£8m wouldn't go anywhere because by the time the council had spent a year consulting various companies to draw up plans and make models, gone on a fact finding mission to several European countries to see how they would do it, claimed their expense's, then put out a tender for the cheapest company to do the work, that goes bust before they even start , there would only £3.47 left.
I’ve stumbled across this video by accident and would like to thank you for its content 👍🏼 I live in Hartlepool, born and lived here 41 years. We wouldn’t want anyone to know how fantastic it really is here, the lovey beaches, friendly people and Christ don’t tell them it’s £2 a pint and how low house prices are it’s criminal! my 20 mile commute takes me 20 minutes, I’ve just been to London for 4 days and witnessed a mugging! Never seen that in Hartlepool, you can’t judge a town on statistics, it’s community spirt and a level of happiness and I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else! I question your motive and agenda on these videos.
Well said, don't forget the pointless stabbing of children over a daft postcodes, its these lads that need help / guidance and for the system to understand why this is happening, then you have areas of London that are flowing with cash, and don't give a rats ass about the tragic deaths.
Yet December 2021 Hartlepool is the 2nd most dangerous town in Durham, but you’ve never seen a mugging. What about sexual assault as that is 41% more likely to happen in hartlepool than Lambeth. You could flip it back as you are 280% more likely to be robbed in Lambeth. But would you rather be sexually assaulted or robbed?
Mad that you’ve ignored all of Cornwall. High house prices doesn’t mean we’re well off you know. Camborne and Redruth is among some of the most deprived areas in all of Europe
@@Swan234 The work situation is shit. Everywhere is too spread out. There's no central hub that contains everything. It's just randomly placed scattered settlements. Doing a 30 mile commute to work and back for a basic minimum is normal here. And it's not like cycling or public transport are an option either.
Ironically some of my fondest memories come from visiting "poor" parts of England. Blackpool, Hartlepool and Great Yarmouth all were great places to visit
The pictures to be seen in this video don't look horrible at all. Some a bit boring at most. Yet boring places also can be where millionaires live. The Albrecht-brothers (founders of ALDI (Albrecht Discount)) were among the top five richest Germans and were totally boring misers, yet lived and worked in just likewise boring houses in the boring city of Essen.
How "rough" a place feels is usually the difference in inequality between rich and poor, rather than absolute poverty. That's why parts of London, West London especially feel so shitty. The average might be high but gap between rich and poor is huge
If an area feel shitty is because is shitty, without comparation. Something feel shity if their people are not civic (leaving everything dirty, not taking care of their gardens, not maintaining the front of the house, etc). That has little to do with being rich or poor and a lot about education. I am technically poor and you wont see my grass not cut, rubbish in the road in front of my house, my front door not painted in 20 years and you wont see me going to the Tesco in my pyjamas. That is what makes a road look shitty and has nothing to do with the money. Maybe the rich just pay somebody to do all that stuff, but it is not an excuse for that level of lazyness.
There are some right sh*holes in the UK, yet in a video about poor English towns and villages they show images of greenery, lovely looking churches, and beautiful black and white Tudor buildings, and not one crackhead in sight, lol
I am a native Londoner of 47 years, so I know London very well; even the poor areas of London you mentioned look so much better than poor areas outside London, so the poor people in London derive some joy from the fact that London is a very interesting region than every other poor areas in the U.K.
@@FART-REPELLENT I lived in Whitechapel for 6 years, the only good thing about it is that decent areas such as Hoxton, Dalston and Islington are within walking distance.
A lot of these are old seaside towns which went into decline once holidays abroad became cheaper. I wouldn't say they were bad places to live though. Cheaper houses cheaper taxes and compared to most cities a nice population size. No crazy traffic jams. Not too noisy actually nice places to live.
@Pontiac Soviro I get mixed up between the two as he sounds the same solo as he does with the Smiths whereas Phil Collins sounded different with his solo work than he did with Genesis because Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks have a huge influence on the song writing and background music.
They became retirement enclaves because the housing was cheaper as there is low employment other than in the tourism trade and even that was dying. And it's even worse now as some seaside resorts such as Rhyl are used to dump people straight out of prison because of the cheap accommodation. People quite rightly didn't want to stay in guesthouses with lots of rules and not being able to stay there during the day in bad weather. They either wanted to go abroad with guaranteed sunshine and warm weather or go into self catering accommodation or stay in holiday camps such as Butlins or hotel complexes with leisure facilities and entertainment included in the prices. We opted for self catering accommodation on both the coast and inland and went exploring by car. More freedom with that and you could stay in if the weather was bad or you weren't feeling well.
As someone who lives in Rotherham I find it hard to believe that this town didn't make the list ....also every town on this list looked ten times cleaner than Rotherham
@@intrigued8297 I think if it's measured by the entire borough its not that accurate as places like whiston and Wentworth have high levels of income and are affluent areas whereas places like Eastwood and ferham have some of the worst living standards in Europe.
I live in Wickersley, full of posh new bars & restaurants. Moorgate, Brecks, Whiston all nice places. There's way more S**tholes in Sheffield than here inRotherham
@@saturn761 I live in meadowbank it's full of weed farms,dog sh*t covered pavements and spare ground that's used by fly tippers...like I said I think we live in two different Rotherhams lol
The Halton Castle pub on the road between Skelmersdale and Ormskirk has recently been demolished after standing empty for years. Shame - it was a nice, friendly pub with good beer and food.
@@waverunner3911 The long term economic and political goal of the monied elites in the UK and US is to eradicate the middle class economically and politically. We must eradicate the monied elites instead.
Halton is a middle-class paradise compared to my home town (Skelmersdale). Edit: 3:09 The Halton Castle pub is in Westhead, near Ormskirk, which is really posh Edit, edit (2023): The Halton Castle pub in Westhead, near Ormskirk, is now a row of houses called "Halton Castle Mews"
Jaywick has one the nicest stretch of beaches in England ,you be pleasantly surprised.As a past resident of Jaywick I can tell you it’s split into three areas ,Tudor Estate which is not bad with nice houses and bungalows .The residents there are loathed to call it part of Jaywick so they call it West Clacton.Jaywick village which is in the middle has fairly nice houses ,and finally Brooklands ( every road is named after a car) where the pictures are taken and the Tv programme was made.It’s not as bad as it was but in parts it’s a absolute tip and really dirty ,sadly it’s been given up on by tendering council for years and left to fester.
It was a holiday village at one time for Londoners who had second homes which is why the houses are so small and flimsy. Then when people stopped wanted to go there at weekends and on holidays they sold their homes to poor people.
The poorest areas are the expensive districts like London brighton etc when you are on low wages. If you live in a poor area where housing etc is cheaper then those low wages go further.
I live in Cleethorpes (next to Grimsby) where Grimsby's East Marsh and West Marsh areas are populated by a deprived communities, My grandfather ran a bakery in these locations from the 1930s to the 1960s. In all that time I am told he sold bread a penny cheaper, "Because they cannot afford more." Even today, those areas lack amenities such that their residents must travel (at some cost) to reach bigger shops with fair prices. I have taken beer in pubs there (east marsh, west marsh has few) and the people are decent, lively and no different from me, apart from the few, that are being drowned in drugs, crime and deep despair. It is not for me to pass judgement but I feel for those that live there under that greater risk of harm. I have laughed with them, but then return to a safer area to sleep.
I'm from the south of England but I moved to Grimsby over 20 years ago, it is a deprived town (although it's meant to be undergoing a series of improvements!) and there are crime and drug problems here, but on the whole I love living here; it's unpretentious and the majority of the residents are kind, friendly and, although the wages are low, they are always ready to support local charites and people down on their luck - and Grimsby and Cleethorpes definitely have the best fish and chips in the country! 😁
It's grim up North! Or so they say... Although here in Cornwall there's more poverty, (believe it or not,) but at least it is a few degrees warmer all year round! 😎
@the knight family Our family stayed at the Cleethorpes Haven once about 13 years ago. It was alright tbf. Decent Chinese and Indian buffet near there.
I live near “Halton” - it’s a working class area ;like many places you can turn the corner and are presented with a very different landscape and feel. Personally gob smacked areas of London aren’t in this list - I know where I’d rather live 👍🏻
@@arthurjarrett1604 I got out. Some areas, like Ashurst, are not bad, but once again there is a lot of housing estates being thrown up round there at outlandish prices. The one nearest the school ...Whalleys Rd...is unbelievable. Think of the school run parking chaos!
I live in a run down part of london. You know it's bad when a friend sends you a video of someone being murdered in broad daylight and says...burnt oak, isn't that where you live?
Don't get how he's come up with this list when in the north west we have Bolton, Oldham, Rochdale, Burnley, Blackburn, Blackpool. All easily far worse shit holes.
There is a lot of new build in Elmsall and quite a bit of industrial development with distribution and warehouse employers. Its nonetheless disgraceful that Wakefield Council has failed to significantly support the area when investing in other areas at the expense of Elmsall and Kirkby.
I would give more credence to this "report" if the author had spent some time actually looking around the areas. The Old Mill public house used to illustrate the entry for South Kirkby was knocked down over 10 years ago. On the hill above Elmsall there has been considerable investment in warehousing and distribution and this is ongoing. There is a lot of new housing. The old pit at South Elmsall is a country park. Wakefield Council does not help as mentioned by Chris Vandeleur. I've lived in the area for over 30 years and it has got better and is getting better. My relatives in affluent areas of London are too frightened to go out of their doors at night. I know were I would rather be.
