Honestly this series is amazing and needs to be on mainstream TV. Shockingly nothing has changed for the better in 4 years. Seems to have got a lot worse.
You get what you vote for and if you voted Brexit because it was going to make you 'free' that frankly you deserve to be poor. If people stopped spending half their life on facebook and attempted to read a newspaper/a book every now and again,you wouldn't end up a unemployed man in your mid twenties spouting shit about a new world order and claiming people are going to put chips into you. Fuck the lot of them frankly.
John Harris is good at making an ordinary housing estate look a lot more bleak than it actually is. But I like watching these videos a lot despite that. Excellent stuff for the most part.
@@weareallbeingwatched4602 for us it is but it doesn't have wider appeal and doesn't attract the audience's. This would change people's LIVES, simply seeing this.
As an American, nobody was ever able to emphasize the significance that pubs have in English culture like that pub owner was through such an emotional perspective.
@Davide Le Dingue I wouldn't say churches are the center of most people's social lives however your main thesis and the premise surrounding it is absolutely heartbreaking.
Davide Le Dingue the village I live in had two pubs. The Compasses and the Swan. The compasses has more or less been hollow for years as it constantly changed hands and tried to make itself into a restaurant. The Swan hung on the village pub but, due to COVID, finally shut its doors. And now the village feels like nothing other than a settlement around a coop. With no real heart to it anymore.
It's a total restructuring of society, in line with the legislature for 2030. Absolutely nothing to do with controlling an omnipresent 'bogey man' virus. What an absolute farce. We are being ordered to live our lives the way the WEF want. This is an absolute travesty.
Thanks for coming up to shine a spotlight on artists, venues and the Midlands in general, John & John! Followed the series for a long time and found that it's the only thing that properly explores how attitudes and resentment has been shifting in the last 10 years, as well as the disconnect between the capital and the rest of the country. Very weird but an honour to actually be in one!
Good luck, it's great to see bands still playing. Hopefully the future will be good for you. I think it should be with your perseverance and determination.
Allan Moore the comic book writer (the watchmen) put it right when he said - 'you see the people who believe in conspiracy theories they have got it all wrong, the truth is even more disturbing and difficult to comprehend - The truth is.. there is nobody in control'
That ending was bang on, I've always seen conspiracy theories as like a religion, an easier way for people who feel powerless to explain something complex, and that's why there's usually bits of truth in them somewhere. Loved this!
It's mad though. They thought if they voted Brexit all the closed down 1960s industries would suddenly reappear. It was all driven by hatred of immigrants. If you asked people why they were voting leave they always said immigration. They've been deluded into thinking immigrants are taking all the jobs and houses and benefits. Now this Covid thing is even worse. Never mind 2 million plus people being killed by it. If you've not died from Covid but you have lost your job then it's easy to say no lockdown but there's no empathy at all for other people. The idea my job matters more than other people's actual lives.
These films are great, not ashamed to say that I often have tears in my eyes watching and listening to the people John Harris and John Domoskos speak to.
This is heartbreaking 😞😞. As a Brazilian, I see that also happening in my country, business shutting down, people relying on benefits, their survival being threatened. Too sad!
14:00 These two lads have got the gist of it, Its not about a virus anymore.. Its aboutu steamrolling small business and middleclasses and building back into the great reset.
@@albionpatterns3986 the death rate has declined sharply now thanks to lockdown and vaccines. The vaccine rollout which started in December couldn't have had time to make enough of a difference by January, it takes about 12 weeks to get 2 doses and get full protection. People mixed too much over December which accounts for the high death rate in January. (Deaths caused by Covid 19 transmitted by close contact.)
I honestly cannot express the gratitude I feel for this series. The way John can ask just some questions that are so simple and innocent, yet really get on the pulse of how people are thinking and feeling is amazing. This is how to use Vox popping to its full potential, and how to do amazing journalism. Please keep up the amazing work
I left school in 1980, a dead eyed comprehensive in a dying Midlands town. I've winged it with a few breaks in theatre, music and conferencing. Regardless of which party was in government it's been 'jam tomorrow'. I honestly believe that the shambles this kleptocricy have made of the current pandemic and the looming brexit disaster might be the last straw. Luckily for me my maternal grandmother was born in the Republic of Ireland so I'm looking at applying for a passport as I feel trapped in a country in a race to the bottom, Singapore by the Thames. Great piece of journalism. Things really do look bleak, yes?
