Stoke, The City With NO HOPE: Broken Britain 🇬🇧
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If ever a city deserves the title 'post-industrial wasteland', Stoke-on-Trent is that place. Once a thriving conurbation that grew upon the pottery industry, this union of six towns is now a depressing ramble of dilapidated terraced housing and high streets of boarded up shops. The pottery industry is all but gone. Many buildings are crumbling beyond repair, there are few employment prospects and the locals mostly seem downtrodden and lacking hope. On my visit to the so called 'city centre', Hanley, it seemed that the only plausible pastime was to get pissed in the pubs. Stoke, The City With NO HOPE.
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Brother..It,s Gaz (WILDMAN) From Stoke...Thank you for doing a Video on my City, Was waiting for this..Shame int,it..Welcome to the Crazy town Brother..Respect for all you do........Normality is a gift nowadays..Awesome people though eh...
Will the new uk online safety bill effect these VPNs i wonder? Ive read some vpn providers may even pull out of the uk because of it..What are your thoughts Wendall ? This bill could render VPNs useless in uk is the fear.
I’m an Aussie and I’ve been coming to the Uk for 40 years on and off and I can tell you now ( I’m here now) it is utterly and totally screwed. And I believe it’s deliberate. Very, very deliberate.
Yes it is but most people don't even realise.
I agree wholeheartedly
I agree cobber. It's DELIBERATE!
The reason that the general populations of the UK, US, EU, Australia & NZ are "post industrial" and sinking into poverty, scarcity and want is because of COLLUSION between the banksters who OWN the Central Banks & the governments, ALL of which are privately OWNED corporations. Banksters direct their puppet governments to refuse to create and issue money and currency AND, instead, gift the private banks with free licences to PRETEND to create money (currency) using fraudulent loans. This enables the banks to EXTORT community wealth via PRETEND loans; & governments to EXTORT taxes to pay for loans of money (currency) which they should create and issue INTEREST FREE themselves.
WHY? Because general populations NEED money (currency) as a lubricant, a means for facilitating the exchange of goods and services so that society can operate and flourish.
Banks control societies by DECIDING how much PRETEND money (currency) in the form of fiat digital debt tokens they will issue via loans. NO loans equals NO money. Also, apart from the fact that banks provide NOTHING to "borrowers" but demand payment of full amounts of the imaginary digital 'money' banks PLACE in "borrowers'" accounts; PLUS compound interest on it, this means that they are stealing the bulk of the productivity and wealth of whole nations.
Governments get two benefits from their COLLUSION with banks in this EXTORTION RACKET. First, to get elected and to be covertly approved to run the government, politicians MUST get funds and positive MSM exposure etc from the banks' main shareholders. Second, by refusing to create and emit INTEREST FREE money & currency into the economy to enable commerce and societal intercourse to occur, (a FUNDAMENTAL government responsibility) governments are speciously able to tell their electorates that they have to BORROW money from banks AND pay them for it! That then enables them to say they MUST impose (unlawful) income and other taxes on the general population.
For detailed explanations see:
ronchapman.substack.com/p/cosmic-consciousness-and-its-energetic
ronchapman.substack.com/p/cashless-society
ronchapman.substack.com/p/the-incredible-mortage-scam-explained
* For a discussion of the STRAWMAN mechanism See famguardian.org/Subjects/MoneyBanking/UCC/InvestigativeReportUCC.pdf
AND: english.pravda.ru/opinion/126430-democracy_deception_deceit/
HOW this evolved: ronchapman.substack.com/p/the-fed-and-all-the-rothschilds-central
After the coming global financial and banking collapse a new honest system will be implemented and the UK and other impoverished economies will quickly return to prosperity.
If there were kangaroos running around the streets , instead of twinks and vagabonds , I guess it wouldn’t be so bad … but remember one thing sir Australia is running on the same blueprint as the UK , and most of the modern world now to be honest , things spread fast …
your exile was also deliberate bozo
The sadist thing about this video is that the rest of the UK looks just like this. I've seen my own city deteriorate before my very eyes. Sad to see the death of a once great country.
No it doesnt. The rest of ENGLAND certrainly does. I have been there and seen it. Scotland is vastly better. FACT. So lets just call it what it is unless of course by UK you really mean England. Which is typical.
@@ianmacewan9416 Actually I’ve just had friends move from a certain part of Scotland and they said it was one of the worst places they have lived. Really depressing and the people dress like they’re in a time warp. The food is dire and the place so grey and dull. Though that is just one example of places on Scotland. Over 1 million Scottish people have come to live in England so that should tell you something. In saying that, Scotland does have some nice places and is a beautiful country. You will find the not so desirable places there just like you do in England.
@89leemills Edinburgh is a beautiful city but the drug capital of the UK 😢
the rest of the UK looks nothing like this, it is one of the most prosperous countries in the world. A lot of the people are pure scum though and they're what cause many of the problems
But wehne you look at it from a time point of view it was just a short lives bright moment in the history and it will never happen again and to have time like the past must have many sercomstences
Most towns and cities in the country are like this I travel a lot with my job and find that the decay this government have allowed this country to fall into is criminal they should be held accountable for this .
Well if these hard off people vote for them keep voting for those gutting their livelihood (the Tories) they get what they deserve
Like here in America they will never be held accountable. If you have money and power you can get away with just about everything.
Looks like Ireland in the 80s. But irelands towns now looks like Switzerlands. I'm not joking. The amount of dosh the government has pumped into sprucing up urban areas. Visit Portlaoise and see how a turd can be transformed into a tornado of a place.
Yes, it's sad and you can see the same to some degree all over the western world. Part of the reason is that globalization and the drive to cut costs have made it impossible to continue with many activities and businesses that used to be able to do, that used to go round on a profitable commercial basis (and offering decent wages -> taxes -> keeping up the social contract). City centres are taken over by an endless swarm of cafés, fast-food joints and small money exchange offices instead of real shops, theatres, rock clubs, books and magazines stores etc. Many businesses and agencies try to do without physical offices and restrict the options of actually coming in, sitting down and sorting out an urgent issue (or of calling them on the phone) - everything is supposed to be handled online and often by talking to bots or nameless customer service people rather than folks who actually know about the business at hand...And this is because the old waged labour model is being undercut by shadow labour (a Dubai-style army of immigrant workers) or "free online" models driven by ads and sometimes online subscriptions being moved in later. If this goes on, the return of legal slavery will become the only way to keep certain branches of business life operating in the future.
you cant do that, they are Tories, they are never at fault, its all Labours fault, Sunak told you so, believe him!
Brexit happened nearly 8 years ago, and was supposed to revive areas like these. 8 years, and nothing has happened since.
Brexit has accelerated the decline, if you look at the figures Britain has been the slowest in the EU to recover from financial crises and the quickest to decline again. It's almost impossible to find anyone under 50 who say they voted for it. wtf
Brexit was never implemented. We have more immigration than ever before, perhaps more and we are still following European Union rules and laws.
Yes blame Brexit (that did not happen) muppet
@@latchmere100more immigration from where ?? 😂
@@pelemasa2516 Africa, Middle East even Pakistan and Bangladesh. 500,000 arrive here illegally every year and its only noticeably getting worse. Amount of foreigners in my area now that are fresh off the boat. Its really ruined and changed the look of it. Crime has also gone through the roof when it was barely present before. But its not just immigration, Britain just doesn't make anything, we can make coal, cotton and steel again but we refuse to do it for some reason. I heard some coal mines were being opened again though. Britain is repeating itself with what it did in the late 1800s just minus the immigration crisis we have.
Crazy to think my wife and I nearly settled permanently in Stoke after uni in 2006. It seemed to have potential to recover and is brilliantly located in theory. However on the two occasions I’ve been back since the decline has been brutal and stark.
We were the same, very close. Thankfully went to Cheshire, different world. I hope Stoke can come back to its former glory but will take some years and investment.
My city was once a proud city, full of heavy industry and truly skilled people. It saddens me to what has become of my home town.
Applies to Britain in general. The country has been deprived of intellect, energy, and skill.
@@wenterinfaer1656 Applies to all post industrial regions in all countries. Manufacturing and mining doesn't require such amount of workforce any more.
You can observe exactly the same picture in Detroit, Russian North, many mining towns in South Africa and Japan and so on.
Blame your white supremacy racist British government for sending billions of pounds to Isreal and Ukraine
that happens, if you send the only hard working people back to Poland!
Same here. Used to go to college in Stoke. I cannot believe what has happened, and worse of all when you travel up to Crewe the devastation you witness, as though some one on speed has been let loose. It is a complete, and utter mess
Find these videos very emotional, growing up in different places around England and being on the streets. Now working in a posh part of England people have no idea about the dying parts of our community
It's like those elites from Eton and Winchester who now get inflated pay for sitting in meetings and enjoy company or taxpayers ' perks. They are oblivious of what is real.life.
I think the former urban dwellers certainly do, Thats why they've left and the unemployed and destitute are the majority.
Its the same in some Cornish towns, its not as bad but rough some of the cities and towns in the UK are destitute.
Its an absolute tragedy for the people concerned and the towns and cities.