@@russellwhite1581 I haven't been to Peckham in many decades but it seems that property prices are through the roof for flats and houses. Many formerly poor parts of London are the same way with property prices. Small terraced houses where I grew up go for several hundred thousand. Dingy old streets that still don't look good.
Jaywick is so notoriously bad that when my Dad's friend was on holiday in the south east, he took a special drive out to Jaywick to see if it was as bad as the reports say. It was.
I don't know if the opening statement of 'my views will become your own' was tongue-in-cheek, but I had a feeling even then this was going to be shoddy stuff.
Born and bred in Hartlepool, it has beautiful parks and affluent areas, although l no longer live there l always enjoy visiting, the people are the best in the country. Of course it has rough areas but so does any town with a population of this size.
Hartlepool born and bred too here, the town is lovely and the people are class. There's always a few bad areas in any town, but the people here are the best in the country
South Kirkby is pronounced "South Kirby"; South Elmsall is pronounced "South Emmsull"; Stoke-on-Trent is not in the West Midlands, but in Staffordshire!
You’re the second person claiming Staffordshire isn’t in the Midlands so far and you’re both spouting drivel! Staffordshire is in the West Midlands despite admittedly sounding Northern, watch Midlands today if you don’t believe me!
@@overlordnat if you look at a map of west midlands "county", the northern border is north of Wolverhampton, and Bloxhall. I have been to all these places and Stafford, Stoke, etc. etc, so I don't need the BBC to tell me what they simply imagine for their convenient short-cut deliberations. Staffordshire County is a highly confusing county because is circles round in the most ridiculous shape, thanks to government messing-about reforms (I think in the 70's). So, for someone who doesn't live in the area, it's easy, like the BBC, to imagine what area Stoke OUGHT to be in. Best advice is to go out and experience these places for yourself, get the feel of the area, and converse with local people.
I lived in hartcliffe twice in my time, never felt safer, good times cracking neighbours, sure everywhere has the odd twatt, but I can only think fond memories, any that aren't are my doing, the finest of people are to be found in the poorest areas, true Britons!
I was brought up in Hartcliffe (until I was 8), it was a good place then in early 70’s, thriving you could say with Symes Avenue having every shop under the sun. I do visit step family every so often, but It does seem to have lost its soul. Great countryside on doorstep. Ps, I don’t smoke, drink or swear, that’s quite a miracle !
Agreed lived in Kensington liverpool for years couldn't have met nicer people when people ain't got nothing they rally round eachother sadly when people have there all stand off ish
I grew up ih Hartcliffe in the sixt and seventies moved away in 85 to knowle, lived there for 20 years un till I moved to Ashton, Hartcliffe was an amazing place to live all those years ago it’s very different now though.
Hartcliffe is an absolute shit hole. Full of druggie scum and thieving youth. It was getting better at one point. During covid it all went downhill. Lack of good parenting, lack of good role models, lack of anything for the young people to do. It's only going to get worse. No improvement in sight. Add the 'Low emmision zone' to get to the centre. You're just going to keep them more locked in that deprived area. Good job Bristol City Council.
I’ve just moved back to Hartcliffe after living outside of Bristol for a few years. What a culture shock…. It truly has gone downhill. A real nasty place where the youth seem to have taken to smashing bus windows and throwing paint onto cars.
I lived in Hartcliffe, Bristol in the mid 1970s and I have to say that it was a more or less happy time of my life. l live in Seattle, USA now and there are far worse, and more dangerous places than Hartcliffe in some of Seattle's suburbs.
Same time as I lived there Anthony, I don’t think none or hardly none of us were deprived. Too busy playing up in the fields to worry about being poor.
I would suggest Newhaven in East Sussex. When I was growing up the rate of unemployment in the town was 75% and children going without food was an everyday occurrence. I hear that there are renewal projects going on these days and I very much hope they’re successful, as the widespread deprivation of previous decades was heartbreaking.
Don't go to Newhaven. Such a shithole. It's also the people of the area which drag it down. The rate of unemployment is probably worse now. I'd try Seaford. Its the next town stop.
@@freddythefrog9154 you'd say the rate of unemployment is above 75%? The actual unemployment is just over 31%. It's snobby comments like this and lack of investment that holds it back. Seaford although I agree is a nice place to live has had the highest levels for for burglary and drugs within East Sussex.
Agree totally. Used to work at the port on the ferries (Hoverspeed then Transmanche Ferries) and hated descending down into it. Abysmal and in dire need of rejuvenation from Government funding.
My employer has an office in Newhaven. We send our problem employees there, the drunks, the bullies, the criminally incompetent etc. Many settle there and few leave.
I had to do some work in Jaywick and it was heartbreaking to see the living conditions of some of the inhabitants, that was back in 2007, I'm often haunted by the experience to this day. Stay strong my Jaywick brothers and sisters.
as someone who lives on the Isle of Sheppy i was not surprised to see it on this list, one of the real reasons for the poverty is that the house prices are high ( same as large towns and cities in Kent but the main income is the dwindling tourist market. It is a bit of a retirment place too
You can find poverty and relative affluence living cheek by jowl wherever you go, Tower Hamlets in London is quite impoverished but still barely 8km/5 miles distant from some of the richest neighbourhoods across the entire UK (a billionaires playground AKA Chelsea?) I live in a relatively affluent area in Pensans (we're not rich but I'm also not worried about where the next meal is coming from) - literally a stones throw away (maybe 1000 metres) is the Treneere Estate, often cited as one of the poorest residential areas in Western Europe!
I’m from Stoke and Blurton is no where near the worst place. Bentilee was recently named the poorest area of the city however a number of years ago houses were sold for £1 in Hanley/Cobridge under a council scheme where you had to loan around £30k to do renovations.
Wow! Can anywhere be this poor in Great Britain? It needs to do more as nation to retain that greatness. My heart goes out to people living in those poorest areas.
@@midlandgeordie How many more decades will people be saying this? Most of these places were damaged by deindustrialisation in the 70's and 80's but they almost all have Labour councils and there were 13 continuous years of Labour rule to correct things. What happened? One of the reasons these areas are still deprived is because all people do is blame the Tories instead of taking responsibility. And for all this so called austerity, we have huge public debt and the highest taxes for 70 years.
Too many people live on welfare or low wages. It's no good for the wider economy because people don't have any disposable income. But there is no excuse for councils to be neglecting public amenities. They waste so much money.
The Halton Castle Pub (now demolished) is near Ormskirk and part of Lancashire County Council, nothing to do with Halton Borough, about 20 miles apart.....
There is a holiday place 20 mins up road from jaywick which is so lovely and worth a visit. I had a holiday in jaywick once, we arrived and left to come home i think 15 or so minutes later
That's so funny, some of the pictures around Halton in the Runcorn area have million pound houses down the road. If that's a poor area I would stop tomorrow. What a joke lol
The official deprivation list last year did indeed have Jaywick as #1 but it had several areas of both Liverpool and Blackpool and an area of Hull, or perhaps the whole of it, there too. Where is your source for this list? I don’t trust it.
I've lived in Blackpool myself and have done a lot of research about their poverty in particular and I'm very surprised that they weren't placed on the list
@@no1wasgeorgiebest Ive been there quite a lot, and the only area of Fleetwood that I'd say is particularly deprived is parts in and around the town centre. And even those didn't seem as deprived as the worst bits of Blackpool. The town overall is more deprived than Blackpool, yes, as its economy went down the toilet when the port closed while Blackpool is still very popular with tourists. But a lot of Fleetwood's suburbs, especially those near the coast, seemed ok to me.
All of Birmingham is poor full of drugs and benefit cheats who don't want to work the place is poor in Birmingham and hardly a affluent area in its a rough city .
Most of Digbeth is basically the third world with litter, graffiti, boarded-up buildings and copious spliff-toking (which should be legalised, of course, but this is nonetheless an indicator of the locals’ attitude to the law). I walked past a boarded up building with a rectangle cut out of it once: it must have been used either to store stolen goods or other contraband (guns, drugs, forged goods) or for tramps to live in or both. I didn’t go in to find out of course but at least a neat rectangle had been cut out!
@@overlordnat even then i wouldnt consider it the poorest, because they are still a lot of jobs in the in there area. An mix of industrial workers and creative types ones, with many restaurants and nightclubs opening everyday. Plus they is alot of construction in the area.apartments being built Everyday, the new tram line and HS2 is like 2 seconds from it. If anything the area will soon be one of the most expensive in Brum, it may not look too pretty right now but give it at least 5 years.
@@Christian-uj1mq We’ll see, you don’t have to go to far from the the part of Digbeth that’s immediately adjacent to the city centre to find a shanty town (Sherlock street, for example) but I do hope that you’re right. 🤞
i too was born and educated on the Isle of Sheppey just after WW2 when the dockyard was thriving. Best education and many opportunities to choose a career. Happiest childhood and always felt safe. Many left for Australia US and Canada later on but my few friends that still live there have done very nicely.
I loved my childhood when the dockyard was thriving. Somr famous people were educated on Sheppey before going to University. I left at 17 yrs for London which was full employment.
@@annebenn353 perhaps your generation have, unfortunately mine have mostly had to move away to further themselves. Sheerness High St is unrecognisable from what it was when I was growing up. It's pretty depressing to see. Outside of Sheerness the island isn't so bad (Minster etc)
@@no_soy_rubio I am on the FB page History of the Isle of Sheppey. Love to ser the Forts as we walked home from school. Mschool friend lives at Warden made a fortune building houses. I left London live in Australia. Been back to UK europe a few times . If I had not learnt French at Sheerness Secondary for girls I would 'nt have had an amazing time living in Paris and learning French. Good luck to you. Did they put the Clock Tower back yet?
