Council is £1.3 Billion in debt? And the place looks like that? Someone should be in jail.

@carolarmer1204

24 күн бұрын

Is it a labour council ?

@SOULKEEPAH

24 күн бұрын

​@@carolarmer1204it was conservative they lost 10 seats, now it's under labour

@carolarmer1204

24 күн бұрын

@@SOULKEEPAH thanks , I was just wondering because it tends to be labour that sink their councils with debt .

@danwelsh4977

24 күн бұрын

They used all our council tax money to give themselves a huge pay rise above inflation a few years back. Most staff have new high end cars. The council skint themselves by lining their pockets with the council tax payments of the people of the borough. Wasted money on ridiculous stuff. They decorated a new meeting office & it didn't have enough seats. This is all truth, I've friends who work within the offices in Grays, Essex. It's as corrupt as our government in there.

@user-ie4tt1xp7j

23 күн бұрын

@@carolarmer1204 if it's labour - it's a labour fault if it's conservatives - it's still a labour fault, innit?

Not surprised to see an Amazon warehouse there, their greed preys on places like this, sucking any remaining life and humanity out of it, purely in the name of greed.

@Harmonikaklange

11 күн бұрын

Sure, the instant Amazon disappears all the problems will be resolved and all will be better…..

@shauncameron8390

10 күн бұрын

Amazon's so-called greed is the reason why anyone even has a job there.

@JD-vj4go

6 күн бұрын

​@@Harmonikaklange You should reread the comment you replied to slowly. Maybe a few times.

The Tories have done this. Ask yourself the question. Who has been in power for the last 14 years.

@Redsleather

20 күн бұрын

This is Essex, perhaps the most loyal, devout far right wing, Conservative supporting county in England. God knows why. It’s grim, it’s rough, it’s depressed, it’s without hope. Yet they’ll still be out voting Tory at the next election. Kent is just as grim

@Mickenos85

14 күн бұрын

In Tilbury ? Whos your local mp ? Sort him out.

@maylok3508

12 күн бұрын

@@Redsleather : Really ? This is so shocking.. I didn't know Essex is like this, at all... and what is wrong with such a small community, to do small pub poetry nights or things like that ?.... Or to broadcast films... or movies... or sports channel or matches etc.

@Arltratlo

12 күн бұрын

Labour!

@CupOfSweetTea

10 күн бұрын

Here's another way to look at it: Tory in power doing whatever they want because there has been no effective opposition to stop them

So the very simple questions is - when will the council be releasing a report showing how every penny of how the 1.3 billion was spent.

@NotALot-xm6gz

7 күн бұрын

32nd February 2025?

@jamesbarbour8400

5 күн бұрын

Indeed - all Councils should be audited and frequently so - it is taxpayers money after all and we therefore have a right to know where it's being spent. Would be even better if we had a say on how it's spent, both at local (Council) level, but also National (Government) level. Sick of being left living paycheck to paycheck every month, whilst Government Ministers are continually able to live high on the hog - just wrong !

@chrysalis4126

3 күн бұрын

Up until recently it was a tory council so don't hold your breath.

@MeiinUK

2 күн бұрын

@@jamesbarbour8400 : They are audited.... yes, it is.... but sometimes, it is the actual "short term" decisions which makes a situation extremely bad !!!....

Can’t blame the EU anymore

@jimmycburfield5997

21 күн бұрын

Yes Tilbury, a trading port should be booming with all the wonderful opportunities Brexit Brought us! Not far away Comrade Mogg and comrade Farage’s friends in the city of London have used Brexit to deregulate financial services and make plenty of extra money! It must be an attitude thing!

@geertstroy

21 күн бұрын

yes in the sense the contrast is all too painful ....

@haruhisuzumiya6650

19 күн бұрын

​@@jimmycburfield5997at least when the UK riots you can try to find farrage if he hasn't already left the UK

@jimmycburfield5997

19 күн бұрын

@@haruhisuzumiya6650 well Farage is able to keep his options open.

A lot of the pubs closed down due to violence, why would anyone pay to do up and run a pub just to get it wrecked, same in grimsby and jaywich, it undoubtedly run down but the people have not really helped when nobody will invest in a town center that's just full of crime, I live in Northampton, 2 estate's a mile from each other exactly the same flat same council, one has kept it tidy litter picking and keeping on top of crime, the other has a burnt out car broken windows old cans and beer bottles graffiti everywhere and just looks like a totally slum, the only people who stay are people who can't get out and so it goes on till it becomes a craphole, my area is clean tidy no problems no grafitti or crime, both the same council, people have to make an effort to improve their life and their community, I'm skint but I do litter pick and treat my area and neighbours with respect, it really has to start with a community helping itself, really can't blame it all on politicians, the pubs closed because of violence the shops left because of shoplifting and harrasment, not an easy fix but it can be done

@1gerard47

19 күн бұрын

Need more people like you.

@Arltratlo

12 күн бұрын

Tories dont need to help, you need to pay them first!

