Visiting London's “no go” area | Tower Hamlets
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- A Tory minister has described Tower Hamlets as a "no go" area.
Which is weird, because we could in fact - go.
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Downing Street is probably the biggest "No Go Area" for the vast majority of citizens
It could be it's a no-go area for him. But then again, despite being an MP, he doesn't represent the Nation - as he's about to find out.
Call yourself a fossil fuel lobbyist and you're in.
@ld21 Not necessarily. I passed that ball fast. You're likely to get a visit from Five, who fell flat on their faces when they discovered we were bigger than them.
More like a "Nose Grow Area".
Too right!!!
The response of "the Indian restaurants are to die for" is the most hilarious response to being asked that question
It’s the most middle class response at least! 😂
He was Turkish lol
Or Middle Eastern hahahahha
there's lots of indian restaurants in tower hamlets too@@jeffb7256
Indian food is in UK DNA now
You tell an area is a no go zone when you can pick up a 1 bed flat for a mere £700k 😂
I used to do a bit of garden maintenance in London working under a self-employed gaffer. I won't say the area we worked but it was plush. One day my gaffer pointed out a little detail about our service. At the client's request, we were never to talk with the client (even eye contact was frowned upon by a few) unless it was essential to the job at hand. Snobbery at it's finest.
@@bluegold21 HAHHAHA, broooo that's fucking crazy, mfer lucky they don't get their grass trimmings through the letterbox and fuck off to their money.
@@bluegold21 man, what absolute nonsense these people think, what classist bollocks. It doesn't take much to say good morning and smile to someone you're paying to help you, does it?
@@bluegold21 and you wonder why the upper class love foreigners doing their manual labout for them😂😂😂.... no awkward chats with the working class builders from the local estate as they build your extension. Much better Poles/Romainans who don't speak English. Much cheaper to boot..
@@fang_xianfuI think it's a behavioural change ( although some people are just born arrogant dicks). The moment some people get cash they become overtly protective/paranoid. The culture of wealth wraps them up with the notion that the poor deserve to be poor or otherwise they would be wealthy; it's almost like an unwritten doctrine among the money hoarders. They begin to see everyone without what they have as a threat. And they inevitably project their *covetous nature onto anyone who clearly does not have what they have.
* I wasn't talking about Jewish peeps just in case you thought that was a biblical jibe at them.🤔...
Netanyahu can take a long walk off a short plank though.
I don’t think choosing to interview people on Brick Lane (famous tourist street) is really representative. In fact it’s probably the least representative street in the whole area.
Exactly.
She could have wandered down to Old Bethnal Green road….we all know why she didn’t
@@ScrubbersGhost is that the one with the street market running from Cambridge Heath Road west toward Liverpool Street - probably my favourite road with better and cheaper kebab shops. My plumber when I ran a small busiess did get tools nicked from the van when around some bits of Bethnal Green though. (1989)
@@highpath4776 you’re probably thinking of Whitechapel….Old Bethnal Green road is where the school the girls that joined ISIS is.
Given that 3 of the few she interviewed were American tourists who don't even live there! And one women said she jo longer lived there as had moved out! Didn't bother to ask her why though! Typical staged interviewed. How many women who lived there did she interview? None! So I wonder why she didn't and also ssk them if they felt safe going,out alone after dark? She was probably born around 1980s so would know nothing about how London used to be prior to early 70s, seeing what a dirty, graffittied dump it is now, why would anyone even want to live there?
It’s only no-go in a sense that it’s pretty much unaffordable now!
Too Right! I just had to move out 3 weeks ago because I got priced out of my flat in Aldgate!
It's years since I was in Brick Lane. It might be quite pricey now. That's probably the only "no go" I'd expect.
the whole of liverpool is a no go area for tories
The whole country is
The whole of Liverpool is a no go area if your English 🏴, they hate us 😂.
@@hey12542These days, if you say you’re English, you’ll be arrested and thrown in jail.
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nah they just hate racist bigoted intolerant idiots. 😂
@@SteezyMartHa ha 😂, it's literally criminal to be English 🏴. Tbf I'm a southerner and I've never had any issues in Liverpool, people were friendly.
I live in a one bedroom £675,000 flat in Tower Hamlets. Haven’t been able to leave my front door in months to visit the artisan bakery at the end of my road or the the sprawling Royal Park 5minutes walk away. It’s a disgrace, there are Neo aristocratic street thugs walking around with Oliver Peoples glasses and tote bags everywhere - god knows what they are keeping in those totes.
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I forgot to add. In addition to the above. I along with thousand other financial service industry employees have had to move to remote contract as guess what, our employers European / Global headquarters are in Canary Wharf, Tower Hamlets 😢
@@MrChipz900 CW is not in Tower Hamlets, but on the Isle of Dogs.
It does, though, unfortunately, form part of a London borough bearing that name...TH
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@@paulungureanu937 In other words, it’s in Tower Hamlets, but you’re looking for a way for it not to be. 😂
The only issue with this video is that it just speaks to a largely gentrified segment.
ofc it's propaganda/virtchew cignalling
Edl once posted a picture of area that they claimed was a no go area for whites...you could see my house in it 😂
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Bru 😂🤣
But are you white….? 😂😂
@@dpj1 yes lol
The prestige! Ha!