I was in a hotel on the front that charged £22 a night. Tea stain sheets I hope wall stain, carpet was 30 years old, but there was TV and cable and alot of free coffee.
In Halton you showed images of daresbury. Daresbury is an affluent area where house prices are amongst the most expensive in the Cheshire area. Also you showed the Halton castle pub which is not in Halton and is actually in Westhead Lancashire and is also now closed for good.
Definitely wrong about Kingstanding, massive area stretching from Streetly and Great Barr at one end to Sutton Coldfield at the other. Yes there's some streets you couldn't pay me to go down but there's some really nice bits too. I've lived there for the past 13 years and never had any bother
I think the narrators view was because majority of people are renting than owning but I disagree that doesn't justify peoples purchasing power. Im a landlord in Kingstanding
I’ve been all up and down the country and have these places don’t seem to bad! Statistics don’t mean anything, I’ve been to places but even listed on this video where you wouldn’t even think of walking alone!
I'm very suprised Gloucester isn't on this, it has got a lot of parks and a hill but as soon as you get into town there is only 5-6 shops and then the rest are 2nd hand shops or cafés, on top of that another 7ish shops have been closed down, including shops such as poundstretchers, burgar king and many more
@@juliethompson5301 2 areas compared to all the other North ones, Liverpool’s mainly a shit hole even the nice areas would look terrible compared to some places in devon
@@ld5667 allerton,childwall,woolton,aigburth, and the royal Albert Dock are all desirable areas of Liverpool .... obviously Devon has nice parts... but A....Soooo expensive.... and B.... I'd hate it in the dead of winter, no matter how nice
I'm a bit surprised that Hartcliffe is more deprived than its neighbour Knowle West. As a child 70 years ago, Hartcliffe seemed positively glamorous compared to my home in lisburn road, knowle west.
🙋🏾♂️ I'm a Black Brit & I have some of my foundist childhood memories in Great Yarmouth. So much so, I made sure all of my Children's first Holiday was there, as mine was. Still love it...
Corby, Parts of Sheffield that the cameras have guards and the workmen work behind reinforced fencing, parts of Rotherham like Canklow, East Dene and Eastwood.
I’ll never understand why somewhere like Hartcliffe on the edge of Bristol should be this poor. It’s a bus ride away from the centre of Bristol which has one of the strongest economies in the UK. So why can’t they get work ?
I’m from south Kirkby and as this might have been accurate 10 years ago don’t think so much now as half the photos are outdated and most people I know are more well off than people who live in the surrounding areas such as hemsworth
Willenhall and Wood End in the 90s were probably the most run down council estates I have seen. I used to live in the tower blocks in Hillfields... 2 days after I moved in I got notice that they were going to be demolished 18 months later. I live in Cornwall now and although it is poorer than Cov it is warmer and a lot more friendly. People here smile sometimes for no reason!
I’m American. My family originally was probably middle class. Mom usually didn’t work. She did manage to work- but had only one job when my parents were still married. Everything did get more expensive. Dad wasn’t a machinist past 1988. My brother came into the world in January of 1989. We eventually were low class by around 1996. Everyone in my family: my brother and parents, I’m certain just had no choice but to watch as everything only got worse. It has no bearing which: party, job / career or even beliefs you’re raised with or maintain- Poorness, poor people culture and general 2nd rate statuses will always exist. Soldier on, mates. 🇺🇸🤍🇬🇧
Born & have Lived in Towers Hamlets my entire life (60 years). Absolutely hate it now. It has lost its character and its soul due to a myriad of reasons I won't go into here.
Sorry to tell you for Halton you had a picture of the Halton Castle you are in the wrong town even the wrong county. It is just out side a market town call ed Ormskirk the pub was in Westhead but no longer standing it is now a small housing estate. Interesting, Kindest Regards Bob
So basically If you live near the bit of the sea people tell you is nice your rich If you live near the bit of the sea they tell you is horrible, you’re poor I don’t know where this list is from but by any metric, my town constantly appears in the top 10 for poverty, health outcomes, education etc etc The reality of it is, it’s not that bad. I definitely wouldn’t swap it for inner city London. When you account for disposable income, we probably fair better than many areas, deemed wealthy We just have issues of a lack of investment and education across the boroughs
I only came here to see if my city was mentioned and 1st on the list isn’t just my city but blurton is where I’m from in Stoke 😂 love it! You’ve really done some research my friend!😂
He hasn't done any research or due diligence because the cottage pub is not in Blurton!?. and why he's taken a photo of a listed building within the grounds of stoke Royal hospital is anyones guess, because it's nowhere near Blurton.If anything it's a few hundred yards from being in Newcastle under lyme!! ...clueless!!
Coming from England and travelling around it to work I’m surprised by this list I’ve been to places that seem a lot rougher and poorer than these. Weird
Dang that’s rough, how many places are shitty like this? Looks like a 3rd world country. I’ve seen videos and pretty much even the “nice” areas of the uk look the same. Just old and boring. Is that true? Personally speaking I’d definitely rather travel to Tokyo my first time international then South America but eh if I visit that side of the world probably France or Italy. I’m from Los Angeles, so my lifestyle and interests are probably extremely different from the people who live in the uk. What part of the uk do you suggest going to if I ever did? I’ve been looking but nothing from the uk interests me enough 🧐
@@user-vk2es9ws9j I’m from the midlands so the middle of England but tbh there’s not much to do here I wouldn’t holiday here . If you like hiking there’s the peak and Lake District otherwise I’d say London Manchester Liverpool or Birmingham but there’s not much here and there is some real shit holes in the uk. I’m from a nice part I live in a village so it’s quiet as it’s the country side but suppose it depends on what you enjoy in a holiday. There’s a lot of nice old buildings and stuff we have a good history so we do have stuff like that old castles 🏰 ect . I would imagine people come here mainly for old architecture and history reasons or for London fashion. I holiday in Europe my favourite destination is Holland Amsterdam I also had good time in Spain . If you from la it would probably be like going backwards coming here as you will have less stuff to do. I don’t know just depends what you like from holiday. France is nice too if your interested in France then you probably would like England tbf
@@paulplaysgames6740 You know what though? That actually sounds beautiful, I’m sure it’s gorgeous. Right now it’s 5:48 am on my side of earth 🌎 and me thinking about la traffic and work makes me want to go to England right this moment 🥲 lol. England sounds like such a peaceful get away. Thank you for all of the insight ☺️ & Spain sounds sooooo cultured I would love to go to Spain. You guys are so lucky you’re all close to each other though. It sucks for Americans because basically America is like one big island when it comes to close traveling all we have is Mexico, South America and Canada. How was Spain? I fell even more in love with Spain after watching Money Heist 😅
@@user-vk2es9ws9j Spain is awesome I loved it. It is peaceful here my village has a population of just over 800 people so it’s calm and the church is 600 years old in my village also we have a fresh water spring that is amazing best tasting water ever. And it’s true that Europe has advantages travel wise I went from Belgium to Holland to Germany and it was easy I know I can get a flight or ferry to Holland and get work straight away and I’ve done that a few times just gone and spent a few months and paid by working out there and I stopped in a hostel that cost 8£ per night . It sounds like you’d like it out here. Just costs a lot from where you are but yeah it’s peaceful in places. But I’m sure you have places that are like that in US too. It’s just in England that it’s that small you can travel across it in a day and we have national Forrest areas that are protected so we have lots of beautiful villages and nice countryside. Stone henge is kinda cool too. It’s the history here that’s the best part and it’s mostly protected so it’s like going back in time when you visit these areas as by law they can’t be touched or altered
One of them I'm surprised didn't make the list Is Blackpool, I lived there for 10 years and it's not the prettiest of sights, one of the worst places in the country for crime and 1/3rd of women smoked during pregnancy, I also searched that 1 in 4 children are under the poverty line and several of Blackpool's neighbourhoods are ranked as the top 10 worst yearly on the neighbourhood deprivation index (with over 32,000 other neighbourhoods ranked) One of the reasons beind the poverty issues is the tourist aspects of Blackpool, the tourism leads to Blackpool's income being solely based from the summer, plus a lot of people (including my parents) move to Blackpool in hopes of living the tourists dream in which never is properly fulfilled Blackpool also has some extremely high drug rates compared to a lot of the country and generally has little going for in terms of positive statistics
Been twice in day trips ( not my choice 🙄). Always raining heavily- it’s an utter shit hole IMO. The budget flight industry ruined it. Why go somewhere where you can smell sewage when you walk along the promenade, and it rains continuously?
I was surprised that Blackpool wasn't on the list as it's ranked as one of the most deprived areas in the UK. Healthcare budget is drastically lower than more affluent area's. Drug and alcohol abuse is rife, homelessness has become a major problem too with the council scratching their heads over a solution. Someone commented that Blackpool is a "shit hole" , well I would tend to agree.