Our Politicians should hold their heads in shame regardless of parties.
Well said. , Sad but true .
The reason that the general populations of the UK, US, EU, Australia & NZ are "post industrial" and sinking into poverty, scarcity and want is because of COLLUSION between the banksters who OWN the Central Banks & the governments, ALL of which are privately OWNED corporations. Banksters direct their puppet governments to refuse to create and issue money and currency AND, instead, gift the private banks with free licences to PRETEND to create money (currency) using fraudulent loans. This enables the banks to EXTORT community wealth via PRETEND loans; & governments to EXTORT taxes to pay for loans of money (currency) which they should create and issue INTEREST FREE themselves.
WHY? Because general populations NEED money (currency) as a lubricant, a means for facilitating the exchange of goods and services so that society can operate and flourish.
Banks control societies by DECIDING how much PRETEND money (currency) in the form of fiat digital debt tokens they will issue via loans. NO loans equals NO money. Also, apart from the fact that banks provide NOTHING to "borrowers" but demand payment of full amounts of the imaginary digital 'money' banks PLACE in "borrowers'" accounts; PLUS compound interest on it, this means that they are stealing the bulk of the productivity and wealth of whole nations.
Governments get two benefits from their COLLUSION with banks in this EXTORTION RACKET. First, to get elected and to be covertly approved to run the government, politicians MUST get funds and positive MSM exposure etc from the banks' main shareholders. Second, by refusing to create and emit INTEREST FREE money & currency into the economy to enable commerce and societal intercourse to occur, (a FUNDAMENTAL government responsibility) governments are speciously able to tell their electorates that they have to BORROW money from banks AND pay them for it! That then enables them to say they MUST impose (unlawful) income and other taxes on the general population.
For detailed explanations see:
ronchapman.substack.com/p/cosmic-consciousness-and-its-energetic
ronchapman.substack.com/p/cashless-society
ronchapman.substack.com/p/the-incredible-mortage-scam-explained
* For a discussion of the STRAWMAN mechanism See famguardian.org/Subjects/MoneyBanking/UCC/InvestigativeReportUCC.pdf
AND: english.pravda.ru/opinion/126430-democracy_deception_deceit/
HOW this evolved: ronchapman.substack.com/p/the-fed-and-all-the-rothschilds-central
After the coming global financial and banking collapse a new honest system will be implemented and the UK and other impoverished economies will quickly return to prosperity.
I think it's started cripping into middle-class areas the kind of thing you saw in industrial focused working class towns twenty, twenty-five years ago. I'm not sure if these parts of Birmingham, Manchester, and even London know where they're headed. But they should take warning from what's happened elsewhere.
I'm not a native born Stokie, but I've lived here for 20+ years. If you went back as early as 15 years ago, Hanley, on a weekend, was rammed with people. Loads, going on and very vibrant. Unfortunately, Stoke suffers from the usual post industrial issues. Especially since the predominant employer was a monoculture (the pottery industry), we have now been left with low skill, low wage warehousing jobs and a cronic lack of investment. With little prospects for future generations. Hanleys decline has had many causal factors, such as the rise in online shopping and greedy business rates, causing businesses to close. And like a feedback loop, there was less and less to draw people in. The vacuum was filled by the homeless, drug addicts and gangs of male asylum seekers. Making people (especially women) feel unsafe there. It's ended up with a very poor reputation locally, and that's pretty much killed it. There are several good things about Stoke, though. One is that most people here are decent, I've genuinely met some wonderful individuals. And two, you are never very far away from the beautiful Staffordshire countryside! 😊
Go into larger stores and the up trend sells pottery from Portugal or "English" pottery from China or Thailand. You'll find cutlery from China (where it's not much used)--once it was from Sheffield. This is ALL down to Mrs Thatcher and her policies. Pop down to the Birmingham Art Gallery to see collections of how great England was in porcelain and steel and iron work
Like you, I wasn’t born or brought up here but have lived here for over 30 years. I was brought up on a rough council estate in north Manchester but have felt very intimidated going to Hanley this year (I go there about once of twice a year, I much prefer to go to Stafford or up to Manchester). Take a lot to intimidate me, too
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Come to australia-- ,nice shiny modern shops and half are all closed,boarded up. High prices going up by the week. More people sleeping in doorways than ever before. Only diff tween there n here is a lick of paint and its warmer.
I was born in Stoke ,and lived here all my life . Some great memories and great times living here .This city was a buzz with industry , the pottery industry ,the coal mines , the steel works of Shelton bar , the Michelin tyre company .The town centre of Hanley was always busy and a great place to visit both for shopping and a night out in the many pubs and night clubs. Sadly those days have well gone , The mines , Shelton bar and the hundreds of pottery firms have all closed . The town is full of derelict buildings and empty shops , homeless people sit around the doorways , and there are migrants aplenty , making the the town a place not to be in at night . Just a couple of pubs open now . The main employer is JCB , in Uttoxeter and Cheadle , apart from that just retail , call centres or minimum wage jobs . Sad to see the state of my city , but I guess this common for the whole country , lack of investment outside London .
My grandparents immigrated from Stoke to the US over a hundred years ago - grandpa was a potter. Always wanted to see it ... but I guess I can cross it off my bucket list now.
You saved me from major disappointment, Wendall.
There are lovely places around … Most people avoid these - they are the worst areas . It’s like going to LA and only looking at south central .
@@7ofthem Don't go off this video, there are plenty of decent places around Stoke to visit and see, whilst Hanley isn't the best there are areas close by that are nice.
Let me tell you! You're missing out on monkeys walking around your feet! You're missing out on the most inverted roller coaster in the world! You're missing out on the splendour of the Staffordshire Peak District (see if you can spot a wallaby from the lost colony 😉). You're missing out on the tallest and fastest water slide in the UK! You're missing out on seeing part of the largest Anglo-Saxon gold treasure hoard ever discovered! You're missing out on the loudest football fans in the championship and who still whole the record for the loudest fans ever in the football league! And much more!! Grab yourself an oatcake, duck, and come visit Stoke-onTrent!
The worst part of these cities especially in the shires is boredom, all the places to hang out other than pubs like youth centres are closed, no wonder people turn to drink or drugs
The decline of Stoke really began in the 80’s with the miner’s strike and the growing trend (pushed by Thatcher’s government) for outsourcing necessities cheaper from abroad which eventually led to the closure of the pits, the steelworks and the pot-banks.
Take away a city’s industries and you rip out it’s heart.
Consumers bought cheaper products from China causing the decline in Britians industries. The Unions always striking and lazy skiving workforce killed any pride in the products....
New generation just sitting around, complaining and taking drugs is why the place is a sh!te hole...
I’ve lived in the Potts since I was born in 1956 and you are right in what you say. I started working for the Michelin in 1975, it employed 7500 people. In 1985 it made 2500 people redundant down to cheap imports. It’s still open but compared to those days it’s a fraction of its former self. There was a lot of support work from the Michelin, all those places closed after those redundancies. It’s got a lot worse since covid, places closed and didn’t reopen.
Blame cheap Chinese imports, and Internet shopping. !!
I'm a Stokie, born and bred 2001. There's nothing happening here. Sad days
@@j.p77 I blame the governments who made it their mission to break the unions by creating market conditions where it became more viable to import goods from the Far East and poorer quality coal from South America than to support our own industries by investing in them and in our country’s future.
It was an idealogical choice to remove power from working people and let market forces rule - online shopping didn’t kill our industries - that came much later.
Hanley, Burslem and Tunstall used to be lovely towns, cant believe what they've allowed to happen, people used to be proud hard working people, everything has been taken away.
It was " allowed " it was deliberate .
It's what happens when you don't diversify. A city built around one industry can only ever thrive whilst that industry is thriving.
@@Vii7aL they just closed down everything and shipped off to China, who by the way, make rubbish plates compared to a Stoke plate😁
@Vii7aL it wasn't just the pottery industry though was it? The coal and steel industries employed just as many people in Stoke! Michelin once employed over 10,000 people too! When you allow the capitalists to just abandon the very people who made them rich then it's inevitable! The French and German governments would never allow what our governments have!
@@adski71 I know, it's criminal what they've done, they don't give a damn about any of us, never have, never will.
It's a disgrace that any of our citizens are left in such conditions, We should want better for our country, Our Government should be doing better for all of us, especially those with not very much to improve their living conditions.
Meanwhile illegals living in 4 star hotels ,all found !
What you need to do is vote Brexthick and then it will all be sunny uplands. What was that? Oh, you’ve already done that 😂😂 #brexthick
@europainvicta3907 what's brexit got to do with its politicians fault and the same politicians would be there if was in or out the EU u fruit loop
Letting millions in isn't helping at all ... helping others from other countries than its own. We need to take back our country
@bionicnichola9251 tbh these areas always have been shit holes but as u say we don't want these child rapists on our streets. We've got enough wackos here already to add tot he problem
My band did a gig in Stoke. Before we played I ordered a drink. The barman poured my drink from a bottle, and I noticed broken glass came out of the bottle. I said "I can't drink that". He said "yes you can or I will see you in the carpark" ( meaning a fight).