Come on PoliticsJoe, send her to Shadwell in Tower Hamlets and not Tower Hamlets most gentrification areas… such a biased view from yourselves
There is rather a lot of not a lot in Shadwell (See Jago Hazzard Vids of some of the early railways he has shot around the area when talking about the DLR
We are Shadwell, the Kennel is our place!
Cant go there its a no-go zone remember
"Parts of tower hamlets are no go areas" You decide to go to the nicest part of it..
101 of making an argument, just say it then pretending you did.
Parts? Which parts? Just say or shut up.
At 2pm also
10 mins down the road and you’re at the school the ISIS brides attended….pointless video.
She said she lives there.
Tell us which parts are no go areas person who has never lived in London
This is the genetified area of Tower Hamlets where shops sell cereals for £5 a bowl, go more to Stepney Green area lol
Yes go to Stepney, where two minutes walk from the station there is a private hospital. Or further 5 minutes further up the road where Queen Mary with a huge campus is. Or less then minutes walk where you hit Roman Road which on it east side is saturated with coffee shops and little eateries. And Bethnal Green area with all its Shoreditch overspill. I suppose you wouldn't be able to pinpoint on a map where Fish Island is and how it looks now with Hackney Wick surrounding area. You have no clue what you are talking about mate, I suppose London is for you a foggy city with a lot barges on the river. You live way back in the past.
Are ppl actually buying the bowl of cereal for fiverr
Noo way
@@samirk8362Old Bethnal Green road….Shamima Begums old school, renamed multiple times due to its affiliation with ISIS, you knew that though didn’t you?
Yeah these people are clueless.
@@ScrubbersGhost Exactly! This is the thing. Go deal with it.
He said some areas of Tower Hamlets, and you go to a high street. How about going into the housing estates or tower blocks?
Precisely, Standing on Bishopsgate and walking through bohemian Brick lane, in the day time, is so disingenuous it’s unbelievable that people consume this kind of media.
I worked alongside female coworkers in London who noted a difference in how safe they felt at night between even just Aldgate and Aldgate East when trying to get the train home.
What do you expect from a communist? This is the same woman who giggled at record high suicide rates for men, then said it was a good thing
It's a vox pop, you don't just wander round housing estates and in tower blocks to interview people, because your really entering people's private space. If the people live in tower hamlets, they will have to walk through residential streets. Notice that no one talks about high crime near where I grew up in stoke, or Cheshire that are predominantly white as no go areas, especially given the monkey dust epidemics, a drug that is known to make people behave violently. I also lived in b
Bristol and now I live in the south east, my behaviours no different? Would I walk along pretty much any street durring the day? yes. Do I feel like I should stick to busier, better lit roads at night? yes! Are there amazing places, people and communities in areas that have bad reputations, that mean I actively choose to go through them regularly? yes. Would I describe myself as actively feeling unsafe, no. The rhetoric of no go zones is they are not safe for white people to go in, its about racial hatred and xenophobia not about safety
Why the hell would someone go to a housing estate you 🤡?
So stupid, of course you'd have to be careful in areas where criminal activity is high. That doesn't make it a no-go area. A no-go area is something like a sundown town. Have some sense fgs.
The most frightening thing is bumping into a tory MP.
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@@stephenlee5929 unnecessary comment.
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The (I'm assuming) American lady is spot on. Tories stoking division and hatred - it annoys and scares me....
Sadiq creates division amongst everyone, useless man
I was going to mention that, but also not sure of the accent. These Americans and Canadians are all the same🤣😂🤣
Yup and expect a ton more of it leading up to the election!
Sounded Canadian to me.
r u agitated?
I'm a Jock and lived around there. I never had a problem, not once in five years. There's a good mix of folk there from everywhere, the salt of the earth in my experience. The gov't as usual are talking bollox.
Never heard a Scot 🏴 refer to themselves as a 'Jock' before. That's normally what the English 🏴 would call them and they take offence, but love calling us Gammons 😂. I have a Scottish 🏴 friend who I grew up with in Tower Hamlets, I never understood why she wanted to live here when Scotland 🏴 is supposed to be far better 🤷.
@hey12542 Yeah, we pinched the word "Jock". We own it now LOL, you hear it in the army a lot. I ended up in London for work. I was determined to hate it, didn't want to be there, I had a right cob on, I can tell you. I've lived in a few cities and always settled in no problem. But I did NOT want to go to London. Three days in the east end, and I loved the place. Biggest shock of my life! It was the people who made all the difference. I was made so welcome, and they treated me like one of their own. Shoreditch, Hackney, "Beffnal" Green, I actually miss the place. A lot of it's gentrified now and really changed. And, believe it or not, I never once had any trouble using Scottish Pound notes!