Likewise for Tyne and Wear ? When the shipyards closed down so many lost their jobs , and the mines . The northeast got hit bad and thrown into poverty .
they might be poor compared to other EU nations but compared to third and second world countries these places are paradise, there is a reason why immigrants would risk their lives crossing seas and deserts just to have a chance of living somewhere like this
"paradise" lmao ... At least in third and second world countries they can hunt for food and keep warm by having open fires in there houses they are not locked into a system that will not allow people to fend for themselves whereas poor people in the UK either pay extortionate rates in hard currency for food & heating or go cold and or hungry..trust me as someone from Rotherham it is far from paradise if you can't pay
There is no such thing as a second world country, not in the sense you're using it anyway. The term "The Third world" was coined during the Cold War. It relates to the geopolitical landscape at the time. The first two worlds referred to those countries allied to either NATO or to the Warsw Pact. Those countries who had no allegiance to either were referred to as the "Third" world. It included many affluent and industrialised nations. The term was hijacked in the early seventies to mean poor countries. This was because a lot of these non aligned countries were from Africa. This was down to the misconception that the phrase referred to the world's poorest one third of it's population.
Great Yarmouth: “…and the reason for this poverty is the racism…[what the actual…] ….it is so poor that they have even had to open a food bank.’ Your script has either been written by a 16 year old with no life experience, or someone who lives outside the UK. Mate, most towns and every city in the UK has a food bank, since 2010, so they aren’t a measure of how poor a town is: food banks are a result of 12 years of austerity, dwindling council funds and a Government who has turned its back on the poor. So once you’re old enough to come over to the UK, go and visit these beautiful places and meet the lovely people, ye judgy bugger!
I mean racism exists everywhere but I never experienced direct racism whilst visiting Great Yarmouth, the only thing that was racist was the selling of golliwog souvenirs and scarecrow's....
I live in Oxford, most expensive place to live outside of London We got food banks everywhere, massive cost of living taxes etc but no higher living wage
I honestly thought areas of where I live were going to appear, but I realised there has been huge investments into my city in recent years with huge brands opening up dealerships, stores and production studios, etc.
same here, i wish the people that lived near my area would actually try make their homes look pleasant because the streets are trashed and there’s always something going on.
There are more deprived areas in Wakefield than Kirkby and Elmsall. Parts of Hemsworth were so bad the council just knocked the houses down. It is indeed grim up north.
City of Sunderland is a very deprived and neglected city.One of the cities left behind for many years by the Westminster govts.North East investment always went to affluent Newcastle while neighbouring Sunderland was ignored.
@@nickyg4776 you have heard of the north south divide ??? Maybe you re a remoaner? Thete is a north south divide in the NE.Newcastle is the south and Sunderland the north.Your attitude will break up the UK.Ignirant.
Yep, everything an Great Yarmouth is completely true lol. I lived there for a over a year during the pandemic which made things even worse. Almost was assaulted by a group for calling them out of racism, didn't realize how bad it was at the time. Had my window broken, front building security door broken into, kids set a building on fire and numerous other things. It's such a shame because it's actually such a beautiful place, classic British seaside town but the local authorities and efforts are just not enough to tackle the systemic issues.
Not a single reference to the north west of England? When thatcher came to power in 1979 the population of Liverpool was 750,000. By the time she was ousted it was 500,000. This was down to what she proudly called "managed decline." One third of the population were forced to move away in search of work. Then there are such places as Skelmersdale, Kirkby, Manchester, Blackpool and basically anywhere else in between.
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£8m wouldn't go anywhere because by the time the council had spent a year consulting various companies to draw up plans and make models, gone on a fact finding mission to several European countries to see how they would do it, claimed their expense's, then put out a tender for the cheapest company to do the work, that goes bust before they even start , there would only £3.47 left.
What nonsense, there wouldn’t be anywhere as much as that left.
It's even worse as it was $8M they invested and the dollar isn't legal tender in the UK.
Which would be spent on biscuits at the first 'strategy meeting'
I’ve stumbled across this video by accident and would like to thank you for its content 👍🏼 I live in Hartlepool, born and lived here 41 years. We wouldn’t want anyone to know how fantastic it really is here, the lovey beaches, friendly people and Christ don’t tell them it’s £2 a pint and how low house prices are it’s criminal! my 20 mile commute takes me 20 minutes, I’ve just been to London for 4 days and witnessed a mugging! Never seen that in Hartlepool, you can’t judge a town on statistics, it’s community spirt and a level of happiness and I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else! I question your motive and agenda on these videos.
Well said, don't forget the pointless stabbing of children over a daft postcodes, its these lads that need help / guidance and for the system to understand why this is happening, then you have areas of London that are flowing with cash, and don't give a rats ass about the tragic deaths.
There are also parts of the country that are "asset rich" where your house could be worth £500k, but you're worried about putting food on the table.
The post code wars are pretty much political wars, add a boarder, someone wants to take it
Yet December 2021 Hartlepool is the 2nd most dangerous town in Durham, but you’ve never seen a mugging. What about sexual assault as that is 41% more likely to happen in hartlepool than Lambeth. You could flip it back as you are 280% more likely to be robbed in Lambeth. But would you rather be sexually assaulted or robbed?
Clicks, views, money... Just a content creator.
Mad that you’ve ignored all of Cornwall. High house prices doesn’t mean we’re well off you know. Camborne and Redruth is among some of the most deprived areas in all of Europe
Newquay's another.
I live half way between Camborne and Redruth and can confirm this to be true!
I lived in Camborne for for a while back in 2018 and one thing I remember was the amount of Boy Racers!!.
We can't even afford to live in the towns we work in due to all the 2nd homes... cornwall has it rough... none of this list even compares
@@Swan234 The work situation is shit. Everywhere is too spread out. There's no central hub that contains everything. It's just randomly placed scattered settlements.
Doing a 30 mile commute to work and back for a basic minimum is normal here. And it's not like cycling or public transport are an option either.
Ironically some of my fondest memories come from visiting "poor" parts of England. Blackpool, Hartlepool and Great Yarmouth all were great places to visit
I live near Hartlepool I never sen it as a poor place but we all have opinions
Hastings
The pictures to be seen in this video don't look horrible at all. Some a bit boring at most.
Yet boring places also can be where millionaires live.
The Albrecht-brothers (founders of ALDI (Albrecht Discount)) were among the top five richest Germans and were totally boring misers, yet lived and worked in just likewise boring houses in the boring city of Essen.
This list is totally wrong ...half of the places mentioned looked really clean compared to my town
@@cjh0751 I only shop at Lidl or Aldi now ...and tbh alot of there products are better quality than Asda/Tesco/Morrisons/Sainsbury's
How "rough" a place feels is usually the difference in inequality between rich and poor, rather than absolute poverty. That's why parts of London, West London especially feel so shitty. The average might be high but gap between rich and poor is huge
If an area feel shitty is because is shitty, without comparation. Something feel shity if their people are not civic (leaving everything dirty, not taking care of their gardens, not maintaining the front of the house, etc). That has little to do with being rich or poor and a lot about education. I am technically poor and you wont see my grass not cut, rubbish in the road in front of my house, my front door not painted in 20 years and you wont see me going to the Tesco in my pyjamas. That is what makes a road look shitty and has nothing to do with the money. Maybe the rich just pay somebody to do all that stuff, but it is not an excuse for that level of lazyness.
west london isnt really rough, most of london is hardly rough, you want rough you go to the impoverished towns like bognor
@@RBLXDignitysHQ
You're saying bognor is as rough as London? Presumably it's a joke?
@@paulw6183 nah its not a joke
@@RBLXDignitysHQ
Just a huge misjudgement then
There are some right sh*holes in the UK, yet in a video about poor English towns and villages they show images of greenery, lovely looking churches, and beautiful black and white Tudor buildings, and not one crackhead in sight, lol
They didn't have the guts to show places like Peckham, Whitechapel or East Ham and add them to the list...
I am a native Londoner of 47 years, so I know London very well; even the poor areas of London you mentioned look so much better than poor areas outside London, so the poor people in London derive some joy from the fact that London is a very interesting region than every other poor areas in the U.K.
@@FART-REPELLENT I worked in Peckham for a while and trust me there's nothing good looking about it...
Spot on the irony😂
@@FART-REPELLENT I lived in Whitechapel for 6 years, the only good thing about it is that decent areas such as Hoxton, Dalston and Islington are within walking distance.
A lot of these are old seaside towns which went into decline once holidays abroad became cheaper. I wouldn't say they were bad places to live though. Cheaper houses cheaper taxes and compared to most cities a nice population size. No crazy traffic jams. Not too noisy actually nice places to live.
I'd rather live in a old seaside town than where I do now lol ...at least they have the sea
@@lightfootpathfinder8218 I remember that Smiths song 'Everyday is like Sunday'.
and work where at a chipshop ?
@Pontiac Soviro I get mixed up between the two as he sounds the same solo as he does with the Smiths whereas Phil Collins sounded different with his solo work than he did with Genesis because Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks have a huge influence on the song writing and background music.
They became retirement enclaves because the housing was cheaper as there is low employment other than in the tourism trade and even that was dying. And it's even worse now as some seaside resorts such as Rhyl are used to dump people straight out of prison because of the cheap accommodation.
People quite rightly didn't want to stay in guesthouses with lots of rules and not being able to stay there during the day in bad weather. They either wanted to go abroad with guaranteed sunshine and warm weather or go into self catering accommodation or stay in holiday camps such as Butlins or hotel complexes with leisure facilities and entertainment included in the prices.
We opted for self catering accommodation on both the coast and inland and went exploring by car. More freedom with that and you could stay in if the weather was bad or you weren't feeling well.
As someone who lives in Rotherham I find it hard to believe that this town didn't make the list ....also every town on this list looked ten times cleaner than Rotherham
And Bradford…
@@intrigued8297 I think if it's measured by the entire borough its not that accurate as places like whiston and Wentworth have high levels of income and are affluent areas whereas places like Eastwood and ferham have some of the worst living standards in Europe.