I'd already paid for the drink. We played the gig and got out fast.
Tough but fair.
I would have drank the broken glass just to comply.
Well,
Would not wish to make the Ultimate Hardman angry.
Born on the STREET!
😅
Bullsh**
Rude barman
I live in London but I was born in Bucknall and go back frequently to see family. There are a few lovely little shops and cafes dotted across the six towns. However, like with Potteries Potions in Longton, I see these nice places which people have poured their heart and soul into creating and always think 'I give it six months', and sadly I am usually proved right. The councils don't care, individuals who try to improve things aren't rewarded and have to give up, and on and on the apathetic cycle spins. It's soul crushing, and of everywhere I've been, it is truly the only place I genuinely can't see ever getting better
People love to focus on drug problems, but in reality the worst substance is alcohol, it wrecks people and we are a nation of alcoholics. Many people are alcoholics but they don't think they are, I have some in my family and they're just in denial or don't see it.
The types to drink every weekend, are alcoholics, in my opinion. They just can't accept it.
What are you a MuZlIm bruv?! * sarcasm *
I've said the same thing for years, if you're not a pisshead you're ostracised in society now. And they all think they're "letting their hair down", hard to meet a woman who's not addicted to gin or prosecco.
It is poverty and inequality that drive high rates of addiction. The atomization of society by cars and their infrastructure pushing the growth of big businesses like supermarkets that pay low taxes on and, all the land set aside for driving and parking that generates nothing, the further push towards online deliveries where the only jobs are for big corporations delivering food or parcels or stacking shelves the only jobs.
Goodbye small business, goodbye walkable neighbourhoods and sense of community. Goodbye money, see you in some billionaires offshore account. Goodbye social housing, see you when I pay the landlords mortgage for him. Goodbye human decency, now excuse me before I bully a pedestrian out of my way with y massive 4x4!
Even countries like the scandinavian countries drink a lot, and their economies are considered better. Gloomy weather affects people's mood...there is no doubt about it.........and alcohol is used in these places to mitigate that. Subconsciously anyway.
The old fellow was really humble. He had wisdom that could only come from experience.
Behave he's 75 now thats the only reason he doesn't screw houses anymore his Daughters probably disowned him because of his violence
A self confessed burglar, he sounds like a local too. I live in Hanley, you dunna rob from yer own.
Probably a nasty bastar that's reaped what he's sown in later life. Should of worked hard and got a normal job@@affectionatepunch
What, that you should only rob from the people on the posh estate, because they have money? Or that being an alcoholic and drinking cider every day will kill you?
Yeah. Very wise. They should teach that in schools.
Hes been to loads of places ,but seen none as he was behind bars ,thats his contribution to Stoke on Trent ,sad ????
Post apocalyptic decline. I lived in Stoke and surrounding areas. Great people, sad they got sold out.
They got sold out? The "gentle" old man interviewed admitted he spent much of his life as a criminal. People make horrendous personal life choices and people like you label them victims.
@@JoeBlow-fp5ng I was referring to Stoke on Trent as a whole. Not any individuals. There's plenty of citizen journalists documenting Stokes decline. Hanley was mega busy 20 years ago, now it's dead. Just like most post industrial towns and cities, they are indecline.
salt of the earth people
Worked in Stoke a couple of years ago. There were some really forward-thinking, successful businesses around the area, but it was quite clear that all the workers would commute back to their homes in surrounding towns once they were finished. People would rarely go into the centre and spend their money.
My Grandfather was born in Hanley in 1898. So glad his parents decided to emigrate to Australia in 1908.
My family and I are from Stoke on Trent. I was born and brought up there from 1964, and in the 1970s and 80s Hanley was the place to be. It was a buzzing and bustling town. My parents saw acts like The Beatles and Roy Orbison in concert in Hanley and I saw some great groups there, too. In the late 1990s, things started to go downhill fast and in 2002 I moved to Germany and have been there since. My sister and her family left for Cheshire, and my lad lives in Chile where life is better. I went to Stoke the last summer to see friends and was horrified by the depravation. It's right what you say, it seems everyone has gien up caring. So sad.
Yes my life there was so different so much to do and see this is heartbreaking it’s like the end of the world .
I KNOW 😮
Imagine that life in Chile is now better than life in the UK...
Wush could ve left alas never had enough funds.. even though worked my guts out.
@@ACDZ123I am from Chile and have lived in London 10 years. If you have a good financial situation your life is 100% better in Chile, better Private health, beautiful solid houses that are not falling apart, incredible and fresh food, good weather, etc. London is a great place (and Stoke on Trent doesn't seem very great based on this video and some of the other comments) and even though I love chile, I wouldn't go back for other reasons, however your comment is very uninformed and clearly based on assumptions.
First impressions count, your right it’s a shit hole, the council past and present have completely screwed it up, wasted 15 million on a car park no one wanted, strangely it’s built right opposite the new council offices 🤔, the people have given up on the city and the councillors who are employed to run it, or ruin it should I say. It’s almost like it’s been ruined deliberately….
The whole country IS being ruined deliberately. This should be obvious to everyone by now.
Britain is the fastest DECLINING country of this decade
You might want to take a look at Italy. That's what is coming for Britain, sad to say.
What about Italy? Top 10 economy, military, trading nation, wealthiest citizens and Italy is always in top 10 beautiful countries surveys, opinion polls. According to the German institute Stiftung Markwirtschaft, in 2018, the aggregate explicit debt + implicit debt of Italy is 122%, lower than the German one at 170%. The richest in Europe in savings and one of the highest in home ownership,
have 4X less debt per household than the Dutch,
8th in the world in household net worth, 4th in Europe,
7th in the world in National Wealth,
In terms of private wealth, Italy ranks #2 after Hong Kong in private wealth to GDP ratio
Italy has the world's 8th highest quality of life
8th largest exporter in the world
World's seventh-largest manufacturing country
3rd in total NET contributions to the EU among many others.
Italy: #10 ...in Ultra High Net Worth Individuals
Above USD $50M.. #7...just below India that has 25X the pop.
Number of Millionaires by country: #7...
In REAL wage growth, not skewered by exchange rates...between 2017 & 2018 in increased millionaires... #1
Gold reserves... #3
(from official eu statistics):industrial production by country Germany recorded the highest value of sold production, equivalent to 29 % of the EU total, followed by Italy (18 %), France (12 %), Spain (9 %), Poland (5 %) and the Netherlands (3%). The other 21 EU Member States contributed with smaller shares (up to 3 %).14 lug 2021.@@Bob-yh7ir
@@spaniardsrmoors6817
All of that may be true, but Britain would most likely have very similar stats when it comes to overall wealth, military strength, exports etc.
The problem is that the common person in both of these countries has no real wealth, it's all accumulated and controlled by a tiny percentage.
Brexit 😂😂😂😂
Having lived in Italy for around a year, there is a lot worse places than Stoke let me tell you.@@spaniardsrmoors6817 Whilst Stoke has been on the decline it will come back I am sure of that, the same way Manchester has come back. The building work has begun in Stoke on apartments around the city and big projects which will bring people back in and creating a new demand for shops, bars and eateries etc.
Wendell I'm from Stoke and would like to add something. Firstly the city had two main industries, Pottery and Coal mining, Hem Heath (Trentham Super Pit) was the most productive deep coal mine in the UK. The decline which started in the 80s was as much, if not more, to do with Thatcher as it was to do with cheap Chinese imports. I left Stoke with my wife in 2016 after I felt 'politically marginalised' by my own fellow Potters. We made a documentary a couple of weeks ago comparing life in our home for the last 7 years, San Fernando, Maspalomas, and talked about the death of the high street and what factors are or are not causing it. We live in a working town here, wages are low, many people earning 1100 a month or something like that and mostly living in tenement blocks. I would love to hear your opinion on the comparison we made with our home town of Stoke-on-Trent, and why there are so many differences.
I spent about 10 years in Stoke-on-Trent, throughout high school. I studied IT in Hanley and would go clubbing there frequently. Sad to see it like this but it's the same story everywhere. I also spent 12 years living in Spain, got back in 2021 and my life has been a total ruin ever since. I live in an area of Birmingham and it's just awash with junkies, crack heads and lunatics. It's been a total nightmare and I'd give anything to get out. The UK is rapidly heading back to the dark ages but with all the modern day problems added on top.
The dark ages?? Living in Birmingham I can see why you have come to that conclusion.
The reason that the general populations of the UK, US, EU, Australia & NZ are "post industrial" and sinking into poverty, scarcity and want is because of COLLUSION between the banksters who OWN the Central Banks & the governments, ALL of which are privately OWNED corporations. Banksters direct their puppet governments to refuse to create and issue money and currency AND, instead, gift the private banks with free licences to PRETEND to create money (currency) using fraudulent loans. This enables the banks to EXTORT community wealth via PRETEND loans; & governments to EXTORT taxes to pay for loans of money (currency) which they should create and issue INTEREST FREE themselves.
WHY? Because general populations NEED money (currency) as a lubricant, a means for facilitating the exchange of goods and services so that society can operate and flourish.
