I'm from Llanelli, grew up there in the 80's, left in 2003, my parents lived there from birth to death and I'm so proud of what came out of my little town, coal, steel, the spare wheel (yes indeed, the extra wheel we, sometimes, carry in our cars was invented here) the UK's first canned beer and so much more but those days are gone and it breaks my heart to see the town as it is now
Must be a similar situation in high streets across the UK these days, but that doesn't make it any more bleak, just because scenes like this are now "normal". There is so much work needed to be done to regenerate it and help the local economy and community. I doubt it will ever happen. Stagnation into decline and its rich past will be just that, history.
@paddy6660 do you mind if I share this with a youtuber who wants to film the modern day fate of the UK highstreet? Llanelli is a travesty and a tragedy.
I left Llanelli in the late 77 looking for work with a friend we went to s o t staffs after about a year my friend went back to Llanelli i stayed in Stoke. We met again more than 20 years latter and talked about our young years, and he told me don't come back as it will break my heart to see Llanelli now. I did come back with my wife and it was not a happy place. The effort all the people proud Llanelli people are doing to protect their Town makes me proud to be Welsh.
Due to Inflation, increasing taxes on shops, increasing rent fees, and the never ending increasing energy bills spiralling out of control😴 why drive a car and park in town or catch a bus if you can order online with better deals delivered right to your door for less money. This isn’t an issue just in llanelli, it’s a nation wide issue in the Uk. high streets are sadly slowly fading and decaying away. Sad seeing it looking like this really but where do you start to fix it. I remember going into town centre on Saturdays it was rammed you couldn’t move.
Yeah, and that's just the fairly recent issues. Those of the last year or two. Covid-19 before that, and as you say, home deliveries and internet shopping has been the major deathblow. Even before that there was out of town outlets like Forestfach and Trostre, but even they seem to be struggling now. I remember the same. Weekend trips in, parking at the multi-storey car park behind Asda, popping into Jenkins for some lunch, browsing the sports gear in shops, WH Smiths for a magazine... A massive political, social and economic failure from those who allowed it to sink to such levels, who didn't see the threats, and who offered no support. I don't think it can be resuscitated now.
I think when councils are going bankrupt across the UK, the issue is far deeper than just some local politicians. It starts at Westminster, it starts with globalisation and internet shopping. It starts with China being the factory of the world, Amazon undercutting everyone, tax avoidance and multinational corporations.
@@paddy6660 Reasonable assessment Paddy but it doesn't mean councils have to roll over and give up. And I'm afraid you get what you vote for. The council knows it doesn't have to try so why bother.
@wanderingturnip behold! The town I grew up in, went to on Saturdays to hang with my mates and buy records and clothes. Dead. Unless I fancy charity shopping.
The huge drug problem doesn't help. Every time you go to town centre you can see them smoking crack on the street usually by boots after getting there methadone. It's all you see. Having the drug unit in town centre doesn't help and all the freebies they get from the local churches just encourages them to stay around town centre with the police not even moving them on. Also C.C.C don't invest money in llanelli at all it all goes to Carmarthen because that's where the tourists go in the summer. I can't wait to move from here there is nothing to do and no decent shops . It's so sad to see Llanelli end up like this not enough was done to stop it.
The money i was "allowed" to claim to look after my aged mother (until she died last year) was LESS than the alcoholics get, especially if they have a pet dog to look after. Go figure. I would have been better off money wise, abandong my mother and living on the streets.
@@sirmalus5153 it's disgusting the druggies in this town get everything tbh. New clothes , hot food, money . Don't have to look for work or attend the jobcentre like everyone else. Use dogs to get extra money while abusing them and exposing them to drugs and heroin. Sorry but in my opinion free handouts for drug addicts needs to stop including methodone. The government are going to make sick and disabled people work which will cause them to become more unwell but the druggies don't have too. The government spends billions of pounds a year and drug addicts not sick and disabled people who are harassed and left to rot . Makes my blood boil tbh.
It’s gone down hill badly but it’s still worth fighting for so instead of moaning on here go up the stradey park hotel and go protect your kids futures.
The ship has sailed on protecting your kids futures, I fear. If the high street, the local economy, the jobs market, the housing market, and the NHS are all in crisis, then the future is very bleak, and that's before we even start talking about the climate. No amount of protesting at the Stradey Park Hotel is going to change this. Besides, #RefugeesWelcome
As you know, I've been looking at events at the hotel, not just your channel. I've seen much that is contrary to the opinions expressed by WP. For example, Nia Griffiths lobbied hard against the hotel being used for immigrants! Fact. The council are clawing back £230,000 and the Police £300,000 of money spent on Policing the protest. The owners are attempting to re-open the hotel and will provide employment. The final irony is you telling people not to moan about the state of Llanelli (which predates the Strady Park Hotel debacle), whilst currently making videos of how awful things were in the 'good old days'.
