't have to go to Ibiza to experience dance music.

@abigailbradshaw2662

Күн бұрын

Yeah when he said that I was like wtf no 😂

@pbplauralfilms

Сағат бұрын

In the lads defense, I don't think he was even swimming in his dad's bollocks back then so it's all guesswork really

My dad moved to oz 30yrs ago..he came over to blighty for the first time last summer for a few weeks..we took him to Blackpool..he actually cried and wanted to leave after an hour....

@jimgoo1176

3 күн бұрын

he didn't cry, come on

@markt0370

3 күн бұрын

@jimgoo1176 he actually wept..he was born in St annes so Blackpool was his whole childhood

@davehoward22

3 күн бұрын

Blackpool was great back in the 70s

@TalesOfWar

3 күн бұрын

I have the same reaction when I think of the place, never mind going there.

@ReeseJamPiece.

3 күн бұрын

@@markt0370 Poor lad, I feel for him. Same happened to my hometown. Isn't the same as it used to be.

I’m 18 and have been in blackpool all my life, almost every young person i chat to are planning or wanting to leave, it’s only going to get worse because so many locals are parting ways with the town

@chchedda

3 күн бұрын

37 and yeah I don't blame you

@austinsideburns

3 күн бұрын

what would make you stay?

@CactusBrannigan

3 күн бұрын

@@austinsideburnsnothing I want out of here too

@ldn876

3 күн бұрын

Leave and go where

@platinum11110

3 күн бұрын

Go somewhere else, there's only one life.

Just after the second world war, Britain was a world leader in manufacturing. We made top quality products and exported worldwide. Our steel industry was massive producing the highest quality steel and exoorting it worldwide. Our engineering was second to none. A cômpany in germany produced a wire less than the thickness of a human hair we sent it back with a hole drilled through it. The tories basically shut it all down and forced us into decline and have continued to do so ever since. Not only that but successive governments have made inroads into removing our civil rights. Their answer to homelessness was to make it illegal to be homeless they effectively brought back the vagrancy laws of the Victorian era. They've removed our rught to freedom to speak, stopped our riggt to protest against them. Is this what our solduers fought and died in two world wars for? A land fit for Heroes?

@lesliehayton2929

2 күн бұрын

Fascinating and very well said , thank you and much food for thought , have a good day !

@theenglishman3368

2 күн бұрын

The tories shut it down because it was running at a massive loss and the country was in massive decline and in the grip of the unions - we didn't even have enought power inthe 70s to put the lights on and were on a 3 day week - we will see very shortly labours answer to all this, it will be the end of this country

@lawrieflowers8314

Күн бұрын

Just after the second world war, Britain was bankrupt, and in huge debt to the USA, after having just spent colossal amounts defeating Hitler and his National Socialists (aka Nazis). And, yes, we once had a proud manufacturing industry. But to say, as you do, ‘the Tories basically shut it all down and forced us into decline’ is so ridiculously one-sided it must be straight out of the TUC black-arts playbook. Not many are so consumed with hatred that they put an immensely complex problem of decline down to just one single cause, mentioning nothing else at all as being contributory to this. A more rounded view would be: • The country was in one hell of a state of destruction & neglect when the war ended • And also virtually bankrupt, with no money for modernisation • The industries nationalised by the 1945 Labour Govt. (coal, railways, road transport, civil aviation, electricity, gas and steel) became bywords for waste & inefficiency, as all nationalised industries are. • Trade Union power greatly increased, and by the 1960s literally millions of working days were being lost annually to strikes that could be called at the drop of a hat. • Foreign competition was getting stiffer. They could turn out the same or better product, cheaper than we could. • Our once-mighty shipbuilding industry was a prime example, followed by coal, steel, motorbikes & cars, etc. (British Leyland became notorious for wildcat strikes, poor workmanship & shoddy products, out-dated designs etc) • All this plunged industrial areas into a steady decline. • And those industries went from making profits to huge losses. Basically, by the late 1970s the country was in a spiral of economic decline, and was quite rightly mocked & derided by our European competitors as ‘the poor man of Europe.’

@hamonryechinaski180

Күн бұрын

Sorry. Your rose coloured glasses are too simplistic. I'm in Blackpool, born in Milltown Blackburn. Cheap Indian imports killed East Lancs and the Milltowns, long before tories privatisation ffs. Keep your hate boner under control.

@columbmurray

Күн бұрын

But now everything is made in china because of the dirt cheap labour and no health and safety ot social benefits. I know I lived there.

I grew up in Torquay, was a teenager in the 80's before package holidays became popular with the masses. It was a great place to be aged 16-20, going out with my friends as young people from all over the country went there on holiday and were out to party too. I remember Maggie T saying anyone who was unemployed could move around for work. Guess where they all went? The fun seaside towns. As most people went to Spain, the UK hotels struggled, then decided to rent their rooms to the mobile unemployed, many of whom had no intention of finding a job when they were on one long holiday. Why would they?. Returning to Torquay on and off over the next 30 years, the town has changed from a smart town in the 80's to some areas being awful. We wanted to move back and some of the housing estates were awful, pot holes in the road, cars parked up n the verges making it a mess, rubbish in the gardens, no sense of pride, houses rotting away. Sad to see the town I grew up in decline like that. I also blame the rise of BTL for the decline as some landlords neglect their properties and some tenants have less pride in their homes as they don't own them. BTL and 2nd homes has robbed many people of the chance to buy their own homes.

peak british upperclass culture: getting my sausage roll stolen by a bloody seagull

@LamiaLover

3 күн бұрын

You mean a hot dog?

@kyliecooper2618

3 күн бұрын

@@LamiaLover no?

@bearwolffish

3 күн бұрын

Just as you go to take a bite.

@tomasflint9976

3 күн бұрын

Stood outside my work a couple days ago when a seagull dive bombs a baby it’s pram to take its sausage roll. So savage i was laughing for the next hour 😭

@minatomadara3436

3 күн бұрын

​@@LamiaLoverno

I grew up and currently live in a seaside town, when i was 17-19 i had my own flat, its now years later and im in a house share with a room that is more expensive then that flat. Shops have closed down and our high street is a shadow of its former self, our shopping centre on the high street is half used and nearly empty, because of all this its become a place where divvies and druggies hang about causing people grief.. everybody are miserable, Its definitely not same town from when i was a teenager. Its brutal. Cheers Jimmie, this one hit close to home.

@bangdobrich

3 күн бұрын

Which town is it? Coould rents be unnafordable due to the seasonally high rents in summer? Why did you decide to stay, especially given the fact if you live in a house share you could do that in much nicer places for the same cost? I'm renting in Cambridge for 500 a month with bills and the house costs 600k. Previously lived in Hull, so the move was a no-brainer for an educated, professional lad. If you'll be sharing you might as well go where you'll have better jobs/transport links.

@louiserocks1

3 күн бұрын

​@@bangdobrich500 a month in Cambridge? Bills included? How? I'm currently looking are the cheapest possible accommodation in York. I'm at a hostel which costs £9 a night, but I'm not allowed to live here, only 2 weeks max. So how do you go about finding something like that, I don't even mind if I have to share a room with like 20 indians or whatever, or if it's even legal, just as long as its cheap. Rightmove doesn't seem to be much help

@mettie1982

2 күн бұрын

Sounds like you live in Hartlepool 😂😂😂

@BiscuitXL

2 күн бұрын

@@louiserocks1 I was in a HMO last year so i feel you on that one, they are normally shit places to live and the system just saps everything from you and claim they are helping. Try everything all the time, keep trying landlord and sites everyday, apply for places you cant afford, go to the viewing and talk to them about cheaper properties, thats how i got mine, i went to a viewing for a room that was 500 and i spoke to them about my budget and they offered me this room which was 50 quid less, not the best street but its a roof thats "cheap" lol.

