Just stumbled across this. I'm the creator of the video, so glad you found it interesting and I hope you get to visit the city one day! Filming this was my first time there and I loved it.
Yes, the Cheshire Cat is named after the county of Cheshire. The reason for this is that Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice was from a small town in Cheshire
Hello connor, best wishes from the Dingle area of Liverpool. Many people have a bad opinion of Liverpool, yet most of these people have never been here to qualify them to have any opinion.
Wow, McJ, that was a powerful video! Thank you. The Hillsborough footage was very moving...and yes, I think the cop WAS telling the crowd to get back into the enclosure - that's part of the problem/cover-up. I think the Police originally said they didn't know the stand had collapsed and just thought the fans were being yobs trying to cause trouble. But we all now know that was a lie! An awful situation. You know...I am learning so much about my own history and culture from you and your videos. Cheers, mate!
Connor. It is not pronounced BirmingHAM .. It is BirmingUM. Other place names which end in HAM are also pronounced with that last but as UM As in Cheltenham ... say Chelltenum Bellingham ... say Bellinum Rotherham ... say Rotherun ... Okay ? 🖖😊❤
I've only been to Liverpool once, but I bloody loved it! I'm a born and bred Londoner, but I would move to Liverpool in a heartbeat. It reminded me of how London used to be when I was growing up, before much of London was gentrified and it was still a friendly place to live. Any sense of community has mostly died out in London, but to me it seemed to be alive and well in Liverpool.
@garyrigby21 No worries. Funnily enough, I do know someone who grew up in Southend (Essex) who went to school with an Andy Baker, I wonder if he's the one you knew! A fairly popular name though, when I was at primary school I had a pen pal in Australia called Andrew Baker. And when I had my first ever job, there was another Andy Baker on the payroll. I found this out because I didn't get paid on my first payday. It turned out that they'd paid my salary to the other Andy Baker, as well as his own salary. I bet he had a few nights out on that until the error was discovered! 😁
Lewis Carroll invented 'Cheshire Cat' there is NO such breed. Liverpool has the oldest Symphony orchestra in the UK, the largest and most comprehensive Art Galleries next to London and also Museums and the second largest Cathedral in Europe. It has has the largest number of Grade I and Grade II Listed - historical buildings of any single borough in UK. It has an enormous university sector. I left Liverpool 40 years ago - but still have the accent and yet in London when I explain I have been a University Lecturer and am an Oxford educated Barrister - counts for nothing, I am described as a Scouser.
Also has sky high crime, above average unemployment and a percentage of people who actively lie. I used to live across from Hillsborough and I know what I saw. But hey, museums make up for all that don’t they.
@@TheRedPeril You seem to think that no other major UK city does not have the same problems. YOU SAW NOTHIGN AS YOU WERE NOT INSIDE THE STADIUM and the Police Chief ADMITTED HE LIED.
The final act of the American civil war happened in Liverpool. The Confederate ship CSS Shenandoah surrendered in Liverpool on November 6th 1865 five months after the final shots were fired in June.
Every British city has areas where it's rough and you'll 'have your hub caps nicked' whether it's Liverpool or Birmingham. I live 20 miles from Liverpool, i went to university there and regularly go there still for work and never had a problem. The museums in Liverpool are amazing and there are some beautiful buildings and architecture
@@dannjp75 funnily enough even though I went to uni in Liverpool, I never went on nights out there I always ended up in Manchester at Rock World and Jilly's. Actually tell a lie, I went to Cream once, got really paranoid and spent most of the night in the toilets 😂
@@DisconnectedRoamer I would not feel safe in that there London. I've been a few times to Olympia with the horses and nipped into Harrods just to buy the cheapest thing possible and get a Harrods carrier bag 😂
I’m from Liverpool lived here all my life and franks accent is almost a parody of the real Liverpool accent 90 percent have a much milder accent it’s we call it playing the scousers franks a career scouser
This is the best video I've seen to explain Liverpool to the rest of the world. You cannot ignore the hardships Liverpool (and much of the North) have had to endure from a London-centric, sink or swim government. It has sculpted the people of Liverpool into the resolute, helpful, weathered and wise people they are today. The people of Liverpool are the main attraction of Liverpool, not The Beatles. No tourist video tells it like it is. So thank-you Connor for taking the time to learn about Liverpool's people and their painful history. I worry for some American reactors with a homogenised view of the UK that when they visit Liverpool they'll walk into the nearest pub say 'We loved Maggie Thatcher, We love your military. God Save The King !" ...and get immediately deported...to Chester.