@drd6416

3 күн бұрын

We need more people taking account for their actions, not wiping their hands of it

Investigate the council officials bank accounts . If it’s being used to monitor benefit claimants it should be used to root out corruption

@boota1979

23 күн бұрын

@captainplatinum Monitoring the publics bank accounts is nothing short of criminal!

The North has been treated like this for many years, now it affects the South it is supposed to be a crime by the Tories,

@RendererEP

24 күн бұрын

Honestly, the Thames Estaury and Medway towns have always been like this

@hey12542

24 күн бұрын

I'm from the South and I moved north and I agree. It's like being in two different countries tbh. I still prefer the North to be fair but it definitely doesn't get what the south gets and it's unfair.

@outlawJosieFox

23 күн бұрын

Well it was a crime by Tories then and is now. 😊

@SVEVelsen

22 күн бұрын

@@outlawJosieFox The UK economy was killed by refusing to let the mines and other old dead industries die. Throughout the 1970's and into the 80's until Thatcher the UK put itself behind the rest of Europe and wasted billions in subsidies to skyrocket the national debt. The Dutch closed the coalmines in the early 1970's, that region was normalising by the end of the 2010's. Thanks to Labour, the UK did so only in the mid '80s. Guess what? Same recovery period applies there. Who championed that economic suicide? Labour did. Even dropped steel beams on people to murder them if they disagreed with Labour.

@wanderingwilliam5031

22 күн бұрын

Jaywick, Clacton, Tilbury, Grays are a few of the areas that have been neglected. Northerners often like to think they are hard done by but the south doesn't fare much different.

Makes Rwanda look like paradise

@lorenzomagazzeni5425

21 күн бұрын

Probably the weather there is not as grim.

@SinaAla

5 күн бұрын

Rwanda is currently doing great; definitely cleaner than where I live (Los Angeles)

How does a council get £1.3 billion into debt? Why is no-one in prison?

@Gazr965

Күн бұрын

Benefits fiddlers, adult care services is 2 of em !

The UK is just so awful 😖

@corneliuscornia3189

20 күн бұрын

😊😊

@sashaboo72

16 күн бұрын

Some parts are lovely, just not this part!

@Arltratlo

12 күн бұрын

yip, and they voted for it!

@Mr.Patrick_Hung

10 күн бұрын

I am glad that I live in China.

@corneliuscornia3189

10 күн бұрын

@@Mr.Patrick_Hung 😍😍

The irony is they have a massive Amazon warehouse and I bet the people who live there buy most of their purchases online yet the high street is dead and partly as a result of that the area is on its knees. This is happening all over the country and society is suffering as a result.

@rjjcms1

17 күн бұрын

Wealth extracting business models in action.

@muckle8

17 күн бұрын

Amazon are the anti christ

@rajeshbista2690

14 күн бұрын

Irony here is that you don't see anything wrong with Tory policies.

@maylok3508

12 күн бұрын

It's weird isn't it ? lol... You would think that they would try to run an actual store.. and then get those goods at an ultra cheap price point. Or to open an office cross the border and to make use of the cheaper import/export price point.. lol.. But instead, they do things this way ? I don't get it.... lol... Even though I can get from Amazon, I still visit my local Tesco.. and my local wet market as well.. and the local butchers.. etc etc.. And I also buy from different places as well... so everybody gets my money. The locals here are very good people... They are. And once you paid off your business, and the overheads, you still keep steady the prices, so that you are basically creating a wage economy. And if you do have extra or excess.. and it goes through another business cycle. Then bank that money. It just goes into a building society, or a cooperative. How else, can you function without an actual economy to function with ???... Create a local cooperative bank !...

@muckle8

12 күн бұрын

Amazon are being supported worldwide and they are the anti christ . The high street is being engineered into history on purpose .

They need jobs for local people.That is local people from Africa, Turkey,Bangladesh, India and so on and on and on and on.

@geertstroy

21 күн бұрын

Izz ze new local fyi. Supposed to spark sparky new in-sights.

@rogerjoesbury9410

20 күн бұрын

​@@geertstroy❓❓🤔

I bet there are plenty of Turkish barbers shops though

@danwelsh4977

24 күн бұрын

At least 4 in my home town they only take cash

@Paws4Thought669

24 күн бұрын

@@danwelsh4977 ha , it's clearly a laundering move XD

@danwelsh4977

24 күн бұрын

@@Paws4Thought669 funny you should say that because that is exactly the thought on a lot of the Essex peoples mind.

@tonyrobinson362

22 күн бұрын

Don't forget the nailbars always doing well?

@RoyPeters1

22 күн бұрын

​@@Paws4Thought669 Lol Turkish mafia 😂

What a disgrace that place is. Whoever runs it they should be ashamed.

@rjjcms1

17 күн бұрын

Residents taking action to help one another the solution to regenerate the fabric of that community? Even if little actions individually,from small acorns? Shunning the exploiters and politicians that have done them down.

British DECLINE is gradual, but constant and consisten, by the time your kids have grown up it is completelly different country in negative sence, there is no stopping of this decline in sight. UK became LAUGHING STOCK in 20 years time. Unbelievable

@valuetraveler2026

10 күн бұрын

well what else normally happens to empires?

