Homeless and hungry: Ben Judah on the dark side of London - BBC Newsnight
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- The writer Ben Judah grew up in London, but he says it's changed so much in recent years he no longer knows whether he loves the city or fears it. His new book is called This is London: Life and Death in the World City. He made this film for Newsnight.
In a new book, he attempts to get beneath the surface of this new London, sleeping in subways and squatting in a dosshouse, getting to know some of the characters behind its huge anonymous population.
He made this film for Newsnight, with some of the many people he met along the way.
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Let's face it. London is now a City state with no connection with the rest of the country. We need a separate English parliament !
This is so sadly different from the London I grew up in.
Neighbours knew each other, there was a sense of community. Children played freely in the streets. Divorce was there but unusual.
Now London is a mess.
People seem lost and disoriented.
I'm glad I left decades ago.
Its a cesspoole
It is a price the UK population was prepared to pay, seduced by the prospect of "becoming rich". It is to do with the "off shore" elite acquiring wealth beyond belief. A friend lived in an area "considered" deprived or poor even, yet a a house on his road was put up for sale £600,000. It was sold within a month! Most of the people rented in the area and could not afford to buy even if they acquired a decent salary! London is one large building site every patch of land being built on. Any person who falls through the crack is just looked over, left behind like everywhere else. A friend of mine used to live in Hong Kong and he said it was the same there! People just "think, breathe money", they are without souls. London is now a global city viewed as place to make money or die trying? How did the mass of the English working people buy into this nightmare in the 80s/90s?
theres some parts of london i dont even recognise anymore. alot of my old friends moved out of london its just not the same anymore
because london is a metropolis, it’s all about money , only wealthy ppl will be able to live there .. english or not
@@pennypillow4445 yes coz its a city for the wealthy, the rich dont care about seeing humble cockneys
Hate to say it. A major factor behind why I left the city I was born in 13 years ago and moved out to Indonesia. It's actually a shock to meet another 'Londoner' on the tube these days when I visit my parents..
+thedriftmc many feel the same
thedriftmc london is a shit hole innit mate...apa kabar
If you left London to live in Indonesia then your problem was with Britain and not just with London. Otherwise you'd have got out of London but stayed in Britain.
where in indo?
@@helenaville5939 unless he was anything but pure english, afro-caribbean and irish have been Londoners for many generations, but go out to the country and they will have a hard time
Where i live I feel like part of the minority. Schools, businesses, shops, and streets swamped with foreigners that don't even speak English. Schools turning local children away simply because there is not enough space for them due to an influx of foreign children, a nursery school place is like gold dust. Foreign children being placed first before local children. The nursery 5 doors down from me refused my child and I had to appeal the decision which I eventually won but not without a fight. All these advice centres and grants given towards supporting immigrats. What about local people? Every bank machine has a Romanian standing at it begging, one guy brings a fold out seat and sits all day, he can't even talk one word of English. The place is a dump, it is having a knock on affect and the locals are at the bottom of the list for everything. It is not fair not one bit.
a multi-cultural Abortion
Blame the government !
We can't even home our own homeless, 10 years on the streets of glasgow 👍.
That’s what you get with Tories
It's about money they pay more
I wish all these hard working people all the best of luck .
It's looks like you are sick in the head
Obviously a pole
I miss the London I grew up in 80s and 90s brilliant time to grow up especially on a south London council estate, loyalties and respect has gone...women children and the elderly should never be sleeping rough the money generated by Britain surely something to end homelessness
It's disgusting how some wealthy people treat the poor.
It's not even the wealthy, it's just people in general.
All that cheap labour is irresistible in rich countries now. Australia’s gone the same way with most service jobs filled by cheap labour from Asia and India.
Been street homeless twice its so hard to get off the streets as no landlords take dhs.
Once again George Orwell wrote about this in Down & Out in Paris & London, but that was what life was like, for the poor, in 1920’s
You just took an interview from one poor romanian guy and say afterwards “romanian beggars”...do you know how many Romanian/Moldavian people built up their lives from scratch being now in a well deserved positions and lives!!!
3 ?
Best wishes to you all
Interesting interview
"Give me your rich, your Oligarchs, your hoards of cash earning hedge funds. Send these, the uber-rich, the 1% by private jet. Look out for the great big neon sign next to our vaults. This country’s greatness and true genius is an entire lie."