Banks control societies by DECIDING how much PRETEND money (currency) in the form of fiat digital debt tokens they will issue via loans. NO loans equals NO money. Also, apart from the fact that banks provide NOTHING to "borrowers" but demand payment of full amounts of the imaginary digital 'money' banks PLACE in "borrowers'" accounts; PLUS compound interest on it, this means that they are stealing the bulk of the productivity and wealth of whole nations.
Governments get two benefits from their COLLUSION with banks in this EXTORTION RACKET. First, to get elected and to be covertly approved to run the government, politicians MUST get funds and positive MSM exposure etc from the banks' main shareholders. Second, by refusing to create and emit INTEREST FREE money & currency into the economy to enable commerce and societal intercourse to occur, (a FUNDAMENTAL government responsibility) governments are speciously able to tell their electorates that they have to BORROW money from banks AND pay them for it! That then enables them to say they MUST impose (unlawful) income and other taxes on the general population.
For detailed explanations see:
ronchapman.substack.com/p/cosmic-consciousness-and-its-energetic
ronchapman.substack.com/p/cashless-society
ronchapman.substack.com/p/the-incredible-mortage-scam-explained
* For a discussion of the STRAWMAN mechanism See famguardian.org/Subjects/MoneyBanking/UCC/InvestigativeReportUCC.pdf
AND: english.pravda.ru/opinion/126430-democracy_deception_deceit/
HOW this evolved: ronchapman.substack.com/p/the-fed-and-all-the-rothschilds-central
After the coming global financial and banking collapse a new honest system will be implemented and the UK and other impoverished economies will quickly return to prosperity.
I'm a Stokie. I agree. Nothing is happening here. It's deteriorating daily and quickly. No funding. Crime. Sad days
@Tracchofyre Technically, all is possible, of course, but the mood itself ain't what it once was. Certainly, would need either a TIA or visas.
Oh well, at least it's not Bankrupt
Thanks again for the content Wendall! I didn't realise Stoke was this bad. I've often travelled through it. Thank you for speaking to people with humility. The older gentleman was very honest and sincere 😢 bless him 🙏🏽 ❤
It isn’t but Hanley is - but Hanley is a very small part of SOT, so please don’t get the wrong impression based on Hanley
The reason that the general populations of the UK, US, EU, Australia & NZ are "post industrial" and sinking into poverty, scarcity and want is because of COLLUSION between the banksters who OWN the Central Banks & the governments, ALL of which are privately OWNED corporations. Banksters direct their puppet governments to refuse to create and issue money and currency AND, instead, gift the private banks with free licences to PRETEND to create money (currency) using fraudulent loans. This enables the banks to EXTORT community wealth via PRETEND loans; & governments to EXTORT taxes to pay for loans of money (currency) which they should create and issue INTEREST FREE themselves.
WHY? Because general populations NEED money (currency) as a lubricant, a means for facilitating the exchange of goods and services so that society can operate and flourish.
Banks control societies by DECIDING how much PRETEND money (currency) in the form of fiat digital debt tokens they will issue via loans. NO loans equals NO money. Also, apart from the fact that banks provide NOTHING to "borrowers" but demand payment of full amounts of the imaginary digital 'money' banks PLACE in "borrowers'" accounts; PLUS compound interest on it, this means that they are stealing the bulk of the productivity and wealth of whole nations.
Governments get two benefits from their COLLUSION with banks in this EXTORTION RACKET. First, to get elected and to be covertly approved to run the government, politicians MUST get funds and positive MSM exposure etc from the banks' main shareholders. Second, by refusing to create and emit INTEREST FREE money & currency into the economy to enable commerce and societal intercourse to occur, (a FUNDAMENTAL government responsibility) governments are speciously able to tell their electorates that they have to BORROW money from banks AND pay them for it! That then enables them to say they MUST impose (unlawful) income and other taxes on the general population.
For detailed explanations see:
ronchapman.substack.com/p/cosmic-consciousness-and-its-energetic
ronchapman.substack.com/p/cashless-society
ronchapman.substack.com/p/the-incredible-mortage-scam-explained
* For a discussion of the STRAWMAN mechanism See famguardian.org/Subjects/MoneyBanking/UCC/InvestigativeReportUCC.pdf
AND: english.pravda.ru/opinion/126430-democracy_deception_deceit/
HOW this evolved: ronchapman.substack.com/p/the-fed-and-all-the-rothschilds-central
After the coming global financial and banking collapse a new honest system will be implemented and the UK and other impoverished economies will quickly return to prosperity.
He's a pissed idiot who used to rob people
We're not all poor and mentally retarded. I come from the poorest of families and backgrounds. I got myself out of it, and I'm from Stoke.
@@juliefrost8079 Have you seen Tunstall, Burslem, Stoke and Longton? All of these towns are grumbling and looking a right mess. It's sadly a 3rd world dump.
I'd gone to Britain a few years back (Canadian here) for a visit and look around. I like to just wander and see where it takes me sort of thing. Can't recall where I ended up (somewhere on the outskirts of London) but I was in a pub. Looked nice and I started talking to the people. Honestly it was the most hopeless feeling in that pub. I said to the one guy that I like Britain and was having a good time. His response was "Its shit." He couldn't even be bothered to work up the energy to get mad about it. Just a statement.
🤣
Brits can be very pessimistic and nihilist its disappointing really because even those doing well complain.
😂😂😂
@@glennoc8585 Yeah you may be right there. Even still, I found it very strange.
Like anywhere the UK is great as long as you have enough money. The problem is that too many people earn too little to have any financial security and enjoyment of what life has to offer. Most people I know are fairly prosperous and they have very good lives. The people with crap poorly paid jobs and little education are screwed.
I lived there in the 90's and it was thriving.
An ancestor of mine lived in Hanley, Dr. William Prendergast-Dowling. He studied the effects of Lead poisoning on pottery workers, Lead was used in pottery glazes. He was awarded a C.B.E for his work.
Oh my god, what an absolute disaster of a place. The government need a plan to get places redeveloped quickly, this is utterly depressing
Hanley is so dodgy, I avoid it totally it’s worse than Lewisham!
The government itself began to engineer such destruction back in the 1980s.
@@oldskoolmusicnostalgia keep smoking the reefer, bro.
😂😂😂
I'm Stoke born and bred lad with a long line of family there, went to Longton High, Cauldon College, naturally proud, but as a father I had to give my kids a chance in life that I saw during the 2000's quickly disappearing, my wife and I worked hard, as I travelled the UK working and continued to study to get qualified and 13 years ago the all work paid off, and created an opportunity to give us all a future overseas. I was in Stoke a couple of weeks (Nov 2023) ago for family reasons, each visit upsets me as the home town that shaped me and my kids as youngsters, sorry in ways I left for the family and friends side, not sorry for grabbing some quality back that I had as a young lad that is virtually impossible to envisage today in Stoke. All the best to all the good Stokies that remain.
Same I was born and bred here too but now live abroad to give my kids their best chance and it saddens and depresses me every time I return - and I think it’ll be my last time I visit this next time home - nothing is the same and everything has gone that I loved and know!
I worked recently in Stoke visiting buildings throughout Stoke. First thing that I noticed (apart from burnt out buildings and empty shops) were the potholed roads. It was like driving through an obstacle course!
The reason that the general populations of the UK, US, EU, Australia & NZ are "post industrial" and sinking into poverty, scarcity and want is because of COLLUSION between the banksters who OWN the Central Banks & the governments, ALL of which are privately OWNED corporations. Banksters direct their puppet governments to refuse to create and issue money and currency AND, instead, gift the private banks with free licences to PRETEND to create money (currency) using fraudulent loans. This enables the banks to EXTORT community wealth via PRETEND loans; & governments to EXTORT taxes to pay for loans of money (currency) which they should create and issue INTEREST FREE themselves.
WHY? Because general populations NEED money (currency) as a lubricant, a means for facilitating the exchange of goods and services so that society can operate and flourish.
Banks control societies by DECIDING how much PRETEND money (currency) in the form of fiat digital debt tokens they will issue via loans. NO loans equals NO money. Also, apart from the fact that banks provide NOTHING to "borrowers" but demand payment of full amounts of the imaginary digital 'money' banks PLACE in "borrowers'" accounts; PLUS compound interest on it, this means that they are stealing the bulk of the productivity and wealth of whole nations.
Governments get two benefits from their COLLUSION with banks in this EXTORTION RACKET. First, to get elected and to be covertly approved to run the government, politicians MUST get funds and positive MSM exposure etc from the banks' main shareholders. Second, by refusing to create and emit INTEREST FREE money & currency into the economy to enable commerce and societal intercourse to occur, (a FUNDAMENTAL government responsibility) governments are speciously able to tell their electorates that they have to BORROW money from banks AND pay them for it! That then enables them to say they MUST impose (unlawful) income and other taxes on the general population.
For detailed explanations see:
ronchapman.substack.com/p/cosmic-consciousness-and-its-energetic
ronchapman.substack.com/p/cashless-society
ronchapman.substack.com/p/the-incredible-mortage-scam-explained
* For a discussion of the STRAWMAN mechanism See famguardian.org/Subjects/MoneyBanking/UCC/InvestigativeReportUCC.pdf
AND: english.pravda.ru/opinion/126430-democracy_deception_deceit/
HOW this evolved: ronchapman.substack.com/p/the-fed-and-all-the-rothschilds-central
After the coming global financial and banking collapse a new honest system will be implemented and the UK and other impoverished economies will quickly return to prosperity.
