BOARDED UP BRITAIN! “Not on my high street!”
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- In the concluding segment of our 'Boarded Up Britain' series, we venture into Northallerton, the hometown of Rishi Sunak, to delve into the concerning state of our high streets. Northallerton is an affluent middle class market town and as such is immune to the challenges plaguing many working-class communities across the country. We scrutinize why the Prime Minister's response to this crisis may be falling short and whether the stark differences in economic resilience between Northallerton and other struggling areas shed light on the effectiveness of funding allocation, raising questions about priorities in comparison to Foreign Aid.
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Nick and Jill, you guys do a great job of highlighting the stark contrasts between affluent areas and working-class towns like Grimsby. The gap in investment, infrastructure, and community support are obvious but too many people just believe that's the way it's supposed to be. It's sad it's like this, and even sadder it's the same story all over the world. You're raising awareness and encouraging people to look at their own towns and cities and hopefully realise they can do something. Participate in local elections and advocate for meaningful change. Great series, great job documenting these issues and fostering discussion. We look forward to seeing the next series of "Bordered Up Britain". Rest well friends!
Thankyou Gina and Rob, your comment pinpoints the hope I had for this series. before I started it I was able to walk around with rose coloured glasses on and not see the decline of my very own high street. I had that snobbish opinion that it wasn’t happening in my town. Sadly it really was and investigating my own high street losses spurred me on to see what was happening elsewhere. if others do the same, the faster this topic will be spoken about and eventually it will get onto Parliament agenda with the level of seriousness we deserve.
What change would you recommend to have less boarded shops?
@@allykhan8594 councils should encourage locals to purchase the shops in town in full (not on mortages) , rather than just letting National tycoons buy them , if a local owns the shop building outright and look after it , the Rents will be low. compared to a tycoon who only uses shop retail property to make massive profits off the back of locals.
thriving town centers are reliant on low Rents , to allow businesses to thrive and most of the Councils in Deprived areas continued to get their funds via appeasing big Tycoons , big business.
just by seeing sunaks highstreet , it is clear all those properties are fully owned by locals , one example is the Old building the argos is in , that is clearly locally owned and well looked after because no tycoon is going to buy that place if it needs consistent regular maintance.
The elites have decided we will run our economy on windmills and imported gas and electricity. They've closed down the factories.. I believe the goal is to now close down actual physical shops in town centres and high streets so the only shops that will remain are supermarkets and other select out of town type stores.
It can cost £1000-2000 or more per week to rent a small shop in town. Imagine the profit you need to make in order to pay bills and wages to make that work. So shops stay empty and/or shops come and go. It can cost some £600 or more per week to have a little car trailer/caravan stall in town selling food or such.
Everywhere is in decline. Just not the likes of Pangbourne yet...
@@allykhan8594 WM investing more money per capita on infrastructure. Parts of England like Grimsby have been neglected in favour of London. Long-term thinking gives long-term benefit
I live in Tiverton Devon and we have had four banks close down in a matter of a few years. The town has changed so much in the past few years there are a couple of shops empty and a lot of barbershops- charity shops and betting offices.
the changes happen so rapidly dont they John? About a year ago I was still pretty much blissfully unaware of the change. you would notice the odd shop change and newcomers like Eastern European shops appearing but until you really look the change is quite shocking.
Most of the Uk Highstreets now resembles a Third World Shithole and not safe to walk down
Exactly, gave up going into Manchester a long time ago.
Luckily my High Street is really nice.
I certainly get that feeling. You can clearly see people not feeling safe on their own high streets and I include my own in this. it’s a real shame.
let me guess Jeffrey, you live in Northallerton? 😂
The Tories love poor people they bring in more daily ❤
do they still get paid from EU for taking them in?
so did Sir Blair.....
You summed it up completely. Your thoughts are mine too. It's almost like winding the clock back 150 years. I guess this was the plan all along.
it does seem like this is the plan John. I had a comment suggesting as much from an MP on one of my recent videos. it was almost as if she was reassuring me that this was the intent all along..
@@GENerationXplorers Yes I can imagine what is said at private "gentlemens clubs" up and down the country. They think we haven't noticed.
We are still playing catch up!
And a bank open! We have to go miles to find one open.
thats a very good point Julie. I wonder how they determine which branches close first? surely even Sunaks Northallerton will lose its banks soon?
not just one....
Be a shame if bus loads of Migrants turned up in North Allerton
what a terrible shame.. 😂😂 should be proportionate right? if they are farming them out to all these places there should be an equal percentage to every town, city and village?
Hopefully if they have any common land an encampment of gypsy travellers will arrive soon. Unlike placement of illegal migration centres, the traveller communities are not directed by government.
I wouldn’t be surprised if someone with money who is tired of politicians not having to live with the consequences of their policies starts discreetly bribing traveller communities to start targeting the places that the likes of Sunak live. It’s a way to screw with the the Elite class while appearing unconnected with the actions of those people on the ground who are visibly being an antisocial nuisance.
That would be amazing, id be genuinely thrilled with that. I can vouch for the fact that there is a ton of land right on Rishis doorstep that does not belong to him that would be ripe for traveller settlement! 👍
@@GENerationXplorers my comment seems to have vanished due to TH-cam shenanigans, but thanks for your reply.
Maybe we can manifest some travellers choosing the land you mention as their next destination
It all went to the dogs years ago . Now we can hear the wolves howling and the vultures croaking .
And a look around places like Grimsby and you can see it will get a lot worse. the level of acceptance from the residents there is nothing short of shocking.
The whole country looked like Northallerton until the Tories got in. It only took them 14 years to destroy England.
Spot on. it certainly did in many of the places I’ve covered. Scarborough, Brid, Middlesbrough and York were all top notch places to shop and visit 14 years ago. they are all now struggling and getting worse by the day. I can’t speak for Hull or Grimsby, I guess there problems have been growing over a much longer period.