@@liammalarky3483 London is so diverse with people from all different places that's what makes it so great. Being a Londoner and growing up in Tower Hamlets with people around me who were not all English 🏴 I got to experience different cultures and I've tasted food I would never have known existed, my Scottish friend really wants me to go to Scotland 🏴 with her to try haggis as she now eats pie mash and green liquor cause I kept banging on at her to try it 😂. At first she kept saying 'I'm not eating green snot, now you can't stop her eating it 😂' my dad was a Geordie who moved to London before I came along and he was the same about the pie and mash 😂.In London we are all about diversity and enjoying the differences between us. I've read many things online from people who seem to dislike London, but I do think that's more the political aspect of it. I say to people who have never been 'come and visit and experience London for yourself, some people love it and some hate it but to me it's home and there's no place like it, I do think like anywhere you are you have to keep safe and try to avoid any dangerous situations around you. Hopefully you'll be back again in the future 👍🏻. Scottish notes should be easily accepted in England 🏴. I'm not sure why some places refuse it but I think it's cause they may have never seen a Scottish 🏴 note before ha ha 😂
@hey12542 jellied eels, pie n mash = food of the gods. I, too, was reticent at first, but when in Rome n all that. So I tried it, and it was amazing. Yes, you definitely have to try haggis, tatties, n neeps.
For the food.. 😂@@hey12542
Not sure Brick Lane is an accurate representation of typical Tower Hamlets to be fair.
Now go to the estates
Alas I have forgotten a lot of the estates I used to work in in the 1990s, - and delivered too in the 2000s , so maybe name me one or two.
At night
Yeah it's still absolutely fine, you realise normal people live in those estates.
Yes teenagers hang around on street corners trying to look hard, but it's still fine. Lived in London all my life.
Where are you?
@@tmarritt wasnt bits of manchester in the late 1960s worse ?
He meant a no go zone for tory MP'S
yeah he probably gets abuse shouted at him in the streets and calls it a "no go"
@@Harrier_DuBoisabuse? To a Tory that’s polite inquiries about the state of the NHS, or polluted rivers.
Eg any implication that they’re a corrupt bunch of toasters
@@Harrier_DuBois Do you really think he's ever walked down one of those streets? He probably drove through, saw graffiti and assumed the rest.
That doesn’t narrow it down much considering how hated they are!
@@lucypeace6132 Posh! Tory!
gotta respect someone who chugs her guinness like a (trade union) dockworker🤛
eeeyyy shots fired at the end but straight facts: central is a trash tourist trap.
Splitting the G
Looks like she split the G to perfection too.
Respect drunkards is our motto
nope...it wasn't fully settled...noob move
Go to Shadwell and not to the gentrification area’s
I'm not sure that Brick Lane is representative of Tower Hamlets, it is Shoreditch Hipster HQ. The number of people who used to get mugged walking from Bow Rd tube to the development I lived in in Fairfield Rd, E3, about 600m away, was phenomenal even 15 years ago. (Opposite Bow Rd station was yet another closed down Police Station)
Walk down cable street after midnight you'll soon change your tune
Yes but those are white junkies, also I'm not gonna lie, 2013 to 2015. I'm 100% certain there was a grooming gang operating in tower Hamlets. Trust me,. I can't say much on here because it will be censored. Looking back now with all the stuff on the news it makes sense
My comment was deleted. It's the best comment
Yeah, day time shopping and after dark are too completely different environments.
Only because LBTH switch off all the streetlights.
Cable street has always been like that for as long as I can remember.
Hilarious. At 0:05 she is standing right on the boarder of the "City of London" 2 steps to the left. Literally the other side of the lamp post....
There are other areas of Tower Hamlets not just the Brick Lane area.
There isn’t a no-go area anywhere in Tower Hamlets. Period.
You think all those people asked only exist in the Brick Lane area and have no knowledge of other ares of Tower Hamlets?
@@thelionofjudah007As a Londoner I know there definitely is.
@@hey12542 That’s complete and utter cobblers. I was born and bred in west London, lived in Newham for 25 years, went to university in South London and taught in Tower Hamlet for 4 years. Please give me the post code of this no-go area?
@@hey12542 Casting London as a dangerous place is a hobbyhorse of racists and right-wingers. We get it.
I live in Tower Hamlets, in the heart of Whitechapel near the East London Mosque.
The so-called 'Muslim Patrols' of years back were outsiders sent in by Anjem Choudary to disrupt the peace here and then, handy dandy, you get the 'Christian Patrols' coming in from Kent or Essex or wherever, far right thugs cruising round in decommissioned Gulf War land rovers wearing body armour and cracking open cans of lager outside the mosque.
The local Muslims totally ignored them.
Most of Anjem's boys were arrested and a few even did prison time.
Then we had the Tommy Robinson EDL Rent a mob from all over trying to march through.
Scully's remarks were out of order and very ignorant.
It' not perfect here but most people get along pretty well most of the time, there are no 'no go areas' here!
I remember that.. The far right's idea to start a religious war, was to eat bacon sandwiches and drink lager in front of a mosque lol.
At some point it's going to become a problem.
Just to put it in historical context, Moseley tried something similar, with much the same result
I take it all these are insiders then.