I moved to stoke in 1998. Hanley had shops open but was in decline. I left in 2002, it has clearly failed to reinvent itself. In the same period manchester city centre has seen massive rebuilding, but stoke has done none.
So sad. I moved away from Stoke around 10 years ago now. I have fond memories of Christmas shopping in Hanley, the place was heaving with nowhere to park, traffic at a standstill for miles around, heaving streets and shops, food stalls, Christmas market stalls.
Even on a regular weekend it used to be great fun as a teenager shopping with my mates with what little pocket money we had.
Into my 20's, a Saturday night in Hanley was the best night out i had. Again, the place was packed with people coming from all over the midlands and northwest for a great night on the town. To see it like this is very, very sad.
I left the UK in 2001 to go traveling. Never returned & I'm so glad because everytime I come back I feel like I'm in some third world country & very unsafe in some areas. My old college friend once called his city Beirut! The government has a lot to answer for considering the UK is still one of the riches countries in the world & has plenty of natural resources.
Britain may be wealthy but 99% of the money is in offshore accounts .
How did you manage as I have no address to give if I went for bank acct etc as literally have noone here that would help
@@brikfiend thanks exactly so. ....
Poole is nice still. Not many empty shops in town.
The UKs wealth is based in London... simple as that.
Its easy to blame immigrants, refugees, the homeless, drugs, wokeness, etc. But at the end of the day its the government that is calling the shots. They need to be held accountable for this and the only way that happens is by protesting and voting.
I don't think protesting works anymore it's way beyond that now sadly .
Still sympathetic to mass migration? People should stay in their own countries. Multi culturalism doesn't work
Agreed. We here in Germany have immigrants, homeless people, addicts too.
But our gouvernment is a new one. Lots of problems, but we have another system.
I am poor myself, but the state pays for my rent and heating. The basic laws are others too. I cant get evicted for no reason. We have laws to protect us. We have not only private energy companies. My suppliers are the municipal suppliers. I dont have to pay for CEOs and Shareholders.
Voting ? For the Duopoly .Doesn't seem to have worked up to now does it ?
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers, especially the gammon heads.
Great video Wendall! Didn’t realise Stoke was this bad! Congrats on the sponsor too, great to see a brand supporting your mission! 👍
Thanks Mark 🙏
@WendallExplores I was adopted out of Lincolnshire do you know anything about the homeless population I lost jobs this is what caused my homelessness
Nothing wrong with stoke Manchester Birmingham London perfect 😂
The whole of the UK is mostly screwed
@@TimothyZakariahope u get homed. Put a mask on n pretend to be a immigrant
Heart breaking stuff… I loved stoke .. the country needs to wake up it’s trickle down from a broken government…
Labour would be even worse.
Ah Stoke... I lived in Stoke for 3 years as a student at Staffordshire University. In fairness the university is perfectly fine, nice infrastructure, a lot of young people with clubs and societies for students to participate in within the uni, and of course all the lecturers are highly skilled self-respecting people so it creates a really nice atmosphere.
The walk from the university to Hanley is about 25-30 minutes and it's a night and day difference. As shown in the video it's in a really bad state. I left Stoke in 2021 and just 2 1/2 years later it looks like it's gotten a lot worse. I can't imagine what it will be like in 10 years.
As for Hanley Park, looks pretty on the surface and is fine during the day. Don't walk there alone when it's dark, I made that mistake and was punched/assaulted by a group of random kids whilst walking through and minding my own business, which was genuinely quite traumatising. I was lucky though, there have been far worse stories that aren't worth going into detail here, but you can probably imagine.
Used to be great in the 70s , 80s. 90s so many different shops, packed every weekend! So much going on. Now its unbelievably depressing and hardly anyone shopping there because most of the shops dont exist anymore or have moved out of town🙁
Why shop in town evading crack heads and drunks when its safer and more convenient to drive to the nearest superstore.
Thats the key point...out of town. In the US, where the high steet itself is even deader than the UK, they actually have more retail square footage than ever before. Im sure the same is true here. One single Tesco can replace dozens of Grocers, Bakers, Butchers & so forth.
If people want their high streets back...stop going Tesco. Stop going Asda. Stop going Sainsbury. But people wont. They want convenience & cheapness. I honestly think this *misery porn* is flogging a dead horse. The high street is the past. Sad but reality.
And people say that London is the happiest town ever. Yeah right.
Our towns are the same and surrounding areas all labour run councils for years
You know that old guy is right because I practice the same thoughts as he does which is keep yourself to yourself. I don’t get involved with my neighbours or any of their problems. I stay in my house unless I have to go outside for a purpose and it helps me to keep a peaceful although boring but peaceful life.
What a sad way to live... I'm sorry for you
I understand, but that's really a sad indictment of broken Britain. No one cares about their environment or their neighbours. I always thought the one thing the North had that the South lacked was community. Now, it seems they've even taken that away.
@@atatterson6992 I can’t tell if you’re being a sarcastic asshole or if you’re trying to show compassion. 🤔
@@DC-ip1sc People just don’t care about each other anymore unless they want to talk to you and then gossip behind your back. That is just how the world has become unfortunately. 🙁
@@atatterson6992Why sad? Im a loner myself and i like it this way. I dont befriend anyone i see, because people come and go and s**t talk behind ur back. I have one true pal and thats it.
You are documenting our live history.
Please make hard copies of your videos because at some point in the future they will be as valuable as the old historic black-and-white celluloid footage of Britain.
Im sure when people filmed the "average Highstreet" at any point in the last hundred years they took it for granted, but now its a historical record.
Sad to say that this is a story of decline but I thank you for your service.
youtube have habit of closing channels that report truthful things about the world we live in, so yes it is a very good idea to make a backup.
If you saw Stoke on Trent 30 or 40 years ago it was a completely different place. Shopping=Hanley, Nightlife=Hanley! Now Hanley is so run down and depressing it’s heartbreaking! It’s not just internet shopping that’s destroying Hanley and the other towns, it’s retail parks with stores with everything under one roof & free car parking. To park in Hanley is roughly between £1:50-£2:00 per hour, so most people go to retail parks where it’s free.
Corporations were planning this in 2000, to move businesses into retail parks, all under on roof. Unfortunately & sadly, Hanley & other towns are suffering the repercussions.
Its a reflection on the UK🇬🇧 our Governments out people have let this happen
Expat left my beautiful country 40 years ago my Britain of style class Polite people clean streets great NHS gone forever
I'm past caring these days
I’m born and bread in stoke and stoke use to be a great place to live. Hard working and friendly people. It started to decline in the 90’s when they shipped all the pottery industry to China. Malaysia. And so on such a shame as it was a lovely place. We could be proud of. Now we don’t even have an market in Hanley as the rent for the shops/stores is so high. Local council I’m sure dropping rent must be better than having an empty shop. This is even happening in our shopping centre. What a shame.
I knew it had gotten bad but wow. This is like a haunted dream - everywhere familiar but just skeletons of the past remain. I moved out of Stoke 16 years ago and have only visited once since then. A dead end city with no hope. Even the pottery industry is dead. I spent my childhood skateboarding though Hanley and it was a busy, vibrant, friendly and comfortable place to be. Loved growing up there but left as soon as I was an adult. No plans to ever go back. I've seen so many of my friends that didnt leave turn into drug addicts. Love to everyone still there x
Hi! I'm sad to see what's happened to your hometown, but I'm curious how was the skateboarding scene in Hanley when you were growing up?
@ls.c.5682 I don't know if it was really a skateboarding scene but there was definitely a fair few of us trying to pass the time by skateboarding in the local towns and the city centre. It was mostly highschoolers and college kids and then a few decent skateboarders in their 20 and 30's and we wouldn't use the skateparks but had a few preferred meeting spots. Until they got sick of us and put up metal chain barriers to stop us using curbs and low walls for tricks. I definitely think we were not causing any trouble, even if the oldies liked to complain, but now I don't see any signs of life in the places we used to skate. No kids, no laughter, no fun being had. Just homeless people, drug addicts and miserable locals. I mean, we had those back then too, we were even good friends with the local homeless guy Glen (God bless that man) but it was a safe place to be with lots of fun to be found with nearby friends. The unusual shape of the Hanley museum was great for skateboarding on. Good memories for sure :)
@@Broccolini_yogini Thanks for sharing mate, sounds like it was a good scene to me.
@@ls.c.5682 The skate scene in Stoke was something else way before the plaza was built, every weekend you checked, Aldi carpark, or the museum 3 set for the dry days, wet days we were 4th floor john street car park or under unity house, you didnt arrange anything because it was a guarantee there would be skaters around. Anytime anyone tried anything new and big everyone was there to watch. I cant not shout out the Sketchyskateboarding website or the Skatefest put on by one of the top blokes in Stokes Skate scene Mark!. Best days of my childhood were skating around Stoke
@@Broccolini_yoginiReminds me of what I saw in parts of the US, "when the hope escapes, only despair enters." Now they build skate parks here out of fear that their communities will collapse. Skating is safer than fentanyl.