@BiscuitXL

2 күн бұрын

@@mettie1982 Hell No 😂 I got stranded their once and as i was waiting for a train, i saw 6 12 year olds on bikes rob a taxi driver in his car across the street from me.... Nah im good 👍

I'm noticing a trend with these types of towns where there's a large homelessness issue and yet somehow also a ton of empty, borderline abandoned houses & apartments. Or large drug issue but also high unemployment rate. If only we had a way to help homeless people get back on their feet and rehabilitate & retrain unemployed folk so they don't fall into drug use.

@bobgriffin316

15 сағат бұрын

Maybe some people should help the druggies in these towns to get off them. Even if we can't afford to pay them maybe they can do it on a voluntary basis. It would lift the town. I expect that there are a lot of things that people should do for free in these towns that would help to lift them. Maybe do up the properties on low wages and learn how to do building and then get skilled and start earning a reasonable income. One thing leads to another. Run a business hub where people buy and sell things on ebay in an internet cafe and get good at making a profit on it. Maybe get the local council to hire an entrepreneur to come to the town to set things up so that people can start up small businesses and make a profit to lift the whole area.

Its not just Britain dude. You should see what LA and San Francisco looks like these days. Downtown Seattle is all but dead. Homeless everywhere. Its looks like zombie apocalypse.

Blackpool council has just approved £300m to spend on the town centre, nothing for us in the urban areas. Our streets are potholed to fuck.

@PhoeniX199777

3 күн бұрын

Seems to be a common theme around the uk, make the town/city centre nice but let the places people actually live rot..

@scottish5696

3 күн бұрын

Very true, £300m? That is a lot of money for one area.

@pigknickers2975

3 күн бұрын

@@scottish5696 ⅔ of that is going to be kickbacks and backhanders nowadays. Thanks for the 12 grand, and yes that's what a speedbump costs nowadays.

@scottish5696

3 күн бұрын

@@pigknickers2975 £12k out of 300mn?

@pigknickers2975

3 күн бұрын

@@scottish5696 Sorry, I got that figure from a little speedbump thing they installed at the shops near me. Couldn't believe it at the time. I think MOST of that money is getting trousered tbh, it's so large anything will be happening.

The death of the high street is an interesting one. A year ago I left the UK for Canada and there are very few empty shops here. It really surprised me since I moved, people moan here but they have no idea how much better they have it than the uk

@mamaw4732

3 күн бұрын

The taxes are appalling tho

@timacann

3 күн бұрын

I moved to Australia almost 20 years ago. I've not been back all that much but whenever I do its jarring at how much worse things have become.

@TH3YGXNE

2 күн бұрын

Poverty is a lot more present in the UK. Not saying that Australia and Canada don’t have these things, but we have cost of living like the yanks and wages of Eastern Europe. Canada has half of our population and isn’t collapsing on itself but I wonder why the UK is

@TH3YGXNE

2 күн бұрын

?

@mukulalhossain21

2 күн бұрын

😊😊

American here and massive Anglophile. Call me a simp but this video makes me tear up. My 2 trips to England among absolute best moments in my life. Your culture gave the world so much. 🇬🇧

@avancalledrupert5130

3 күн бұрын

It feels like America is having same problems. I did a stretch of ruet 66 and the decay is unbelievable. New Mexico literally looks like fallout. Its breaks my heart to see that 1950s art deco Americana in ruins . That's your guys cultural icons. That's your peak That's your victorian era . It dousnt look like there's much interest in saving any of it.😢

@prettyprrrrettaygood

3 күн бұрын

@@avancalledrupert5130 true and very well said. hope you are doing ok

@AMPYMCSTAMPY

3 күн бұрын

If you're an anglophile, you should look into the history of Cumbria. Back before it was cumbria, it was Lancashire-over-sands. In the 60s it was changed to an adaptation of one of the ancient names of the area (cymru, which is also what the Welsh sometimes call themselves) but cumbria has an extensive history thats older than most of english history, and its very rarely talked about.We have our own "language" called assa marra. Aam reet, just about to head down howe t'shops, marra. Gonna have to lowp ower at least yan yat, but should be able to get around it if I have a deekaboot for shortcuts. I am alright, mate. I am just about to head to the shops, but will have to jump over at least one fence gate to get there. I should be able to find short cuts if I have a look around, though. I'll need new keks tho, lad, since mine 'ave been knackered. Means I'll be ganyam for a change, though. I'll need new pants/trousers since mine are broken, but it means I will have to go home to do so. Might as well get a bit-a-bait while aam at it, eh? Aam starved. I may as well eat since I am hungry. Head down t'pub to get kayeled on some waarm bevvies later on, tho? Just gizzus sec to get ready Let's go get hammered at the local pub. Also, look up the local legend of King dunmail. Fascinating.

@DrearyOne

3 күн бұрын

​@@Mr.PDF_Fileyou must have been in a bad mood watching this. See a few of your passive aggressive comments now. You okay pal?

@Mr.PDF_File

3 күн бұрын

@@DrearyOne yeah my bad dick move on my end

Blackpool resident here and it’s been the worst year for decline so far

Brits on holiday in Spain are famous for the exciting practice of "balconing"= jumping from hotel balconies trying to dive directly into swimming pools, missing the pool, and dying.

The constant Sweet Caroline chants in this video is fantastic xD xD xD

@mtbmike6676

3 күн бұрын

The fact hes finding them for each environment is just pure gold 😂

@MrVorpalsword

3 күн бұрын

ARE fantastic,,,, English, what have we become as a people, as a language?

@valeriestory7678

3 күн бұрын

I laughed so hard every time 🤣🤣🤣

@HieronymousCheese

2 күн бұрын

Is Neil Diamond collecting royalties every time? He must be rolling in it.

@jabloko992

2 күн бұрын

Hopefully by 2200, the first British colonizers on the newly terraformed Venus will still be singing it.

The gentrification doesn't help. I'm from Cornwall originally and I can tell you that one of the biggest issues is second/holiday homes. Pushes property value and rents through the roof. This also affects shop prices. So you end up with a situation where the the only people who can afford anything are only living there one or two months out of the year. This means there's no customers for most of the year, so the shops/pubs/infustructure close and get converted into more holiday/second homes. In addition, the second home owners also get off paying coucil tax because they aren't dwelling in the area for long enough. I'm a proud Cournishman and I'v been watching the emmets destroy my home over the past 30 years because I'm powerless to the wealthy.

@anthonylulham3473

Күн бұрын

petition your MP for a local jurisdiction enforcement to prevent second home ownership. i believe Falmouth managed something similar, and Portsmouth operated a double council tax policy if the property isnt fully occupied.

@mrcockney-nutjob3832

19 сағат бұрын

How do you think I feel with my City London I was pushed out, yet millions pile in getting free housing.

We had better summers at one time. There was less rain, but average temperatures were a little lower in the 60s and 70s. Sunshine was almost guaranteed in July and August rather than getting unexpected heatwaves at anytime from.March to October and then a wash out summer. It was actually warmer in the 1930s than in the post-war period.

@dragonmartijn

22 сағат бұрын

You know, weatherboy.

To be honest, British tourists passed out laying on the floor in random places frying in the sun till 10 in the morning is the standard in any touristic city in the south of Europe.