HEAR BLOODY HEAR !
The demise started when councils allowed huge retail parks to be built on the outskirts of towns thus killing the high st
certainly didn’t help, nor did not charging Amazon Corporation Tax putting them at a ridiculous advantage. but I think the high street would still have its place. Smaller retail units, revalued rates and rents, a mix of retail, leisure and green space. it just needs a massive revision on a huge scale with clear input from Central Government on what funds to Councils get spent how.
I think that town needs more diversity. It's done wonders for other parts of the country.
Superb Philip 😂
@phildavies6020 Sarcasm I trust?.
@@maxbacon4828 Sarcasm? Me ? Never!..... (yes!)
Barry Sheerman the MP for Huddersfield lives in Norwood Green which is nowhere near his constituency. After all these years (decades) I have only just learnt this. We are all being taken for a ride. Tory and Labour two cheeks of the same Harris.
it’s sad isn’t it? I was absolutely mortified to find out that my MP lives in a lovely market town over a 40 mile round trip away and hasn’t been seen in our town almost the entire time he represented us. he is stepping down, the reasons behind that could make up an entire video series of its own but it’s about time these MPs get held to right and understand what life is like in our towns and cities that have been systematically destroyed over the last fourteen years.
When I see so many closed shops, I feel bad for the older generations, It might not be easy for them to get around and they have to go further just to do the shopping. It's sad to see, how badly the other towns are doing compared to Northallerton. Happy Easter.
Happy Easter Thomas! yeah you are right about the older generation but we also feel sad that the younger generation will never get to experience shopping as we knew it back in the day! 👍❤️
It was fun watching this while I sit shivering in my cold house.
Tell me about it. Wasnt warm once over the winter and only ever try to warm one small room at once in emergency and yet the fuel bill was astronomical.
Where are the immigrants ? Oh of course he wouldn't have any placed in the hotels there or hmo's , it is only our towns that are turned into boarded up scruffy dangerous places to live .
sad but true Susan. Someone in these comments put “North Yorkshire is lovely”, well yes it is if your in one of the lucky parts where your home hasn’t been put in the middle of HMO’s, immigrants and years of public funding neglect. I thought I lived in a middle class affluent area, it was when I moved in but after 14 years of Tory neglect its now akin to a third world country and no, for most, it’s no longer safe to go out..
I love how you guys raise awareness so that others can learn what things are like in their own towns and cities. Love your presentation style too my friends ❤
Thanks Marie-Louise! Jill has DM’d you on instagram re your latest post! Much love have a great week ahead ❤️
@@GENerationXplorers ahh, fab! Thank you. I just followed you. Have a lovely evening my friends 💖
The RENTS are way WAY too high, I just do not understand why the government are not clamping down on this....landlords are milking it
they certainly are Lee. we need to have a system in place that pushes landlords to either lowering their rents to keep buildings occupied or impose stiffer penalties for long standing empty units. I can appreciate landlords worry that renting for a lesser amount will devalue their property value but what is the real value of a property that has stood vacant for several years?
@@GENerationXplorers
I hear and I applaud
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This series was an eye opener for anyone, living in or out of the UK...you put your heart and soul into this series Nick and Jill...looking to see what next on the agenda! Great video! Thanks for this eye opening series!
Wow, thank you Donna! We are looking forward to stepping away from it for awhile it’s been exhausting mentally and physically 🤣 both back to our crazy selves next week! Happy Easter 🐣💛
Educational and simply amazing! First town looks so sad and simply I won't even guess how much time is needed for the narration and editing here! 🔥🔥
thank you so much Ervin, it did give me one or two sleepless nights! hope your having a wonderful Easter! 👍
Just goes to show, in this country if you have money, you'll life will be good. If you are like me and on the minimum wage, you'll life will be shit and as for Sunak, he hasn't a fucking clue.
Sad but true David, these people haven’t a clue how to represent us. At least with Boris we thought we had a loveable rogue who could get his hands dirty. pre partygate obviously.
OMG WHEN I SAW Doncaster town centre last year I nearly bl**dy cried.
Aaww Dianne sorry to hear this! It is sad especially when you have fond memories of a place back in the day! Have a lovely weekend 👍❤️
The Tories have decimated our towns and reduced them to boarded up derelict no go areas,especially in the "levelled up" North
They have a nerve to ever bandy the term “levelling up”.
haha....more likely the "levelled" to the ground north.....
I'm from a sea side town, just looked up my MP, Been in office for years, no address as to where he lives though. Time these upper class places had their fair share of migrants isn't it.
Fascinating
Good strategy on finding MP
Wonderful documentation of the boarding up of retail (in some places)
Showing the two screens a good video technique
How the government deals with city decline is frustrating
Thanks Nick and Jill.
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Cheers Mike 👍
Long time since I was in Northallerton and I agree with you on certain, more affluent areas of the country, just have to go to Barnard Castle, which always seems to be busy when you drive through. Our Wilco is still empty with no sign of anyone wanting to move in and funny you mentioned the Boro, a place that is quite local but we have never used for shopping or even a visit. Never been to Bridlington and watching this I will not be visiting any time soon. I could cry when I see York, so disappointing and we visit every year but to be honest, only buy food and nothing else. "Sort out our working class towns and cities first".....I could not agree with you more, us first and other people later! Cheers Alan
thank you so much Alan 🙏 we have had to put up with these empty units for years now. some of the shops in York have been closed since 2018 so there is no blaming the pandemic for those. its the greedy landlords not budging on rent and being able to afford to keep those buildings vacant until they get the inflated value they want to sell them. we need a party in power that consists of MPs that don’t all have a property portfolio of their own. Sadly as many as 3/4s of MPs have property portfolios that they manage so they won’t be passing any bills to weaken landlords powers anytime soon.