You can go to Ireland anyway under the CTA which long predates the EU. Not that their economy is much better, not to mention a severe housing crisis in Dublin
You make them sound like strange and remote places. I live 10 miles from Brownhills, the first town to be featured in the video and it's a very ordinary place, not rich but not that poor either. Its actually next to some of the wealthiest places in the county like Sutton Coldfield (which I suppose you could regard as a bad thing rather than a good thing).
The guardian have really done them self good here this is the best thing ive watched brings so many diffrent loves and ages and just shows how everyone was affected differently
I LOVE your segments. Oh man, I would almost love you to come to the US for a few months and tour deep red America and urban cities. Anything but the Beltway. Get a real sense of things. Might be fascinating. Unrelated, the gent who's speaking around 12:55 has the most fascinating speaking pattern (very bouncy), and I love how our guide seems to almost adopt it too. Shows his empathy is real.
Great to scan and see the rest of the UK, instead of being confined to my own little bubble. Many minds are thinking alike - who the hell is trustworthy enough to govern this nation, in a critical time ?
I've had a lot of concerns re: masks and the impact on human socialisation, but the thing about babies maybe not learning to recognise facial expressions hadn't occurred to me until now. Yikes! Great content (in a sad way), cheers for this. Stay bostin, Walsall, hang in there.
12:39, and yet, when these lads try to sell their houses, they won’t be able to buy any property elsewhere. They’re stuck there. Economic serfdom of the highest order!
From a distance Antipathy is indistinguishably from apathy, but people are really angry with the status quo, I worry what's going to happen when Brexit doesn't deliver any improvement to our situation.
4:12 bare in mind that when the head teacher is so keen to promote "socializing" as a "key part" of education.....just think: what would happen to her job (and employment within the education sector in general) is we were to supercharge virtual learning?......mmm.... A LOT less jobs for teachers, that's what! take what the say with a pinch of salt.
I am Brazilian ! I behold a lot of cracking -down and extreme woe around the world . . . About the United Kingdom , several workers as registered employees, self-employees,commerciants , artists, storekeepers,entrepreneurs etc . . . lost their wages besides their families have found out of extreme colapse . . . I presume ,a plenty of homeless over there without or within governamental supporting !😢
This documentary whilst exploring an important story only ever seeks out one side of a story in an area, is it representative? it was dreary. Lots of us are very lucky to have kept jobs and worked from home and i would never seek to dismiss the importance of the story of those struggling, but changes have a positive side too, you spoke with the impact on the central sandwich shop, why not go and speak to commuters when you were in Marple? People who for decades have had to cram on to delayed, expensive and unreliable dead end rail services to a job which they could have done from home a decade ago? Will they be using marple cafe's, shops and the pub you featured more after the pandemic?
I’m fascinated by this series and I’m not even English. At this point, it looks like the rift from the past about the immigrant communities wasn’t such a bad problem to have after all, relatively speaking
What are the chances of suffocating exactly, when most people only have a mild-moderate disease. Check our Dr Mike Yeadon for information on pre-existing T-Cell immunity to this virus. The odds of you suffocating are extremely slim.
Case death rate is officially 2% in the US (Johns Hopkins data). Either way it is still a higher death rate than all the jobs you don't want to dirty your dainty hands with because they are risky. But go on then, think it's nothing, I think it's a good option to clear the gene pool.
This show needs to be programmed to Americans and even Canadians who think Britain is this upper-crust, tip-top, Harry Potter utopia. It’s far from it!
Love this series. For once get an actual feeling of life on the ground and why the country is progressing the way it is. Heart breaking stuff being cultivated by a global pandemic and an incompetent government.
The footage could do with grading / colour correction - looks very grey and under-contrast. The footage would probably look excellent if bumped up properly.
The most important thing is re-establishing social connections. Keeping people apart is extremely harmful to their mental and physical well being, especially to those that live on their own. All this talk about support bubbles is a load of crap if you don't have a household to begin with or you are unable to establish an exclusive arrangement with another person of family. Those with active social lives have stronger immune systems and all these measures in place only serve to weaken us and break our spirit. Isolation has been proven to be as harmful as smoking. I will never forgive or forget the government for harming my mental and physical health during these times.
Im sorry but you can't compare Ancoats with a Collyhurst council estate, it looks nice because the developers will get returns from high cost apartments. Bloke complains theres no local shops, whats the bet they use a supermarket and Amazon.