@user-tu4qg1hq1i

9 күн бұрын

Britain sacrificed themselves to save the world from Hitler. That is why you Brits will always be respected.

Why does he not live full-time in the camper and move away from the dump

@SVEVelsen

22 күн бұрын

The small detail of that being illegal. We don't want car-based slums everywhere.

@PGHEngineer

20 күн бұрын

It's always the case with these people that what they say never adds up. The journo asking the questions is not interested in finding out the real truth, just promoting the narrative he decided on long before he spoke to anybody. Finding out the real truth would take too much time and effort.

@techscrew2

20 күн бұрын

My thoughts exactly, keep the camper, sell the Range Rover and the house, early retirement! He won’t look back. Bricks and mortar are over rated!

@johnniethepom7545

17 күн бұрын

​@@techscrew2 A house can be a millstone around one's neck .

@marekohampton8477

13 күн бұрын

@@techscrew2 He could sell up and retire abroad to somewhere with a third of the cost of living

could be any where in uk ,its one big dump now

@nbandpinportugal

24 күн бұрын

No it isn't. If only we could all live in the Cotswolds eh ?

@muckle8

23 күн бұрын

90% of it is .

@user-fg5fh9ps5u

20 күн бұрын

The UK is not a dump

@GeeCeeWU

17 күн бұрын

@@muckle8 90% of it isn't as far as I'm concerned.

@muckle8

17 күн бұрын

@GeeceeWU should of gone to specsavers! 😎

I lived in Tilbury 1955/56. It hasn't changed.

@geertstroy

21 күн бұрын

Loooving this ...loooovin' , just soooo true.!!! bc even un decline they talk like sitting at the helm of a wobbbbly table .

@valuetraveler2026

10 күн бұрын

of course it has changed

@jonsimmons4150

2 күн бұрын

so its not brexit then???

Welcome to Britain broken by the Tories, so they could make their mates and themselves rich.

@Arltratlo

12 күн бұрын

thank god, their voters are not more EU citizens... we have EU elections soon, just imagine how many idiots are banned from voting now.... we here are so lucky, the Tories are all your problem now, enjoy it!

@lothean2099

10 күн бұрын

What ate Tories? I'm curious. I really dont know.

@valuetraveler2026

10 күн бұрын

so tories run all the councils?

@julianaylor4351

10 күн бұрын

@@valuetraveler2026 No they deliberately deprive non Tory councils of funds, causing deprivation. They call it austerity, but what they are really doing is spending the money on themselves and their friends.

@Egorrotneck

5 күн бұрын

They are responsible for funding the councils and they have been reducing the councils budgets every year so yes the Tories are responsible

depressing..

Immigrants should see this, uk is not a gold mine, they may be better back in their countries, please think twice 💯💯💯

@jamesswindle5253

21 күн бұрын

Wrong it a gold mine for immigrants

@martinjenkins8359

18 күн бұрын

it's bad in the UK but a lot worse in Africa

@robhines4537

17 күн бұрын

At least the UK is not at war, immigrants come here from war and utter deprivation, they seem to come here and create work (car washing vape and mobile shops, uber eat deliveries, etc) why don't our people do the same??

@simonh6371

17 күн бұрын

@@robhines4537 Wow those Albanians have been walking for 80 years then, the last time there was war there was in 1945.

@federicocatelli8785

10 күн бұрын

The alternative is way worse...

Does Amazon pay any tax in that town?

@tellmemore8837

3 күн бұрын

No but it doesn't matter.

@topoftherock3628

3 күн бұрын

@@tellmemore8837 Amazon exec?

@jonsimmons4150

2 күн бұрын

no.its offshored in ireland , with ease due to EU laws. you probably pay more tax than amazon

Get yourself down to Dover, tell them you're 14 and your name is Abdul and fleeing a war zone and wham bam it's 4star hotels and free everything with spending money.

@antifugazi

22 күн бұрын

Or maybe your name is Krill from Ukraine, oh you conveniently forgot about them huh? C-+*

@sidsod1616

22 күн бұрын

@@antifugazi actually they are Fleeing a war zone or haven't you noticed that.

@potnoogle5780

22 күн бұрын

Did you sleep well with your mother? ​@@sidsod1616

@bulltraderpt

21 күн бұрын

@@antifugazi "Or maybe your name is Krill from Ukraine, oh you conveniently forgot about them" No, because their men are at home fighting, hence why you see v few of them over here. Now take your average 'istain and they are fleeing what exactly? Their women are at home, as are their children, they are here to game our system, destroy our society, so, stop being a fifth columnist.

@Samuel-hd3cp

19 күн бұрын

Actual Sid most of them came from West Ukraine, which isn't a war zone. Most East Ukrainians fled East.

I’m from Scotland and, whilst we have our share of places like this, none are close to the scale of what I see happening in England. I’ve watched similar videos of places and I can’t actually quite believe it’s real. It just seems so hopeless, I hope it can be turned around. These once proud places deserve a good and prosperous future 😢

@Kattufei135

5 күн бұрын

Because you don't have muslim

14 long miserable years of corrupt tory rule has lead to many towns like this falling apart up and down the uk.