@petersimmons4288

Күн бұрын

Usually they can be identified as looking like red lobsters

@tomfu9909

Күн бұрын

Not only South. It spreading to the North

Being from Torquay I have seen the decline of the town in the last 25 years and it’s heart breaking. Londoners buying second homes, air bnb’s are making affordable accommodation difficult and many of my retired friends have moved out. To remedy this, the council is getting rid of green spaces and countryside land to build “affordable homes” of poor quality , designed by idiots no doubt inspired by Easter European communist architecture from the 60s. New hotels that look like hospitals. Old Victorian building demolished. The loss of character of the town will no doubt put tourists off even more. Shop rents are so high that the high street is now a wasteland. Homeless folk everywhere, fentanyl deaths. I m not sure how this can be reversed.

@c.c.8841

Күн бұрын

It’s the same nonsense we get in Scotland as well. Affordable private homes means nothing if you don’t qualify for a mortgage. There is too much greed in power, same rhetoric coming from Labour as well.

@MonstaTrapz

Күн бұрын

Torquay probably being the poster child of seaside town decline. Go to Dawlish or Teignmouth though and they're thriving, independent food shops and cafés and busy with tourists for 6 months of the year. Torquay just got too built up I think, had some great nights out there in the 90's. Still, it's not that bad yet, just needs investment in the town centre which is happening now right?

@theblackhand6485

Күн бұрын

Chna. The answer is China.

The decline into abject poverty started in early 90's Blackpool where the council would pay for homeless families to live in accommodation, many local hotels would convert their rooms to studio flats. Once you fill the once great town with people only on benefits (employment/disability etc) and not aimed at holiday makers, you lose tourism income and a working tax paying population and it goes downhill from there. You also add more drug, alcohol, gambling and many other social issues coming in from around the country to live in Blackpool on benefits. More poverty means less tourist opportunities, less employment for local workers and its a swirling toilet bowl.

@anthonylulham3473

Күн бұрын

a negative feedback loop is very hard to get out of. The country is in one atm.

It still baffles me that we imagined future cities as dystopias with 100 story apartments, and when it actually seems like our predictments will turn out accurate, we refuse to build them, and let property get hilariously expensive

@pegcity4eva

3 күн бұрын

Megacity one

@BorisBoris-sl1sf

21 сағат бұрын

what is a predictment?

My friend is South African-English. Her great-grandparents moved from Blackpool to South Africa in the 1880s. She went to the UK for the first time last year and visited Blackpool to see where her ancestors came from. She was shocked at what it had become similar to how bad some cities are like in South Africa.

@StayWoke240

3 күн бұрын

She thought it hadn’t changed since 1880? wtf

@ReeseJamPiece.

2 күн бұрын

Holy shit, how old are they? They are at least 140 lmao.

@galesito1733

Күн бұрын

You only have one friend?

@dragonmartijn

23 сағат бұрын

You have friends?

@galesito1733

22 сағат бұрын

@@dragonmartijn Yes I do. Well, I say friends, they're more like acquaintances. Actually, I fucking hate all of them.

In Brighton down did Mad King George A stately pleasure dome decree. Where once the Wellesbourne river ran. (Now in pipes hidden from man) Taking sewage out to sea. Where once the town was safe and clean. Where once they fished the fertile sea. Where once guests stayed in hotels white, Where now the town has turned to shite.

George 3rd was actually very clean living. It was his eldest son who became Prince Regent who lived excessively. As parodied in 'Blackadder the 3rd'.

I live in Southport but don't recognise this country anymore. I'm glad my life is nearly over because I hate what has happened. It's disgusting

@davidvasey5065

3 күн бұрын

Fuck me mate

Wrong George. George III was pretty tight and puritanical. George III son - Prince of Wales / Prince Regent / George IV was the profligate hedonist who built Brighton Pavilion.

@pigknickers2975

3 күн бұрын

It's almost like the 6 minutes on Wikipedia, and a quick go on ChatGPT didn't pay off! Not to mention that the Prince Regent had a whole TV show about himself in the 80s called Blackadder hahaha. KZread will eventually drown in this copy paste AI content.

@tomlxyz

3 күн бұрын

​@@pigknickers2975you're rambling

@HieronymousCheese

2 күн бұрын

@@pigknickers2975 You get a Like just for the username. And you're right too.

@pigknickers2975

2 күн бұрын

@@HieronymousCheese Inspired by my ex-wife and thanks. Exchanging Bosch for Cheese I approve of too! ;-)

@julianrogers8608

2 күн бұрын

​​@@tomlxyz he's smoking crack smh he's just salty he's from a seaside town 😂

The lie in the idea that you only do what you're good at, especially as an industrial strategy, is that it completely ignores the purpose of investment. Adequate investment in an area can make you good at it, can make you competitive with others who have invested in that area. As a social strategy, investment in one type of social benefit can pay dividends in an ostensibly unconnected area of life, and a nation should be looking at its industries, its expenses and dividends in a more holistic way. The idea that you see a single industry, like British steel for example, as unprofitable, and therefore it should be allowed to die, is ignoring how it supports connected industries, and all the communities that survive around those industries. Neoliberalism sometimes feels like someone is selling off a house of cards, each single card at a time, starting with those in the middle of the bottom layer.

@edlawn5481

3 күн бұрын

Not only that, certain industries are vital for national defense and you do not want those outsourced.

@TalesOfWar

3 күн бұрын

This thinking is why the ENTIRE UK economy is confined to a square mile of land in London. We were good at finance, so we made that the only thing we're good at.

@rollthetape88

3 күн бұрын

probably one of the best things i've ever read

@rollthetape88

3 күн бұрын

look how britain lead the way with fibre optic technology then jujst pulled the plug and sold it to hitachi. japan implement full fibre decades before the rest of the world and reaped the benefits.

@randomuser-xc2wr

3 күн бұрын

1755: the wholesale looting of India by the English starts, twenty years later sea-side resort for the wealthy is built in England. 1860: the looting of India peaks with the establishment of the Government of India (British Raj), twenty years later the wealthy abandoned the resorts to the working class. 1945: the looting of India comes to an end, twenty years later the resorts' decline start and now they are the "worst" places in England, even the working class have abandonment them. England became wealthy by high sea piracy, looting, unequal treaties, spreading death and destruction all over the globe, from the point of view of the peasants it looked like a great thing; a thing to celebrate, the capital needed to start the Industrial Revolution was all looted from abroad or earned from the slave trade and the only reason they did invest it instead of building gilded palaces was to combat revolutionary and Napoleonic France otherwise the industrial level would have peaked with the canals, the welfare state (the house of cards in your comment) was built to confront Germany: the decision to confront the triple alliance (Ger + AusHung + Ital) was taken in 1904 the so-called Entente Cordiale while the first "People's Budget" was passed in 1909 or 1910...ultimately the Empire is gone and the boost from the North Sea oil is gone and the boost from globalization is gone, but the peasants still want to life a life they can't afford anymore (Free NHS, holidays abroad, office work, uni for everyone)....you can stop immigration, nationalize the rails, tax the rich and still without wholesale looting of other countries England will only be as wealthy as it was at the time of Henry VIII when the majority of its 2m population lived in poverty. How much did the British loot from India alone? here's some estimates: economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/independence-day-how-the-british-pulled-off-a-45-trillion-heist-in-india/articleshow/102746097.cms?from=mdr

I find the decline of English High Streets to be a great tragedy, so many great childhood memories are made from weekends spent walking around smaller town high streets

@patrick-bu3eq

3 күн бұрын

people vote with their money.