my nearest high street is Blyth in Northumberland, Oxfam, Sue Ryder, St Oswalds, Iceland, animal rescue, Britsh Red Cross, Poundland, Cash generators, Vapeland, a collection of takeaways and betting shops banks & building societies but the best-looking shops are empty and have artists' impressions on the windows of what they "could look like" to say the area is rundown isn't doing it justice, the council is revamping the market square yet again, every 3-5 years they tear it up and rearrange everything saying that will attract inward investment into the town, you know the old saying "doing the same thing every day expecting a different result is a sign of insanity" Blyth Council has taken that to heights no other council has ever dared to tread, the waste of money is on a level never seen anywhere else in the UK, it is one of the most rundown violent towns in the UK and the people voted in a Tory MP and Northumberland County Council has a Tory majority,
you can't make this s**t up, Take a look at Blyth you will not be disappointed, in the 1960s it was the busiest port in the UK with 12 coalmines feeding 6 million tonnes of coal into ships taking it all over the world, today the port is silent in comparison and so is the high street,
It’s a really crazy situation isnt it? that the port that had its very industry ripped away from them by the Tories found themselves voting for them again in 2019 on the back of poor promises for change. Well, we all did the same sadly and without exception we are all worse off. The artists impressions on windows, im actually grateful to see those as most stand boarded up or empty with a ridiculous “to let” sign up. nobody is ever letting them, these greedy landlords that won’t negotiate reasonable rents surely don’t think that there is a queue of independents wanting to move into their long standing empty shells whilst paying full whack? all they are doing is maintaining a property portfolio that they probably inherited until a Council bankrupts itself trying to buy out the buildings at market value to repurpose them. thank you for bringing Blyth to my attention, it’s gone on the list and I’d love to get your local opinion when I visit later in the year. Stay in touch, im on insta and email is in the about 👍
It's the same where i live in France, the middle class towns and villages have got shops, doctors, restaurants and cafes. The working class /peasants towns and villages are like Beirut with everything shut up and falling apart.
gosh I really didn’t know that Nathan, I’ve visited Italy and Switzerland since starting this series and kept my eye open for how the decline in retail may be taking shape there but saw no evidence of it on my travels. thats really interesting about France..
mhmm....makes you think doesn't it......maybe more "socialism" will fix things.....haha....
@stratman9449 It sounds quite appealing at this point. Oh no!
This has been a great series. The divide between the working class towns and the middle class towns is now so apparent. As you say thought, those in parliament don't live it everyday, so don't care. Keep up the good work. 🍻
Thanks guys, it’s definitely taken its toll. doing back to back segments has taken an enormous toll on not just us but our poor viewers, we can confirm that our videos will only get a lot sillier over the coming months to compensate! I notice Rhyll hasn’t been earmarked for high street regeneration but Wrexham has! hope your having an amazing weekend in Devon. Love Jill and Nick 🍻
A good comparison Nicholas.
Obviously some very inactive MPs who don’t live in the desolated communities.
Hopefully change will come.
Thank you for taking us along Nichols.
Have a great weekend 😊
Cheers guys hope you are having a lovely Easter weekend 👍🐣
@@GENerationXplorers Happy Easter 🐣
Richard Graham is our MP. I have met him and he is a plank. Another great video guys. Love this format. I feel there is change on the horizon. The only thing that worries me is. If the change will be any good. Personally I am not convinced.
Great video guys. Love it. 👍🏻🚶🏻♂️🚶♀️
Love it Watto! I haven’t met my MP, I guess I’d have to see him in Parliament or visit him in his wealthy middle class market town of Malton if i wanted a chat! I don’t think it helps that most of these MPs have massive property portfolios, how can we possibly ever fight back against wealthy/greedy landlords that own these empty spaces if they are the ones that govern us? Change is definitely coming, im seeing a collab with Reform and Labour on the cards, let’s hope the former are strong enough to stop Labour making us all bankrupt otherwise it will be a case of out of the frying pan and into the fire..
@@GENerationXplorers I definitely see Reform having a big say. The people have had enough wokery.
Interesting video Nick, interesting video Northallerton seems to be doing well. Kendal my closest "town" is doing OK I would say. My MP is Tim Farron, Libdem he lives in the next village 2 miles or so away.
I am well aware that I'm lucky, although sometimes I feel like I'm living in a theme park where the majority of the visitors don't give a damn. It's not uncommon for locals (and I mean "born and bred") to arrive home after work to mind themselves unable to access their own drive. ☹️🤬Thanks for sharing, cheers Alistair 👍
It’s great that the Lakes attracts such a wonderful footfall and that you have MPs that live so close to places that they represent! it can be a curse and a blessing attracting so much footfall too. we struggle with parking near our property too (if I moved my car this weekend I’d not get within half a mile of my property on my return), with the increased footfall sadly comes increased crime with robberies increasing ten fold during the holiday season. Barrow in Cumbria is probably the closest place that is really suffering with their representative hailing from the market town down the road. By all accounts he seems like a pretty decent MP that gets involved with a lot of the day to day in Barrow, I don’t know of anyone that’s ever seen our MP in the town!
Hi Nick, this was good to see and oo so Rishi S is from here 😯 I've heard how lovely North Allerton is and it did look great as you walked around. Interesting to see the difference between this and other places you have visited and shown here, such a big difference. Have a great Easter whatever you're doing. Pasg Hapus ! ( Happy Easter ! ) ~ Anna 👍❤️
Pasg Hapus Anna & Alf 🐣 thank you for your great comment have a great weekend 👍
Hi Nick and Jill. This is a brilliant conclusion to your boarded up series. Thanks so much for sharing. 👌😊
Thanks so much Paul! Happy Easter 🐣👍
Hello Nick and Jill 👋. Is this a premier? I’m confused now because I’m not getting a notification 🔔 and I know you release your video during Friday. This cosy and interesting city ❤️. 9:20 love ❤️ the architecture and colour of houses . Thank you for the information you shared Nick 👍. Have a wonderful weekend 👍. Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪.