Man! That documentary is too short, need to be done in series.
Read his excellent book This is London, plenty stories and accounts there.
@@dfisher1981 Thank you 😊
You see what happens when the government allows millions of immigrants who are unskilled,uneducated , cannot speak fluent English; and will gladly seek employment opportunities for a wage that is lower than what the legal British citizens will except.
This type of immigration causes a “flood” of homeless immigrants many who will have problems seeking employment, and affordable housing.
Many of them have that “British dream” of becoming a wealthy person through hard work but nothing positive materializes over the years spent working hard; and never finding affordable housing.
Yes, because British citizens know how much it takes to survive...they can't live on these low wages that immigrants will accept. It's unfair to the UK citizens to allow this to happen. With the cost of housing & utilities now, even in Government subsidized housing, the utilities are more than the people can afford...they are having to choose between heating & eating...that's wrong on anyone's level of acceptance!!
Homeless and hungry but has money to buy cigarettes.
Naive for foreigners to think money grows on trees in London.
its Mad when people think its our responsibility to take care of foreigners coming to the UK with out money?
If I suddenly immigrated to Spain without money and fell on hard times? why would it be the Spanish people tax payers problem to take care of me.
ITS NOT.
Good luck moving to Spain. You can barely speak English...
@@stuartsummers1303 hahaaha but the core of my point still stands firm!
that's why you're rattled arse can only comment on grammar and punctuation! loser
1 chicken and chips for 8 hrs labor?
whoispriest I had a Romanian kid work for me and the bloke before gave him somewhere to sleep and brought him chicken and chips ! So it happens they treat each other like shit
Don't forget the can ov Coke
That's a whole chicken, probably sends the bones back to his family 😂
@@20fknyrs39 in a jiffy bag, recorded delivery ?
@@benlotus2703 carrier pigeon
There's plenty of homeless already here
What’s your point?
@@VanceRefrigeration the point is we don't need to import any more
@@VanceRefrigeration the point is we can't even home our own bloody homeless 👍🤦♀️.
Oh my lord , the amount of naive gullible people out there truly astounds me. It's so obvious it's embarrassing that the majority of people don't get that by bringing in all of these uneducated unskilled immigrants was always the plan to create chaos in the once powerful middle working class that was the back bone of the nation keeping all the greedy corrupt elite in order. And wow i don't even think the elite would have dreamed how easy it was going to be , when they purposely swamped the workforce with immigrants that were willing to work for half the price it immediately brought down wages and created a fight within the society they were trying to destroy and all of a sudden everybody was all about themselves and their own families taking their eyes of their true enemy the elite and it has been all down hill since then. It's time to wake up people and restore power to the people and arrest and jail all of the corrupt power players and politicians that have caused so much poverty and pain to so many innocent hard working people and families!.
Careful you might get shot dead by fbi for knowing the truth , would be nice if everyone got together to overthrow the government right ...
Come London you can beg, sleep in Toilet, food hand out, very good life,
Yeah sounds amazing that does.
The gloating pole who claims to have a house and a few companies, is the reason for Brexit.
SANCHEZ?? R U MEXICAN
It hasn’t worked the Tories are pro immigration as it nets them a profit .
BBC do these programmes so people see this as the normal.
Stephen -Truth Seeker they are paid very well from refugees masters
Last I checked they’re illustrating the dark side of London. This is the norm for some, not everyone. These people matter too.
But you do get houses before the local homeless right enough.
0:00 Sol Vermelho... muito lindo...🔴
Red sun... very beautiful...
This video makes me grateful what I have and I should never complain.
That geezer has 3 businesses and Rental properties!!! I’m born and bred in Britain, and to find an English person that has those things is rare.
Why is that
Hard graft and determination. Sleepless nights and skill.
pretend your not english basically. keep your mouth shut. work for peanuts all day. live in a shared room.
Cheap labour
Tax dodger 😏. I bet he owns millions in tax and unpaid council tax. And the other taxes he's dodges
Because you suck
London is a dynamic, constantly changing city. Believing or acting like it's a static entity is foolish.
The poor have always had it hard (whether it be in the times of Charles Dickens or the present day), but it was much harder in the 70s, 80s and 90s than it is today. There's plenty (millions) of educated, affluent migrants and minorities in London too.