There are no time limits to PM service - Walpole served 40 years, Lord Liverpool 14 years and Gladstone four terms the last started when he was 82, he was from Liverpool. The Prime Minister before Thatcher was Harold Wilson, serving four terms between 1964 to 1977, who was actually a Liverpool-Merseyside MP.
Wilson served 2 1/2 Terms actually. 1964-1966 (Early election because of extremely small majority. 1966-70 (Defeated in 1970) 1974-1976 (resigned midway through term due to health problems.
@@Waterford1992 There is no such thing as a 'half term' they are measured in full by Dissolutions and Elections - 1964, 1966 , 1974 and 1974 two GEs, so FOUR Terms. .
Some of the idiotic, stereotypically negative comments here just serve to reinforce the sense of otherness felt by many (although not all) Scousers. It's a great city and I love Liverpool, although I'm not a Scouser, I live about 30 miles away. The name calling that the city and its people are subjected to is ignorant and undeserved, and is tantamount to racism.
Thanks David for that comment I'm a scouser born and bred never moved away don't feel the need too,I'm proud of the people in my city but not the council that let it run down.
Scousers are still culturally English and, in fact, majority/plurality English by descent too. Though there's also a fair dollop of Irish and some Welsh in the mix.
I’d say at least half have a mixed ancestry, at least in my experience. Not much different to other big cities though, urban Britain is a story of immigration. “Ancestrally” there’s more Irish and Welsh in my family than English, and the English side has both Nordic and Jewish in it as well apparently.
Liverpool became a major port because it was the closest to the industrial revolution cities of the interior, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester which required food, raw materials imported and exported manufactures world wide from there. That is why the Liverpool to Manchester Railway was created, the oldest proper, scheduled, regular locomotive driven passenger and goods railway system.
You're probably right Connor about why Cornwall didn't have a major port. Wrong type of harbours, little infastructure and no major cities. The other major trans-Atlantic port and city is much further up the SW coast, Bristol, pretty much where that SW leg of Britain starts to jut out, much better infastructure, canal and routes to London.
@@TimeyWimeyLimey Yes, and eclipsed by Liverpool as an entry-export point. The rise of Liverpool on the Mersey can be dated to its replacement of Chester, a major mediaeval port, city and county town and to its far sighted Corporation enclosing the Pool natural feature as a non-tidal Wet Dock from 1700.
@@uingaeoc3905 At one time Parkgate on the Wirral was an important port and lots of Irish immigrants would have arrived there. But the River Dee silted up and Chester took over.
When I first visited Liverpool around 2010 I was really impressed with the wonderful architecture, especially on the banks of the Mersey. The way the old wharves have been renovated and turned into museums, interesting shops, cafes and restaurants has created a great glimpse into the city's trading past, albeit totally rejuvenated. Overall I really loved Liverpool - it is full of character, has a great vibe and a very welcoming feel. Very well worth a visit. Taking a ferry across the Mersey (it's a very wide river) is a great way to see the cityscape.
@@Nutrient-Gold A very small portion of its wealth was based on the slave trade. Its major wealth came from the port trading with the world importing and exporting commodities, second only to London docks. But hey! you're exactly the type spoken about in this reactors channel, trying your best to drag down the city with ill informed diatribe.
@@purelayermanplayer4062 I think you’ll find a lot of people with a modicum of intellect give af and find the link between the past and now interesting (past trading/architecture etc) but I guess that’s not within your brain capacity so…correction: YOU don’t give af because you’re an ignorant hunt. That’s better.