Ancoats had nothing going for it until a few years ago, it was just post-industrial wasteland. Now it's completely different. The point he's making about Collyhurst is that developers have got their eye on it too as it's so close to the city centre. Nothing has happened yet but when it does who is going to profit from it? And what happens to the people living there now. If you haven't already watch Manctopia on iPlayer, goes into it in a fair bit.
Having watched a number of these a few months ago and finding them first rate, I’m now having second thoughts. Go to absolutely any city in the Western Hemisphere and you would have no difficulty in finding similar places and problems - be it today, 10 or even 20 years ago. Are there absolutely no bright spots anywhere nearby? Seek and ye shall find - depending on what you are looking for. For starters, people on foot summoned at random hardly represent a cross-section of the population. And the doleful music certainly seems purposefully chosen. Is it really doom and gloom everywhere?
Just because a few software developers, managers, accountants and real estate agents were able to do their jobs from the comfort of their homes, doesn't mean that the rest of the country is fine. Those jobs that you refer to are the minority of the work force
@@MrJason005 Nowhere do I refer to jobs. However, as you’ve mentioned the subject, the population of the metropolitan area of Manchester in 2018 was 3.3 million. In the unlikely event that these are all software developers, managers, accountants and real estate agents all working from home, the astoundingly bleak picture painted here remains moot. The question remains: just how accurate is this video and others like it in their depiction of the true extent of misery and nihilism? That is far from saying that there are not chronic problems or that great hardship exists.
@@adscri There are pockets of prosperity, you're right. Take places like NJ in the US. One moment you're in Westfield, one of the best places to live in the country, and in 10 minutes you could be in Elizabeth or Linden, which are on the opposite spectrum. It's really parallel universes at this point. No matter what county. Which is representative of the true reality? There's no such thing.
This series illustrates how certain parts of Britain are actually 3rd world. And it's so sad to see these people suffering- but as someone from the Northwest this is quite a common sight. The failures we see here aren't just due to 10 years of Tory policies but neglect over the decades. However, the Tories certainly exacerbated the problem.
I feel so sad for them. They have been left behind in education, employment, infrastructure ect. I find it mind boggling anyone could believe the conspiracy theories? What makes someone go down that rabbit hole? Is it really lack of education? I wouldnt say Im the brightest bulb in the box I have to really work to get a pass mark but I appreciate experts I look for good sources.
@@sdrawkcabUK most countries locked down at least once and we still have lost almost 2 million people. If it is totally harmless I would encourage you to go get it. Personally, from what I have seen in professional athletes I am going to stay away from it as much as possible.
people "believe" in these conspiracy theories as a simple explanation of what's happening but there's still some truth in their words - they feel more and more isolated from most of the good things that are happening in the world
It is all about inequality. Just think how much better it would have been if people didn’t have to worry about getting the basic. And now we know the rich made more money then ever and assembly line workers died the most.
Did you run out of 50p pieces for the meter in the editing suite? Pretty odd to just fade out in the middle of an interesting conversation. Unfinished business there.
The most honest report I've watched this year, guys keep doing what your doing, and lets make sure those in Westminster at least see this. I know they won't act on it, they haven't in the last 10 years of government, and they wont in the future, but those in Westminster should be made to see what their lies and decision making has created. As for the rest of us, I fear it's up to us to change things, this government wont help. Change in our communities can only come from the people living there which sounds impossible, but it's the only way people of the UK can break free from the madness of Westminster.
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They way the guy says he needs support is heartbreaking.
It was when he said companionship...that hits you.
Honestly this series is amazing and needs to be on mainstream TV. Shockingly nothing has changed for the better in 4 years. Seems to have got a lot worse.
You get what you vote for and if you voted Brexit because it was going to make you 'free' that frankly you deserve to be poor. If people stopped spending half their life on facebook and attempted to read a newspaper/a book every now and again,you wouldn't end up a unemployed man in your mid twenties spouting shit about a new world order and claiming people are going to put chips into you. Fuck the lot of them frankly.
John Harris is good at making an ordinary housing estate look a lot more bleak than it actually is. But I like watching these videos a lot despite that. Excellent stuff for the most part.
TH-cam is now the mainstream.
@@weareallbeingwatched4602 for us it is but it doesn't have wider appeal and doesn't attract the audience's. This would change people's LIVES, simply seeing this.