Thanks Kenn! We haven’t been doing them as premiers just uploading at the moment! Have a great weekend 👍
and the uk is giving 1.5 billion to the ukraine for what.
sniff coke wat else
dont go to poor citerzens of there nation does it.
its not a war that should have even started. we have the wrong leaders here and the wrong leader stateside and we are all paying the price..
@@GENerationXplorers Putin & Zel both Khazars and W£F - Ukraine (the heart of old Khazaria) war - it's nothing but part of their puppet show.
Money laundering, control and death (murder of the innocent) is what they thrive on.
We wouldn’t have a crisis if we looked after are own first
So true something this country doesn’t do is look after their own! thank you so much for your comment have a great week 👍❤️
Well first things first, I’ve just finished a new Saturday night filming/schedule/programme (don’t get excited it’s total crap!). However, I found it very stressful editing my pathetic film that my blood pressure rose to dangerous levels (in fact I’m probably in A&E right now). All I had left of my miserable night to look forward to was GENeration Xplorers Friday evenings film. However, after watching it my blood pressure is now in the stratosphere ❤️ My MP is Vicky Ford (Con), or as we like to call her Vicky Fraud. In my city centre it’s very noticeable how affluent most people are plus very few boarded up shops (there are of course a few). To be fair though I’ve never seen anybody with a 22 carat gold shopping bag. Your film Nick has just reminded me to apply to my local Communist Party for membership. We shall overcome some day! BRILLIANT TEN STAR FILM ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ THE FIRST EVER GIVEN!
now that is the best news ive heard all week, we need Mike back on the telly! Yours and mine both Mike (re. blood pressure), think ive aged 10 years filming these last few back to back segments, when this nonsense does return it will come back as a once a month segment for the well-being of me and the viewers! Vicky Fraud I like that, interestingly an Irish MP that also has a substantial property portfolio. how we can ever make life hard for the landlords of these empty spaces when the MPs that represent them are also landlords is beyond me. Loved that gold shopping bag, I had to chase her down as an afterthought but im glad I did, heaven forbid anyone ever takes me too seriously! the Commies would create an even bigger divide than the Tories but im guessing the have nots would all be better off (or at least think they were). 10 stars is high praise indeed. excited to see yours later. Spoiler alert im out trying to film the typical British Drunk Antics that happen over a Bank Holiday Weekend, when im not filming I see so much so armed with a camera I went out to film all the most deprived places yesterday. 4 hours later and I only have about 30 seconds of worthy footage. hopefully there will be more nutcases out today!
Grimsby is a fishing town. The Iceland thing plus the overfishing of local waters with the death of the cod fishery. Its not Sunack or classmate, its economics. No jobs, a town dies. Solve the fishery problem first. Any ideas?
Government doesn’t see its responsibility as replacing that industry with anything else. It should. The same happened on a bigger scale when Thatcher closed coal mines and steelworks
Well Boris’s two part idea was that one you could reclaim the quotas by living EU (the very same way Iceland did at the start) or secondly secure deals to become the biggest processing plant for fish in the EU. the first part was a lie and the second became too much aggro for EU to cope with. He failed on both. Revisiting that deal under a new leadership is the only hope.
fish & chips at 12 pounds aren't the big seller these days......
Unelected Prime Minister in the UK.
Unelected Taoiseach in Ireland....
Anyone seeing the pattern!?!
absolutely living in an undemocratic society. how on earth did we get to this point Steven?
Happening all over the place😢
and rapidly.
Ooh, this is a bit of a contrast to some of the northern working-class towns you have previously highlighted! There are differences within our home county of Norfolk too. It's very posh and thriving along the North Norfolk coast where all the rich London folks have a second home. So much so that a lot of the locals cannot afford to live there anymore. Lucky old Rishi in his huge sprawling mansion beside a lovely middle-class town. I see one of our Norfolk towns made it onto the list - Great Yarmouth. Thanks for a very insightful and thought-provoking video. Love this series!
Thanks Ladies and that’s really good to know about your home county of Norfolk! We may at some point be covering the whole second home topic. Thanks for another great comment 👍❤️
At least I know where to get crack next time I’m in Grimsby.
I bet his business has been booming since this video aired! 😂
The venture into Northallerton, England, are absolutely breathtaking, Following your journey and exploring these stunning places is a joy. Thank you for sharing this nice place, my friend 👍👍❤❤
Cheers Abdul have a great day 👍
@@GENerationXplorers its our pleasure
Makes me mad. Time to get rid.
me too. I think they will be gone soon enough. there time is almost certainly up and they are doing incredibly poorly in all the polls.
More barber shops and nail bars . Most are Fronts .
And their not good barbers I can vouch for that
Has to be truth in that John, we have over 120 closed retail spaces on our high street now but we have nail bars and Turkish barbers popping up everywhere. there isn’t enough custom to certain the footfall they are claiming, it should be really easy to look into (I have tried btw)
@philipwelsh1862 I have to only imagine, sadly my head of hair does not require their services 😂😂
@@GENerationXplorers well now that’s a bold comment friend 😜
Sad but true. Very 😂
Nick good one today. Have or have nots.
Happy Easter to our favorite Genx ers..
Why thank you fellow gen Xers ❤️👍🐣
Northallerton looks like a really pretty town. Like you say we have good and bad throughout the country. Our nearest town of Spalding is dire and uninviting, but just a short drive to the town of Stamford, it is a completely different story.