I live in Wickersley, full of posh new bars & restaurants. Moorgate, Brecks, Whiston all nice places. There's way more S**tholes in Sheffield than here inRotherham
@@saturn761 I live in meadowbank it's full of weed farms,dog sh*t covered pavements and spare ground that's used by fly tippers...like I said I think we live in two different Rotherhams lol
Wickersley is full off fake people loads of smackheads nothing special that side of rotherham is rough
The Halton Castle pub is not in Halton, its in Old Skemlesdale on the road to Ormskirk. 20 miles away. Lazy research all over this post.
Most of these “deprived areas” mentioned look like little villages where most are loaded ££££
I was thinking that. I've rode past that pub on my motorbike, and I was thinking I'm sure that's out past Ormskirk.
@@Dan23_7 That’s what I was thinking, telling us they’re bad places but they look way better than my 3-bed semi in Wigan!
@@paulm6378 Haha I’m not far from you mate in Leyland
I live in an estate called Wade Hall.
All those look quite posh compared 😂
The Halton Castle pub on the road between Skelmersdale and Ormskirk has recently been demolished after standing empty for years. Shame - it was a nice, friendly pub with good beer and food.
I have to agree with number 1 for sure. I went to a news agents in Jaywick and they were selling Father’s Day cards in multi packs. Rough as hell.
lmao .. I gotta remember that one.
I live in Bath and we're a city of two half's mega rich or working class
@@waverunner3911 The long term economic and political goal of the monied elites in the UK and US is to eradicate the middle class economically and politically. We must eradicate the monied elites instead.
Can't believe walsall isn't in this list . We are so poor in walsall I've heard Ethiopia 🇪🇹 is holding a pop concert for us .
Walsall isn't poor compared to other places and you just quoted something kevin bridges said. Be original.
@@staytrue5307 but it was funny
@@staytrue5307 lighten up grumpy bum!
@@alanmawson9601 sorry.
@@staytrue5307 cry more u have no money in walsall
Halton is a middle-class paradise compared to my home town (Skelmersdale).
Edit: 3:09 The Halton Castle pub is in Westhead, near Ormskirk, which is really posh
Edit, edit (2023): The Halton Castle pub in Westhead, near Ormskirk, is now a row of houses called "Halton Castle Mews"
Can't beat the connie though! :D
Jaywick has one the nicest stretch of beaches in England ,you be pleasantly surprised.As a past resident of Jaywick I can tell you it’s split into three areas ,Tudor Estate which is not bad with nice houses and bungalows .The residents there are loathed to call it part of Jaywick so they call it West Clacton.Jaywick village which is in the middle has fairly nice houses ,and finally Brooklands ( every road is named after a car) where the pictures are taken and the Tv programme was made.It’s not as bad as it was but in parts it’s a absolute tip and really dirty ,sadly it’s been given up on by tendering council for years and left to fester.
It was a holiday village at one time for Londoners who had second homes which is why the houses are so small and flimsy. Then when people stopped wanted to go there at weekends and on holidays they sold their homes to poor people.
The poorest areas are the expensive districts like London brighton etc when you are on low wages.
If you live in a poor area where housing etc is cheaper then those low wages go further.
london is awful in house living
pp
Low wages in London are supplemented so it probably balances out.
@@mrnumba154 Supplemented? How? And this leaves a decent level of disposable income?
@@mrnumba154 it does not
I live in Cleethorpes (next to Grimsby) where Grimsby's East Marsh and West Marsh areas are populated by a deprived communities, My grandfather ran a bakery in these locations from the 1930s to the 1960s. In all that time I am told he sold bread a penny cheaper, "Because they cannot afford more." Even today, those areas lack amenities such that their residents must travel (at some cost) to reach bigger shops with fair prices. I have taken beer in pubs there (east marsh, west marsh has few) and the people are decent, lively and no different from me, apart from the few, that are being drowned in drugs, crime and deep despair. It is not for me to pass judgement but I feel for those that live there under that greater risk of harm. I have laughed with them, but then return to a safer area to sleep.
I'm from the south of England but I moved to Grimsby over 20 years ago, it is a deprived town (although it's meant to be undergoing a series of improvements!) and there are crime and drug problems here, but on the whole I love living here; it's unpretentious and the majority of the residents are kind, friendly and, although the wages are low, they are always ready to support local charites and people down on their luck - and Grimsby and Cleethorpes definitely have the best fish and chips in the country! 😁
How can you make a distinction between drugs and alcohol in the face of absolute poverty? Think
It's grim up North! Or so they say... Although here in Cornwall there's more poverty, (believe it or not,) but at least it is a few degrees warmer all year round! 😎
@the knight family Our family stayed at the Cleethorpes Haven once about 13 years ago. It was alright tbf. Decent Chinese and Indian buffet near there.
I live near “Halton” - it’s a working class area ;like many places you can turn the corner and are presented with a very different landscape and feel.
Personally gob smacked areas of London aren’t in this list - I know where I’d rather live 👍🏻
I live in Skem - I'd say Halton is a step up...
@@arthurjarrett1604 I got out. Some areas, like Ashurst, are not bad, but once again there is a lot of housing estates being thrown up round there at outlandish prices. The one nearest the school ...Whalleys Rd...is unbelievable. Think of the school run parking chaos!
I live in a run down part of london. You know it's bad when a friend sends you a video of someone being murdered in broad daylight and says...burnt oak, isn't that where you live?
I’d know where I’d rather live and it ain’t Halton
Don't get how he's come up with this list when in the north west we have Bolton, Oldham, Rochdale, Burnley, Blackburn, Blackpool. All easily far worse shit holes.
South Kirkby and Such Elmsall is basically same place. Never really recovered from mines closing 30 years ago.
There is a lot of new build in Elmsall and quite a bit of industrial development with distribution and warehouse employers. Its nonetheless disgraceful that Wakefield Council has failed to significantly support the area when investing in other areas at the expense of Elmsall and Kirkby.
Tbh I can't believe Moorthorpe isn't listed, it used to be continually "up there" on national lists
I would give more credence to this "report" if the author had spent some time actually looking around the areas. The Old Mill public house used to illustrate the entry for South Kirkby was knocked down over 10 years ago. On the hill above Elmsall there has been considerable investment in warehousing and distribution and this is ongoing. There is a lot of new housing. The old pit at South Elmsall is a country park. Wakefield Council does not help as mentioned by Chris Vandeleur. I've lived in the area for over 30 years and it has got better and is getting better. My relatives in affluent areas of London are too frightened to go out of their doors at night. I know were I would rather be.
@@Skyhiigh666 south Kirkby and moorthorpe *** it’s one place
Same as Mansfield & the surrounding areas in Notts
The photos of these towns seem greatly at odds with the gloomy narrative.
They didn't have the guts to show places like Peckham, Whitechapel or East Ham and add them to the list...
@@russellwhite1581 I haven't been to Peckham in many decades but it seems that property prices are through the roof for flats and houses. Many formerly poor parts of London are the same way with property prices. Small terraced houses where I grew up go for several hundred thousand. Dingy old streets that still don't look good.
Jaywick is so notoriously bad that when my Dad's friend was on holiday in the south east, he took a special drive out to Jaywick to see if it was as bad as the reports say. It was.
And yes it is
We don't have the dollar as a currency in the UK. We have pounds.
Mark you are dealing with somebody that knows nowt about owt
@@Guapaahi clearly....which is why I educated them!!!
I don't know if the opening statement of 'my views will become your own' was tongue-in-cheek, but I had a feeling even then this was going to be shoddy stuff.
Born and bred in Hartlepool, it has beautiful parks and affluent areas, although l no longer live there l always enjoy visiting, the people are the best in the country. Of course it has rough areas but so does any town with a population of this size.
Hartlepool born and bred too here, the town is lovely and the people are class. There's always a few bad areas in any town, but the people here are the best in the country
South Kirkby is pronounced "South Kirby";
South Elmsall is pronounced "South Emmsull";
Stoke-on-Trent is not in the West Midlands, but in Staffordshire!
I know all that because I've been to them.
But I don't remember raising this issue - maybe you've got the wrong person.
It’s grim up north
Well done!
You’re the second person claiming Staffordshire isn’t in the Midlands so far and you’re both spouting drivel! Staffordshire is in the West Midlands despite admittedly sounding Northern, watch Midlands today if you don’t believe me!
@@overlordnat if you look at a map of west midlands "county", the northern border is north of Wolverhampton, and Bloxhall.
I have been to all these places and Stafford, Stoke, etc. etc, so I don't need the BBC to tell me what they simply imagine for their convenient short-cut deliberations.
Staffordshire County is a highly confusing county because is circles round in the most ridiculous shape, thanks to government messing-about reforms (I think in the 70's).
So, for someone who doesn't live in the area, it's easy, like the BBC, to imagine what area Stoke OUGHT to be in.
Best advice is to go out and experience these places for yourself, get the feel of the area, and converse with local people.
I lived in hartcliffe twice in my time, never felt safer, good times cracking neighbours, sure everywhere has the odd twatt, but I can only think fond memories, any that aren't are my doing, the finest of people are to be found in the poorest areas, true Britons!
I was brought up in Hartcliffe (until I was 8), it was a good place then in early 70’s, thriving you could say with Symes Avenue having every shop under the sun. I do visit step family every so often, but It does seem to have lost its soul. Great countryside on doorstep. Ps, I don’t smoke, drink or swear, that’s quite a miracle !