The promises of Brexit sold them down the river again
so glad this series is back, needed now more than ever
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Anywhere but Westminster is some of the best journalism in the UK.
This series is so amazing. He is so amazing. What a kind and compassionate journalist.
As an American, nobody was ever able to emphasize the significance that pubs have in English culture like that pub owner was through such an emotional perspective.
@Davide Le Dingue I wouldn't say churches are the center of most people's social lives however your main thesis and the premise surrounding it is absolutely heartbreaking.
Davide Le Dingue the village I live in had two pubs. The Compasses and the Swan. The compasses has more or less been hollow for years as it constantly changed hands and tried to make itself into a restaurant. The Swan hung on the village pub but, due to COVID, finally shut its doors. And now the village feels like nothing other than a settlement around a coop. With no real heart to it anymore.
It's a total restructuring of society, in line with the legislature for 2030. Absolutely nothing to do with controlling an omnipresent 'bogey man' virus. What an absolute farce. We are being ordered to live our lives the way the WEF want. This is an absolute travesty.
@@Blacktolite mancunian, lgbt flag outside the pub. Highly doubt she's a tory 🤷♂️
Thanks for coming up to shine a spotlight on artists, venues and the Midlands in general, John & John! Followed the series for a long time and found that it's the only thing that properly explores how attitudes and resentment has been shifting in the last 10 years, as well as the disconnect between the capital and the rest of the country. Very weird but an honour to actually be in one!
Good luck, it's great to see bands still playing. Hopefully the future will be good for you. I think it should be with your perseverance and determination.
That's such a brutal truth: this didn't feel like a bolt out of the blue, but just one more thing. Best journalism in the uk this series, hands down.
Allan Moore the comic book writer (the watchmen) put it right when he said - 'you see the people who believe in conspiracy theories they have got it all wrong, the truth is even more disturbing and difficult to comprehend - The truth is.. there is nobody in control'
That's a great quotation. It's definitely easier to believe there is some order in the chaos that goes on.
This is a very important series, please keep making it. 👍
That ending was bang on, I've always seen conspiracy theories as like a religion, an easier way for people who feel powerless to explain something complex, and that's why there's usually bits of truth in them somewhere. Loved this!
It's mad though. They thought if they voted Brexit all the closed down 1960s industries would suddenly reappear. It was all driven by hatred of immigrants. If you asked people why they were voting leave they always said immigration. They've been deluded into thinking immigrants are taking all the jobs and houses and benefits. Now this Covid thing is even worse. Never mind 2 million plus people being killed by it. If you've not died from Covid but you have lost your job then it's easy to say no lockdown but there's no empathy at all for other people. The idea my job matters more than other people's actual lives.
@@lw3646 nice lack of self-awareness you have there
I believe Epstein killed himself and we will find those WMDs any day now!
The elites lie and people die!
This is journalism, talking to real people
Please keep telling us about this. It’s incredibly important.
Hats off to the G yet another great episode
This series has been fantastic! He is like the Louis Theroux for the impoverished! Great social journalism.
I dont want to draw comparisons but its like Detroit USA in the early Nougties sorry but thats my impression.
Without the murders of course. Birmingham has about 10 homicides a year compared to hundreds in places like Detroit and Chicago.
@@ajs41 just 10 mate ? Maybe just from gunshot, pretty sure stabbig wise we are looking a one every other day
These films are great, not ashamed to say that I often have tears in my eyes watching and listening to the people John Harris and John Domoskos speak to.
These vox pop episodes are the most insightful. I hope to see more of them.
This is heartbreaking 😞😞. As a Brazilian, I see that also happening in my country, business shutting down, people relying on benefits, their survival being threatened. Too sad!
It's about time for another in this series!!!! I am an American Trump supporter / Republican. But really like John
This series is one of my favourite things. All about survival. Thanks x
I really appreciate how he never tells the people that he interviews that they're wrong
This is one of the best series in British journalism. Missed it honestly. Thank you.
Dang, I missed this series, thanks for the fix.
14:00 These two lads have got the gist of it, Its not about a virus anymore.. Its aboutu steamrolling small business and middleclasses and building back into the great reset.
Not really the death rate rocketed in January after restrictions were eased in December...
@@lw3646 December was when they started vaccinating, wasnt it?