I loved the interview with the old fella called Joseph. A superb segment of your marvelous and informative vid Wendall.
Salt of the earth people. Unapologetically authentic... in a way that shines the beauty of the hard lives lived....in my experience...
Went to Staffs Uni over 20 years ago. It was a banging town, always busy, full of people, bars, loads going on. I was the bar supervisor of the Uni bar (LRV) and it was brilliant. So sad to see it now and what it's become. Went a couple of years back to show my wife where I 'grew up' and was actually ashamed of the place. Embarrassed really.
LRV... was that Leek Road Venue?
@@Simes158 It sure was
@@OpinionatedMonk I was at Staffs 92-95. Applied Physics in the Mellor Building.
This country feels so broken in after everything that’s happened. I really hope we reverse the mistakes of the past and give the country the dignity to its people they deserve.
It’s people, who are they indigenous or not
Before we blame anyone for this situation we have first need look at ourselves. We are almost all guilty of the state of our towns/cities by ignoring the little man/woman and doing our purchases on line. We all want the best deal for our money. What you now see is the actual price
It's not just that but people care very little about getting involved in local politics to vote for the politicians that matter or have their best interests at heart. Not asking the difficult questions and thinking that someone else will be able to fix the problems when it's a community effort. I know that's only a piece of the puzzle because I realise that I'm not smart enough to come up with something that pinpoints the exact solution. I think a little bit of this problem of having the wrong MPs in the parliament could be due to mass media creating propaganda to distract folks from the real crisis with trivial things to get them emotional instead of acting based on logic
Money isn't it. Doesn't help when everyone is skint cus the govt have failed at levelling up.
@@davidshaw3374I really hope you didn’t fall for the levelling up stunt by lying Tories…
@@Left-is-right-8192 never voted Tory in my life never will
Yes. Enough of this "we've been sold out" crap. Individuals must take personal responsibility and end the culture of victimhood.
If you go looking for deprivation anywhere you’ll find it especially in city centres. There’s a lot of nice bits around Stoke. I was born in ‘64, left Stoke in ‘90 but go back occasionally to visit my family and I don’t see any of that. The A50 cuts right through it all now, Longton , Fenton etc but for every down and out there’s thousands of decent hard working people. This video portrays the whole of Stoke from the eyes of someone talking to drunks and druggies in the centre of Stoke and Hanley. You’ll get them everywhere, always have.
Very eye opening video about the state of cities in the UK. American here. The vibes of the buildings and the locals almost remind me of the tiny Michigan city Owosso Michigan. Thank you for the great video.
Yeah. This video reminded me of towns along Minnesota’s Iron Range. Downtown Minneapolis isn’t so great either.
BTW, glad to see the ‘levelling up’ plan’s going so well!
They are trying but a lot of the money is being siphoned off by councils.
Most towns are like this
@@derekridley711 No they are not.
You should check out Southport, a sea side town thats started to decline since covid. A pier that’s shut down, which was one of the first to be built in Britain. There is also a whole old town under the main road of lord street, if you’re lucky to gain access to see it!
its a shame history is being lost, i have an interest in architecture too so that old town under a road bit sounds great to me.
Such a pity
I was there the other day for the air show thought the place was doing and looking great
When you don’t live here it looks great yes, but out of season you’ll find most of the high street and shopping centres closed or shut down, or most shops are now just coffee shops and charity shops. Lot more crime than there used to be, less things for the youth to do, you’ll find most just hang outside the kfc/McDonald’s areas. Increased antisocial behaviour. Unfortunately there was a video that was in circulation recently of a young lady who thought it was appropriate to film her self on camera flashing her behind
@@jibicusmaximus4827 there is a tunnel under Neville street connecting the old town to the beach that the victorians used. Lot of Victorian architecture which some is now falling into decay, for example the royal Clifton hotel on the promenade. There is a few ways to the old town underneath most are bricked up now, one of which is though the old bath house, which is now a gym called Victoria gym. There is a now a more clear divide between the mega wealthy and poor in Southport. Homeless next to million pound mansions. Across the board a lot of cocaine and drug use. Go on the weekend and that’s all you’ll see, people completely off their faces, fighting and violence around the club strips, it’s safest to go out in the nearest city (Liverpool), which never uses to be the case if you spin the clock back 25 years it was people from Liverpool coming to us because of the same reasons, but It’s mainly known to people of Merseyside how bad Southport is for cocaine. When you peel back the veil, you’ll see it’s not a pretty and shiny as they make you think. A lot of money has definitely moved out of the town over the last 50 years or so, and the prices lord street is charging to rent a space for business is ridiculous as it’s now all owned by a man in Saudi. Come to Southport, stay for a weekend, out of season, walk around in the early hours and you’ll see what I’m talking about.
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How despicable to see a 75 yr old man homeless on the streets. In the 5th richest nation on the planet ?
We are not anywhere near rich
Stumbled upon your channel the other week and been loving it, like Bald and Bankrupt but dedicated to the UK. Great content as usual.
Thank you 🙏
Yeah the UK has enough hot spots 😂😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉
Wendall is a good dude, Bald is a disgusting pig - more people need to find out who he actually is.
B and b is a nonce
I was born at the limes hospital in 66 my dad was a geordie coal miner who move here as his mine shut in stanley co durham we used to live in divetty rd bucknull we moved back to geordie land when i was 9.im so sad and gutted to see this... keep the faith
At least the sun is shining, and Tony is spreading the Gospel ❤
Joseph is an interesting character and you show great respect to people by spending time with them. well done.
This what happens when people elect millionaires to fix the system that made them millionaires.
No matter who you vote for, nothing will ever change. Like George Carlin said: "The table is tilted, folks. The game is rigged."
Voting is the only power we have! Just don’t vote Tory
@@anastauro9743 Which ones do you think would be better than the Tories?
Go ahead and elect a broke, unemployed person then. See how that goes for ya.
@@JoeBlow-fp5ng What you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this thread is now dumber for having read it.
The beauty of the products that came out of Stoke and the Potterys and was sent to every corner of the world was outstanding. Today it is a standing testimony to how the world has changed and with it the wants and needs of its people. So sad and so little future. No aspirations and no industry. The decline is awful. What will it be like in another 50 years? I dread to think.
In another ten hears if this crap government doesn’t get put out.
@@Sally237-s4w And what would you expect any government to be able to do to change the situation? The world has changed. The only way out of this is to have a highly educated and mobile minded workforce that can adapt to change and try to renew. If not, then no hope for the world.
Notice how you NEVER see homeless Muslims, Pakistanis, et al. Never.
Because their families take care of each other...
I was born and bred in Kidsgrove and used to go to Hanley on the bus with my parents for shopping, and Tunstall. It’s so sad to see what it has become 😢. I’ve lived in the northwest half of my life but now am living in the southwest. We return to my home towns every other month or so and the friendliness of the people and kindness is very different to where I am now.
I moved to Stoke 7 years ago , the last 2 years ive developed serious panic disorder , ive had my neighbour screaming through my letter box that hes gonna kill me , people kicking at my door dog shit smeared over my door my WiFi cut and yesterday i came from work and some tried to force entry, the people and the council do nothing and the police do nothing. Its a hateful place awful and godless and immoral
I bought my first property at Fenton in 1980 stayed for 3 years glad to get out , it's a shit hole, and I was at the time a new estate ( fenpark)
Sounds like you're in a bad area
@@seansmith445 I know there's worse , riddled with apathy but it's masked as a positive trait drive's me insane .
I was born near Stone and Saturday afternoons we used to shop in the very bussling town centre of Hanley. Seems such a shame to see the decay. Lack of investment is usually the cause.
I think people just have to accept the high street has had its day.
The fixed high street afterall itself replaced markets, and so the high street was replaced by out of town shopping centres, themselves being replaced by Amazon etc, which may well end up being replaced by 3D home printing of products & VR.
Like many i am nostaligic for how it was when I was younger in the late 80s/90s/early 2000s, but I just don't see a way back to that. Not here nor ultimately in any other country.
What is sad is all the smackheads & down & outs. Everyone in all but the most upmarket of towns just look like Zombies.
Brexit, the big Elephant in the room, was a cause too.
Lack of investment??? Smart investors are investing in Asia and Africa NOT a country where the annual growth rate is below 1% with a debt of over two TRILLION. Europe and the UK are finished and are being swamped by illegals putting more financial strain on government coffers. Over 200 years of grandeur at the expense of poor nations are well and truly over. Now it is their turn to rule.
I'm also from Stone area originally. Used to love going to Hanley in the 80s. Shopping centre was great then and loads of places to eat. What a shame 😢
Stoke is not the only town centre blighted by boarded up shops, it's the same throughout the country. It's down to in line shopping and out of town shopping precincts where there are no CCTV cameras, bus lanes or traffic wardens.
No CCTV cameras????
No it is not loads of lovely towns and cities, this is deprivation on a whole different level.