@adamsimmons631

13 күн бұрын

Thank goodness we have a general election in July. The only decent thing the government has done in 14 years. The fact that all the supposed "big hitters" in the government are now scrambling to leave before the election speaks volumes. Good riddance to bad rubbish

I PITY THE POOR PEOPLE THAT HAVE TO RESIDE THERE, WHAT CHANCE HAVE THEY ?.

@geertstroy

21 күн бұрын

The unlikely chance to chance it up...read oop , and levellit oop to worldbeatin' heighhhts .

Poor architecture creates more poverty of all kind.

@sodakk17

8 күн бұрын

That is true.

@krob2327

2 күн бұрын

Take a look at Thorpe bay in Essex. A place where taste goes to die. It’s hideous.

I wouldn't call working for an agency at Amazon a "job".

@muckle8

17 күн бұрын

Same - slave labour at best.

@effexon

10 күн бұрын

oh wow, warehouse uses contract work?

@surreyscouse2873

10 күн бұрын

@@effexon you sound surprised

I am a truck driver and see social breakdown all over the Cities i visit. Last week i saw a woman crapping on the pavement, three people picking up half eaten burgers on the floor, a man lying on the floor with urine and feaces stained torn pants ! Is this our “ united” country ? …..how can we survive this mess !

I hope the sun helped out that first guy, god bless everyone and the struggle is real

Proof that the Tories hate the working class people of this once great nation.

@nickgower8681

12 күн бұрын

You think labor will do better??!!

@debbiegilmour6171

7 күн бұрын

​@@nickgower8681...obviously. Did councils run out of money in labour days?

The country is a hole, Corby in Northants was the same after they closed the steelworks. But not everywhere has the fortune to be tuned into a logistics hub and help people that want to work. It still never truly recovered though

@RoyPeters1

22 күн бұрын

That was UK fault closing the steel works. Thatcher legacy. The British government wanted steel cheaper from Asia, etc. Blame the British government

@Paws4Thought669

22 күн бұрын

@@RoyPeters1 I agree, people moved down from Scotland and they threw them under the bus

@audie-cashstack-uk4881

21 күн бұрын

It would have worked if every school educated in investment stocks gold savings and the uk goverme g did what city of London does instead of a small finance hib in London a country full of investors wealth everywhere the thosemwealthy people spend in a service economy it's not rocket science

Many councils are near bankrupt ,with no basic services

@boota1979

23 күн бұрын

@ellismeah8110 That's what you get after 14 years of cutting services to the bone. Austerity that wonderful plan from the Tories, that achieved precisely what we are now witnessing. That and the largest transfer of wealth in history from the people of this country gives us the perfect storm.

@brianrobinson7984

21 күн бұрын

@@boota1979 ..and then we have the alternative: Labour. Who spend silly amounts of money on the NHS but don't do anything to improve it. They pay for stupid non jobs and will import more immigrants who will either take up social housing/benefits or take up social housing, get a low paid job and get benefits whilst preventing a native from working. Thus making the unemployment, benefits, housing, healthcare, education and infrastructure issues even worse. All in the hope that all these new additions to the populous and the ones on benefits vote for them. So. Vote Tory and get austerity or vote Labour to get the third world. Great choice.

@boota1979

21 күн бұрын

@@brianrobinson7984 Your first paragraph is precisely what is and has been happening for the last 14 years. The Tories have had 14 years to reverse what ever Labour policies they do not want and they have chosen not to do so and to make immigration in particular much worse year on year and literally wreck the NHS. From 1997-2010 the Labour Government added £51 billion a year on average to the national debt while the Conservatives have on average added £108 billion a year to the national debt from 2010-22 - more than double. Now the national debt stands at 96% of GDP, when Labour left office in May 2010 it was 74.6% considerably lower. In fact in May 2010, when Labour left office our national debt to GDP ratio was the lowest of any major developed economy. Austerity achieved precisely nothing whatsoever for you and I, this particular Tory government to their eternal shame have been at war with the British public and it must stop!

@janetmalcolm6191

9 күн бұрын

Yes both Tory and some Labour.

@stitchlover633

5 күн бұрын

its deliberate

So many immigrants in such a small deprived town, why??

@krob2327

2 күн бұрын

All by design

Tax the rich. Global Wealth Tax. Abolish tax free havens. Tax foreign home owners. Invest in public services. Stop abusing volunteers and charities.

@valuetraveler2026

10 күн бұрын

never worked and wont work now

@shauncameron8390

10 күн бұрын

And impoverish the world. Great idea!

@JohnnyinMN

7 күн бұрын

Yeah. Tax! Tax! Tax! That’s what happened to England already without oversight. No thanks. Why don’t you be the first to work for free?!

@simonthomas5367

7 күн бұрын

@@JohnnyinMN There's no Global Wealth Tax system in England! It's a standard income tax system, with tax havens.

@santostv.