@@michaelmay5453 Why would you not be proud of who you are? You're a product of your environment. Sweden is a wonderful country, you should be proud to be part of that
Its a strange once because Liverpool seems to have this reputation, yet I've never met a scouser who wasn't proud to be English. I suspect its due to a handful of Liverpool fans who think its "edgy" to be anti English and the media then egg it on
@@newuk26not edgy at all. I think it’s down to who your family/father is. Many get their beliefs from their family. Some (rightfully) have this belief and some (rightfully) don’t. They can chose what and who they represent.
Wow that's interesting, never knew that! Lobscouse sounds like lappskojs, a northern Swedish (and, I presume, Norwegian) dish made of meat and potatoes. Lapp- being an old word for the Sami people in the north of Norway, Sweden and Finland. The meat in lappskojs is raindeer meat.
I need to get you to watch some bits about the Liverpool-leeds canal. Fred dibnah did some good vids on it, the history of it and the navvies who built it. When you come Iver you'll definitely have to be introduced to our canals, the motorways of the UK before cars existed.
17:04 unimaginably heartbreaking, still brings me to tears today. The manager, Sir Kenny Dalgleish, went to every single funeral for those that died. Not long after he left as manger. King Kenny will forever be a legend.
14:45 Falmouth. Its one of the deepest natural harbours in the world (3rd I think). They have docks, they make super yachts there. Cornwall is docked up to the eyeballs. Every other village has a dock. But yeah Cornwall doesnt even have a motorway and you can take a short trip up the Severn to Bristol or Cardiff, or up the channel to Plymouth, Portsmouth etc all of which are better connected than the whole of Cornwall .... we are an Island. There is good sea access everywhere.
@@steddie4514 The deepest natural harbour is Sydney in Australia. Then Mahon. Then Falmouth. Edit: Actually no thats not true Falmouth is deeper than Mahon on checking I am not sure what the second deepest is but Falmouth is the deepest in Western Hemisphere so I would assume there is a deeper one somewhere else. Edit: Apparently its Milford Haven in Wales is the second deepest natural harbour.
It’s absolute nonsense, I was born in the city the vast majority of my family lives there, and none of us say I’m scouse not English bollox, and nobody I know does, it’s a small fraction of people.
I'm not from Liverpool I'm from Lincoln but i do have family who are from there and they no there English and there proud to be English really don't understand the purpose of this video 😂
@@Anglo-Saxon-96 It’s bollox a section of Liverpool fans sing it at some matches, and boo the national anthem, wonder how many actually believe in what they are doing, or just go along with it because others around them do it, maybe even do it because they think well isn’t it what we are supposed to do ? Wonder how many are from or live in the city . Many Liverpool fans don’t agree with this shit.
Liverpool has loads of influences on it's accent.. It was probably one of the most diverse cities in the UK outside of London. Large Welsh and Irish communities among others. Same as for music, Sometimes you can't go without it.. but mostly listen to other things these days Every city has it's bad area's.. You generally find the places with less problems tend to invest in the people, if they have the money.
Liverpool is English and I'm from Liverpool this is offensive to me I'm a proud Englishman end of just because there was Welsh and Irish doesn't mean shit most of us are English decent common fact 🏴🏴🏴
Went there for the first time for a Union conference around 10 (ish) years ago. Had a great time in the evenings. From the main station down to the docks was surprisingly good and entertaining. Unfortunately, part of it was blocked of as they were filming one of the "Fast & Furious" films.