I HATE London...a shithole
InstrumentalsBeats....Wow you don't have a clue what you're talking about , do you have any sort of understanding about how far of you are with your thoughts??. London has been ruined from within by corrupt politicians turning a once great city into a multi cultural dangerous shit hole and a city that has literally turned against it's own people to create an even larger divide of rich and poor , and have pretty much successfully wiped out the middle class because their presence was an obstacle to the elite. London's 10 times worse than the 70's and so on , so i take it your perspective comes from an outsider looking in.
What has London become
Why dont you build a wall around greater London?
(just like former West-Berlin)
tramps? you mean people seriously have some respect
Well said ! Life is hard enough for these ladies and gentlemen who through no fault of their own ended up alone on the streets after sometimes losing everything please DONT take their little bit of dignity by calling them names they are human beings doing the best they can in the face of such dillibating hardship GOD BLESS THEM ALL XX
I get what your saying but an awful lot of those people are the very definition of the word "tramp"
ben judah says he was born in london but on wiki it says he spent his childhood in romania and yugoslavia? so probably not as english as the cockneys in london who have been there centuries, ironic saying 40 percent are foreign when he is virtually a newcomer
You conveniently left out the part on Wiki where it states clearly that he is a British-French journalist. Nowhere does he claim to be English. This and some other comments you make suggest that you are rather a racist character who overlooks facts in order to promote your own racist agenda. Why be part of the problem when you could instead be part of the solution.
Helenaville
not really? not born here not English simples and as far as racist goes yes i do prefer my own race over others it's perfectly logical and normal i'm not against other races but they won't mix without trouble as you well know it
I'm just wondering if you would you be more sympathetic to him if his name was Charlie Big Bollocks and he walked around in a pink Hackett polo shirt saying "i'm from Hackernee Wick and i love my dear old mum"?
cardigan3000
i don't really care i was just stating facts
Correction: you were just stating your own spin on the facts. But carry on .... as you can see no-one buys your spin.
London is where i was born now its Hell on earth.
Broke and living in a plywood shack but..Has money for cigarettes though.Priorities......
jess1 smith
Cigarettes and rent cost the same don't they?
Shocking jess1 I'm more concerned about his health aswell as the knock off cigs he hasn't paid uk duty on 😏. Or the person who is selling them.
@@Steven-ze2zk but you pay duty on rent 😂
😰😰
Last man in Britain Tommy Robinson
microsoft system engineer is a slave wage job. try for better
London not the London i grew up in so sad its full of greed and poor people are brushed aside whos to blame politicians that who
I need a home 😅
Wait.. brick working with a metal HAMMER? Okay I learned to be a bricky for years.. when I could’ve used a metal claw hammer dude fuck me
I have no time for alcoholic drug users. Vast majority of homeless are druggies and alcoholic. I know this won’t go down well hearing this for some people. They choose the life they are in. They’d rather beg, steal, inject and drink. Rather than get sober work hard and put the effort in to sort themselves out! There is no excuse, the help is there if they want it! They don’t
Sorry for laughing at you sorry for what i did.
how ignorant
Such a myth. Ppl can wind up homeless through many things like Illness etc.
The irony is that, your statement and belief can't/won't save you from homelessness. You sound like you've not really experienced hardship tbh.
So if u don't like it y don't u leave?
Whats THIS? I thought the British had such a SUPERIOR Social Welfare system compared to the USA. Why are these people not on the great British dole system and given accommodation? Looks just as bad as NYC or Chicago.....
Londonistan
That'll teach Brits not to engage in illegal wars like they did in Iraq and Afghanistan. Britons have no-one but themselves to blame.
We need another fire for london
Yes natural selection I can't stand the place 😏 it's not my capital city
Tess Coffey and the entire cabinet along with their goons should all be on a lamp post . Not having a job is not a crime , not being in a position to work can happen to anyone , jobs don’t grow on trees the crocked
System has been designed to keep people in poverty . Force them into dead end jobs that make the rich richer . Welfare should never have been declared as a warfare on the poor . It’s a safety net that politicians have cut .
London people should be drinking less and it be a much better place yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why come here.
I get brexit now
The amount of cringe in these comments was expected, immigrants ain’t the problem and never were.
To be fair, that guy at 1:49 speaks better English than most Brexiteers, and has a better work ethic.