Agreed lived in Kensington liverpool for years couldn't have met nicer people when people ain't got nothing they rally round eachother sadly when people have there all stand off ish
I grew up ih Hartcliffe in the sixt and seventies moved away in 85 to knowle, lived there for 20 years un till I moved to Ashton, Hartcliffe was an amazing place to live all those years ago it’s very different now though.
Hartcliffe is an absolute shit hole. Full of druggie scum and thieving youth. It was getting better at one point. During covid it all went downhill. Lack of good parenting, lack of good role models, lack of anything for the young people to do.
It's only going to get worse. No improvement in sight. Add the 'Low emmision zone' to get to the centre. You're just going to keep them more locked in that deprived area. Good job Bristol City Council.
I’ve just moved back to Hartcliffe after living outside of Bristol for a few years. What a culture shock…. It truly has gone downhill. A real nasty place where the youth seem to have taken to smashing bus windows and throwing paint onto cars.
I lived in Hartcliffe, Bristol in the mid 1970s and I have to say that it was a more or less happy time of my life. l live in Seattle, USA now and there are far worse, and more dangerous places than Hartcliffe in some of Seattle's suburbs.
Seattle is ruined by poverty. People living in camping tents. Sleepless in seattle.
@@zurbehringer4735 I heard even where Jeff and bill live is now bankrupt. Seems like the politicians need to do some work
Same time as I lived there Anthony, I don’t think none or hardly none of us were deprived. Too busy playing up in the fields to worry about being poor.
@@popehadrianthe4th you are right about that, and dundry hill was truly amazing with its green fields and plenty of fresh air.
Imagine if England had gun laws like America, I.think it would be far worse .
I would suggest Newhaven in East Sussex. When I was growing up the rate of unemployment in the town was 75% and children going without food was an everyday occurrence. I hear that there are renewal projects going on these days and I very much hope they’re successful, as the widespread deprivation of previous decades was heartbreaking.
Don't go to Newhaven. Such a shithole. It's also the people of the area which drag it down. The rate of unemployment is probably worse now. I'd try Seaford. Its the next town stop.
@@freddythefrog9154 you'd say the rate of unemployment is above 75%? The actual unemployment is just over 31%. It's snobby comments like this and lack of investment that holds it back.
Seaford although I agree is a nice place to live has had the highest levels for for burglary and drugs within East Sussex.
Agree totally. Used to work at the port on the ferries (Hoverspeed then Transmanche Ferries) and hated descending down into it. Abysmal and in dire need of rejuvenation from Government funding.
My employer has an office in Newhaven. We send our problem employees there, the drunks, the bullies, the criminally incompetent etc. Many settle there and few leave.
@@willmoore7582 Is it still the case that a term of abuse in Brighton is to call someone who is stupid and/or unpleasant a 'Newhaven slopey'?
Nice one stretching out what should have been a 2 minute video for just over 10 minutes. 👍 absolute hero
😂😂 LOL. Thought exactly the same thing
I drove into Jaywick by accident wow what a hole, Essex county council should hold there heads down in shame.
They should stop filling it with addicts and people whove been evicted from council homes in london
Too true its awful
Surprised Blackpool isn’t featured in this video. It has some of the worst poverty and deprivation in the U.K.
The vast majority of the photos seem happy and uplifting. Undermines the messages a bit.
Exactly what I thought!
The bottom five or six actually look really nice......mind you I'm from Hull 😆😆
Christ .. well there you go then 😯.
Hull .. fucking hell 😳
Wayyy
Peterborough (where I used to live) whilst not to poor my god its miserable
@@liamkatt6434 Must've been in one of the posher parts 😆😆
I left Hull in 73, Australia bound. Been back to Hull once. It was shut...
I can confirm jaywick is in a league of its own. Like a little slice of east detroit. Amazing place ♥
I had to do some work in Jaywick and it was heartbreaking to see the living conditions of some of the inhabitants, that was back in 2007, I'm often haunted by the experience to this day. Stay strong my Jaywick brothers and sisters.
And get a job!
How bad r we talking
It's the people who make the place a shithole.
@Liam Brown very bad, unemployed everywhere,
They're be alright if the gov. didn't spend one million a day on bloody , foreigners/asylum seekers !
as someone who lives on the Isle of Sheppy i was not surprised to see it on this list, one of the real reasons for the poverty is that the house prices are high ( same as large towns and cities in Kent but the main income is the dwindling tourist market. It is a bit of a retirment place too
The picture of "The Halton Castle" pub is from a village named Westhead in Lancashire - one of the "richest" villages in North West England. 😀
Throws into doubt the accuracy of this video.
A growing channel managed to get caught up in the algorithm. Have my sub
Second clip in Birmingham you showed a row of nice houses , BMW outside and one homeowner with two cleaners…. I’d love to be that poor!
Owning a BMW guarantees poverty.
You can find poverty and relative affluence living cheek by jowl wherever you go, Tower Hamlets in London is quite impoverished but still barely 8km/5 miles distant from some of the richest neighbourhoods across the entire UK (a billionaires playground AKA Chelsea?)
I live in a relatively affluent area in Pensans (we're not rich but I'm also not worried about where the next meal is coming from) - literally a stones throw away (maybe 1000 metres) is the Treneere Estate, often cited as one of the poorest residential areas in Western Europe!
I’m from Stoke and Blurton is no where near the worst place. Bentilee was recently named the poorest area of the city however a number of years ago houses were sold for £1 in Hanley/Cobridge under a council scheme where you had to loan around £30k to do renovations.
£1 is far too high!!!
Very interesting video. I have a friend who lives in Blakeney. Do you have any videos on that town?
There are parts of Lowestoft which are much worse, and more deprived than some of these places.
I agree. Spent a long weekend there and its bloody awful. Its not Jaywick but it is close.
Just found my next travel to list!! Thanks mate.
I doubt Essex Council would have pumped $8.8M into the area, unless Jaywick has become a US town 😂😂
I can see why $8.8 million wouldn't be impactful in England 🙄
Also, Kingstanding isn't even the most deprived area in Birmingham let alone England
Ikr I live here and its fine. Heck I'd rather love here than shard end or erdington.
@@jplegend98 shard ends straight up ghetto 💀
I'm in County Durham and there are quite a few deprived places here
Durham is rough the places I went
I grew up in Newton Aycliffe and it wasn’t the greatest. I live in Barnsley now and, while that has some awful areas, I’m in a nice-ist area.
In America no one expects the government to set up facilities
Wow! Can anywhere be this poor in Great Britain? It needs to do more as nation to retain that greatness. My heart goes out to people living in those poorest areas.
Tory austerity
Lol plenty of it.
@@midlandgeordie How many more decades will people be saying this? Most of these places were damaged by deindustrialisation in the 70's and 80's but they almost all have Labour councils and there were 13 continuous years of Labour rule to correct things. What happened? One of the reasons these areas are still deprived is because all people do is blame the Tories instead of taking responsibility. And for all this so called austerity, we have huge public debt and the highest taxes for 70 years.
Too many people live on welfare or low wages. It's no good for the wider economy because people don't have any disposable income. But there is no excuse for councils to be neglecting public amenities. They waste so much money.
There's a lot worse
The Halton Castle Pub (now demolished) is near Ormskirk and part of Lancashire County Council, nothing to do with Halton Borough, about 20 miles apart.....
‘By the time you have finished watching this video, my views will have become yours’.
That is VERY ambitious, my friend.
If you actually live in some of these places you’ll be more like ‘what the fuck is he on about?’
There is a holiday place 20 mins up road from jaywick which is so lovely and worth a visit.
I had a holiday in jaywick once, we arrived and left to come home i think 15 or so minutes later
That's so funny, some of the pictures around Halton in the Runcorn area have million pound houses down the road.
If that's a poor area I would stop tomorrow.
What a joke lol
This video was obviously compiled by someone who doesn't like ordinary working class folk. There are far worse hellholes in London.
Poor towns do exist with rich people. Good lord.
The official deprivation list last year did indeed have Jaywick as #1 but it had several areas of both Liverpool and Blackpool and an area of Hull, or perhaps the whole of it, there too. Where is your source for this list? I don’t trust it.
I've lived in Blackpool myself and have done a lot of research about their poverty in particular and I'm very surprised that they weren't placed on the list
Jaywick, rats nest - AK47 attack on one of the pubs there....
@@soopy6667 yeah I lived in Fleetwood for 23 years, unless they are counting drug income these days it should be on here.
@@no1wasgeorgiebest Ive been there quite a lot, and the only area of Fleetwood that I'd say is particularly deprived is parts in and around the town centre. And even those didn't seem as deprived as the worst bits of Blackpool. The town overall is more deprived than Blackpool, yes, as its economy went down the toilet when the port closed while Blackpool is still very popular with tourists. But a lot of Fleetwood's suburbs, especially those near the coast, seemed ok to me.
I follow football and I’d say Grimsby, Luton, Blackburn and Oldham are among the roughest/most deprived places I’ve been
Grimsby - my team. But yes its a rough a place
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Rochdale
My worst away trip town is def Burnley.
@@massaganaa that’s up there as well, another I forgot was Swindon 🤮
It’s shocking kingstanding made it onto this list. Would have never seen it as the poorest place in Birmingham
I live in Birmingham. Kingstanding ain't so bad. Some nice parts which boarder Sutton coldfield
All of Birmingham is poor full of drugs and benefit cheats who don't want to work the place is poor in Birmingham and hardly a affluent area in its a rough city .