Hi Nettie yeah it seems to be like this throughout the UK and further a field according to some comments! Have a lovely Easter Weekend 🐣👍
Thanks for sharing this video with us all interesting rich Rob the poor 😢
Thanks for watching Paul and taking the time to comment! We need Robin Hood to run for Prime Minister 🤣👍
@@GENerationXplorers your right ✅️
The Wealthy don’t give a thought to those live on the Breadline.
So true Gerry. Northallerton genuinely sickened me. They have a food bank (I learnt later). I’m guessing for all the wealthy people living beyond their means that want hand outs too. Truly disgusting.
This video needs to go viral.
Its absolutely despicable the way they live compared to the rest of us.
The way they hate the "Working class" is so wrong and sickening.
The very People that work and have to pay for them to be in the positions they are in and yet they walk all over us with utter contempt.
He passes out sermons on how to live and yet He lives in the lap of luxury far removed from the mess He has created in this Country.
We are all paying for London and for the likes of Him.
They have dried the well of patience and finances over and over again.
All they care about is themselves and have crossed far to many lines.
The whole system is so corrupt and completely out of touch.
It should be scrapped and the likes of Him made to pay back what should have never been given to Him in the first place.
Thank you GENeartion Xplorers.
A great channel
thank you so much Zark, really appreciate that. it is a shocking divide and while we all point to online, retail parks, changing trends the main overriding factor here has been those in power and the MPs that “look after” our constituencies. they look after their own interests which nearly always consists of a substantial property portfolio (likely inherited) and make sure that they live as comfortably as possible whilst keeping our dead towns and cities at arms length.
Needs more bookies,kebab shops /Turkish barbers, and a few pound empires!
If I had the finances to back that happening I’d do it to places like Northallerton just out of spite! you make an interesting point though Brendan, I wonder if the multitude of such shops have helped chase our independents off the high street? if I had a shop next to a string of them I’d imagine it would scare the type of footfall away from my premises? 🧐
@@GENerationXplorers no doubt about that pal, all helped to the decline of the traditional high street,
100%
Our town in Yorkshire is a total disaster zone.? There’s boarded up shops all over. The window cleaner swapped his water for furniture polish.! But there’s plenty of barbershops and shaving shops Open laundering money.? at least you can look cool with your new haircut while you’re strolling down the once busy high street thats now plastered in pigeon crap.!!
This country is a total shithole unfortunately 😡
I love that, will have to use that in season 2, “the window cleaner swapped his water for furniture polish”. Priceless 😂
Thankyou 👍
@@GENerationXplorers when you come to Blyth, give me a heads up and I'll point you in the right direction, if you need a bed for the night, let me know,
welcome to britain...and more highly qualified staff arriving daily.....
superb, look forward to meeting you in person when we cover Blythe!
It’s been quite the series Nick and Jill! Eye opening for sure and such a shame really seeing some of the changes taking place.
Thanks Yasmin! Happy Easter 🐣💛
Hiya Nick & Jill. Aw, I'm sad to hear that this is a finale to the boarded up series. But this one was exceptional. I expect nothing different. Interesting to see around Northallerton town, aha the lady with the gold bag bit made me giggle. Enjoyed the comparison with the two screens, so interesting. Thank you Nick, always thought provoking and always so good! xx
Aaww thanks Alessa there will be a second series but feel we need a little break from it as it’s mentally and physically exhausting sick of the sight of boarded up shops 🤣 hope to bring back our silly duo-ness for a few weeks! Yes Jill spotted the lady with the gold bag and I chased her down thought it was quite fitting! Hope you guys are well and had a lovely weekend! 🐣❤️
Wow I had to comment again to say congrats Nick and Jill! Amazing number of views on this one 👏👏👏
Ah Thankyou Yasmin, all pot luck it seems! ♥️
@@GENerationXplorers all your hard work too! You put lots into this series!
It’s been mentally exhausting hence the brake lol 😂
Great video Nick and great series. I would say I enjoyed it all but I'm not sure enjoyed is the right word 😂 Yep, it's easy to see why Rishi and the others don't care. Not their problem nor their concern.
I can see why you need a break after this series. That was a lot of hard work put in to it and it's an exhausting topic. Hiking videos are much easier to make, just a shame nobody wants to watch them 🤦🏻♂️😂
Great job once again, have a great Easter ❤
Sadly that is true. Must be wonderful to be able to enjoy a hike and make a film about it. mind you on doing the recon for this video we did a 7 mile hike around Rishis pad, I got stopped by the police twice and did think at a push that might make a good hiking video with the title “GET ORF MY LAND!” with Rishi stood waving in his front garden! 😂 hope your travels are going smoothly and your Easter is well and truly amazing, i bet you’ll see some interesting Easter traditions practiced in the places your passing..
I really enjoyed this series and how your showing how the situation in the towns, bringing attention to the decline of business. Glad to see some places revitalized. 👍😊🇨🇦
Thanks Christine. More to come later in the Year! Bringing our silly pair back first for a few weeks we think 🤣 hope you are having a lovely Easter ❤️
What a lovely place ..my town is a complete shit hole in the last 10 years its gone down the pan
These governments are all snakes
yeah mine too Steven, it didn’t used to be.
It's so sad that It's not equal for all cities and villages to survive. When Politicians only keep "it clean where they live and are". It's the same here. Money talks, only when you already have them and have the power.
Thanks for an intresting serie.
Are you also heading to north west? Like Fleetwood and similar places to compare?
Have a great Easter 🐇🐣💛💛💛💛🐣🐇
Hi Sanniz we will be covering the North West at some point, we are originally both from Blackpool just down the road from Fleetwood! Happy Easter 🐣🖤💛
@@GENerationXplorers ah... didn't know that. My Trevor is from Fleetwood and I have been to Blackpool several times when we have been to UK.