@@albionpatterns3986 the death rate has declined sharply now thanks to lockdown and vaccines. The vaccine rollout which started in December couldn't have had time to make enough of a difference by January, it takes about 12 weeks to get 2 doses and get full protection. People mixed too much over December which accounts for the high death rate in January. (Deaths caused by Covid 19 transmitted by close contact.)
@@lw3646 I can see you have well and truely drank the cool aid.
PS what happened to influenza deaths in 2020 then? Covid = the flu
I honestly cannot express the gratitude I feel for this series. The way John can ask just some questions that are so simple and innocent, yet really get on the pulse of how people are thinking and feeling is amazing. This is how to use Vox popping to its full potential, and how to do amazing journalism. Please keep up the amazing work
Proper journalism brilliant work
These are always really valuable viewing, thank you to all involved!
I left school in 1980, a dead eyed comprehensive in a dying Midlands town. I've winged it with a few breaks in theatre, music and conferencing.
Regardless of which party was in government it's been 'jam tomorrow'. I honestly believe that the shambles this kleptocricy have made of the current pandemic and the looming brexit disaster might be the last straw. Luckily for me my maternal grandmother was born in the Republic of Ireland so I'm looking at applying for a passport as I feel trapped in a country in a race to the bottom, Singapore by the Thames.
Great piece of journalism. Things really do look bleak, yes?
You can go to Ireland anyway under the CTA which long predates the EU. Not that their economy is much better, not to mention a severe housing crisis in Dublin
Thank you. Truth is healing. Truth sets us all free. Please keep doing this series. I live in the US. I've never seen anything like this here.
Love this series but it's so heartbreaking.
John Harris needs his own TV show
Thank you... Honest... Open... Friendly journalism.
I know this sounds weird but thank you for going out to these places.
You make them sound like strange and remote places. I live 10 miles from Brownhills, the first town to be featured in the video and it's a very ordinary place, not rich but not that poor either. Its actually next to some of the wealthiest places in the county like Sutton Coldfield (which I suppose you could regard as a bad thing rather than a good thing).
Harris is a great narrator of contemporaneity
The guardian have really done them self good here this is the best thing ive watched brings so many diffrent loves and ages and just shows how everyone was affected differently
Harris is a great Narrator of contemporaneity
I LOVE your segments. Oh man, I would almost love you to come to the US for a few months and tour deep red America and urban cities. Anything but the Beltway. Get a real sense of things. Might be fascinating.
Unrelated, the gent who's speaking around 12:55 has the most fascinating speaking pattern (very bouncy), and I love how our guide seems to almost adopt it too. Shows his empathy is real.
This series has become a chronicle of our times. This is was what journalism used to be like.
So surreal to see a band playing live. I can only hope that next year is a bit better but in reality it'll probably end up being even worse.
Yeeeessss! I love this series.
Great to scan and see the rest of the UK, instead of being confined to my own little bubble. Many minds are thinking alike - who the hell is trustworthy enough to govern this nation, in a critical time ?
Love these videos! Does anyone have any suggestions of similar series to this please?
That was both powerful and touching. Love this series!
Thank you for making these amazing short films
Great to see a new episode 😍
I've had a lot of concerns re: masks and the impact on human socialisation, but the thing about babies maybe not learning to recognise facial expressions hadn't occurred to me until now. Yikes! Great content (in a sad way), cheers for this. Stay bostin, Walsall, hang in there.
The British citizens have suffered a lot because of that plague . . . 😢
Bravo to you both, love these pieces for their honesty.
great series would love some subtitles though, some of those ascents are really difficult to understand unless you're from the UK
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12:39, and yet, when these lads try to sell their houses, they won’t be able to buy any property elsewhere. They’re stuck there. Economic serfdom of the highest order!
Exactly. It's very very hard to improve your situation.
Really enjoy this series, should be mainstream tv.
Dude ive missssssed this series!
John is 50?!
I'm usually first to bash the Guardian, but this series is really fantastic.
Best series from the guardian.
Thank you for being back.
This series is amazing
PLEASE DO MORE OF THESE
absolutely brilliant
I love these.
From a distance Antipathy is indistinguishably from apathy, but people are really angry with the status quo, I worry what's going to happen when Brexit doesn't deliver any improvement to our situation.
4:12 bare in mind that when the head teacher is so keen to promote "socializing" as a "key part" of education.....just think: what would happen to her job (and employment within the education sector in general) is we were to supercharge virtual learning?......mmm.... A LOT less jobs for teachers, that's what! take what the say with a pinch of salt.