4 күн бұрын

Although I think the wealthy should pay their part everyone knows that they like to evade , politicians benefit from loopholes so they aren’t going to close them and everyone knows London is the landrymat of Europe, So good luck Brits

Countywide bus fares are 2 .

If only we could all live in the Cotswolds eh ?

There are lots of towns in the UK that look like that. Very depressing. Why dont they all leave?

@DataDon-rl1mb

24 күн бұрын

To go where?

@jumpleadsx2

23 күн бұрын

@@DataDon-rl1mb anywhere else. .

@dallassukerkin6878

22 күн бұрын

@@jumpleadsx2 You kind of need money to be able to move and these folk are broke.

@RoyPeters1

22 күн бұрын

​@@dallassukerkin6878yep. They're stuck. Hopefully no migrants from Iran or Afghanistan replace them

@aboutthemetal8783

22 күн бұрын

Most who live in these places can't sell their house if they are lucky enough to own it, the rest who rent can't afford to go elsewhere, the UK has been turned into a third world country, the government says that's a lie, but anyone can see it with their own eyes, when you go through one of the many places like this take a good look at the types of shops that are in the area and how they all seem to be competing and always empty, barbers , takeaways, dodgy vape shops etc etc, the picture is a clear one, but the MSM and government are doing all they can to hide it.

This looks like a 3rd world country. Is UK really this poor?

@maylok3508

12 күн бұрын

A lot of people live in different areas across the UK. The difference can be big... but I had no idea it was this big of an actual difference ? So... and everybody is busy fighting their corners, so.. Unless, you have a steady group of people, doing their bits for their community and local community, then it isn't as easy.. Actually. So.... What this small area, would indeed benefit from, is actual Windfarms.. and then get that connected to the grid, and help US, as a country to reduce the energy bills... If anything. At the very very least. And then we will get talking, actually. So.. And therefore, this would mean a maintenance team as well.. and therefore, literally would be a community energy area... My area is kind of lost now. We lost our small towns and merged together to be a devolved region, cos we too, went bankrupt... (and now, we do have pockets of depressed areas, but maybe not as bad, but we became bigger.. I remember when I was a child, it was different)... But since becoming bigger.. people are now creating small local businesses, to go back and to regenerate those old and derelict housings. So that is on going.. Some are indeed in bad shape as well. I didn't even know.. Even if we revitalise all housing, it still takes time. The issue is that, not everybody is willing to move away ?

@ruthymccabe

11 күн бұрын

It always has been. Basic, there's London, and the rest. Twas ever thus.

@santostv.

4 күн бұрын

If you take out London from the uk they are fd but there’s some big cities like Manchester,Liverpool ect. You can see it on uk police dramas it’s always have the “abandoned” feeling even London has it.

Tilbury as always been a dump

Why would they need pubs if they can not even afford a bus ride?

@v.a.993

11 күн бұрын

I think the point about the Pubs is less about alcohol consumption and more about socialization, and how without any social outlets people in the community are further unable to thrive. How are people connecting to each other and finding happiness or sense of community among each other?

finally, the sun discusses important stuff

I can't help thinking about the man who.had to sell his RangeRover. I can only imagine his pain.

@bulltraderpt

21 күн бұрын

😂

@JohnDuffy-bq8wg

21 күн бұрын

Range rovers are cheaper than a fiesta nowadays, most people scrap them now as you get more for scrap

@geertstroy

21 күн бұрын

mmmm , quite smarmy actually... a vauxhall viva can do thoo.

@JohnDuffy-bq8wg

21 күн бұрын

@@geertstroy you'd pay one hell of a lot more for a vauxhall viva

@valuetraveler2026

10 күн бұрын

LOL

All of the MPs in Essex are tories. What a great job they've done.

@valuetraveler2026

10 күн бұрын

councils

@debbiegilmour6171

7 күн бұрын

​@@valuetraveler2026 You're misdirecting your anger at the councils. Councils can only use council tax and business rates to raise revenue. That is a fundamentally limited funding model and not how a government should be run. They could be funded properly by the central government, but the Tories don't do that on ideological grounds.

@krob2327

2 күн бұрын

What will labour do differently

@debbiegilmour6171

2 күн бұрын

@@krob2327 The conservatives fundamentally are about small state and low public expenditure. While this sounds nice on paper, as we have seen over the last 14 years (and Thatcher's and Major's premierships) low public expenditure only causes anaemic economic growth and increasing poverty for the majority. Labour are the polar opposite of that so we're obviously off to a far better start.

@stevenhoward3358

2 күн бұрын

@@krob2327 I have no idea, I don't vote for them, although it probably will be less bad than tories

Yep local jobs for LOCAL people !!

@coastliner5848

23 күн бұрын

A joke isn't it.....