Interesting video, many good points. However, there have indeed been changes in this town in very recent years. Subtle changes to the outside eye, but telling if you've lived here a while. For instance, the 'we buy gold'/pawn shop place (think it's called Ramsden's), that would have been unthinkable here just a few years ago. In the last year, I think 3 or 4 mini mart type shops have opened on the high street. There are now 3 bookmakers and independent phone repair/case shop. The photography shop has been taken over by a vape shop and - to my own great shock - permission was given for a McDonald's (albeit outside of town centre), which opened late last year. I've been living in this town with my children for 11 years now and we've always been mildly amused by the lack of fast food chains and other kinds of shops you see lining high streets all over this country. But they're starting to creep in now. Granted, our high street is certainly much better off than most towns and empty units haven't been empty for long (apart from the old Goodwins and Mountain Warehouse shops). Pubs, cafes and takeaways are keeping many a town afloat and our local economy is swamped with places to eat/drink. Northallerton is doing okay but you can see new elements that Sunak and his rich chums would consider declasse. It is being forced to make concessions. It's still thoroughly beige and Tory though 😄 And boring. Chronically boring 😆
***Edit There are at least 3 Eastern European convenience shops, opened this past year. There is a food bank in the Zion Church, just behind the high street.
Thats really interesting and a great local perspective. I guess towns like Northallerton fight back for longer but the tides of change are coming. As soon as the infection of bookies, pawn shops (like you say) and heaven forbid EU shops appear on the high street, the affluent footfall will vanish overnight, it will be too scary and alien a place to keep visiting and at that point the independent traders will be forced to retreat.
I did read about that food bank after my visit and tbh im glad I didn’t know about it when I was there. a food bank in a place like Northallerton makes my blood boil. I guess all the rich constituents that are living above their means need a hand out too? Absolutely unforgivable. After visiting Grimsby the week prior which is honestly wall to wall homeless and destitution the thought of a food bank to help people that can’t adequately manage their finances in this day and age is about as bad as it gets..
great comment though and really is making me start to realise that the decline will eventually wash over even the most affluent towns unless there is real change. I noticed in last weeks poll that Rishi is likely to lose his Northallerton seat, things might start to get very interesting in May..
@@GENerationXplorers I honestly don't think this town will ever vote the Tories out. I think it's safe to say that it's fared better than most, thanks to being a long-held Tory town. Sunak never appears here, unless there's a photo op, after which he's gone.
Empty shops are an eyesore that attract antisocial behaviour. Councils should turn them into apartments so locals have a cheap place to rent and the remaining businesses have customers living close by
Would love that Nick. it’s the most logical and practical answer to the problem. Council worry about “zoning” and refuse collection and other such matters but what else are we paying them for? bit of additional effort put in by Councils now could provide a very rapid response to the decline we are seeing..
He lives in cloud coko land
certainly does Andrew. out of touch with reality.
Found this series very interesting and quite an eye opener. Thank you ❤
You are so welcome! Have a fabulous long weekend! 👍🐣
Amazon and the obsession with buying on line, and Covid must have something to do with this surely?
Absolutely David. Popularity of retail parks and Superstores in the 00’s and buying online in the 10’s followed by the pandemic which sped up the process.
Still there should be a need to meet in and visit the high street. it’s been part of human nature going back centuries, I understand change but completely vanish almost overnight?
Northallerton where all immigrants are welcomed by the prime minister. Surely all immigrants are wise to living in towns where Tory politicians live.
I think Rishi would sell up if he saw one on his high street..
Its a disgrace they have so much money and completely neglect the majority of uk towns. So many places where i live are shut down. Nice looking area.
And not that long ago most of our towns and cities looked the same, we are being overlooked!
Really good series Nick! Made me feel like you’re an investigator 😁 thanks for taking us along.
Thanks so much Kieth! we will revisit similar topics soon but having a few weeks back to our crazy gen x shananigans 🤣 have a great week 👍
still looks a nice place, nice stores and I'm enjoying waiting it. thanks for the beautiful tour.
Thanks for watching 👍
Excellent series, and a great contrast I not heard of Northallerton before and it does look like a really lovely town in Yorkshire. It's an interesting contrast to the other towns you featured, it does leave me with some questions though. The high street is thriving, does the town have a large retail park outside the town centre? There's obviously money in the town as there's a Balfours and a Tommy Hilfiger store in your footage, so what jobs do people have there? Compared to the other towns where most of their jobs dried up, also the demographics, is the population younger? Do younger people stay in the area and have good jobs? That all makes a difference to a town's economy. Retailers won't open businesses in towns where money is tight.
Hi there! great comment you made some great points! Will have to do further research on the demographics! Yeah the department store was great to see carrying all the designer names! Hope you are having a nice weekend! many thanks 👍💛
Just like thatchers britain minus the miners strike
just the teachers, nurses, doctors, train drivers.. 😂😂 it’s like we are going back through all the worst parts of time!
Really enjoyed this series guys, well done.
It's such a shame about our inner towns and cities. I didn't see Hull on the list of places that are being funded 😢
Northallerton looked a nice place to walk round.