@@AcademyMikeright let’s answer some of your nonsense which you seem to throw around like confetti, That two faced hag labour mp Nia what’s her face didn’t show any support for our protest and it was all just a front spoke up about it but could t even walk 500 yards up the road to our protest. Hmmm weird coming from the same mp whose party has an open border policy and she has been seen holding placards saying refugees welcome here. As for the SPH reopening, what about the 100 plus jobs they destroyed? What about the sheer destruction those greedy owners caused those people and the local community? Yeah I thought so. I hope they don’t get any business for trying to shaft us locals and we will continue to do our best to boycott the place. Llanelli is a right dive and all thanks to the same corrupt shills running this country into the ground. Wake up and stop spreading the lies.
@@paddy6660oh well look how much of a fool you turned out to be. LOL we won our protest and no refugees will be coming to our Welsh village. People like you always say refugees welcome when it doesn’t affect the likes of you. FYI they are not refugees, they have thrown their passports away and taking us all for a ride. #notrefugeescriminals
Llanelli not on it own it going down hill everywhere shops are shutting all over the UK so dont pick on one town keep up the fight there a lot worse places than this
Huge drug problems. Unemployment. Immigrants who refuse to be absosrbed into socity. Two pawn shops which help increase both the drug problems and criminality. A lot of the shops are also owned by private investors out of the town. Rents are enormous for shops. Failure to elect anyone thats not labour I could go on and on The town is dying a death and nothing woll change especially under the current leadership
Whilst I agree that a lack of integration for non-UK born people is a problem, I wouldn't say it is a case of them "refusing" to be integrated. As you have highlighted, there are high drug issues in the area, there is high unemployment, high welfare-dependency, what is there to be integrated into? There is no support, no investment and no funding for Welsh people and immigrants alike. Are they given opportunities to help learn the language, for example? Are they introduced to the local community, are they welcomed into the local community even? If it is true that most of the buildings are owned by those from out of town, private investors rather than local people, there is no incentive for them to care about the community or its development. The money is taken out of the community and high street and put into the pockets of people in other parts of the country, or even other parts of the world. And then there is no legal or financial help to support local commercial interests. If someone wants to open a shop, stimulate the local economy, hire some local staff, but they can't afford the extortionate rent prices, the shop never opens and nobody wins in that scenario. The town is dying. The problems are bigger than the local MP, but I have to say I don't see her doing much to change the trend. I wonder when the last time she visited Llanelli city centre was? There is no outrage from politicians, no fight, just resignation.
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I'm from Llanelli, grew up there in the 80's, left in 2003, my parents lived there from birth to death and I'm so proud of what came out of my little town, coal, steel, the spare wheel (yes indeed, the extra wheel we, sometimes, carry in our cars was invented here) the UK's first canned beer and so much more but those days are gone and it breaks my heart to see the town as it is now
Must be a similar situation in high streets across the UK these days, but that doesn't make it any more bleak, just because scenes like this are now "normal". There is so much work needed to be done to regenerate it and help the local economy and community. I doubt it will ever happen. Stagnation into decline and its rich past will be just that, history.
@paddy6660 do you mind if I share this with a youtuber who wants to film the modern day fate of the UK highstreet? Llanelli is a travesty and a tragedy.
@@FnXMusique Not at all, share away
@@paddy6660 Thanks! I did tag him here but I'm not sure if that works on TH-cam.....I'll send him a link!
@@paddy6660 PS, he's called Wandering Turnip and I recommend! Very interesting stuff.
I left Llanelli in the late 77 looking for work with a friend we went to s o t staffs after about a year my friend went back to Llanelli i stayed in Stoke. We met again more than 20 years latter and talked about our young years, and he told me don't come back as it will break my heart to see Llanelli now. I did come back with my wife and it was not a happy place. The effort all the people proud Llanelli people are doing to protect their Town makes me proud to be Welsh.
So sad to see it go like this ❤
Due to Inflation, increasing taxes on shops, increasing rent fees, and the never ending increasing energy bills spiralling out of control😴
why drive a car and park in town or catch a bus if you can order online with better deals delivered right to your door for less money.
This isn’t an issue just in llanelli, it’s a nation wide issue in the Uk. high streets are sadly slowly fading and decaying away.
Sad seeing it looking like this really but where do you start to fix it.
I remember going into town centre on Saturdays it was rammed you couldn’t move.
Yeah, and that's just the fairly recent issues. Those of the last year or two. Covid-19 before that, and as you say, home deliveries and internet shopping has been the major deathblow. Even before that there was out of town outlets like Forestfach and Trostre, but even they seem to be struggling now.
I remember the same. Weekend trips in, parking at the multi-storey car park behind Asda, popping into Jenkins for some lunch, browsing the sports gear in shops, WH Smiths for a magazine...
A massive political, social and economic failure from those who allowed it to sink to such levels, who didn't see the threats, and who offered no support. I don't think it can be resuscitated now.
Blame the useless council
I think when councils are going bankrupt across the UK, the issue is far deeper than just some local politicians. It starts at Westminster, it starts with globalisation and internet shopping. It starts with China being the factory of the world, Amazon undercutting everyone, tax avoidance and multinational corporations.
@@paddy6660 Reasonable assessment Paddy but it doesn't mean councils have to roll over and give up. And I'm afraid you get what you vote for. The council knows it doesn't have to try so why bother.