Police investigating the death of a woman in Tower Hamlets are appealing for witnesses to a fight that happened the night before she died. Police were called by London Ambulance Service to a residential address in Stainsby Road, E14 at 08:26hrs on Thursday, 8 February following reports that a 21-year-old woman had been found unconscious.
Police have recovered a body after a man appeared a court accused of killing his wife, stuffing her body into a suitcase and dumping it into water. Aminan Rahman, 45, of Tower Hamlets, East London, has been charged with murdering Suma Begum, 24, who was reported missing on April 30, 2023
Four people have been jailed in connection with the murder of a teenager outside an 18th birthday party in East London as the victim's mum read an emotional statement in court. Shea Gordon, 17, was running for his life when he was attacked outside the event on Lichfield Road, Tower Hamlets, on the evening of September 3, 2022.
A homophobic man with a long-standing obsession with extreme violence has been found guilty of battering a man to death in a cemetery. Erik Feld, 37, hit Ranjith Kankanamalage repeatedly in the head with a claw hammer, causing "catastrophic" injuries.
The 50-year-old victim was found on a path in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, east London, on 16 August 2021
Police are appealing for information after after a teenage boy was stabbed in Shadwell. Officers were called at 8.32am on Thursday to reports of a stabbing outside Newton House, Cornwall Street.
Police are appealing for witnesses following an assault in Bethnal Green that left two people with stab injuries. Officers were called at approximately 06:30hrs on Monday, 25 December to reports of a man assaulted in Brick Lane, E1.
A man has suffered stab injuries after he was stabbed outside a public park in Tower Hamlets, east London. Met Police were called at 2.23pm on Wednesday (December 27) to reports of the incident in Manchester Road, near the entrance of Millwall Park in Isle of Dogs.
A man has been charged after a bus driver, who remains in hospital, was stabbed in Tower Hamlets.
Police were called at 3.29pm on Sunday (June 18 2023) to reports of a stabbing in Commercial Road, near to the junction with Arbour Square.
@@jrobs1133 That's not much in the grand scheme of things.. You could find that in any town, in any country, if you looked hard enough.
No ones showing u it at night are they.. walk up there at night I dare u
used to do it all the time about 15 years ago, was often offered companionship by some of the ladies around the area ( with their african "boyfriends" in white beemers holding their purses. the overground running 24/7 twice a week changed the area completely (plus the islamic older me did a bit of your not welecome to them too)
I'm a transgender woman living in Bow in Tower Hamlets. I can walk home alone at 2am and still feel safe. It's the only area I've lived in, in the last 20 years that's been a community to everyone regardless of gender, colour and creed
This is filmed in brick lane which is a tourist street and as such will have regular police patrols as well as lots of plain clothes officers ….go 300 meters east to the chicksand housing estate or any council estate in London for that matter and see how long it takes before you get weighed…
Brick Lane is one of the trendiest areas in London, hipsters all over the shop. Prob some dog rough estates in Tower Hamlets though...
A few need a good clean and paint, a few smell permanently of curry spices.
I lived in Tower Hamlets (Poplar) between 2002 and 2011. I worked in Limehouse, Bow and in Hackney next door. My children were born at the Royal London in 2003 and 2005. I have surveyed and canvassed several areas on behalf of the recycling company which subcontracted to the Council at the time.
I NEVER, NOT ONCE have felt unsafe or threatened anywhere within TH. I have worked and socialised with English people, with Bangladeshis, never an issue.
Anyone spouting these very old tropes on "no-go zones" is a fascist fear monger. As simple as that.
Yup, it's a vibrant, multiethnic area, that means by definition it must be miserable. That's their worldview.
We know you're lying Jorge. But you're just another foreigner desperate to fit in aren't you
2011? You lived there 13 years ago? Not much can change in 13 years i guess huh
@@MichaelJ44Mate, I'm just saying, where do you live? As in, generally?
@@MichaelJ44im from tower hamlets and i hate it. Way too many brown folks. Its probably because i an a raging racist. Everyone else seems to be okay with it.
Wonder why you went to Brick Lane rather than Shadwell? Wouldnt have been many who could even answer your questions, unless you speak any other languages?? 🤣
Exactly. Shadwell is a good example. Walk around there wiht an Israeli flag lol
Not too nit-pick, but the minister said that "parts of Tower Hamlets are no-go areas". You appear to have visited the touristic and commercial centre of Tower Hamlets in an attempt to falsify his claim, whereas in fact you should have visited the worst parts. Also, you have interpreted "no-go" literally, whereas the minister meant that it was inadvisable to go to certain parts of Tower Hamlets, namely ethnic enclaves, if you were not part of the community. Indeed, I believe it was in Tower Hamlets that a mob of Muslim men tried to enforce Sharia Law. Still, facts and logic be dammed. Tories bad, multiculturalism good.
draw me a map of an ethnic enclave in TH
Spouting Sharia law in 2024 is embarrassing mate
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_patrol_incidents_in_London
You’ve hit the nail on the head. Let your daughters walk around at night then……….alone……they’ll be ok, it’s multiculturalism at its best😂
"Ethnic enclaves" in this case are just rough council estates/ ghettos, ubiquitous across most major cities globally.