@haruhisuzumiya6650

19 күн бұрын

The bigger joke is that London centralised the power, budgets and employment​@@coastliner5848

It is only a small community. This is terrible !!!!! ..... Really terrible !!!.... OMG.. why does it have around 1.3 billion in debts? What has it been spent on !??!!..... Why don't they have a community bus ? And then schedule the buses to take the local communities to the nearby healthcares and such likes. And then have a green energy... windmill to generate SOME free electricities, at the very least !!!... And then have a community pub... which also act as a shop. And then some local brewings. And then use it for Sunday schools. Or even actually.... children's play areas.. As well as for hire for weddings and whatever.... I don't get it. Blimey.. for a small community like this. An actual... 12k... come on... You can have the local job centre, to have an actual job CV bank.. and headhunt and then to swap people for jobs etc !!! And to ask people to keep a savings account for rainy days !!!!... Oh come on... It is only 12k people... And then you can raise people's educational skills through time, and through fund raisings as well... and use those as a grant from your local borough.. and to take back control of your own educational budget !....

holy hell i used to live there most of my youth,the ship pub looks closed,pretty much everything closed.actualy it was quite a large community,back in the eighties,many characters,big town but pretty much everybody knew everybody, it was mostly families that moved out from the east end of london.I left dock road tilbury just 22 years ago.Or should i say,i made my escape from the borough of grays thurrock 22 years ago,to netherlands.Looks like a bomb went off now!.hi to all the tilbury people who know me.Chris Hines

@geertstroy

21 күн бұрын

It closed and the vomit vapes dissipated but the stains persist in the embossed pavement in front if le Cafe.

Nearly 40 years of torys apart from a small time of labour and those people locally keep voting conservative and the sun keeps supporting them

My first visit to Tilbury was in 1982 it seemed pretty grim even then. I’m from Basildon, it’s gone the same way.

I like the way the guy who says he's been there four months then goes "twenty years sgo.."! 😂.

You should have moved to Canada or Australia before you stopped Commonwealth movement. It's much nicer here. Only the berks remain

Why doesn't the UK Government look after it's people?😕😕

@nicks4934

9 күн бұрын

It doesnt care. 😂

@w1swh1

9 күн бұрын

@@nicks4934 Then the Government should expect the worst from its people, sadly, whatever political party is in power.

@timmelia7551

6 күн бұрын

It is not the job of government to look after people. It can help create an environment where people are able to look after themselves.

@w1swh1

6 күн бұрын

So why don’t they do just that, at least

@stitchlover633

5 күн бұрын

they are self serving career politicians except for the exceptions

who would want to open a business there, the place is really grim

@stitchlover633

5 күн бұрын

rates are probably too high

This is the story of most towns and cities from the Midlands and up

@geertstroy

21 күн бұрын

Izzit a story or a schmuxxification in process...

What the hell has happened to England?… .

This is a disgrace and makes me so sad.

UK national income (GDP) was £2.5 trillion last year. Obesity costs the country £50-70 billion alone. Tax avoidance costs about £50 billion. Smoking, £15-20 billion (when taking into account lost working hours). So let’s have some action on these issues from the next government.

@user-Merovingian1980

20 күн бұрын

hahaha the rot started under blair in 1997

@roberttopliss8512

3 күн бұрын

Tax avoidance is perfectly legal. GDP is total turnover not income.

Let's all move to Africa or somewhere obviously it must be cheaper ?

@RoyPeters1

22 күн бұрын

Lol

@dmacarthur5356

9 күн бұрын

I hear Rhodesia has a very low cost of living. Too soon?

if there is no money for them to use on a bus, why do they need a pub?

Dude cant believe that's the UK. Dadgum is there not a Lord Essex anymore? how could the government forget about that place?

This is heartbreaking 💔 and all too common not only in Britain but the entire west

"and even if its home to a huge amazon distribution center"... THATs the real problem. The HUGE corporations that kill small stores and selfemployed traders, the accumulation of wealth, fortunes that isnt returned, re-spend back in the society. We HAVE to rethink the way we structure income. Income for ALL that is. Weve reached a point(THE point, we knew it would come eh?) where capitalism is killing itself. Making money have become so eficient that its a deadend for anyone who cant compete with eg amazon. Eff amazon, eff big corporations. We need some sort of civic salary. We need to make sure the top 1 % is actually paying their share and then some. Theyre in effect the worldwide moneysink, the black hole that absorb anything of value, never to spit it out again.. How much would you spend if you made a million?? Id spend most of it. How much do you think Amazon spend when Bezo have earned 1million?? Were lucky if we see 100£ returned into society.. We have to set a limit to the size of a given business. Dunno where it should be as a general observation, but I know it specificly when we look at individual brands/cases

@SVEVelsen

22 күн бұрын

You have to be pretty special in the head to argue that doubling prices for people and forcing them to spend half a day shopping by going back to expensive tiny cornerstores, is somehow a good thing. It's not 1920 any longer granddad, there's no wife who's banned from work by the church who has all day to visit 19 different stores and buy 1 thing at each. People these days have to work, and work hard, to both pay taxes so you can freeload and somehow still survive ourselves. Your 30K home that you got at age 22 now costs 650K and can only be afforded at age 35 providing you both work 40 hours a week.

@martinwinther6013

22 күн бұрын

@@SVEVelsen Thx for telling me. I guess.