@wanderingturnip behold! The town I grew up in, went to on Saturdays to hang with my mates and buy records and clothes. Dead. Unless I fancy charity shopping.
The huge drug problem doesn't help. Every time you go to town centre you can see them smoking crack on the street usually by boots after getting there methadone. It's all you see. Having the drug unit in town centre doesn't help and all the freebies they get from the local churches just encourages them to stay around town centre with the police not even moving them on. Also C.C.C don't invest money in llanelli at all it all goes to Carmarthen because that's where the tourists go in the summer. I can't wait to move from here there is nothing to do and no decent shops . It's so sad to see Llanelli end up like this not enough was done to stop it.
The money i was "allowed" to claim to look after my aged mother (until she died last year) was LESS than the alcoholics get, especially if they have a pet dog to look after. Go figure. I would have been better off money wise, abandong my mother and living on the streets.
@@sirmalus5153 it's disgusting the druggies in this town get everything tbh. New clothes , hot food, money . Don't have to look for work or attend the jobcentre like everyone else. Use dogs to get extra money while abusing them and exposing them to drugs and heroin. Sorry but in my opinion free handouts for drug addicts needs to stop including methodone. The government are going to make sick and disabled people work which will cause them to become more unwell but the druggies don't have too. The government spends billions of pounds a year and drug addicts not sick and disabled people who are harassed and left to rot . Makes my blood boil tbh.
@@sirmalus5153 stay strong hopefully things will change for you
It’s gone down hill badly but it’s still worth fighting for so instead of moaning on here go up the stradey park hotel and go protect your kids futures.
The ship has sailed on protecting your kids futures, I fear. If the high street, the local economy, the jobs market, the housing market, and the NHS are all in crisis, then the future is very bleak, and that's before we even start talking about the climate. No amount of protesting at the Stradey Park Hotel is going to change this. Besides, #RefugeesWelcome
As you know, I've been looking at events at the hotel, not just your channel. I've seen much that is contrary to the opinions expressed by WP. For example, Nia Griffiths lobbied hard against the hotel being used for immigrants! Fact. The council are clawing back £230,000 and the Police £300,000 of money spent on Policing the protest. The owners are attempting to re-open the hotel and will provide employment. The final irony is you telling people not to moan about the state of Llanelli (which predates the Strady Park Hotel debacle), whilst currently making videos of how awful things were in the 'good old days'.
@@AcademyMikeright let’s answer some of your nonsense which you seem to throw around like confetti, That two faced hag labour mp Nia what’s her face didn’t show any support for our protest and it was all just a front spoke up about it but could t even walk 500 yards up the road to our protest. Hmmm weird coming from the same mp whose party has an open border policy and she has been seen holding placards saying refugees welcome here. As for the SPH reopening, what about the 100 plus jobs they destroyed? What about the sheer destruction those greedy owners caused those people and the local community? Yeah I thought so. I hope they don’t get any business for trying to shaft us locals and we will continue to do our best to boycott the place. Llanelli is a right dive and all thanks to the same corrupt shills running this country into the ground. Wake up and stop spreading the lies.
@@paddy6660oh well look how much of a fool you turned out to be. LOL we won our protest and no refugees will be coming to our Welsh village. People like you always say refugees welcome when it doesn’t affect the likes of you. FYI they are not refugees, they have thrown their passports away and taking us all for a ride. #notrefugeescriminals
Looks half about to me, I'd be landed with with a regenerate
Llanelli not on it own it going down hill everywhere shops are shutting all over the UK so dont pick on one town keep up the fight there a lot worse places than this
the town has almost double the national crime rate too, and a massive drug problem. hopefully this flat viewing will go well so i can leave this town
Huge drug problems. Unemployment. Immigrants who refuse to be absosrbed into socity. Two pawn shops which help increase both the drug problems and criminality. A lot of the shops are also owned by private investors out of the town. Rents are enormous for shops. Failure to elect anyone thats not labour
I could go on and on
The town is dying a death and nothing woll change especially under the current leadership
Whilst I agree that a lack of integration for non-UK born people is a problem, I wouldn't say it is a case of them "refusing" to be integrated. As you have highlighted, there are high drug issues in the area, there is high unemployment, high welfare-dependency, what is there to be integrated into? There is no support, no investment and no funding for Welsh people and immigrants alike. Are they given opportunities to help learn the language, for example? Are they introduced to the local community, are they welcomed into the local community even?
If it is true that most of the buildings are owned by those from out of town, private investors rather than local people, there is no incentive for them to care about the community or its development. The money is taken out of the community and high street and put into the pockets of people in other parts of the country, or even other parts of the world. And then there is no legal or financial help to support local commercial interests. If someone wants to open a shop, stimulate the local economy, hire some local staff, but they can't afford the extortionate rent prices, the shop never opens and nobody wins in that scenario.
The town is dying. The problems are bigger than the local MP, but I have to say I don't see her doing much to change the trend. I wonder when the last time she visited Llanelli city centre was? There is no outrage from politicians, no fight, just resignation.
When did Llanelli become a city 😂
Lockdown..
No. This decline started a long time ago.