Those guys at the end knew the conspiracies that are still with us today 2 years on. Stay safe everyone.
I am Brazilian !
I behold a lot of cracking -down and extreme woe around the world . . .
About the United Kingdom , several workers as registered employees, self-employees,commerciants , artists,
storekeepers,entrepreneurs etc . . . lost their wages besides their families have found out of extreme colapse . . .
I presume ,a plenty of homeless over there without or within governamental supporting !😢
This documentary whilst exploring an important story only ever seeks out one side of a story in an area, is it representative? it was dreary. Lots of us are very lucky to have kept jobs and worked from home and i would never seek to dismiss the importance of the story of those struggling, but changes have a positive side too, you spoke with the impact on the central sandwich shop, why not go and speak to commuters when you were in Marple? People who for decades have had to cram on to delayed, expensive and unreliable dead end rail services to a job which they could have done from home a decade ago? Will they be using marple cafe's, shops and the pub you featured more after the pandemic?
Having watched, I came to the same conclusion - basically dreary and depressing (just the music alone) and is it truly representative?
I’m fascinated by this series and I’m not even English.
At this point, it looks like the rift from the past about the immigrant communities wasn’t such a bad problem to have after all, relatively speaking
1:39 sums it up really
always liked this guy a lot
good series. shame there is nt anything good to report.
How many adverts do you need in one 17 min video @theGuardian??
Yes it's hard, but I would rather isolate than suffocate.
I want you to listen to me very carefully, there is only a 97% of surviving.
Imagine a virus so deadly you have to be tested to know you have it
What are the chances of suffocating exactly, when most people only have a mild-moderate disease. Check our Dr Mike Yeadon for information on pre-existing T-Cell immunity to this virus. The odds of you suffocating are extremely slim.
@@ylandrinschweitzer of Covid or with Covid?
Case death rate is officially 2% in the US (Johns Hopkins data). Either way it is still a higher death rate than all the jobs you don't want to dirty your dainty hands with because they are risky. But go on then, think it's nothing, I think it's a good option to clear the gene pool.
This show needs to be programmed to Americans and even Canadians who think Britain is this upper-crust, tip-top, Harry Potter utopia. It’s far from it!
"you need music to live" couldn't have summed up what lockdown has done to the things people love any better
Love this series. For once get an actual feeling of life on the ground and why the country is progressing the way it is. Heart breaking stuff being cultivated by a global pandemic and an incompetent government.
'progressing'??
@@sdrawkcabUK Ha! Yeah, maybe progressing isnt the right word. Collapsing may be more suitable.
AT 1:39 what does that store sell?
Firstly, Great show as ever. Secondly, how on earth is John Harris 50. WHAT'S YOUR SECRET MAN?
The footage could do with grading / colour correction - looks very grey and under-contrast. The footage would probably look excellent if bumped up properly.
Certainly reminded me of home.
They do that on purpose to give it a drab social realism I Daniel Blake look. Plus the desaturated look is pretty popular right now in TV.
interesting report
Those two lads at the end, i feel sympathy for them, waaay too much time on their hands looking into conspiracy theories.
The most important thing is re-establishing social connections. Keeping people apart is extremely harmful to their mental and physical well being, especially to those that live on their own. All this talk about support bubbles is a load of crap if you don't have a household to begin with or you are unable to establish an exclusive arrangement with another person of family. Those with active social lives have stronger immune systems and all these measures in place only serve to weaken us and break our spirit. Isolation has been proven to be as harmful as smoking. I will never forgive or forget the government for harming my mental and physical health during these times.
Im sorry but you can't compare Ancoats with a Collyhurst council estate, it looks nice because the developers will get returns from high cost apartments. Bloke complains theres no local shops, whats the bet they use a supermarket and Amazon.
Ancoats had nothing going for it until a few years ago, it was just post-industrial wasteland. Now it's completely different. The point he's making about Collyhurst is that developers have got their eye on it too as it's so close to the city centre. Nothing has happened yet but when it does who is going to profit from it? And what happens to the people living there now. If you haven't already watch Manctopia on iPlayer, goes into it in a fair bit.