@kb4903

3 күн бұрын

With Amazon it’s never going to return. The best places now have mixed use. Eg lunch, brunch, bars and entertainment along with shops.

My late mother lived in Torqusy (she wasn't from there) and I used to spend my summers there every year up to her death 😢 Torquay was fun but you could see the economic decline, shop after shop closed, replaced by charity shops and coffee shops. Most of the seaside towns have been given another kick in the balls, Brexit. Now foreign students learning English are not bothering to go to the UK effectively killing the local, summer economy, killing the summer 16 week trade to businesses. This was a political decision, as most of them are, killing their economies slowly and deliberately.

I visited Blackpool twice when I was a kid in the 90s and it was great with all the lights and glam not to mention the amusement arcades. Its a detestable sin the government has left it and other towns to decay and rot like this instead of investing. If things where different blackpool could have been the UKs version of Vegas with enough investment, regeneration and care over the decades.

@G4RY1159

3 күн бұрын

👍

@frankfahrenheit9537

Күн бұрын

Atlantic city is the counter example, rotting like Blackpool.

The great depression 2.0 has arrived. 2024 is the new 1929.

@kimrasmussen7188

2 күн бұрын

29 could be fixed with laws and government programs. nothing can fix this one. when SHTF 95% of us will die. its gonna be a shitshow of epic proportions.

@cheeks7050

Күн бұрын

yep

@anthonylulham3473

Күн бұрын

2028 will be the new 1933?

It is pure heartbreak to see what has happened to the Rulers of the Ocean. The fishing industry seems to get no support from the London aristocrats. Back in the '70s, when I spent hours hitting the British coasts, there were beautiful scows and trawlers, with fresh, clean fish that sold like fresh clotted cream! Pubs that served the communities, and the best chips, fish ever. Has Britain run out of malt vinegar? Sorry about utilities - we're hit bad here in the States, too. Stay strong, because we love the British people -- not their government

@Killjoy_Mel

3 күн бұрын

Well, the stock of fish in the oceans has gone down DRASTICALLY since the 70s, too. There simply isn't enough fish to fish, unless you want to fish like you used to right now, and then stare at an empty ocean in 15 years because you've completely depleted the fishing population. You cannot keep fishing like you did and expect that the fish will simply f-ck more to produce more offspring for you to overfish.

@alexglanz7406

2 күн бұрын

@@Killjoy_Mel Actually, it never was Britain that overfished. Change in the water quality, sewage, and northern countries depleting feeder fish are also guilty. Fishing is a sustainable and important industry.

I mean high streets aren't dying inevitably. High streets in Belgium are thriving and Belgian cities are far more pleasant as such. I lived around the corner from the high street in my city and it's plenty busy. It does come down to solvable factors and isn't straight down to online retail.

@melhupby

3 күн бұрын

Absolutely. "But online retail!" is no different than old people whining they need to use technology more. The complaint isn't the problem, the complainer failing to adapt is. Debenhams didn't fail because online retail killed it. It failed because a fucking _book store_ realized offering try-before-you-buy home delivery for clothing was a good idea before they did. Netflix didn't kill Blockbuster. Blockbuster refused to let people rent and return dvds without jumping through hoops. High streets are dying because the high streets refuse to adapt, innovate or even follow the competition; it's easier to just bitch and then declare bankruptcy

@darkwetntight910

3 күн бұрын

Our electricity has gone up x3 in the last 2 years. That’s going from £200 a month, to 600. Supermarket prices are up 200%. The NHS is full of uninspired poorly paid people. Factories can’t get enough workers to fill there shifts. The poor are now homeless, and the working class are now poor. There are 5000 contributing factors that your statement doesn’t consider. Fuck Sunak, fuck the King and fuck anyone who supports UK government. The people aren’t United anymore.

@rickrivethead

2 күн бұрын

Yeah, but that's Belgium mate, beautiful country!

@enigmadrath1780

2 күн бұрын

Was going to say the same, except I'm in the Netherlands. We do love our convenient online shopping, but our high streets and markets are also still bustling in towns and cities. And with summer here the sidewalks are choked with people sitting in front of cafes, watching cyclists barely avoid getting hit by busses and/or trams and it's just a relaxed vibe. There's got to be something more to what's going on in the UK. So many places are in the decline :(

@frankfahrenheit9537

Күн бұрын

@@rickrivethead Lucky country where the language isn't english and country isn't fancy enough to attract the fuuking rich. Lucky German here.

this govs treatment of the north has left it ravaged, they’ve drained them dry. It’s sad

Also train prices I havn't seen anyone mention this. It's cheaper to fly to Spain than it is to travel by train to these seaside towns so I'm not surprised that there has been a major decline

@TalesOfWar

3 күн бұрын

It's cheaper to fly to these places than it is to get the train to the airport in most cases, never mind seaside towns!

@anthonylulham3473

Күн бұрын

Trains were built for Britain's industry. They moved 6 times more tonnage in 1920 than they do now with half the population level. as such, rail passenger services were subsidised and comparatively more affordable. Britain makes FA, the rails are mainly used for distributing Gravels and Cement and Steel for construction, and a bit of box car freight.

Thatcher destroyed British industry, basically our only real source of income, and outsourced it to China, then perverted Britain into a service economy, or in other words a nation of shopkeepers selling almost entirely Chinese goods. How anyone on either side of the political spectrum could possibly view Thatcher as some kind of saviour, beggars belief. Seriously, she should have stuck to chemistry, because she was an utterly moronic politician. The only thing we had left, at that point, was tourism, which is a hard sell for a nation of xenophobes, especially when you can get a much cheaper (not to mention sunnier) holiday literally anywhere but Britain. Meanwhile, what little money we have left gets wasted on mindless bureaucracy ... the only thing Britain is still good at. Somebody sprays graffiti on a public toilet, and somehow it costs £300 grand to repair - more than the cost of building an entire 3 bedroom home. This is the real reason that Britain is finished.

@JORDAN-CHRISTOPHERSPENCER

3 күн бұрын

Lmfao lets ignore the no go zones and the cities that are entirely immigrants. Thats what killed the country.

@mecx7322

Күн бұрын

Even without Thatcher, British industry would be outsourced to China, it is a matter of wages. Same thing happened to most European countries.

@frankfahrenheit9537

Күн бұрын

If the workers unions system had not been as bad as it was Thatcher would never have come into power. The big strikes in the 70ies were absolutely bad for the economy. Combine this with bad management and arrogance towards the EWG (EU) People really appreciated how she destroyed the unions, but she did not stop there. Privatizations were awful, big big mistake. And then came brexit, the nail in the coffin.

@balthus9105

Күн бұрын

Wasn't British industry killed in the 70's, Thatcher came about as a result of the stupidity of the unions and socialism.

I’m from Blackpool, as a whole the town isn’t as bad is people make it out to be but the town centre, the front and the backstreets round that area are shocking. Most of it hasn’t been updated since the 70s and the amount of boarded up shops and businesses is just sad

As a tourist to Britain and Ireland in 2018, we paid 15 quid each for first class tickets from London to Portsmouth to go to the naval museum (had to purchase three months in advance), The museum itself was about 35 quid each. All very reasonable. Looking at the price of train tickets now I shudder to think how much it would cost. Both my wife and I love Britain and Ireland and were planning to go back in 2025, however the cost of it, and the state of the place as videos like these point out has made us decide not to. And this is a huge problem, not only has domestic tourism dropped off, but I am sure international tourism (apart from probably cities like London) will also drop off. To witness what has happened to Britain is truly appalling and I hope it can somehow get back on its feet.