We do our shopping on-line then complain that the shops are boarded up...🤣
The reason that the general populations of the UK, US, EU, Australia & NZ are "post industrial" and sinking into poverty, scarcity and want is because of COLLUSION between the banksters who OWN the Central Banks & the governments, ALL of which are privately OWNED corporations. Banksters direct their puppet governments to refuse to create and issue money and currency AND, instead, gift the private banks with free licences to PRETEND to create money (currency) using fraudulent loans. This enables the banks to EXTORT community wealth via PRETEND loans; & governments to EXTORT taxes to pay for loans of money (currency) which they should create and issue INTEREST FREE themselves.
WHY? Because general populations NEED money (currency) as a lubricant, a means for facilitating the exchange of goods and services so that society can operate and flourish.
Banks control societies by DECIDING how much PRETEND money (currency) in the form of fiat digital debt tokens they will issue via loans. NO loans equals NO money. Also, apart from the fact that banks provide NOTHING to "borrowers" but demand payment of full amounts of the imaginary digital 'money' banks PLACE in "borrowers'" accounts; PLUS compound interest on it, this means that they are stealing the bulk of the productivity and wealth of whole nations.
Governments get two benefits from their COLLUSION with banks in this EXTORTION RACKET. First, to get elected and to be covertly approved to run the government, politicians MUST get funds and positive MSM exposure etc from the banks' main shareholders. Second, by refusing to create and emit INTEREST FREE money & currency into the economy to enable commerce and societal intercourse to occur, (a FUNDAMENTAL government responsibility) governments are speciously able to tell their electorates that they have to BORROW money from banks AND pay them for it! That then enables them to say they MUST impose (unlawful) income and other taxes on the general population.
For detailed explanations see:
ronchapman.substack.com/p/cosmic-consciousness-and-its-energetic
ronchapman.substack.com/p/cashless-society
ronchapman.substack.com/p/the-incredible-mortage-scam-explained
* For a discussion of the STRAWMAN mechanism See famguardian.org/Subjects/MoneyBanking/UCC/InvestigativeReportUCC.pdf
AND: english.pravda.ru/opinion/126430-democracy_deception_deceit/
HOW this evolved: ronchapman.substack.com/p/the-fed-and-all-the-rothschilds-central
After the coming global financial and banking collapse a new honest system will be implemented and the UK and other impoverished economies will quickly return to prosperity.
I'm a Stokie, no place will ever match the heartbreak this city has had.
I used to work a lot in Stoke on Trent / Newcastle under Lyme, I actually used to like it because the people I met were generally very freindly, but driving round you could see although it was run down it had been a vibrant place at one time.
I'm glad someone is documenting the truth of what the deindustrialization of this country has done to many of our once great towns and cities. Its not just the buildings, the communities have been destroyed as well. The final nail in the coffin has been the rise of on line shopping and out of town retail parks which has all but seen off the high street in many towns around the UK.
Lived here for 49 years its only ever got worse , warehouses going up ,wages coming down , Immigrants being used .Taxes going up,less bieng done .But every year MPs money is guaranteed and goes up .We are idiots
Not been to Hanley since about 2001, so this is a real shock! Thank you for the coverage.
I'm a social public policy student from Stoke. I specialise in urban policy and housing studies - my town's decline is extremely multifaceted and its very easy to negate many of its contributing factors by blaming the local people and drug problems etc. Much of this is systemic. I urge any of you to read any works by David Etherington (2020;2021;2022). Stoke-On-Trent's post industrial decline left it simply just extremely sensitive to poor policy decisions. Not only that, but the 2008 financial crisis very much kicked things off and austerity only made it worse. Definitely check out some of the very little literature that exists on Stoke (which is also part of the problem - we have no one even interested in researching the systemic contributing factors to likely cause this). I'd also just ask that, after watching a few of your videos, just bare in mind what language you're using because (and I know you don't always mean to) it can sometimes come across as a bit insensitive or like 'poverty tourism', but these are our homes and we aren't to know any better. Besides that, thanks for shining a spotlight on my home town!
Poor policy decisions???? I know the feeling after 13 years of conservative rule
@@stevenhull5025 Stoke-On-Trent, alike many post-industrial british towns, has been exposed to extremely harsh and insensitive policy. It's causes and effects are extremely intricate and historic, and it took things like the pandemic and current political affairs to even begin to shine a spotlight on such policy shortfalls. For so long, inconsiderate political rhetoric dominated the policy approach to try to emphasise that Stoke's symptoms were consequential of poor choices on an individual level - but this would never go further to ask why these individuals would be more sensitive to prefer negative behaviours than in other areas. The answer? Poor policy. This meant that for a very long time in Stoke there was a harsh punitive neoliberal approach that, essentially, implicated the locals as responsible for their own downfall and being unable to re-skill or adapt to the new service economy shift. Although, now it is absolutely clear that this is not the case. Varying states of financial crisis, Austerity, Brexit, COVID-19, Universal Credit Cuts/Sanctioning, and policy negligence are all faithful contributors of Stoke-On-Trent's severe decline.
What is even more scary is that after my upbringing here, around harsh poverty and immense levels of illiteracy and poor education, I have worked very hard to try to get into academia and propel myself into a place where I can work to help these things. Only, as I go further and further into higher education, it only becomes more scary just how bad things are in my home town. Etherington's (2021;2022) papers do great justice to the worrying levels of absolute destitution in Stoke-On-Trent. Which is something you would never expect of a country this developed.
Anyways, ramble over lol
@@throughtheeyesofanaspie1201 Love the seasoned response mate, can tell you're a learned guy thats for sure. What do you think of the UK outside of the SE? Will it get any better in the coming years, or will intense competition abroad detract incentives to invest in the rest of the UK outside of the Golden triangle? Thanks.
@@throughtheeyesofanaspie1201Thanks for taking the time to put the case forward and provide some further reading. Just spent an hour or so reading "COVID crisis, austerity and the ‘Left Behind’ city: Exploring poverty and destitution in Stoke-on-Trent" and also "The English Indices of Deprivation 2019 (IoD2019)" which maps deprivation. I grew up in Burnley, Lancashire which was once the worlds most important cotton town. That industry ceased and the town and surrounding region declined albeit much earlier than the potteries and associated supply chains around Stoke. The inequalities in our country are truly vast; social mobility is constrained but not impossible . I hope your career blossoms and that you can use your first hand life experience to better society. Thanks!
Very well said
I live about 15 miles away.
Used to have so many music shops, rock/emo places, lots of variety even just 20 or so years ago.
Now we never go there as it simply isn't safe.
I’m originally from Stoke on Trent, now living in Cornwall. The best thing I ever did was leaving Stoke. It’s gone down hill so much over the years, it’s sad to see.
It might not be the worst statistically but for sheer hopelessness vibe it's definitely up there.
And Spoons might be much-maligned but they keep their pubs clean, heated, for old guys it's pretty much where they go to meet. In my town it's a de facto community hub.
I've being in Stoke/Staffordshire for almost 30 years, every 5 years it just gets more and more slummy in the central areas, Hanley was once wall to wall bustling with people and amazing shops and great clubs/pubs, especially around the Pottery Centre.
Though even years ago, if you wanted to do something really fun, you'd head off to Alton Towers or coastal/lake/canal areas or one of the Cinemas/bowling/etc. There ARE a lot of local nice & pretty places but you have to find those out from the locals or a guide.
Unfortunately it's the same for a lot of cities I've being to. For example; even with London, a lot of places boarded up there too, seems whatever's happening is hitting hardest in places like Stoke, but it's still blatantly happening across the country, no idea how it's going to get fixed aside from diversifying away from Chip shops and pubs.. xD
I'been in UK back in 1996 as a student exchange programm. It was like a deferent planet to me. All this little acient houses, richest culture, brilliant welcoming ppl. Very very sad to see the drug plague covering such a nice country((
Where are you from
It’s all still there. These channels show the worst of the UK
It is mainly a result of unchecked mass immigration...
@@MattiasNilsson6no it’s definitely in decline. The high street in town of Bangor in Wales used to be thriving with university students adding to the buzz. Now half the shops are closed and boarded up. It’s happening everywhere
@@MattiasNilsson6Yes, perhaps if your experience of the UK is just London and Bath, you can just pretend the decline seen elsewhere isn't happening...
Perhaps you should do a few walk arounds in Tory leafy heartlands to see if there is any obvious difference.
Now.......there's a point!
In such a scenario, it will be interesting to see how quickly you are approached by private security (AKA The Police).
There is a huge difference
Born in stoke in 1966. Moved out in 1998 only 20 miles. Sometimes we venture back and it’s very run down and quite off putting. Great people but when you rip out the industrial heart that was there it’s over like many other towns and cities.
The old gentleman with the huge beard has honor and humility. His heart is good and I honor him. He is a far better man than most of the rich and powerful big shots in my country, America.
I've lived in Stoke on Stench my whole life and can honestly say it's a depressing dump.
I lived most of my life in Cannock, was a nice thriving little town in the 50's - 60's, it really went downhill after that, I left in 2009 to live in the Philippines, life is so much better here. It's very sad to see the state of the country now...