@SVEVelsen

22 күн бұрын

@@martinwinther6013 Always happy to help out senior citizens.

@lawLess-fs1qx

21 күн бұрын

Inflation is a cruel mistress. I bought a house in 20000 and invested 30k in the SP500. 24 years later the house is up 5X. My cash is up 7X but my wages are up 1.5X. This is the stuff they don't teach in school. Wages never keep pace with inflation. Assets outperform inflation. Hence the wealth gap. Schools should be teaching Kids to turn their wages into assets every month. If you want to close the wealth gap. Wages should be index linked like pensions. It's all very simple and nothing to do with socialism vs capitalism. Governments will never stop borrowing money so we will always have inflation.

@martinwinther6013

20 күн бұрын

@@lawLess-fs1qx Its not about socialism. Its about capitalism commiting suicide. The current system have failed - It was predicted long ago, it just came earlier than expected, at least for some areas. And the more areas we cant leave to self-control/self-adjusting via market-mechanics, the more do we need a new system.. Teaching people to turn money into assets would only accelerate the last part of the total destruction of capitalism. Theres a physical limit to how much the world can consume, theres a limit to how many stores there can be, theres a limit to how many houses you can buy. There SHOULD be a limit. If I buy 200 houses, then you wont be able to buy one.. and 198 other people wont either.. So we reach that limit so much faster when theres stores like Amazon or large chain-restaurants. They prevent regular people from gettng a foothold, or at least they make it so much harder that we no longer can talk about a free market with self-regulatory mechaincs like supply and demand, we cant talk about fair competition. The more large chains there is, the worse were off - at least with the current system. Indexed salary.. Hmm.. How do we decide the value if theres only one electrician left, and 100 people wants new powersockets in their home?? - How do we decide it if theres 1000 electricians, but only one who need new power-outlets?? Indexed salary would potentially lock us to the stoneage(or what the future would see as stoneage) - I think it would be better to look into systems like Georgism(yes, its a thing.. look it up) or the scandinavian Social Democracy model(as it was intended in the 50-70s).. One thing I know - Bigger is not always better

Typical of the nation, AUTHORITY HAS ABANDONED RESPONSIBILITY. Communities are for ed to look after themselves as best they can. Even charity shop prices have risen substantially because of the lack of income and rising fuel bills. To many jobs for the boys Sadiq.

Wow. Sad.

No pubs? What about the Worlds End?

"But be sure to vote against the politician who's made a priority of doing something about these problems, because it's more important to Get Brexit Done!"--THE SUN

It looks like a bomb-site in a war -zone!

Very sad indeed.

The sun. The paper that told people to vote tory

I want to know how that one store selling HulaHoops can afford to stay open.. genuinely curious..

Looms like thos place needs an injection of Diversity Equity and Inclusion.... let's give em 2,000 Palestinian asylum seekers, that should help.

@iGoldenBen

24 күн бұрын

yawn

@harold6863

24 күн бұрын

@@iGoldenBentosser

@iGoldenBen

24 күн бұрын

@@harold6863 Wow thanks

@unusedsub3003

23 күн бұрын

Grow up, sheltered manchild

@Zak-ku7sq

23 күн бұрын

What will that do? The Tories destroyed this country don't blame immigrants for this😂 they sent 20 billion to Ukraine, track and trace scam 10 billion and they destroyed the NHS.

Shocking what this country has become then they say “ fight for your country” 😳

Very tragic, a lot of blame to go round.

Good old English Essex people. !!

@coastliner5848

23 күн бұрын

😂😂😂

@coastliner5848

23 күн бұрын

All 1 of him.....

No pub ?!

Got lots of money for migrants though.

@RoyPeters1

22 күн бұрын

Exactly.

We are screwed in this country now especially with the Tories who have been in over 14 years but bet they blame Labour nothing can be worse than this , i was told at hospital keep pushing your intestine back through abdominal wall we will be in touch you will need operation , 8 months later still waiting.

@geertstroy

21 күн бұрын

Omg...a red travel advisory must be issued throughout the EU.

@haruhisuzumiya6650

19 күн бұрын

The tories and labour hollowed out the country and Thatcher started the decline by reigning in the council budgets. It's an economic depression

Insane. Looks 3rd world

@stitchlover633

5 күн бұрын

thats their plan

The irony of a deprived area that has consistently voted tory for years.

Apathy!!! When inhabitants do not vote a town like Tilbury will decline until they wake up and get involved in the politics start to vote again and get involved in their community again, stop blaming your elected Council get involved directly take action petition the government online ....

@geertstroy

21 күн бұрын

The brexit benefit will mitigate the whole smear layer as was envisaged axxually....

You know it's really bad when you've got to sell your range Rover lol really

@MarkusDoesThings

20 күн бұрын

😂 Couldn't afford insurance

I believe that it won't just be a single local council that's the problem. Different areas of the UK have a varying number of local government levels, which is likely lead to some pocket lining. It always does!

who tied that horse in the rain. take him home. I hate those kind of pictures when I can't do anything about it. like poor bony dogs and cats in the cold snow, rain, or heat. and they always show these pitiful pictures.