The irony of the brits abroad, sounds like exactly the same the same thing they complain about with foreigners in the UK, yet do exactly the same or worse in other countries

The Grand Tour was NOT an Ancient Roman tradition, it was a seventeenth century educational tour to see the classical architecture and arts scene of mediterranean Europe.

@JimmyTheGiant

2 күн бұрын

It was revived in 17th century as i understand

@sarahhale-pearson533

2 күн бұрын

And to lose your virginity to a Parisian prostitute, with or without syphilis thrown in…..

@mettie1982

2 күн бұрын

You missed brothels off your list

@dantownsend4246

Күн бұрын

Ancient Rome tourists were legionaries.

This would be pretty weird in Australia where wealth is defined by how close you are to the beach lol

@joanneburford6364

3 күн бұрын

Exactly, but we've got the weather. Went there as a kid and those seaside towns were depressing even in the 80's.

@Augrills

Күн бұрын

America is the same way. The coasts are the place to be and the rest is flyover country

As someone who lives in a dying town in Scotland I appreciate the many videos on youtube documenting just how bad things are getting in the UK, there are those who just document what is happening and I've even seen a few that have tried to come up with solutions. My town with a population of around 70,000 doesn't even have its own universal credit building, you need to travel to another town just to claim UC, and its not even as easy as just getting a train or a bus you would need to get 2 buses or a train and a bus. The government doesn't care and the council would rather deprive people of help to save money over lives.

Brilliant, Thanks Jimmy. Bit of a Mad Max UK style here. This may be depressing but we need to know these things. Also I recently finished a book called Tourists by Lucy Lethbridge, about the origins of British beach towns, among other things and working class travel. I interviewed her on my Anadromist channe l. Have you dealt in depth with the related subject of Stag Parties in Prague? I remember when the cheap air flights started and all of a sudden the yobs were let loose upon Central Europe. It changed the mood of the place completely, especially on the weekends. When I visit Prague now I stay in after midnight on Friday and Saturday, A friend of mine who worked for a while as an 'exotic' dancer told me that she couldn't stand these Brit stag-dos, and also could hardly understand what they were even saying. When Europeans learn English they don't learn Lad. I'd love to get the Jimmy The Giant treatment.

Great video as always! You truly make some incredible content. It's always well thought out, well-researched, well-written, and very well produced.

I'm from Margate on the south east coast of England, similar story here. We're the top 10% of communities for deprivation, in some areas child poverty is as high as 33%, top 3 for violent crimes in the country and especially after covid our high street is dead and there are so many people reliant on food banks because wages are lower compared to the average. The systematic decline of Britain is happening *everywhere*, its just seen first in the already hard hit places like Margate, Blackpool, Clacton, Southend, Worthing, etc. We need systematic change to help our most vulnerable communities, and to prevent any more communities falling into deprivation. Because at the current rate the UK is going, everyone will be in deprivation soon enough.

@anthonylulham3473

Күн бұрын

indeed, there's not the money to go around. other than the £8mill a day on hotels

@RockyScorcese

11 сағат бұрын

@@anthonylulham3473 seriously dude it's not foreigners that's the issue. It's the massive wealth inequality going on in this country. The wealthy want you to be distracted by foreigner scapegoats so they can carry siphoning off the country's wealth into their back pockets. Wake up, stop been a useful idiot and focus your attention on the real culprits.

I said this during Covid, and i'll say this again now. These seaside towns will see a massive turnaround over the coming years, and there's several reasons why. Firstly I suspect the average Brit will be priced out of being able to have an affordable holiday abroad, secondly, as the economy declines further, those in more affluent parts of the UK will also be priced out of their surrounding areas. These 2 things combined will see a resurgence in the UK Seaside Destination Holiday. We are actually seeing this happen right now, the building prices are low with most likely another collapse on the horizon, theres new and modern industries moving in, people will be given jobs etc etc

@zurielsss

2 күн бұрын

You have a great sense of imagination 😂. With traffic cost sky high and low cost airlines so cheap. I don’t see how Brits will be priced out and forced to holiday in a seaside town. Industries and jobs are gone and not returning since thatcher and Brexit. Why would people invest in UK when it’s not in the EU and the labour costs are so much higher than places like Poland/Czech ? Building prices aren’t collapsing , not when they keep it impossible to build new ones and thus keeping the old ones on unaffordable prices

@charactername263

Күн бұрын

train ticket to brighton is £30 from London. Can get a flight to malta for that price.

@alihenderson5910

Күн бұрын

Lol, you won't be leaving your 15 minute neighbourhoods, never mind going to Benidorm or even Blackpool.

@cheeks7050

Күн бұрын

nice fantasy mate

@mecx7322

Күн бұрын

@@zurielsss Numerous businesses nowadays are shifting from Poland and Czech Republic to India, Turkey, Tunisia and so on, due to much lower wages.

It is not only the UK diving into Victorian times again; the whole "West" is. Politically you can choose between neo-liberal centrists, who don't want to change anything (because this system served them good), maybe make it a bit greener (but still neo-capitalist of course), or right-wings who are blaming immigrants and the poor, while eroding the rights of the working class etc. (actually just like the centrists are doing). And people are seemingly to busy looking into their smartphones to recognize what is happening around them. All what was fought for by our ancestors the last 150 years seems to be brushed away in order to make more and faster money ... our world has never been so rich, but our cities never looked so bleak and shit, so lifeless. This system has become so elaborate, that many people accepted it as "natur given". Capitalism has been so deeply incorporated into our societies, that it already affects our social behavior.

@MonstaTrapz

Күн бұрын

We're not in capitalism anymore though, we're in corporatism

@anthonylulham3473

Күн бұрын

The Right wing on immigration is a valid concern. If we as a nation have failing cities like Blackpool, why are we inviting in a city's worth of people in in a year (700,000)? New immigrants are a net financial cost rather than boon if it is open to any and all in the world (it is). GDP per capita has been stagnant for 20 years £40k in 2004 -> £44k in 2024 while inflation means youd need £70k to afford the same goods and services as 20 years ago £40k. the population has increased by 8 million in that time period, and national birth rate has been at 1.7 since 1975. We are a nation facing poverty, we should not be bringing more people in to suffer, more people to house, more strain on our waterways and waste infrastructure. the nation will have mass suffering and a reduction in hand outs, we will likely fall foul of human rights acts for the standards of living in our cities and then have civil unrest.

@MonstaTrapz

Күн бұрын

@anthonylulham3473 Well, that's precisely why they're allowing it all. That's the plan.

@xxjoeyladxx

8 сағат бұрын

The only person who has served the interests of the working-class in the 21st century is Donald Trump Socialism is a cancer on the working-class

@xxjoeyladxx

8 сағат бұрын

The only person who has served the interests of the working-class in the 21st century is Donald Trump.