Hiya Connor, this film touches upon a very common feature of the parts of the UK that are not in the affluent south-eastern part of England - where people are raised and nurtured into a culture that thinks rather more highly of itself than it ought to... This is because London is the seat of Government and all the national and international financial and legal institutions, are there; and while there are still more working class people living there, struggling to lead very normal lives like the rest of us; there is a disproportionate number of very well-paid executives who have been raised within well-off families and educated for the most part, in the public school system. These people also speak in AP English and I'm afraid, do tend to look down upon the rest of us, just as the man in the film says. British people - and especially those of working class backgrounds, have a great deal of stoicism and dark humour, that we use in various ways to respond to those who would look down upon us, and Liverpool is one of probably three major cities (the others are Newcastle and Glasgow), who do this particularly well. They are unpretentious, hard-working, artistically-expressive and very sociable souls who will sometimes come up with pretend political banners such as "The Republic of Liverpool" or even more outrageous slogans such as "Hurricane Baw-bag*," as the Glasgow press produced in response to the recent phenomena of naming major weather events, a few years back! (*Baw-bag is the local word for scrotum!) Since 1974, Liverpool has been within a county area named 'Merseyside', and Manchester has been one named 'Greater Manchester'. Both now comprise of several unitary local authorities, but they are historically parts of Lancashire. As well as the Cities of Preston, and Lancaster itself, the other major towns are Southport, Lytham St Annes, Blackpool, Fleetwood, Morecambe, Warrington, Wigan, Chorley, St Helens, Skelmersdale, Bolton, Bury, Accrington, Blackburn, Burnley, Nelson and others. The towns of Kendal, Ulverston and Barrow-in-Furness were also included prior to 1974, though these now lie in Cumbria.
Your inverted snobbery is laughable. Everyone in Southeast England is 'affluent' talk with a plumby accent and look down on everyone else, north of Watford. Meanwhile, the North of England is solely inhabited by honest to goodness salt of the Earth types, who spend their days lamenting 'that London' Perhaps you should lay off the Ken Loach movies and actually spend.some time outside of your self satisfied bubble.
We call it soccer too - 'soccer ' (for 'association football') was a British term to distinguish it from 'rugger' - rugby football. Nowadays it's mainly 'football' but it shouldn't be such a big thing.
the gobshites who get upset at americans saying soccer is at best idiotic. americans have their own version of football so soccer differentiates away from this. i sure there was a football magazine called soccer in the uk 1970s.
I went to university in Liverpool, have spent nearly half my life in the area. I have never come across people rebelling against being english. Yes, very proud to be scouse but I've never heard booing or any more dislike of england than anywhere else. It is however very anti-tory, mostly labour and very against government power and corruption. There's a big history of trade unions. The assumption it's full of crime is still there but i think more said in jest now. It was a pretty spicy place to live in the 80s and 90s though, primarily due to high levels of poverty and the race riots. It has been compared to Baltimore in America - similar big successful city falling on hard times when the government leaves it behind. It was the European capital of culture in 2008 which had huge benefits for the city and its PR, and its a great city these days. Loads of culture, friendly people, affordable housing.
People have been lied to for years about Liverpool the national media gave the city a bad image years ago without ever visiting the city. All the prejudice and discrimination Liverpool gets is totally uncalled for
I'm from a town about 20 miles north of Liverpool right on the border of Merseyside and Lancashire often referred to as 'Posh Scousers' although the Scousers call us 'Woolybacks'. You can tell which side of the town people are from by how much Scouse is in their accent
@@grahamrogers3345 I was thinking St Helens too 🤔 I'm in Warrington and when I was a kid I'm sure my mum and dad (who were raised in Liverpool) referred to people from Widnes as woolybacks
An interesting point you may like.. the last battle of the American civil war was fought on the river Mersey! A few months after the confederacy had lost on the mainland, their ships were still out and about.. the last one was hunted down and sunk in the river that Liverpool sits on!
That’s not quite right, the last surrender was on the River Mersey. The Confederate ship CSS Shenandoah came to the Mersey after the end of the war because a lot of the crew were from Liverpool and Birkenhead (where many Confederate ships were built). Liverpool and Birkenhead were pro-Confederate and there were still Confederate officers in the city. CSS Shenandoah was not sunk it it was given to the USA and then sold.