It seems everyone has either moved away, is planning to move away or wants to move away. It's sad.
I used to work in Lichfield in the early 90s. Nice town. I went back in 2018 and it’s gone downhill. Plenty of beggars and rough sleepers.
How do you find Phil? Where are you? I like Cebu...Ive been there a lot....but living there is a big move....🤔
It seems that everywhere is like that. I lived in Burntwood as a child, and have wonderful memories of it as a small village. I don't recognise the place anymore these days. Cannock, Lichfield, it's all changed, and not for the better.
I've lived in North Somerset for over 60 years now. It was, at the time, a fair swap for Burntwood, but now it's all closed shops, potholed roads, no infrastructure. The fields have been built over, and the huge concrete pylons, which look like massive golems from a Minecraft game, tower over everything. I think most of the UK is like this....ugly and depressed.
@@stuartstibbs2069
I have been here for 14 years, started off in Dipolog City, Mindanao for 5 years, now 9 years in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental. Dumaguete is not a large city which suits me, it is very safe here, yes it is a big decision to make but I have no regrets. I was 62 when I left the UK, been through a divorce and decided to start a new life, I am now married to a lovely filipina and my life has been rejuvenated. Cebu is like Manila now, too much traffic that hardly moves..
We tried to open a shop in Stoke last year. Those Boarded up shops on the high street there? Couple thousand a month, plus business rates and absolutely no negotiating on the rent. All privately owned too, so they're literally left empty as a tax write off for some company who doesn't give a toss.
Yep. I used to work on Piccadilly ( the one busy area he managed to completely ignore for the video ) & the private landlady ( a certain Mrs Chaudry ) jacked the rent up, after 3 years, to an absolutely ridiculous amount for a small business so now I work from home. I’m not lining the scumbags pockets when I’ve got my own mortgage to pay. Shocker, the building has sat empty since 2018 & I think the buildings either side are holding it up!
Went earlier this year and was shocked. Didn't realise a city in the UK could get like this.
the old saying goes that whoever digs a pit for another falls into it himself
Can totally see many other uk cities look exactly same..
Levelling up - is just another way that the North will get a share of the South's population overspill.
You may get some new developments and the odd shopping mall, but what you won't get is JOBS.
I did my degree in computer science back in 1988 at North Staffordshire University in 1988(was North Staff Polytechnic when I started the degree).
I was on the Stafford Beaconside campus and even at that time Stafford was grim, nothing much but pubs.
I did get to see Bruce Dickinson and Marillion in Hanley and the Mutant Turtle pub in Stafford was always interesting together with the black pained Hells' Angels HQ.
I did my cqsw at stoke poly on college road
@@rachelstanley9987 the university spanned Stoke and Stafford but we never visited the Stoke site.
I hear this all the time about how bad Stoke is yet I have lived here for 22 years after having moved up from the south. All I can say is that Stoke is a far better place to live than Reading. Its a shame that this video didn't show more of the positives such as the very clean and pleasant Potteries Centre and the new(ish) cinema and restraunt developments. Hanley is no different to any other large shopping centre with shops killed off by the likes of Amazon and a lack of investment from central government of any city north of Watford. Travel 15 miles to Uttoxeter and it is exactly the same, so is Stafford. Unless people actually use retailers in the city centres this is going to get worse everywhere so please don't just single out Hanley. Its situation is a very long way from unique
People need to learn what is going on. The media no longer reports on reality. See gaza. Prime example. 13000 murdered. Barely a peep in media, and then all pro zionist. We are being lied to.
Exactly mate
Sorry not about online they have 1000s of shops in Turkey and Amazon is worldwide.
@@lbunnygordon1133 Quite strangely Stoke on Trent isn't in Turkey. Different countries have very different shopping habits. Just look at Japan and its proliferation of vending machines for just about anything. Yet other countries don't embrace that method of shopping to the same extreme that Japan does. It is a fact that covid caused a massive upsurge in online shopping by necessity and a very large number of those shopping this way never returned to the high street in the numbers previously seen. Hence so many British towns and cities are struggling to keep shops viable with the reduced footfall.
Totally agree a very poor video designed to put people of going into the city. Only showed a few side streets and a homeless person. This Wendall clearly has something against Stoke on Trent, ive been Derby, Nottingham and Wolverhampton and they are no different.
I got my degree at Keele which is maybe 20 mins out from the city center. Keele otherwise is a little tucked away inbetween various plots of land and fields. Going in Newcastle-under-Lyme brought you face to face with what things were actually like in the city. I have numerous stories of people I interacted with who needed medical assistance. One time a guy was completely passed out on a bench with his head awkwardly dangling backwards behind the bench. People otherwise stood around to film as it was a little bit of scene. His tongue was completely blue from the substance he'd taken and once I went over to ask if he was okay he sort of came too. He'd taken a massive dose of valium and I asked if he otherwise wanted to be taken to hospital and he refused. Once he came around he just stumbled off to some other location to be left alone rather than having a crowd of 20 or so people gawping and filming.
One funny story I have of talking to a guy outside a MacDonalds, a passer by came up to us and gave us both a pound. Thinking I was homeless too. I refused and otherwise gave it to the guy next to me. The guy begging on the street wasn't actually homeless but he had access to social housing. It was more profitable for him to begging on the street, and people could earn something like 100 pounds of untaxed income sitting outside on 'busy' high street.
I wasn't a local but living around for 4-5 years you got a sense of a very depressing atmosphere. The locals complained a lot of the decimated high street businesses and it's a real shame. 40 years prior and Stoke was booming with industry.
Yes! Just see who in in power at the moment! The place is going down the drain! So sad. We now live in Western Australia. We came from England around 20 years ago now. The best thing we ever did. Nice to watch you. Take care Sara x
Labour would be worse. They started the decline and ruined many areas with uncontrolled immigration.
If you had gone another few hundred yards you could have seen the Hotel housing 800 illegal immigrants who get shelter, food, heating and TV etc absolutely FREE. All C/O the local ratepayers. Then go look opposite Stoke station to see another hotel full of them. 1200 in total, thats £17,500,000 from our taxes to keep them safe and warm and fed. Yes 17.5 million pounds. But no money for amenities. Welcome to Stoke on Trent where our own sleep in doorways.
Thats happening in many cities all over the country thats not the councils fault they were against it and were overruled by the government. Go to Derby, Nottingham, Wolverhampton its the same.
This is tragic. I've got a lot of fondness for Stoke. I used to go out to Golden @ The Void in Hanley back in the day. Also, the Royal Stoke hospital cured me of a rare type of headache. The staff and volunteers at that hospital were proper salt of the earth people. Made my hospital experience amazing. Far warmer than London hospital staff.
😠 I find your slur against staff in London hospitals highly offensive. As a patient in several such hospitals l received nothing but the best of care from highly dedicated medical and nursing staff. I suggest you dispose of those enormous chips on your shoulders very carefully. Yours in common humanity from a true son of London.
@@sirmeowthelibrarycat I have worked in London hospitals. Go away.
We had some top nights at Golden back in 99 until a few years later. We would travel from Preston to The Void and never had a bad night there. I heard it was a swingers club way after Golden ceased their nights there!!
@@sirmeowthelibrarycatdon't twist the words and imply something it isn't. We know full well London is mentally unstable.
I was the promoter of Golden at the Void. That was a fabulous time of my life but I saw the decline of Hanley and decided to move my life far away.. I still have business in entertainment but on the other side of the world and I've never looked back.
Went to uni in stoke. Before covid there was a breath of sometning going on, a few events and what not. But whatever life was left is well washed away these days. Stokies are great.. but unfortunately the place isn’t going anywhere any time soon, and I was glad to leave. Like a lot of places in the uk, it’s not looking good on the horizon either. Cheers for the vids mate
I’m from Stoke and you caught it spot on that is the reality of Stoke recently. The decline in last 20 years is crazy! I used go town with my mum when I was kid and Hanley was booming with people now nothing it’s a dump. I’ve lived in some cities and Stoke is by far the worst easily and I lived in Sheffield Liverpool chester. We travel by train now to Manchester rather than go Stoke do any shopping or nights out
But at least Ukraine is funded eh!
God bless you Joseph 🙏 Thank you for sharing your story 👍🙏
I’m originally from Newcastle Under Lyme and my dad has worked in Hanley for the majority of his career at the bottom of the parade. My dad always tells me how sad Hanley has become and how most things have closed.
The unfair element of the video is you were hanging around the Museum which has an incredible installation and building celebrating the Spitfire but you chose not to show it and instead stuck your camera through a door into an old club.
It’s hard to defend Hanley for the state that it’s in but you went out of your way to show the shit rather than go look for the good. Life is all about perspective if you look for shit then you will see it. If you look for opportunity you will see too…
Well said.
I lived in Hanley and then Shelton for 3 years, best 3 years of my life, this was around 20 years ago now. There was truly great people who deserve so much better, genuinely breaks my heart to see it like this.
As a local I can confirm that Stoke is absolutely full of dust heads, and is falling apart at the seems, been an absolute shithole for my 27 years on this earth and it gets worse every year. Oatcakes are good though :)