Most of Digbeth is basically the third world with litter, graffiti, boarded-up buildings and copious spliff-toking (which should be legalised, of course, but this is nonetheless an indicator of the locals’ attitude to the law). I walked past a boarded up building with a rectangle cut out of it once: it must have been used either to store stolen goods or other contraband (guns, drugs, forged goods) or for tramps to live in or both. I didn’t go in to find out of course but at least a neat rectangle had been cut out!
@@overlordnat even then i wouldnt consider it the poorest, because they are still a lot of jobs in the in there area. An mix of industrial workers and creative types ones, with many restaurants and nightclubs opening everyday. Plus they is alot of construction in the area.apartments being built Everyday, the new tram line and HS2 is like 2 seconds from it. If anything the area will soon be one of the most expensive in Brum, it may not look too pretty right now but give it at least 5 years.
@@Christian-uj1mq We’ll see, you don’t have to go to far from the the part of Digbeth that’s immediately adjacent to the city centre to find a shanty town (Sherlock street, for example) but I do hope that you’re right. 🤞
Born and bred on the Isle of Sheppey. Can confirm Sheerness is indeed a deprived (and miserable) place
i too was born and educated on the Isle of Sheppey just after WW2 when the dockyard was thriving. Best education and many opportunities to choose a career. Happiest childhood and always felt safe. Many left for Australia US and Canada later on but my few friends that still live there have done very nicely.
I loved my childhood when the dockyard was thriving. Somr famous people were educated on Sheppey before going to University. I left at 17 yrs for London which was full employment.
I must agree though times have changed?
@@annebenn353 perhaps your generation have, unfortunately mine have mostly had to move away to further themselves. Sheerness High St is unrecognisable from what it was when I was growing up. It's pretty depressing to see. Outside of Sheerness the island isn't so bad (Minster etc)
@@no_soy_rubio I am on the FB page History of the Isle of Sheppey. Love to ser the Forts as we walked home from school. Mschool friend lives at Warden made a fortune building houses. I left London live in Australia. Been back to UK europe a few times . If I had not learnt French at Sheerness Secondary for girls I would 'nt have had an amazing time living in Paris and learning French. Good luck to you. Did they put the Clock Tower back yet?
Yarmouth will always hold a soft spot for me.
Its not exactly the Maldives, but its charming enough.
I was in a hotel on the front that charged £22 a night. Tea stain sheets I hope wall stain, carpet was 30 years old, but there was TV and cable and alot of free coffee.
In Halton you showed images of daresbury. Daresbury is an affluent area where house prices are amongst the most expensive in the Cheshire area. Also you showed the Halton castle pub which is not in Halton and is actually in Westhead Lancashire and is also now closed for good.
You beat me to it 👍
did the same with blurton on one image represents blurton and thats the church which is mentioned in doomsday book ,rest was complete bollocks
They dont do any research.
Definitely wrong about Kingstanding, massive area stretching from Streetly and Great Barr at one end to Sutton Coldfield at the other. Yes there's some streets you couldn't pay me to go down but there's some really nice bits too. I've lived there for the past 13 years and never had any bother
I think the narrators view was because majority of people are renting than owning but I disagree that doesn't justify peoples purchasing power. Im a landlord in Kingstanding
@@JU0800 I live on hurlingham rd. Would rather live here than share end.
Kingstanding is a nice place to live, been here for 40yrs. It's much nicer than the shithole called Erdington
Please how much is the Rent, cos am planning on migrating to Kingstanding Birmingham..thanks
@@JU0800 Please how much is the Rent, cos am planning on migrating to Kingstanding Birmingham...thanks
That Halton Castle pub wasn't in Halton, it was in Westhead in Lancashire. It got demolished years ago
Saved me a post. LOL.
I thought it is Latham
@@kevinwilliams1421 it's right next to lathom
@@sarahyoung3033 it’s still standing tho ain’t it..
It’s definitely not in Halton I know that
@@kevinwilliams1421 not anymore. There is a building site on it. By now there could be houses on it
I’ve been all up and down the country and have these places don’t seem to bad! Statistics don’t mean anything, I’ve been to places but even listed on this video where you wouldn’t even think of walking alone!
I'm very suprised Gloucester isn't on this, it has got a lot of parks and a hill but as soon as you get into town there is only 5-6 shops and then the rest are 2nd hand shops or cafés, on top of that another 7ish shops have been closed down, including shops such as poundstretchers, burgar king and many more
As an American, these poor places look much better than our poor places.
I know many poorer areas round the south end of Liverpool .many of those villages you featured are not poor in my opinion.
North Liverpool has more deprived areas but yes your right the south does have its problems
@@ld5667 I live in North Liverpool and the south end of the city is definitely rougher .have you been through Kensington and Toxteth lately ?
@@juliethompson5301 live in toxteth, got nowt on bootle
@@juliethompson5301 2 areas compared to all the other North ones, Liverpool’s mainly a shit hole even the nice areas would look terrible compared to some places in devon
@@ld5667 allerton,childwall,woolton,aigburth, and the royal Albert Dock are all desirable areas of Liverpool .... obviously Devon has nice parts... but A....Soooo expensive.... and B.... I'd hate it in the dead of winter, no matter how nice
I'm a bit surprised that Hartcliffe is more deprived than its neighbour Knowle West. As a child 70 years ago, Hartcliffe seemed positively glamorous compared to my home in lisburn road, knowle west.
Remember Oliver Twist. England knows cramped quarters. Watch the shows. They know poverty.
Exactly, been this way for over 1000 years. Not sure why people are only realising this.
Very impartial explanation
🙋🏾♂️ I'm a Black Brit & I have some of my foundist childhood memories in Great Yarmouth. So much so, I made sure all of my Children's first Holiday was there, as mine was. Still love it...
Great Yarmouth is jewel in the area. It’s great
I remember Kingstanding as a kid . Lots of council houses but very nice people . A suburb of Birmingham that’s only 15 minutes away .
Corby, Parts of Sheffield that the cameras have guards and the workmen work behind reinforced fencing, parts of Rotherham like Canklow, East Dene and Eastwood.
Manor
Page Hall say no more!
Corby is a dump. The worse I have been to.
I’ll never understand why somewhere like Hartcliffe on the edge of Bristol should be this poor. It’s a bus ride away from the centre of Bristol which has one of the strongest economies in the UK. So why can’t they get work ?
I used to go to Sheerness as a child, so sad to see it’s decline. Oh no another one Great Yarmouth, took my own children there 30 years ago.
I live not far from sheerness. It's always been a dump lol
I’m from south Kirkby and as this might have been accurate 10 years ago don’t think so much now as half the photos are outdated and most people I know are more well off than people who live in the surrounding areas such as hemsworth
Coventry should be on this list for sure!
Coventry is a City
Coventry is pretty decent in comparison to these already in the list
Willenhall and Wood End in the 90s were probably the most run down council estates I have seen. I used to live in the tower blocks in Hillfields... 2 days after I moved in I got notice that they were going to be demolished 18 months later.
I live in Cornwall now and although it is poorer than Cov it is warmer and a lot more friendly. People here smile sometimes for no reason!
I’m American. My family originally was probably middle class. Mom usually didn’t work. She did manage to work- but had only one job when my parents were still married.
Everything did get more expensive. Dad wasn’t a machinist past 1988. My brother came into the world in January of 1989. We eventually were low class by around 1996. Everyone in my family: my brother and parents, I’m certain just had no choice but to watch as everything only got worse.
It has no bearing which: party, job / career or even beliefs you’re raised with or maintain-
Poorness, poor people culture and general 2nd rate statuses will always exist.
Soldier on, mates.
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Only if you bow to capitalism
Big up Wakey🙌🙌
I don't think those places would crack the top 1000 here in the US. They look nice in the pictures.
Come spend a week in Jaywick and see if you still think that
The Halton Castle pub (since demolished) is in the village of Westhead in Lancashire, not Halton.
It’s pronounced “South Kerby”. The second K is silent.
There are lovely parts of Stoke, and there are nice corners of Blureton. And I'm from Stoke, albeit I live in London.
All actually quite nice places to live, if you do have at least some income. Top worst place to live, even with money: LB Tower Hamlets.
Born & have Lived in Towers Hamlets my entire life (60 years). Absolutely hate it now. It has lost its character and its soul due to a myriad of reasons I won't go into here.
Ah, good old Stoke. I knew it would be on this list somewhere.
Sorry to tell you for Halton you had a picture of the Halton Castle you are in the wrong town even the wrong county. It is just out side a market town call ed Ormskirk the pub was in Westhead but no longer standing it is now a small housing estate. Interesting, Kindest Regards Bob
So basically
If you live near the bit of the sea people tell you is nice your rich
If you live near the bit of the sea they tell you is horrible, you’re poor
I don’t know where this list is from but by any metric, my town constantly appears in the top 10 for poverty, health outcomes, education etc etc
The reality of it is, it’s not that bad. I definitely wouldn’t swap it for inner city London.
When you account for disposable income, we probably fair better than many areas, deemed wealthy
We just have issues of a lack of investment and education across the boroughs
Poor choice of photos that dont give the true feel about the extent of deprivation.
I only came here to see if my city was mentioned and 1st on the list isn’t just my city but blurton is where I’m from in Stoke 😂 love it! You’ve really done some research my friend!😂
He hasn't done any research or due diligence because the cottage pub is not in Blurton!?. and why he's taken a photo of a listed building within the grounds of stoke Royal hospital is anyones guess, because it's nowhere near Blurton.If anything it's a few hundred yards from being in Newcastle under lyme!!