@@peterrobinson9402 that's interesting I didn't know those details! I was under the impression that the ship was sunk and still under the water!.. maybe an assumption but I read an article on it maybe 5 years back.. people had came to Liverpool from southern US states in a kind of memorial thing, and it had said in that article something that implied being sunk!.. you obviously know your stuff though haha
You mentioned Lancashire? At one time until a boundary change and the forming of Merseyside (Metropolitan County) in 1974, Liverpool was part of Lancashire.
never figured out why they changed for instance how is st.helens , prescott , whiston ,southport became merseyside. same with greater manchester , wigan , bolton , bury , rochadale etc.
Cornwall actually had a very busy port at Falmouth (the 3rd largest natural harbour in the world). It wasn't as busy as Liverpool but important all the same.
I’m Welsh but lived in Liverpool for about 15 years in the 80’s and 90’s. Certainly before “Scouse not British” became a thing but I used to mingle with strongly Welsh and Irish identifying scousers so it felt like a natural progression to me. Since then I’ve lived in a few other big Northern English cities and some have that strong self-identity, some not so much. Currently I’m living in Newcastle and, while you might not see/hear them booing the national anthem (I don’t know, I’m Welsh, I watch the rugby, not the football), I’d be willing to bet a sizeable proportion would identify as Geordies before English and I saw that Scouse before (or instead of) English back when I lived in Liverpool. I’m more than willing to believe the extent to which the Scouse not English phenomenon runs rampant is somewhat exaggerated, but you’ve got a city where a lot of people certainly used to still identify as Welsh or Irish too, hyphenated Welsh-Scouse or Irish-Scouse. Adding “not English” to that is a pretty small step. While it’s far to say Liverpool saw (mis)managed decline under the Thatcher government, a lot of the North of England did too, as did South Wales. If you ever see a video that refers to Boris cracking the Red Wall, this is a swathe of constituencies that were always Labour after the way Thatcher devastated them in the 80’s. Apparently 40 years is a political generation.
@@mrjinks5641Had to laugh at the previous post when he mentioned Newcastle fans not booing the national anthem....somebody needs to tell him you need to play in cup finals in domestic competitions if you are going to boo.....Newcastle United don't play in Cup finals lol,Up the Reds! RIP 97.
Oh it's a beautiful city. If you ever go to the UK it's one of the three you absolutely have to visit. London, Glasgow and Liverpool. I'd put Birmingham, Suffolk and Dundee on that list as well but perhaps that's just me. I don't know why Liverpool has such a bad reputation, it doesn't deserve it at all.
@@michaelmay5453 It's nice to have our home county appreciated. Suffolk, depending on your viewpoint, could be called 'Constable Country' after the well-known artist of the area, or possibly even 'Miss Marple country' after the Agatha Christie character. Much of it is certainly scenic countryside and a working environment agriculturally. I grew up amongst small farmers and familiar of their life and tribulations. I am glad that some where among our personal and family friends, including one somewhat elderly lady who ran her farm virtually single-handed. Rosalind - or Roly, as her friends knew her. A great character and force of nature.
@@neptune1525 I wish that things could be better at the moment and that we all had better peaceable leaders of nations. I remember a naturalist from your country, Nikolay Drozdov, had a series called Realms Of The Russian Bear. I bought the series on DVD and I thought your country very beautiful. A friend of mine visited The Hermitage in St Petersburg on his very last cruise. He had visited before and wanted to see as much as he could before he died. He passed away in 2017, glad that he had the chance. My health prevents me from travel, Russia would have been one of those places. It's sheer beauty is astounding. My best wishes.
Proud to be from Liverpool, people can hate on us, we don't care, we have a strong sense of community in this city, we give each other shit over football whether supporting Liverpool (which I do) or Everton, however, when outsiders attack our city with stand together and stand strong.
This idea of Liverpool being not english or part of England is a load of crap. Liverpool is a great city in a great country. I'm proud to be english and a liverpudlian.
I am from Liverpool I love where I live and proud of where I come from. There are good places and places in Liverpool but you get that where ever you live in the world. My cousin was at hilsbourgh he got broken leg to this day he carn t talk about it. His sister's boyfriend was there he died. It was hard to watch on tv as all the football fans loose their lives and see them being injured. Thank you for sharing to learn about Liverpool you don't get a lot of people do that .