Hope you guys are both well
Have a great weekend ❤
Thanks guys! Yeah definitely check out North Allerton if you are in that neck of the woods it’s lovely plus there’s a Bettys tearooms they do the best macaroons 😉 You too guys ❤️
no surprise the area with no closed shops is where the politicians live. spot on with that commentary! and the side by side visual comparisons really make that point! super powerful. great end to the series. good luck to those cities getting money. there are a lot of discrepancies between the neighborhood communities here in chicago. it's hard to see. the no cats sign on the pub made me laugh. tell the truth, how many pints did you grab checking on them, nick? 🤭
so how far of travel (car, is public available?) is it to the fancy town? do they expect all to come shop there or are they unwelcoming fancy people? (kick) scooter rider at 9:42 😀
weird side note, we have an allerton park in illinois. it's amazing. happy holiday weekend to you jill & nick! 🛴❤
Hi Anne no pints were consumed! We drove there it’s about an hour and a bit from us! Yes there is a scooter 🛴 in this one good spot! Another great comment! have a great weekend 🐣
My 3 local towns aren't on the list. Huddersfield Halifax or Elland. West Yorkshire. Neither Brighouse or Rastrick. Strangely its where the home office are dumping illegal migrants. Go figure!
it’s crazy Ian, both Huddersfield and Halifax have been high on my agenda for series 2, the fact that they have been overlooked for funding is criminal.
I live in North wales my AM as they are called here lives on the coast, there are nice homes but i wouldnt call it a Middle class area as there is also unemployment and social housing. I understand that most Politicians dont have a clue what class of people live in the poorer areas. We are not all Yobs and we dont all skive on benefits. The point im making is the funding should be the same for everywhere, and the councils have an obligation to take care of social housing and funding for services, but most have squandered it on stupid ideas and havent listened to what most people need or want.
I bet when your AM chose that area it was the best in the vicinity. they don’t seem to have a reasonable insight into what life is like in the more challenged areas. we have about half a dozen seats going forward on a May the 2nd for the local elections and not one of them, even the one I want to like, is facing the same issues we face day in day out. they are just not seeing first hand the damage that is happening to our towns and cities.
It’s so much nicer where I live in Bolton it’s all boarded up and bills up to my eyes can’t get a tenner of council tax
same here! next to no public services and no discernible high street!
This is what Tories call levelling up.
they have a nerve to even mention it!
Oooooh this is a juicy topic!!! 😮
A fitting and timely end to this first series I hope! We will return with enough new things to say, new places just in time to disrupt the General Election!
@@GENerationXplorers go get 'em, tiger! 🐅
Great Nick a tale of the haves and the have nots
Highlighted perfectly
ATB Simon
Thankyou Simon, we are due a change although sadly we are all old enough to remember how badly things got under Labour each and every time they have been in power!
@@GENerationXplorers change is definitely due mate (but personally under Labour boi a long time ago now mind ) I was way better off Nick, and could see a dr in 24 hours (now it’s 6 weeks to see a dr and saving small change here and there to do any above the ordinary) and year on year it’s got worse🟦 (but I’m at t he bottom of the socioeconomic pile the higher up you are the I suspect it’s been a period of prosperity) but even well d to do family’s now are starting to feel the pinch (only then Will the situation change for the better for people like me ) 🟥
Your film shows perfectly how the well healed have prospered will the rank and file have been left behind 🥹
Best regards to Jill mate
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We both really enjoyed this,been very hectic with easter,and grandson son.My husband was talking to you tuber wendall on his this is devon video.He was talking about your channel to him,and like you used do alot hiking videos,but now does a series similar to yours,and my husband is your biggest fan,the amount moaning he did in north devon as airbnb had no internet and he wanted watch your pub one.Sorry waffleing,my point and take on it,i think you should do ALOT more of these type videos,travel the country looking at diff towns.What my husband loves about you both is you care,we need more people like you.i think if you do more of these type of videos like wendall does your be on your way to 100k .Happy easter, to my bunnies debsxx.ps i have asked so many youtubers to do london,none have even wendall would not touch it,im like go croydon it makes every other town look like nothing,were get stabbed the amount litter and crime,i remember a time i could walk the streets to 4 am np,now get stabbed .👯
Aaww thanks Debs! Yeah we are subbed to Wendell great channel he covers these topics well also! Nick worked in Croydon in the late 90’s it was pretty bad then so guessing it’s worse now! We have added it to the list especially if no one else is covering it! Having a little break from this series as it’s mentally exhausting 🤣 bringing our silly bunnies back for a few weeks but will be returning to more serious stuff at some point! Many bunny 🐰 hugs to Phil and yourself ❤️❤️
@@GENerationXplorers still got 5 videos to get rid off,Having more fun now,than i was 3 years ago,nomore pressure on me=just fun.
Agree my husband loves all this ,me i like your hikes and walks more,but if you had phil going on about the council culture and lame council's in your ear and what crap gov we have=alf garnet .Sorry i just got this lol Easter = 👯 bunnies,hope you both had lovely easter eggs debs xx
It's no surprise that the Tories are detached from reality, I can understand the wealthy ones looking after themselves, living in cosy places like Northallerton. Working class Tories need to give their heads a shake though, people like former Tory '30p Lee' Anderson for example, talk about forgetting where you are from.
Let's hope the next government can get a grip on this country, though who would want the challenge - it is a poisoned chalice.
The foreign aid budget is something that I believe should stay - how it is administered and which countries we give it to needs to be looked at - why are we sending aid to India when they have a space programme. The aid money is clearly not being spent on the right projects and the right people.
Large scale corporate tax evasion needs to be looked at but too many of these businesses have the ear of the current government.
This has been a really interesting series Nick. There are a few towns this way who have tried to help the plight of their town centres. Sunderland does spring to mind - there has been much investment around the old Vaux brewery site which stood as wasteland for decades and the Keel Square development to turn old retail areas into leisure areas. Of course the average punter just complains about a few shops closing and why can't the council stop Wilko closing down.
Your comment about foreign aid hot home. Why indeed send rockets to the moon when people are living in deplorable circumstances. Great point made. 👌
great comment as always Andy. lets hope more conservative MPs defect, that will really help change the narrative come the General Election later in the year. ironically the party he has defected to will almost all but certainly be sharing a coalition with the one he hates the most. but that should be enough to strike change from within.