Having watched a number of these a few months ago and finding them first rate, I’m now having second thoughts. Go to absolutely any city in the Western Hemisphere and you would have no difficulty in finding similar places and problems - be it today, 10 or even 20 years ago. Are there absolutely no bright spots anywhere nearby? Seek and ye shall find - depending on what you are looking for. For starters, people on foot summoned at random hardly represent a cross-section of the population. And the doleful music certainly seems purposefully chosen. Is it really doom and gloom everywhere?
Just because a few software developers, managers, accountants and real estate agents were able to do their jobs from the comfort of their homes, doesn't mean that the rest of the country is fine. Those jobs that you refer to are the minority of the work force
@@MrJason005 Nowhere do I refer to jobs. However, as you’ve mentioned the subject, the population of the metropolitan area of Manchester in 2018 was 3.3 million. In the unlikely event that these are all software developers, managers, accountants and real estate agents all working from home, the astoundingly bleak picture painted here remains moot. The question remains: just how accurate is this video and others like it in their depiction of the true extent of misery and nihilism? That is far from saying that there are not chronic problems or that great hardship exists.
@@adscri There are pockets of prosperity, you're right. Take places like NJ in the US. One moment you're in Westfield, one of the best places to live in the country, and in 10 minutes you could be in Elizabeth or Linden, which are on the opposite spectrum. It's really parallel universes at this point. No matter what county. Which is representative of the true reality? There's no such thing.
Finally mainstream media showing the truth!! Great video
This series illustrates how certain parts of Britain are actually 3rd world. And it's so sad to see these people suffering- but as someone from the Northwest this is quite a common sight. The failures we see here aren't just due to 10 years of Tory policies but neglect over the decades. However, the Tories certainly exacerbated the problem.
I feel so sad for them. They have been left behind in education, employment, infrastructure ect. I find it mind boggling anyone could believe the conspiracy theories? What makes someone go down that rabbit hole? Is it really lack of education? I wouldnt say Im the brightest bulb in the box I have to really work to get a pass mark but I appreciate experts I look for good sources.
One year of our lives stolen. Who is going to be held accountable?
China hopefully
A pandemic normally happens once every hundred years, it is just part of life.
@@ttbr7687 COVID is barely a threat to anyone under 70... needlessly locking down a county for a year is not a rational solution
@@sdrawkcabUK most countries locked down at least once and we still have lost almost 2 million people. If it is totally harmless I would encourage you to go get it. Personally, from what I have seen in professional athletes I am going to stay away from it as much as possible.
@@sdrawkcabUK not true at all
people "believe" in these conspiracy theories as a simple explanation of what's happening but there's still some truth in their words - they feel more and more isolated from most of the good things that are happening in the world
🙈🙊🙉 - WHY ? No Help , I feel pain too !!!!!
It is all about inequality. Just think how much better it would have been if people didn’t have to worry about getting the basic. And now we know the rich made more money then ever and assembly line workers died the most.
A couple of random blokes on a council estate have a better understanding of the economics of this than the prime minister.
Maybe they've already had their microchip planted and Elon Musk is transmitting low level frequencies to their brain on economics?
@@markspencer4092 No, they've just thought about it. It's not exactly rocket science.
@@philipvjones397 How do we know you're not part of the microchip conspiracy? Maybe you're covering it up?
@@markspencer4092 If I was, I wouldn't be wasting my time commenting on TH-cam videos.
Good to be back 😏
It's the city of the W.A.S.P. and not the humble bumble Bee
That's what needs addressing Rasta
Did you run out of 50p pieces for the meter in the editing suite? Pretty odd to just fade out in the middle of an interesting conversation. Unfinished business there.
The most honest report I've watched this year, guys keep doing what your doing, and lets make sure those in Westminster at least see this.
I know they won't act on it, they haven't in the last 10 years of government, and they wont in the future, but those in Westminster should be made to see what their lies and decision making has created. As for the rest of us, I fear it's up to us to change things, this government wont help. Change in our communities can only come from the people living there which sounds impossible, but it's the only way people of the UK can break free from the madness of Westminster.
Bring back glue sniffing
@7:00 that dudes shirt is WAY too tight
England genuinely seems like the most depressing place on Earth.
It's not as bad as the Guardian like to make out. Like everywhere it has nice areas and not so nice areas. Everywhere is bleak under a lockdown.
Remember that Britain is extremely wealthy, its just very unequal. These are the places no one else sees. Lots of England is ridiculously rich
@@chilldude30 a few pockets of wealth in the South
I'm so over conspiracy theorists
:( damn it