After completing a five-year indentured apprenticeship in Mechanical Engineering and then a degree in the same, I left the U.K. in 86 .... Have not been back since .... I am now Naturalized as a Chinese/Hong Kong citizen, where everything here in free .... I mean free health care, trains, buses, we get handouts of money every year and the water, gas and electric are subsidized .... This is China and I'm Chinese and proud of it ....

@rogerjoesbury9410

20 күн бұрын

And where does China find the money for al the free❓🤔

@jimmyjones9780

19 күн бұрын

Thanks, Roger, for the reply .... All the well-off people around the world invest their money in Hong Kong, because of the Sound banking system. There is Virtually no public debt, there is a Strong legal system, Low taxation rates, Ample foreign exchange reserves, Rigorous anti-corruption measures and Close ties with mainland China .... We are regularly told by the Chief Executive, that if there is a surplus at the end of the financial year, then we will get a cash handout, sometimes twice a year .... Happy now !

@muckle8

17 күн бұрын

@jimmyjones a similar system in Russia . FairPlay to you for getting out of the asylum.

@jimmyjones9780

16 күн бұрын

Many thanks for the reply .... The only thing I do miss about the U.K. is how it used to be ....

@muckle8

16 күн бұрын

@jimmyjones my pleasure thx and we all miss that - the Uk is broken - the whole world is getting worse eh?

How. Much. Did. The. Coronation. Cost

My goodness, it must be bad if one has to sell one’s Range Rover? What have we stooped to?

@carolarmer1204

24 күн бұрын

The point he is making is that he had a good standard of living and now it's all gone to pot , you don't have to be well off to have nice things , just heavily in debt .

@davidthomas1339

24 күн бұрын

Not to mention his motorbike and camper van! They've been sniggering at the North for decades and now they are getting a taste of it. My heart bleeds...not,

@worthlessdollar1

24 күн бұрын

That working class man isn't laughing at anyone. He's down on his luck, but he's honest and he's trying. You are sneering at the wrong people.

@carolarmer1204

23 күн бұрын

@@davidthomas1339 how do you know that man's been "sniggering" at the north ? I live in Leeds by the way , no what your doing is a perfect example of why working class people are divided and are treat like crap and ignored by the government , too busy resenting and sneering at people who have obviously got off their arse , when you should see that that man is one of our own . Grow up

@lorenzomagazzeni5425

21 күн бұрын

@@davidthomas1339 I bet Blair doesn't even own a camper van.

Wish I could help that guy.

and really. If you dont vote, then you are in effect voting for w/e you get. you have no right to complain if you dont vote..

@boota1979

23 күн бұрын

@martinwinther6013 Another one who thinks voting means anything! The ONLY POWER we have is non compliance and that means with holding your vote. Until the system which has been around for centuries is replaced nothing will change.

@scottneil1187

22 күн бұрын

It makes no difference who you vote for. They're all evil, greedy, corrupt pigs.

the rot is in their minds

This is spreafing fast across the south east, hidden at the moment by credit card debit, however it will explode fast

The same is happening all over the world.

@valuetraveler2026

10 күн бұрын

not in Russia

The Daily Mail's theory is that there are people with money, they just misuse it in the UK. Ie: they get tattoos, smokes etc and that they need to make better choices and tighten their belts.

Why doesn't Amazon invest in the place? They could offer jobs, build some parks etc.

@jumpleadsx2

12 күн бұрын

I think they would say that all the taxes they pay should pay for a damned park.

@eattherich9215

12 күн бұрын

Amazon doesn't pay the taxes it should.

@shauncameron8390

10 күн бұрын

@@eattherich9215 Because it doesn't have to thanks to the government granting it tax breaks.

Apathy leads to stagnation. Vote, run for council, do something about it.

The county's green agenda has led to the transfer of many jobs to China, where environmental regulations are different and production costs are lower.

How. Wealthy. Is. The. Prime. Minister

Failed state!

@geertstroy

21 күн бұрын

It became its closest self , finally .

@jonsimmons4150

2 күн бұрын

if the uk as the second biggest economy is a failed state, in Europe, what are the 26 others??

Really sad to see. Here in Denmark, economy and jobmarket should be in a better place, and e.g. positions in the care sector or construction are vacant. They are also planning to build military vessels here again. So for some U.K. people, giving another nation a chance might be a possibility. Most Danes know English, so communication would not be a major issue, either. Plus there are some welfare state benefits here, like free schools, hospitals, libraries (with some English language offers) ...

Even London, Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and so on are equally so poor. Putting my watches on my laptop desk wasn't safe, I let my room's door open while away to the kitchen downstairs, picked by my next door room housemate, a younger student, he was curly brunette Dutch, one year before I bought my own house. Putting just bought perfumes for souvenir in my duffel bag side pocket and leaving them while I was away to the toilet in a flight from Barcelona to Amsterdam, picked by one of the passengers around me. And so on.. since then I learnt to carry valuable like wallet and such never unattended. Seriously western world record is really bad, not only about colonization.