...clueless!!
Coming from England and travelling around it to work I’m surprised by this list I’ve been to places that seem a lot rougher and poorer than these. Weird
Dang that’s rough, how many places are shitty like this? Looks like a 3rd world country.
I’ve seen videos and pretty much even the “nice” areas of the uk look the same. Just old and boring. Is that true?
Personally speaking I’d definitely rather travel to Tokyo my first time international then South America but eh if I visit that side of the world probably France or Italy.
I’m from Los Angeles, so my lifestyle and interests are probably extremely different from the people who live in the uk.
What part of the uk do you suggest going to if I ever did? I’ve been looking but nothing from the uk interests me enough 🧐
@@user-vk2es9ws9j I’m from the midlands so the middle of England but tbh there’s not much to do here I wouldn’t holiday here . If you like hiking there’s the peak and Lake District otherwise I’d say London Manchester Liverpool or Birmingham but there’s not much here and there is some real shit holes in the uk. I’m from a nice part I live in a village so it’s quiet as it’s the country side but suppose it depends on what you enjoy in a holiday. There’s a lot of nice old buildings and stuff we have a good history so we do have stuff like that old castles 🏰 ect . I would imagine people come here mainly for old architecture and history reasons or for London fashion. I holiday in Europe my favourite destination is Holland Amsterdam I also had good time in Spain . If you from la it would probably be like going backwards coming here as you will have less stuff to do. I don’t know just depends what you like from holiday. France is nice too if your interested in France then you probably would like England tbf
@@paulplaysgames6740 You know what though? That actually sounds beautiful, I’m sure it’s gorgeous. Right now it’s 5:48 am on my side of earth 🌎 and me thinking about la traffic and work makes me want to go to England right this moment 🥲 lol.
England sounds like such a peaceful get away.
Thank you for all of the insight ☺️
& Spain sounds sooooo cultured I would love to go to Spain. You guys are so lucky you’re all close to each other though. It sucks for Americans because basically America is like one big island when it comes to close traveling all we have is Mexico, South America and Canada.
How was Spain? I fell even more in love with Spain after watching Money Heist 😅
@@user-vk2es9ws9j Spain is awesome I loved it.
It is peaceful here my village has a population of just over 800 people so it’s calm and the church is 600 years old in my village also we have a fresh water spring that is amazing best tasting water ever. And it’s true that Europe has advantages travel wise I went from Belgium to Holland to Germany and it was easy I know I can get a flight or ferry to Holland and get work straight away and I’ve done that a few times just gone and spent a few months and paid by working out there and I stopped in a hostel that cost 8£ per night . It sounds like you’d like it out here. Just costs a lot from where you are but yeah it’s peaceful in places. But I’m sure you have places that are like that in US too. It’s just in England that it’s that small you can travel across it in a day and we have national Forrest areas that are protected so we have lots of beautiful villages and nice countryside. Stone henge is kinda cool too. It’s the history here that’s the best part and it’s mostly protected so it’s like going back in time when you visit these areas as by law they can’t be touched or altered
South Kirkby the ‘k’ is silent and pronounced kirby
South elmsall and south Kirkby are next to each other
One of them I'm surprised didn't make the list Is Blackpool, I lived there for 10 years and it's not the prettiest of sights, one of the worst places in the country for crime and 1/3rd of women smoked during pregnancy, I also searched that 1 in 4 children are under the poverty line and several of Blackpool's neighbourhoods are ranked as the top 10 worst yearly on the neighbourhood deprivation index (with over 32,000 other neighbourhoods ranked)
One of the reasons beind the poverty issues is the tourist aspects of Blackpool, the tourism leads to Blackpool's income being solely based from the summer, plus a lot of people (including my parents) move to Blackpool in hopes of living the tourists dream in which never is properly fulfilled
Blackpool also has some extremely high drug rates compared to a lot of the country and generally has little going for in terms of positive statistics
Been twice in day trips ( not my choice 🙄). Always raining heavily- it’s an utter shit hole IMO. The budget flight industry ruined it. Why go somewhere where you can smell sewage when you walk along the promenade, and it rains continuously?
I was surprised that Blackpool wasn't on the list as it's ranked as one of the most deprived areas in the UK.
Healthcare budget is drastically lower than more affluent area's.
Drug and alcohol abuse is rife, homelessness has become a major problem too with the council scratching their heads over a solution.
Someone commented that Blackpool is a "shit hole" , well I would tend to agree.
Lancashire has some really poor areas..Blackpool,Preston,Blackburn,and especially Burnley…awful.
I'm from Grimsby and actually really shocked none of the areas there have been mentioned in this video.
Likewise for Tyne and Wear ? When the shipyards closed down so many lost their jobs , and the mines . The northeast got hit bad and thrown into poverty .
they might be poor compared to other EU nations but compared to third and second world countries these places are paradise, there is a reason why immigrants would risk their lives crossing seas and deserts just to have a chance of living somewhere like this
"paradise" lmao ... At least in third and second world countries they can hunt for food and keep warm by having open fires in there houses they are not locked into a system that will not allow people to fend for themselves whereas poor people in the UK either pay extortionate rates in hard currency for food & heating or go cold and or hungry..trust me as someone from Rotherham it is far from paradise if you can't pay
There is no such thing as a second world country, not in the sense you're using it anyway.
The term "The Third world" was coined during the Cold War. It relates to the geopolitical landscape at the time. The first two worlds referred to those countries allied to either NATO or to the Warsw Pact. Those countries who had no allegiance to either were referred to as the "Third" world. It included many affluent and industrialised nations.
The term was hijacked in the early seventies to mean poor countries. This was because a lot of these non aligned countries were from Africa. This was down to the misconception that the phrase referred to the world's poorest one third of it's population.
I would of thought the West Midlands would feature on here places like Lye, Stourbridge, Halesowen ,Dudley, Rowley Regis , Sparkhill etc...
Great Yarmouth: “…and the reason for this poverty is the racism…[what the actual…] ….it is so poor that they have even had to open a food bank.’ Your script has either been written by a 16 year old with no life experience, or someone who lives outside the UK. Mate, most towns and every city in the UK has a food bank, since 2010, so they aren’t a measure of how poor a town is: food banks are a result of 12 years of austerity, dwindling council funds and a Government who has turned its back on the poor. So once you’re old enough to come over to the UK, go and visit these beautiful places and meet the lovely people, ye judgy bugger!
I mean racism exists everywhere but I never experienced direct racism whilst visiting Great Yarmouth, the only thing that was racist was the selling of golliwog souvenirs and scarecrow's....
I live in Oxford, most expensive place to live outside of London
We got food banks everywhere, massive cost of living taxes etc but no higher living wage
agree Jaywick is a horrendous place and has been for a very long time. It’s the most forgotten place on this Earth
I honestly thought areas of where I live were going to appear, but I realised there has been huge investments into my city in recent years with huge brands opening up dealerships, stores and production studios, etc.
Same tbf, where I am is known to being relatively poor but there’s been plenty investment in my city-centre etc
same here, i wish the people that lived near my area would actually try make their homes look pleasant because the streets are trashed and there’s always something going on.
@@steph-o Well the BBC and ITV have been filming more in my area also increasing jobs in the area.
where ??
Quite obviously this guy has never been to Bradford, Keighley or Hull. These three should've been in the top 5.
Leave Hull out of this
Hull is abit all over the place some areas look really rough then there are some really nice areas.
I expected Bradford to be on there lol
@@mebutnotme.Khan78 Why ?
@@paulfoot9230 why not lol have you seen Bradford lately
There are more deprived areas in Wakefield than Kirkby and Elmsall. Parts of Hemsworth were so bad the council just knocked the houses down. It is indeed grim up north.
aye, so grim up north the top 2 were in the south...
Yay !! Hartecliffe !! In Bristol ! We are on the list !! Top 5 too !
Surprised Blackpool wasn't on this list.
The reason must be the list ought to include 100 names - -
City of Sunderland is a very deprived and neglected city.One of the cities left behind for many years by the Westminster govts.North East investment always went to affluent Newcastle while neighbouring Sunderland was ignored.
Yeah but they deserved that for being makkems see! 😉
not as bad as easington colliery!!
Whinging northerners there always saying how great it is up north blah blah blah and working down south gordies are the worse
@@nickyg4776 you have heard of the north south divide ??? Maybe you re a remoaner?
Thete is a north south divide in the NE.Newcastle is the south and Sunderland the north.Your attitude will break up the UK.Ignirant.
@@nickyg4776 another stuck up southener I see
Yep, everything an Great Yarmouth is completely true lol. I lived there for a over a year during the pandemic which made things even worse. Almost was assaulted by a group for calling them out of racism, didn't realize how bad it was at the time. Had my window broken, front building security door broken into, kids set a building on fire and numerous other things. It's such a shame because it's actually such a beautiful place, classic British seaside town but the local authorities and efforts are just not enough to tackle the systemic issues.
You just forgot you weren't on social media and tried telling a group of antisocial people what to do..what did you expect to happen?
@@michaelhorne4742 calling out racism is bad to you? Hitler would love you
Not a single reference to the north west of England? When thatcher came to power in 1979 the population of Liverpool was 750,000. By the time she was ousted it was 500,000. This was down to what she proudly called "managed decline." One third of the population were forced to move away in search of work. Then there are such places as Skelmersdale, Kirkby, Manchester, Blackpool and basically anywhere else in between.
I thought you were all ‘Scouse not English’ to quote the motto