I’M SURE FEW, IF ANY, PEOPLE WILL ACTUALLY READ THIS. This isn’t just about seaside towns. They are just a manifestation of the same affliction that affects the WHOLE of this country. It is caused by all of the things mentioned here in this video BUT, at the age of 61, I can see how this has been coming since my own childhood in the 1960 and 70s. What lies at the heart of this and is the real cause is only touched upon or barely alluded to and not really confronted with the truth that it needs. Indeed, to an extent, this video itself falls into the same trap. It seeks to blame external causes without sufficient recognition of or introspection to look at the primary internal cause. Most other European countries, including those that were formerly the poorer Eastern European countries emerging for decades of communist rule, are subject to many of the same external influences…online shopping etc. Yet, in these European countries, one doesn’t see the same abject decline and desolation, equivalent to these places in the UK. No, what has not been mentioned here, with sufficient emphasis, is decade upon decade of inherent British conceit and arrogance coupled with complacency, and the belief that simply being born British confers some ‘God-given Right’ to a place of superiority in the scheme of the World. The British Empire was at it zenith exactly 100 years ago. Unfortunately, subsequent generations have naively and negligently hung on to and continued basking in the glories and the economic primacy of their ancestors. The British have, for generations, continued to sneer at, deride or otherwise mock (what were) poorer or less developed countries - even in Europe - whilst failing to see or accept their own decline. We even treat news such as: “per capita income in Poland set to be higher than the UK within the next 5 years” not with a sense of “what can we do to improve our own situation”. No, instead, we treat such news almost with the arrogant indignation of “how dare they?!” Whenever difficult times or situations occur for the British they are ALWAYS “someone else’s fault”; be that the world economic climate, a war somewhere else, the EU or that perennial fail-safe…..“Immigrants”. The one thing that it NEVER is, is the fault of the British people themselves. The German comedian, Henning Wehn, who lives and works in Britain, made a documentary similar to this about decline but focusing on one seaside town- Bognor Regis. It’s available on KZread to watch. However, what most people in the comments section of that video clearly failed to understand is that he is using “Bognor” throughout merely as a metaphor for “Britain”. The comments to that video again mostly just focus on that town’s decline in microcosm, just as they are here to this video. Most of the comments here, still “don’t get it”. This video is not about the decline of seaside towns. It’s about the decline of the U.K, as a country…AS A WHOLE. This is fundamentally a problem of national psyche and the British who, even though the decline is inescapably visible for all to see, continue to blame others whilst basking in former glories instead of realising, accepting and taking on the changing global landscape. This continued blinkered, unfounded arrogance has been the greatest curse to this country ever since the 1970s, at least! The world order is changing. The people of the UK have ensured, not only through Brexit but also through the example set to the nation by the amoral, corrupt leadership that has been in power for at least the last decade, that they have set themselves on a course for rapid decline. Everyone can see it. The fact that they continue to blame everyone else, means that decline has now turned into terminal free-fall….and there’s no one willing or able to stop it. The hidden, rich puppet-masters of corrupt Tory politicians have sucked out whatever wealth they can and now leave the mass of the population exposed to ever polarising politics and to squabble over the remaining carcass of this country.

@udn9930

2 күн бұрын

Excellent analysis, spot on.

@peterharris38

2 күн бұрын

I have read all your post and how extremely true it is. I grew up in Bournemouth and Poole (born in 65) and emigrated to Australia in 88, I knew that Brexit would destroy England economically but the social rot was there growing up, even though I had a low end middle class education. I have taken 5 long trips to England and am horrified, saddened and dismayed by the rude, aggressive and entitled behavior I inexperienced. I don't believe I will travel there again and that truly is heartbreaking as the country I left I was proud of, but, no longer.

@theenglishman3368

2 күн бұрын

It's nothing to do with Brexit

@peterharris38

2 күн бұрын

@@theenglishman3368 I strongly disagree as the decline of our national pride has been happening for decades is undeniable, however Brexit has destroyed our standing on the world stage, we cannot import/export goods now without huge issues, farmers are breaking, fisheries are disappearing and there is no ability to fight for better terms. All this is not due to migrants arriving on our shores, but the government taking money OUR MONEY to do ???? what. Fk the NHS or other help programs for our disadvantaged. Look at the £ Billions wasted and for what? Give me 1 single benefit Brexit has accomplished?

Imagine your house being so big they turn it into a hotel, no one needs that lol.

@anthonylulham3473

Күн бұрын

sure they didnt need need it, but they could afford it and created something of beauty. id love for the wealthy people to invest in beautiful architecture on a whim

Thanks for the well researched and on topic vids. It feels like people have been left to rot too. I am an Adult Education Silvesmith tutor and it really hurts not be passing on my skills. My teachers were trained in the industry, went through proper apprentiships, it felt a real honour to learn from them. Can you make a vid about the traditional skills we are losing with each passing year of austerity?

People buying everything online for delivery complain their town centre is declining. People holidaying abroad complain seaside towns are declining. 🤔

@marcx4157

3 күн бұрын

The town centre is dying because there's nowhere to fucking park.

@loganstroganoff1284

3 күн бұрын

​@marcx4157 hah yes the revitalization schemes never take into account parking

@BsktImp

3 күн бұрын

@@marcx4157 Mum, gran & nana - all long-lived - managed perfectly well to bring up families and doing all the shopping without cars. But I suppose that's nub of the problem: people just want to sit at home getting stuff delivered to the door or, failing that, hidden away in a metal & carbon fibre box and park right outside the shop too scared to use their legs. And then complain when high street dies. I agree though parking charges and business rates don't help.

@lemsip207

3 күн бұрын

I try not to shop online but do prefer to shop in supermarkets and the suburbs. I don't have a car but I got sick of the harassment by hawkers, street preachers, drug addicts and chuggers in the city centre.

@dosboss7589

3 күн бұрын

It's more complicated than that, people can only pay for what they can afford, and cost of living has caused businesses to close down. It's not just "people are buying everything online", people can't afford to fucking live.

The Selling Off Of the Council Houses, started by Thatcher but continued by both sides, made some people quite well off at the time, and the rise of Rich Property Landlords, (and awful "Housing Associations",) but has been a disaster for the following generations. They need to Bring Back Proper Council Housing on a Huge Scale...but they won't.

@hamonryechinaski180

Күн бұрын

It made home owners. Made getting a mortgage (generally far cheaper than renting) the go to. Blair making interest rates negligible and allowing in cheap labour to break the working vlass hurt just as much. This Thatcher sh** is tedious, ESPECIALLY when you examine New Labour

I used to go on holiday to Blackpool every year when i was a kid, maybe around the ages of 7 to 12 and loved it, i have so many great memories so i went back when i was around 17/18 and it had changed so much i was depressed the whole week i was there, i couldn't believe how bad it had gotten in such a short time. Im 28 now and it seems to have gotten even worse.

its crazy how the situation in the uk is now youtube content

@pigknickers2975

3 күн бұрын

Yeah, a whole mini-genre FFS!

@madkoala2130

2 күн бұрын

Thank god for Brexit, they really made Britain into land of clowns.

The used tampons floating around in Brighton seaside are like no others

I live in Swansea and the stark contrast in living standards between the Gower/Mumbles region populated by wealthy English people and the rest of the city is grim..

Would be so interested to hear your take on Margate which is one of these old British seaside holiday towns that now seems to be attracting loads of new people, especially artists and seems to be on the up. Could this happen in other towns?