Those patrol wankers were a bunch of bigots who surfaced over a decade ago and were rightly convicted and that stuff has never resurfaced.
Believe me, London has it's fair share of problems but to define any part of it as a "no-go zone" is nothing short of fear-mongering.
But how is Brick Lane representative of the borough as a whole?
TBF some parts of the Bow/ Poplar end of TH do feel pretty sketchy. I got burgled twice in the space of a year when I lived there and had numerous run-ins with not-friendly gangs of teens
ahh, teens have been the plague of cities since the Greeks, Romans and DaVinci
Don't have any gangs of teens in my area, plenty of normal teens though.@@highpath4776
@@highpath4776 that's it, blame it all on the Greeks
@@tomonetruth Ha. there used to be a Turks vs Greeks unease in Tooting in the 1980s . Restaurants were no-go for each other
As an Uber Driver I can tell you there are No Go areas in London. Westminster during rush hour and Wandsworth Bridge Road southbound any weekday after about 14:30. Also I don't love driving in Camden. Oh, and Stokey, terrible one way system.
Also, The Kings Road on a Friday/Saturday night if you don't want some posh twat trying to buy coke off you.
Wandsworth bridge road is a horror now. Get fined on the side streets, my friend lives on it.
As a kid I remember moving to a part of east London where many white families had moved out to Essex and other places outside London. But there were elderly white people mostly living alone on my street and surrounding streets. I remember that they barely had any visitors and I remember running errands for them and helping them where I was able. I wasn't the only one, I remember going up blocks of flats with my late uncle taking shopping up to elderly residents. The Asian Muslim community were kind and helpful to those people who did not or were not able to move. Up until I moved out a few years ago, I was helping elderly residents who relied on us as their neighbours for all kinds of issues or support they required. Not something they want to highlight ever.
I know and have worked with so many muslims who talk about the work they do and support they give to their communities. I wish the news would highlight these things. Maybe PoliticsJoe could do a series about the charity and community work Muslims do across the country. It's ridiculous how the news focuses on bad faith actors, and doesn't balance it with the work I've seen Muslim people do.
I had the same experience as British Caribbean. We made friends with a lot of the lonely elderly people in the area
the only argument here for pro-immigration is takeaway food . . ..in 20 years people will be cursing takeaway food . .
Great, so all the British natives left because it became a place they didn't want to live, and that's good, is it?
@@ramsay9073 no they all left because they're racist and couldn't deal with the fact that they needed help to rebuild the country after the war.
Most of you were and still are shockingly UNSKILLED.
it would have been wise to go somewhere other than brick lane tbh
If your good, your safe, if your bad your not safe.
That really explains why the Torry minister is so scared
you're, you're, you're, you're.
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@maxgregorycompositions6216 No, they were referring to the good that belongs to you, the safe that belongs to you and the bad that belongs to you.
I was having a conversation with a homeless bloke after work, sat on the pavement, when I had the shit beaten out of me. Thanks for telling me it was my fault.
I don't know why, but i want a chicken donner kebab in pitta, hot sauce, yoghurt sauce, and salad please
Lol, Oxford love cheese on their Kebabs, Manchester was always in a naan bread.
Went to Crete and they put Taramasalata in theirs, how crazy is that?!?
Mmmmm, kebab 😊
Yes boss, you want chips
@@ItsDeffoChris yes please bro, and red salt
@jzilla1234 extra chilli sauce? 🌶 😁 Hell yeah
but the food
To be fair he said "parts of" Tower Hamlets and she picked Brick Lane which is definitely not a no-go zone in Tower Hamlets.
then that's on him for not being specfific
just proves he was making shit up if he can't name the exact fucking area now, innit? surely he knows which ones, so instead of conspiratorial vagueries that borderline on xenophobia he can be precise and call it out road for road
I grew up in post-WWII Bethnal Green during the 1950's and couldn't wait to get out of it. When I go back now, after dreaming of "those good ol' days", I remember why my family left. It seems to me we have a lot of Marie Antoinettes and latter-day artsy-types posting here. JUST LOOK AT THE VIDEO with its graffiti and grunge, etc.
"What's too painful to remember, or currently see around us, we simply choose to forget or turn a blind eye to".
Graffiti is called street art in Brick Lane. They have literally paid artists in that district to do graffiti on the walls and tourists go there to see it in all its grungey glory!
@@jujutrini8412
I could piss up a Brick Lane wall and call it unique street art. But would it really be art?
@@aldgatewest The poshos call it art. I am merely one of the hoi polloi so I haven’t the money, kudos or social status to answer that question. 😂
@@jujutrini8412still looks like a sht hole.
Make yer mind up. Either you couldn't wait to get the fuck out or they were the "good ol' days" Contrary Mary.
As someone born in Hackney, I would say Knightsbridge is more a no go zone for most Londoners. Just saying 😂
Well someone from Hackney would say that, since you could barely afford to walk down the street..
Enjoy your slums
Really? 😍
@@hecter3008 as in you cannot afford it.
@@highpath4776 I would never live in hackney ever. Are there any British people left.