Are you built good?
the irish waited on street corners for work 60 years ago in london so nothing new
@close Irish borders mass deportation programme now True. 250,000 British immigrants in Ireland and many of them lazy gits. Att least Eastern Europeans have a work ethic. Brits are the laziest nationality.
The British invaded our country, stole our land and beat tortured and murdered our people, nothing new there
It is extraordinary those homeless people are lucky to be in your program ,I was homeless twice sleeping in parks and on the street of London ,now one even come and give me anything I ended up doing starvation as a British black man ,I do not know if I will ever get a job or be the same again ,being homeless is a nightmare ,yes I did what the all was talking about ,but as a British black man ,they ask me you should be rich and not homeless so some of those polish people use to say to me ,but the is for from the truth , I fight my way out of homelessness I live in a little studio flat , a lone with hardly any thing in it , nun stop looking for work ,my son live with my ex.wife in the UK she is from Brazil .and the other story ,yes I am sad ,grow up in the England as a British black man work in manufacturing in low pay job for years ,to end up with nothing ,at the age ,57 ,what is this about you have to ask your self ,as a black man ,yes the lie the dishonesty those Peter piper ,and the greedy racist and age discrimination and the gap between rich an poor ,truth fact is the the gap is too wide , and working in those conditions In some the jobs I did in my life ,for nothing .now people are speaking of multi-income just to survive at the same time the global reset setting of the economy, because Quantitative easing is not working anymore ,and the flick of the pen and there is money for the rich ,but not the poor ,never mind the future nightmare the is coming it be nice to earn enough money to live and pay your own way ,without going to government for top up ,you understand ,and renting is too high ,I rent places to live all my working life .as a British black man I use to pray every day when I was homeless ,till I when to a church to ask for help and they say now they cannot help ,I walk away back to the street ,but one day I was sleeping in the park ,I become a buddha monk so i started chanting ,and the how i got out of homelessness .respect to all homeless people ,i know your pain too i have being there too.🖤
Let me guess, you are a British black man?
@@GODAIM-ANDY One of those hoping for justice for private rental tenants is 53-year-old Askel Douglas, who last year was spending every penny of his £260 a week universal credit on a Neasden flat above a supermarket in London which flooded three times.
“I was totally ripped off by my private landlord," Askel, who has now moved, told The Sun Online.
"There was water coming out of the walls and ceilings so it was knee-deep and a total mess, and stinking, dirty water was coming up through the plug so I couldn’t even have a bath."
Askel says his flat became deluged with dirty water
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Askel says his flat became deluged with dirty water
lolololol google his name Askel Douglas and read the article from the The Sun
Are there any white people in London?
*****
Citation?
mark vega yes..they are called the conservative government..they run the country from a place called parliament..the queen hasn't left yet either....
mark vega yes their names are Boris igor and Ivan hahahahahahahahah
no
mark vega Yes! I'm definitely white and was born and bred in London.
Migrants? Invite Calcutta, become Calcutta!
Ben my son do not comment on Russia and Putin please
Why not lol ??
Tbh Russia doin well on poverty
Chicken n chips ..nice
Ii
Thank f**k millions of my brothers and sisters voted to leave the EU.
The time for change is now.
Power to the people ✊ we've got to take the power back!
Yeah because you take the powah back by voting. You Brexiters are always the same: either sociopaths are sharing one grey cell amongst each other.
Need to get a job
Bad job
The British invaded half the earth and now wanna get mad because they're being invaded. Sounds like karma to me😊
Karma's law of Buddha is real. You will get of what you did. You judge yourself , no any God judge you. But most people still believe in God and waiting for God do everything for them but nothing happen , just an imaginary thing in their head.
Conquered.... because we could 💪😉
@@fij01i94 Hi God has Been doing many things for me,he rescued me from drugs,I was a hippie in the Sixties,and for decades I share the Word of God,I mean the Bible to the homeless people,many times I give them food,and clothes.Karma doesn't exist!.Jesus is coming soon!.
London is a beautiful place with a multicultural heart.the only bad side is freax calling people tramps
As we know, there are millions of homeless people,starving around the world,the mayority of them,have mental illnesses,the administration of the goverments (including The Vatican,the richest one State all over the world) could ofer them a better life with dignity,but corruption rides as an Apocalipsis rider.Helsinki Finland,is a model to follow,the former homeless live in own houses,thanks to the goverment.Jesus is coming soon!.Shalom Ubrahá.