This video is on point, I love how you managed to distil the concept of “Brits Abroad” as just drunken singing of “Sweet Caroline” 😂 Good Work 👍🏻

Hey Jimmy, just wanted to say that your analysis of the root causes and cycles of poverty in these types of places is spot on. It always comes back to the neoliberal Tory vision that effectively boils down to ‘pull the ladder up Jack and sod the rest’. It’s incredibly frustrating to see those most affected by these issues turn to people like Nigel Farage because he seems to be the only person people feel is on their side - the same man who refuses to truly call out the failure of neoliberal economic policy and would arguably cause these towns to decline even further. Btw, if you want a video idea, the decline of British-owned business and proliferation of US-owned private equity/corporations siphoning off money from the British high street back to the US would be good to see, since it’s a critical issue not really discussed in the mainstream. Angus Hanton has a great book on this called Vassal State. Keep up the excellent content🙌🏼

@christophermachon1964

3 күн бұрын

You would’ve thought that after the brexit debacle, Nigel farage wouldn’t show his face but here we are. Those same people, now admitting that brexit was a mistake are about to vote for the person responsible. The man is odious and will only make this country poorer. And for those that shot themselves in the foot,voting for brexit who are about to shoot themselves in the other foot voting for “reform,” there are no words. Well there are but unrepeatable here.

You are brilliant! I’ve never seen someone who is so spot-on about everything but still appeals to the KZread attention span. Great work.

Another great doc Jimmy. Keep up the good work!

This is something wrong with the way our country is run and what things cost. For me living in the Midlands, it's cheap for me and my family to drive to an airport, pay for airport parking and flights to Spain and have a week holiday there than it is to just drive to the seaside and have a week's holiday in the uk.

I’m really impressed with your content, and this was a very poignant demonstration. I’m not a Brit, but many parts of the US are also dwindling in their appeal, and opportunity for the future. I applaud you bringing on that contrast between the post world war effort, and the lack of feasible growth potential. That concept is not often publicly discussed by the corrupt news agencies.

Love your personality Jimmy, proper got me tuned in!

My parents left the UK due to the decline in standards of living. You did such a brilliant job of describing to a young person (like me who knew it was bad but not to this extent) so thanks for educating me and shedding some light on the real Britain.

The exact same thing could be said of many of the traditional townships of Australia, either swallowed up by sprawling inner city ghettos, or left to rot on the wayside.

a brilliant summation. In my town (Doncaster) there is no longer any educated middle-class, they went when the industries closed, they were engineers and their families - gone. But you need a mix, real diversity isn't about skin colour; its about different skills, outlooks and interests. Now builders think they have won, they build houses, house prices rise and they think they are business geniuses, landlords think they've won for the same reasons .... but if you are thick and unthinking you are a crap builder, you get rid of asbestos garages down a farmer's track instead of paying to remove it safely - you rent out a shit-hole that smells of the cheap paint that you paint the wood-chip in (it covers the cracks) and these are sound business moves, its easy for them. If life's so easy, why bother with the pain in the brain that is known as education? - they don't. Every clever kid leaves to go to university and doesn't come back, can you imagine how debased and stupid the local council becomes when the thickos are the only ones left in town?

Just found this channel, love the content, the delivery on these videos are great , now I've got something to binge watch.

It is SO important to highlight this problem. Thanks Jimmy the Giant. Brilliant video. Depressing situation indeed.

I never forget when i first went to Ayia Napa in like 1999...And the locals absolutely hated us 🤦🏽‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️

@Lulusnotreadyforthis

Күн бұрын

@DeeDerry - Unfortunately, the British soldiers stationed at the local army base had an appalling reputation for violence. Stories of young local women being violated were common and after one terrible incident where a soldier blinded another man, the army finally stepped in and banned the soldiers from Ayia Napa for the foreseeable. Things like that take a long time to erase from collective memories though.

Interesting and a somewhat cathartic watch for me. I grew up and live in a former seaside resort town, Worthing. It was actually the major seaside resort on the south coast until eventually being overtaken by Brighton. It was able to grow alongside Brighton thanks to its proximity and getting an early rail link. It even saw a boost as many of the upper class who felt Brighton was becoming too "common" would go to Worthing instead. Worthing saw many famous faces stay, such as Oscar Wilde who stayed at Beach House, and named a character "Jack Worthing" in honour of the town as he wrote part of the play whilst staying there. Jane Austen also stayed in Worthing for a short time, and now the building with a blue plaque commemorating it is a Pizza Express. Worthing nowadays is interesting as it does feel like a template for what a new Britain could look like, but not in a good way. There is no real middle class in Worthing nowadays, the area has become so unaffordable to the average person that it is one of the most expensive places to live in Britain, yet does not see the same benefits to living here like London or Brighton would. If you live in Worthing you are either well off in an expensive property, or you are living in council housing or a bedsit/shared accommodation for a cost that could rent you a two bedroom home in another part of the country. The area is seeing an almost complete generational replacement, the people who grew up here can't afford to live here and must move to other parts of the country, whilst the older generations have seen the benefit of rising house prices, some of whom sell up to people who have made money elsewhere, leaving Worthing with a diminished sense of community. Worthing like Brighton and many of the coastal seaside towns escaped the fate of the northern resort towns, whilst we still have problems with crime, alcoholism, and drug addiction, they are far, far less than the likes of Blackpool. Also Worthing uniquely has seen a rebirth of its high street, although we have lost some big names like Beales and Debenhams, we've retained others like M&S and Boots, and gained new ones like Starbucks, and have also facilitated local businesses getting on to the high street. Even the Guildborne shopping centre doesn't feel completely lifeless as space was given over to a gym and function areas, rather than remaining solely retail. Worthing could very well be a model for other towns and even cities to follow to restore the failing high streets. I have mixed feelings on Worthing, on the one hand I have my home town pride and feel it has done well for itself, but on the other hand I do acknowledge its location leads to it getting a slightly higher rate of investment, although lets be honest, nothing compares to the investment and focus London has received at the detriment to the rest of the UK, northerners really need to lay off the south east and focus on our mutual enemy. Worthing definitely has its issues which do directly tie back to the 2008 crash and the fact that we have a housing crisis yet all that gets built around here are luxury estates, and anything that could improve our quality of life or create new jobs like getting a local branch of IKEA is vehemently opposed by NIMBYs. Living in Worthing and acknowledging that it's one of the better off places outside of London really makes me feel like the UK isn't truly a first world country anymore.

Jimmy is the absolute best creator on KZread. Such well researched and entertaining content that actually makes a point. Keep it up @jimmythegiant, your channel is only going to keep growing bro!

Beautifully put.

Another great piece of social commentary, well done. I'm 58 and have watched these once great resorts slide. You do a great of linking up the many causes, the overarching reason is Conservative policies and ideology. We all have an opportunity to try and reverse the decline on July 4th, that of course is actually very soon!

Business rates. In my town you need to cough up £20000 a year on business rates. The greed is unbelievable.

@TalesOfWar

3 күн бұрын

It's just another symptom of budget cuts from central government. The Tories have decimated local council budgets over the last 14 years. These are among the few ways they can bring more money in to provide the services we expect from a council. They make if difficult (legally) to generate money outside of a few key areas like business rates and council tax for example. Some councils get desperate and use investments in questionable things to try and boost their coffers. Like crypto.

@paulriggall8370

3 күн бұрын

Cornwall council “invested” 20 MILLION POUNDS and lost it! They “hope” to get it back, somehow. Yet they fleece us for all they can.

@alihenderson5910

Күн бұрын

Dozens of Turkish barbers in every town seem to manage the rates ok, all while being devoid of customers. We Brits must just be very poor businessman.

@balthus9105

Күн бұрын

@@TalesOfWar I seem to remember Kent county council had 50 million squirreled away in Icelandic banks when those banks went under, they are completely mismanaged, I doubt they had a bigger budget in the past and somehow managed to keep the libraries open etc.