@@hecter3008 there were when I went over to the Woodbridge Estate? meeting where the "gentrification rebuild" was turned down - though most were turks/spanish and german , a smattering of the old north londoners (my aunt had moved out - to city of london cemetary )
To the American woman. I have lived in London all my life and there are no go areas. Londo is a sh it hole.
Okay name 5 no go areas
@@gHGhej Brent,hackney, Brixton tower Hamlets and ilford. Let me know if you need more. Hahaha. Tower Hamlets is a shit hole with no British people left. I forgot croydon. Have you been to harlesden.? You have to be insane if you think harlesden is not a no go area.
Let me add filthy disgusting Wembley high road,neasden willesden.is that enough?
@@gHGhejShadwell, Wapping, crisp street, Canning Town, East Ham and Plaistow, Hackney, Walthamstow, Whitechapel, Barking, Redbridge, Becton. . .The list is endless of no go areas.
Forest gate.
I recall some years ago that a white MP visited a Muslim area and was told he was not welcome because it was a Muslim area. There are no go areas.
I recall Tommy Robinson being told that he wasn't welcome in Liverpool. Does that make it a no go area?
@@miriglith4293That's cause he's English 🏴 and if the Scoucers hear an English 🏴 accent they tend to get a bit funny 😂.
*WHAT A LOVELY BUNCH OF PEOPLE* seems a great place to live...
Ahh yeah the hipsters on the main road 😂
@@bfc2155 more room for intelligent people then, judging by your throwaway remark
@knuckles543 yeah, that doesn't make the slightest bit of sense
Acid attack, a stabbing and a beaten to death by baseball bats in my area. And that didn't really bother me. What bothered me the most was seeing Islams literally drive up in cars to eat garbage food and then dump the rubbish on the street outside. Dirty people. Living in aprtheid society. Aparthied is bad!
The Presenter with the mic at the beginning with views of the Gherkin is standing in Bishopsgate, the part that’s just over the boundary in the borough of Tower Hamlets, adjoins the Financial district, it’s a busy commercial and retail area near Liverpool Street station, the North American visitor interviewed is in Brick lane, a popular and sometimes disappointing tourist destination but adjacent to gentrified Spitalfields, also a popular location.
Imagine living in a "no go" area where the average house price is £730,500, and you are paying rents of £2.500 per month. That's Tower Hamlets. Imagine the no-go areas have great book shops, cafes, and Indian restaurants, wonderful open-minded people, and diverse culture. Tower Hamlets.
Imagine pretending that Tower Hamlets just contains middle-class white people living in over-priced houses.
Lol, you're obvious not going to the areas WITHIN the borough that he's talking about. Brick Lane ain't it.
try the other end of that road🤣🤣🤣
You are literally skirting around the periphery of the City… try going deeper into some of the most deprived parts of the borough. Whether it’s “no-go” is another question - I’ve never had a problem there.
Tower Hamlets is calm, if there’s an area “to be avoided” it would more be Woolwich or Lewisham or Peckham or Deptford or something like that
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The only no go area in tower hamlets is that fish stall next to the junction by Whitechapel station at 5-7pm
Strange how Tories are experts on places they never visit. . . Might be driven through in their chauffeur driven government cars!!!
A bit like labours Khan
@@David-uf8ex Great response, you got me there!
I live in Bradford and have searched in vain for the "no go" areas the city is apparently riddled with. I've tried asking the people who complain about them for directions or a map but so far no replies.
Up on the Hill near Morrisons ,blows cold and First buses never turn up
Where are the hijabis? Why didn’t you go down the street in Bethnal Green with the PLO flags flying?
They most likely went to interview people who aren't visibly Muslim because it's obvious what the tories mean here
Went to uni at Queen Mary and lived in Stepney for years. I never felt it was more unsafe there than in other parts of London as a woman. Always lots to do: Genesis Cinema, Brick Lane, Spitalfields, Victoria Park, the Young V&A, Columbia Road Flower Market, Limehouse Basin and of course Canary Wharf, if that's your thing. The only issue is that the mayor Lutfur Rahman is a bit of a crook but the man's like Teflon.
During the middle of the day its fine....
Property prices in Tower Hamlets average £1.5 million for a 3 bedroom flat… I suspect the Tory MP in question has never actually been there! The only thing stopping most people is that they can’t afford it!
Why is it called Tower Hamlets…oh yes because it has so many council tower blocks. Every property price is expensive in north London that’s like saying the sky is blue. Well done genius
@@jakehowie442 I mean it’s actually called Tower Hamlets because of its association with the Tower of London and the hamlets that surround it. The earliest written reference to ‘Tower Hamlets’ was in 1554, I’m pretty sure there were no residential tower blocks back then!
You can make up your own version of history mate, you can even imply that Tower Hamlets is full of council tower blocks (it isn’t, but would it matter if it were, other than to snobs?). But making stuff up to suit your narrative demonstrates that you definitely aren’t a “genius”, it just makes you look as silly as the Tory MP having a tantrum! 😂
@@ffotograffydd Hi came here to say the same, thanks.
you have to be poor (council flat) or rich to live there, a lack of middle class.