Your right of course about Foreign Aid, as the sixth richest country we should always set an example and give that % of GDP to help the less fortunate and India is beyond a joke with how they treat their own whilst funding a space programme.
Amazon skirting Corporate Tax not just here but in the States too is unforgivable especially when they use that offset to fund the decimation of our high streets, poor working conditions and replacing humans with robots!
I’ll have to come and have a look at Sunderland. Middlesbrough impressed me the most with what they are doing in Captain Cooks square and their acquisition of other big buildings like Debenhams and House of Fraser. they clearly have been thinking about change for a long time even if they couldn’t quite keep up with the pace of change.
Probably have a big budget from the government. Low interest business rates not as many people on benefits etc
its very disproportionate isnt it?
I bet their dustbins are worth raiding. It looks a better place to squat than my town
I bet they are Geoff, I was half tempted to visit the charity shop there, it was probably wall to wall designer clobber never worn.
Fascinating as always. Watched and enjoyed! Warm wishes from Millionaire Paul 👋
Thanks a million! 👍❤️
Very interesting Nick and Jill we seem to be getting more charity shops
Charity shops are forever popping up on our high street! Hardly surprising when they get 75% discount on business rates! Thanks for watching and commenting! Have a great week ahead 👍
People spend more money in affluent areas. Who knew 😂
they wont find the shops to spend there money in anymore elsewhere.
Interesting video and some salient points. However, I don't think it's aided by a fixation with class. Many towns affluent and not so affluent are experiencing the same deterioration and I would've thought that if any town what is deserving of the middle-class label, it would be York! There is certainly in my view a disconnect between politicians and the average citizen, but this is not a factor of class necessarily, but of the Westminster bubble IMHO
thats very true York is quite shocking, especially seeing so many shops shut in the shambles and entire roads vacant on the main square for so long. but York has always been defiantly and proudly Labour even in 2019, the old belief that Labour is for the “working class” has helped them over the decades. it wont this year though, the “working classes” is the term both the current Labour and Conservative fear the most as neither party is appealing to them. With each time that term is bandied it strikes a chord to prevent voters wasting one more vote on Lab/Con.
Thanks so much ❤for your brilliant videos🎉
thank you so much Susan 🙏
Great work thanks for sharing keep it up l hope we always communicate 🛎🎁👈👉👀🌹🌷🌺🤲🤲
Thanks and sure! Have a great weekend 👍
No sign of Billingham, Stockton or Middlesbrough. Of course James Cleverly regards Stockton north constituency as a s**thole. Very very sad
We covered Middlesbrough but made a note of the others for future ventures! Have a great weekend Mr Brilltastic 🐣💛
He openly admitted to taking the money off the POOR to give to the RICH, he is that type of guy.
Yeah I saw that after the fact something someone else pointed out. Wish I’d known he had said that when I made this video. He really is completely out of touch with the voters.
@juliecarne7706 there is such a divide isn’t there Julie? We still unbelievably have benefits/hotel tourism from criminal overseas gangs. We have many of our (generations in now so it’s really instilled) refusing to work because they would be worse off. On top of that unless you are born into money in this Country the standard of living, NHS care, social care and even transport is not fit for purpose. Sadly the UK has got so bad over the last few years that if I was young enough I’d leave and then we act shocked when we can’t retain new generations that have something to offer to stay in the UK.
Does North Allerton have a Poundland?
It doesn’t! I’m guessing that new factory shop might be the closest thing to one?
Business rates should be reduced to a level where people could make money running a shop and tax profits .
Thats a much fairer and sensible system.
Visit Morpeth, in Northumberland. I live here. It’s affluent, but the cracks are showing. We just lost our bakery, which has been open since the 70’s! Because of Covid and cost of living crisis it was forced to close. It’s all part of the plan.
Sorry to hear that Lucy, hopefully the bakery is just a blip, it’s such a shame that more wasn’t done to help small businesses get through the energy crisis, it really has been the final nail in the coffin after a tough few years for so many places we hold dear.
Fascinating series! Well done 😍😍👍👍
Thank you! 😃
nothing really changes in this country .. well apart from mass illegal immigration.......the small minority of the rich has all the power... and the magority...the working-class are given third-class lives.........its always been like that in england..... the peasant's revolt of 1381......... the rich use to call the working -class....the peasant-class...... and they will want the working -class to fight putin and russia and die for the rich of england so they can continue to live their lives of plenty in places like northallerton.
Here here 🤣 well said 👍
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Thanks 🤗
I live in a LABOUR run city which you have featured on this series absolute useless spent money on installing moving bollards a month later decided to dig them up at the cost of a small fortune no wonder they are in the red ,cost of rental for shopkeepers is sky high in my city they can't compete with online shopping which don't have these overheads the real reason why the high street is in sadly decline
I’m not even sure who runs our Council anymore, we have been swallowed up by North Yorkshire County Council and despite eyeing their meetings with interest all they ever seem to be concerned with is what happens in Harrogate. what happens here seems to be down to the same mismatch of representatives from every party that only ever seem to be interested in making the sea front look shiny to please visitors whilst the rest of the town looks like a scene from a third world country. I think we have to acknowledge that high street retail is well and truly dead and the sooner we think about repurposing those areas for other uses the better. hope your having a great Easter weekend Garry.
Excellent series Nicholas and gill all I will say about Scarborough council on the same par as York council and that's particularly high .
wow interesting place, let's stay there overnight, greetings from a new friend
Thanks and welcome new friend! have a great week 👍
Like 2 watching now 👍
thank you Adzey 🙏
Have you done Huddersfield yet?
We also want to see Halifax and Sheffield!
these two are on. I get asked for Sheffield a lot and Halifax I wanted to visit to look at that old poem about “Hull Hell and Halifax”
shall add it to the list!
@@GENerationXplorers oh I don't know about that... but it sounds interesting!