@markwatson8714

7 сағат бұрын

​@@TalesOfWar Take a look at how many council chiefs are being paid more than the Prime Minister. It's nothing to do with central government; doesn't matter how much they hand out to councils when the councils simply award themselves a massive pay rise and then plead poverty. The problem really is that since Blair we've seen a massive outsourcing of power from central government to a variety of regulators, quangos and devolved administrations without a parallel shifting of responsibility, as a result entire swathes of our state no longer function as there's no means of holding anyone accountable when they fail.

Brilliant... Loved it ... Cheers from France !

love bro. this is important for all tourist spots across the world

Margate is a seaside town that has somewhat bucked the trend. Huge improvements over the past 10 years

@RockyScorcese

11 сағат бұрын

mainly by "pioneers and frontiersmen" from London trying to gentrify it

Seaside towns had lots of empty accommodation, and London boroughs had lots of people with substance abuse and mental health problems. Instead of dealing with the issue, they just saddled towns like Hastings and Clacton with their problem tenants. East Sussex council had to bribe social workers to go to Hastings to address the social problems dumped there. A town with a disproportionate group of heroin users, street drinkers and the chronically ill doesn't exactly function like a magnate for inward investment and wealthy visitors.

@mellee8637

2 күн бұрын

Same happened to Blackpool with lots of “problem” families & individuals being moved by Councils across from MCR & East Lancs into the plentiful cheap n empty B&Bs

@mellee8637

2 күн бұрын

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4 main problems of any country or any place that leads to degredation - young leaving the place and low local birthrates... as older generation increases it naturally becomes less active to re-innovate place. - specific form of migration (i will not mention which one...but not the hard working seasonal one)... - and lack of proper education, specifically specialist, of locals, which would benefit imrovement of communities. - right balance of investment system where wealth is realocatod for the needs of hard working majority of population. this happens via taxes and middle + small business investment schemes.

Wow. Exactly one of the biggest challenges of our times that almost none of the politicians talks about.

The thing is those at the bottom of the income pyramid are those least able to move to find work- hence places like Blackpool just get worse and worse and worse. With less business going on there are fewer jobs, with fewer jobs there is less money in the local economy, with that there are then even fewer jobs. It's a vicious circle caused by many factors, but mainly that British seaside holidays have just declined so much over the past 40 years it's irreparable and no matter what councils, government, charities etc, nothing will reverse what is happening.

Moved to Great Yarmouth last year, best decision in my life! bought a house 1/4 of the cost of a London property size

@woollard9260

3 күн бұрын

I feel like great yarmouth has been hurt a lot less than other seaside places (as someone who lives near and goes often to gy)

@KrysRevamps

3 күн бұрын

@@woollard9260 During the winter its really dead and depressing but now that its warm the town livens up a lot, the main road is busy and plenty places are actually open.

@woollard9260

3 күн бұрын

@@KrysRevamps yeah it can get really miserable when there is only like 15 people out in market gates

@godsoneus

3 күн бұрын

Nice to hear someone actually being positive about their manor.👍I'm Norfolk based, and I work in and around London (inc. Herts, buck's etc) every week. I stay in various hotels and houses Mon to Fri, and I say the same thing every week without fail - I'm proud to have London as our capital - but I fuckin love heading down the A11 towards home every Fri afternoon. I was in a wetherspoons in Windsor couple weeks back and some locals called me and workmate "carrot crunchers" and said we all "fell off the back of a turnip truck". It was said in jest, however I took great delight in letting them know that it was actually me who was laughing - we nip in, take their money and go home to live the good life - they're buying a garage, while I buy a large house. They argue with parking attendant, while we stick the motor anywhere we like, any time we like. I still pay £3.80 for a pint while they moan about 5 or £6. Like I said, this was all said with good meaning between us, but I truly mean it. My town and local area is clean. I never thought anything of it, until I started regular work away. So many disgusting places whwre I've had to wade through crap on the pavement. And incase anyone says the usual retort that it's all relative and Londoner's earn so much that the prices become irrelevant - trust me, it's not always a guarantee. I saw a bus driver have a guy scream at him and threaten to stab him....bus drove off and I saw "be a driver with us. Wages start at £32000"....er, no thanks. nothing wrong with that wage, but it's barely more than in Norfolk, and people exit the buses round here and all say "thanks driver " or "cheers". Stab vest not required. Sorry for rambling and although it's not solely related to seaside towns, I wanted to point out that places often called "back water" or "deprived" or considered unfashionable , sometimes deserve a closer look.

@Sketch2805Studios

3 күн бұрын

I live just down the road and the winter is just depressing lol

GREAT VIDEO! THANKS.

Incredible video, love your work Jimmy. 👏 👏 👏

Britain has a very dysfunctional relationship with alcohol and that seems to come to the fore when Brits go abroad.

@aw2584

2 күн бұрын

Yeah it's hilarious noone else commented this in relation to "Brits abroad". Brits abroad don't "become wilder because its holiday". They are doing the same thing they do every weekend, but when doing it in Spain or abroad in general, it is a SHOCK to locals because no other culture acts like this with alcohol. I'm Polish and Brits I've met over the 7 years I've been here always assumed we (as in Slavs) are the real drinkers, but compared to Brits, we drink like.... 10% of what you do. Stereotypes and a lot of very... very desperate people moving here after 2004, people running away from prison sentences and general extreme poverty gave us that name, but in reality the drinking culture of old Poland during communism where there was nothing else to do but to drink has disappeared almost completely in the generations born in 1989+. Meanwhile with every generation of Brits the issue becomes bigger and bigger... also drug consumption in the UK is ABSURD. Not heroin or crack ( although that too), but coke, ketamine, mdma etc.

@jessicamilestone4026

2 күн бұрын

@@aw2584You raise some interesting points.. Yes. Stereotypes are dangerous.

@aw2584

Күн бұрын

@@jessicamilestone4026 meh fk the stereotypes, what worries me is England and Britain as a whole. Country which took me in and nursed me back to health, so to speak (at 24 when I moved here as a bum with zero education and serious addiction problems, at 30 I'm a white collar dude with a White collar job, his own apartment, and hope for the future for once). It scares me because alcoholism absolutely RAVAGED my family, and I see the horrific effects it has on the young population in Britain; and its weird to see the young being WAAAAY more intoxicated than the previous generation when they were young,this just doesn't happen anywhere else - as with Internet access and so manh things to do, I have met people from like 20 different nationalities and they all chill put with alcohol and drugs... but not Brits who seem to do it twice as hard. I don't mind Brits thinking I'm an alkie because I'm Polish, what i do mind is Brits thinking their drinking "ain't sht" compared to Eastern Europeans, because in reality Brits drink more than all of Europe, west and east, combined... and it will have its consequences.

Chanting Sweet Caroline whilst 4 vodka and cokes deep on holiday in Mallorca is so quintessentially British

So so interesting, well explained, insightful and well made 👌🏻

Very interesting and honest take! Thank you for that.

20:22 - Paignton when i first moved to the uk in 2010 this is where we lived, it seemed so nice at the start and it looks like they are trying to keep it alive but like it honestly is the most dead town in all of the uk

As tourist destinations, these seaside towns require economic diversification instead of further austerity measures. A great example of this is Las Vegas. Analysts observed that the sports industry was growing faster than the casino industry, so they demolished underperforming casinos and constructed stadiums. As a result, more people now attend sports games and visit restaurants, leading to record-breaking revenue. The crucial factor here is to attract a new set of tourists.

@dragonmartijn

22 сағат бұрын

Yes, you need to be very flexible. Something the administration isn’t, the administration doesn’t work in the private sector, but rules in the private sector 😢

Content, research, presentation absolutely top tier. Long time lurker, now subscribed.