@@jakehowie442 Nah, its from the Tower of London and Ham=Settlement , Hamlets - lots of small settlements
That kebab looks like a no go area to me….
I think you will go quite well, both ends
So it's totally safe at night.
Maybe not totally safe but nowhere is really. I wouldn't have any problem walking there at 2am or whatever.
@@timgilligan3885
Record it and post it
@@timgilligan3885 where I live it is.
@@timgilligan3885wrong. I live in an area with English people only. Everyone knows everyone and most never lock their doors. Kids play in the forests and by the river with no worry. Young girls walk from pub to pub or brewery at all hours with no problem.
@@nickw8071Sounds a bit dubious, London is very muti cultural so I'm wondering what part is 'English Only'. Do tell?
A No Go area has absolutely nothing to do with the Probability of being attacked etc, It’s more to do with the fear that you ‘might’ be attacked.. If you cannot ‘feel safe’ Then it becomes a No Go area , You probably won’t be attacked. But it’s the Not knowing ! So you
Feel uncomfortable … So you don’t go there !
If you feel uncomfortable around brown people, the problem lies with you.
So any city?
FYI, when I was renting, an Indian housemate of mine got mugged from white teenagers in a leafy area. Does that mean that it's a no go area?
by that definition anywhere can be a no go zone if its just about personal feelings
@@waqasahmed939 looks like it is if you are indian. I think the possible no go for some folk maybe Jewish in an Islamic area at the present time ( most folk wont care or be bothered but there are a few tensions given current world events ).
I lived in Whitechapel for 3 years. If I make it back to London, Tower Hamlets is where I want to be 👏
yh been 10 years but benthal green was lit, sheesh the whole east is verging on flippin boujee and gentrified, hardly no-go.
lol they should come to my district - worse than Tower Hamlets, let’s put it this way.
@@Kohanman Yes, no-go areas are rarely known for their world famous cuisine haha
hahaha of course you left. melt
@@truebro77 you seem angry?
Interviewing all the people who are THERE is a biased sample. Obviously they are THERE
Impossible to interview people who aren't THERE.
Well who else knows best what it feels like living there? Otherwise we'd just be hearing people's assumptions and prejudices in the main. I
@@tarana9329 Well now we're just hearing from people who obviously DON'T think it's a no go zone because they ARE there. It's laughable. It's like going to a Taylor Swift concert and asking if they like Taylor Swift lol!
So you would really rely upon the ignorant opinions of those who have no experience? Classic.
@@linyarin No, silly. Why do you assume the only other alternative is something stupid? I would try to get a well rounded sample that included people from other neighborhoods. Diversity.
Ava is so relaxed around this no-go area that she's wandering around in her dressing gown.
She should stroll around at night, on her own without the film crew
Its full of people at night, mostly students and rich people from the city. Probably safer than daytime
@@G4RY1159Why is that, Gary?
@@neon_jam1127 Go back to bed
@@jzilla1234 Tell that to the people that were all mugged in Soho for the nice watch they were wearing.
But this is the main road not the estates right
If 'no go' areas don't exist, why do many MPs feel the need for personal protection ?
They like wasting tax payers' money and then getting protection on the public purse for fear theyre held accountable by the public for it.
Because they p*ss people off, up and down the country!
Since when do MPs need an excuse to milk the taxpayer?
Because they're fannies.
I used to work there and I never saw a white face in Bromley by Bow.
I used to live there, I saw plenty, including my own. 😉
Whatever - queen mary university is right next to it - what on earth you on about
Yes I can see that being a problem for a racist.
My father-in-law is from Bromley-by-Bow and he has a white face because he's white.
Thanks for reading
Is that a problem? If so why?
I agree that "no go area" has become a civ-nat cliche. But at the end of the day videos like this are also a liberal cliche whereby metropolitan media types insist that everything is hunky dory. I lived near Bethnal Green tube station for a number of years in the early 2000s and it was relatively common for "Western women" to be harrassed and told to "cover up" around the area of Bethnal Green library. Now would I call that a "no go area" - well I know of non-muslim women who avoided the area after dark. But does that mean that it was a hostile ethnic enclave like you would get in parts of Belfast at the height of the troubles - probably not. I imagine there are majority white estates where you will get more frequently abused if you are black or a hijabi. The same is true in certain streets in Luton when it comes to being English. It is just one of the unpleasant sides of a multi-ethnic society. And rich metropolitan types ignoring these issues just leads to a situation in which those of us who have first hand experience of ethnic tension are liable to exagerrating the phenomenon while you lot live in your own echo chamber and assume anybody with reservations about the value of "diversity" is some irrational pleb.
He's right!
I wouldn't go anywhere near Canary Wharf.
He didn't say "Parts of London", he said "Parts of Tower Hamlets"... You conveniently chose to go to Brick Lane, which obviously wasn't going to be one of the parts he was refering to 🤣
Lets interview lefty folk
A friend of mine lives in Tower Hamlets, and a few times I've left her flat to go home, and having to go to Liverpool Street Station at 5am, and I felt very safe, as a woman. No one, a part from the street cleaners about. I'd love to live there. Love the markets and the close proximity to everywhere
I lived in London for over 40 years. I would never say there was an area I was afraid to go into except those dominated by The National Front back in the day.
I'll always love London. Tower Hamlets was my borough and is my kids' borough.
This government needs to go.
I wonder whether she will stick around and send her kids to the muslim-dominated schools in the area. I doubt it....
This is more Joe propraganda
Love to see you walk thru those council tower blocks after 8 pm rather than in the afternoon might be a different question maybe
which ones?
Stick on some nice jewellery and walk through some parts of London or Birmingham, Show us how safe it was, OH Ava! go alone at night without the film crew.
She should have gone to the Mile End Road, Shadwell, London Mosque area - not Brick Lane - if you are going to make a video like this go somewhere where you do not interview Americans and hipsters. I did not see a single veil or young kid going to his Madrassa on a Friday etc. Stupid reporting. Get it right - at certain times and certain places you do not want to be in TA - I know I lived there
I love the way the American couple have got our slippery Tory weasel politicians sussed out, no problem. Just goes to show this sort of waste of space political pond life is universal.
I haven't lived in Tower Hamlets, but my parents have and I have visited the area a few times. I think that 20-25 years ago the north was quite rough (and probably before that the south), but it's improved quite a lot since then. I mean its somewhere people buy anti-theft devices for their car and watch their valuables (heck, I've been to parts of England where people still don't lock their front door), but I've been there and I am perfectly comfortable walking around the area.
Being a OG, born and bred TH resident. I would argue that much of the borough has become no go areas for the local working class residents. High rents, expensive parking, trendy districts that are overpriced, although nothing is said openly, there are definitely invisible lines that the locals do not cross and these pockets do not cater for locals.
This is produced by Labour
I don’t think Shoreditch represents the whole of Tower Hamlets
Couldn't pay me to go anywhere in London. 🤢
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That’s so sad wow open ur mind slightly
Kensington, all those boys on bikes delivering those goodies, is more dangerous than Brick Lane
Worst part of TH = Canary Wharf
Actually, it is the only reason we go there, because of Canary Wharf offices.
Otherwise ... no good reason to.
I can still remember when the Docklands light railways kept stopping randomly along the line at stations earmarked to be built in the future because of Canary Wharf 😂. All those stations have now been built for years and even more besides.
That genuine laughter 😂 from the kebab shop guy was the best response!
6:25 this was put in just to spite Ed😂
My family immigrated, lived and worked in Tower Hamlets for 10 years and apart from some minor incidents of anti social behaviour, which you can find anywhere, I felt as safe there as anywhere in my life. My son grew up with a range of other ethnic groups including Bangladesh, Kosovan and Polish and he is a better person for it. My wife had less fear of being out late at night than she had in some other areas that we have lived in. More to the point everyone accepted the new immigrants who moved in, they accepted us for who we were, no judgement, no expectation to change, no exclusion, just people getting on with living their lives and vice versa. The fact is that haters will never try and find the positives, because they know that they will, and that doesn't suit them at all.
The art on the lamposts are beautifull, almost every shot in this vid has very nice art and I don't mean some bad graffiti, there are lots of genuine pretty art/ graffiti.
Yeah Tower hamlets is a no-go area. Only because local people cannot afford to rent let alone buy property.
I went to uni 20 years ago. I’m shocked at how much worse things are for these students.
I didn't even know where Tower Hamlets was, but when I looked it up, I realised I'd been round that way loads of times. I can't say I ever felt in danger from any of the chai latte drinking poets that I met round there.
*TAKE TIME TO ENJOY YOUR CURRY HOUSES* 15 years in Bulgaria and I have not had a curry...!!!!
Or fish and chips
Flipping heck mate, that's gotta be torture. Can't even get a takeaway? 😅
Mate.... I'm sorry. Come back, seriously.
Saddest thing I've ever heard 😢
@@M_Bamboozled - I wholeheartedly agree. My rent on a beach side apartment is £132 a month and I get 300 days of sunshine a year, but honestly its a hell of a price to pay for it not having curry. I can NOT tell you how much I miss curry...!
@@keifer7813 - NOPE they just dont "do" curry here. Chinese - yes. Pizza - yes. Not a single proper curry house.
They have places in the tourist areas to pander to the holidaymakers but they are terrible and psychopathically expensive.
The interviews should surely be in the residential areas and not commercial
Well, that’s that sorted. Apart from the fact, it was a local paper in Birmingham that quoted the police as saying there were ‘no-go areas’ in the city. But hey, what would the police know about that? Then, there was that recent incident of an Afghani telling an Englishwoman in Asda (wasn’t that Tower Hamlets?) that she had to leave due to the way she was dressed because ‘Asda has a policy’ Sounds like a great precedent to set. Fortunately, knife crime is not an issue in the city. So, we’re all good. That said, still can’t figure out how the NHS is not coping with 700,000 people arriving each year?
You should do a video on Bradford city and why it has the highest rate of babies born with health defects due to Asian incest relations.
Any estates in Tower Hamlets or just poncey shopping areas?
Use to regularly attend the Rhythm Factory on Whitechapel Road, walking the streets in the small hours with not a care in the world...