I think most of the anti-english sentiment in Liverpool comes from the Irish catholics, they've been handing down their hate for generations. It's the same in Glasgow with Celtic. You're right about the beatles though, 'THE' most famous and successful group in history.
just driving to Cornwall in a car is a pain, never mind introducing mass transit - also it relies on tourism that they have because of the beaches soooo not happening. Liverpool is just across the Irish sea from Ireland / Dublin.
Thank you for actually taking the time to Learn about Liverpool. The hillsborough disaster was such an eye opener to see how the press think of us. Ive never been able to meet my uncle because of that disaster and yet the press had the nerve to blame Scousers. We really are isolated from the rest of the uk. I’m so proud to be Scouse and will always be Scouse no matter where I am or where I go ❤ YNWA
Hi Conner a very proud Scouser here. I’ve travelled the world even lived abroad for a while but the call is always there in my heart & soul. As they say you can take the person out of Liverpool but not Liverpool out of the person . Liverpool has had an awful reputation as said in the video for those very reasons! Today we get slagged off by people who have never been here! This is a vibrant wonderful city. The friendliest people in the UK dare I say the world! We have a great sense of humour & don’t take ourselves too seriously. I say to anyone before you judge come here! Then decide on your thoughts about us. No matter where I’ve been in the world every single place I’ve visited they ask are you a scouser ? I say yes a very proud one. They say we love you scousers. Met many you are great people. Down to earth funny & kind! It’s a pity some of our own countrymen don’t feel the same. And they’ve never been here! We are a large university city. Many students end up staying here afterwards because they live this city like we do. My next door neighbours are doctors. Both been here for years. After finishing uni. We are a melting pot of people from mainly Ireland && Wales. My paternal grandparents came from Ireland my maternal grandparents from Wales & Scotland. Many families are the same. We get many visitors from all around the world especially from America because of The Beatles. Once they’ve been here they always want to come back. I’m a 54 yr old woman. A mother & grandmother. I am Scouse before anything. Then I’m English. Then British. I love our Royal family. I cried when our Queen died. I watched our King at his coronation . I wouldn’t boo at our national anthem. Please come to Liverpool! You will love it. You will meet people who will become your friends. An amazing City in a great country. Xx
I lived there for 4 years mate. You're not funny, you're thieves. You're not friendly, you are vile xenophobes. Scousers are druggies, mechete wielding thugs. I was mugged 3 times and burgled once. Could not wait to leave.
There’s loads of parks in Liverpool, typically names after the local noble family, the Earls of Derby. So, there’s Derby Park, Sefton Park, Stanley Park. Much of north Liverpool was fields as late as the 1930s, despite the docks being only a few miles away.
I originally come from North Wales, about 30 miles by road from Liverpool. When I was in primary school (age 5-10) in the 1960s Liverpool Education Authority ran an educational camp about a mile from our village school, where Liverpool kids would come to study in the countryside - we used their pool to learn to swim, as it was the only swimming pool anywhere near us, and we used to have meetings so that both lots of kids could learn about the other. I remember both sides often had to repeat what we were saying 2 or 3 times, as we genuinely had trouble understanding each others’ accents. I think the Scouse accent has moderated quite a lot over the last 60 years or so. Back in the 1880s my great-grandfather worked as a stoker in a gasworks in Birkenhead, the town on the other side of the river from Liverpool, he got married there and his first 3 sons were born there (so we used to go there to visit relatives when I was a kid) but by the time my grandfather was born in 1890 he’d moved back to Wales as a farmer, though the “capital of North Wales” line is true. One thing the video doesn’t mention, is that the original wealth of the city largely came from the transatlantic slave trade, and there have been some reassessments of the history lately.
Slavery was lligal in England plus we was fighting on the high sea to stop slave leaving Africa so educate yourself more on the subject because nowadays people like to change history because they don't like the facts and no offense your Welsh what the hell do you people no about us seriously 😂
No we're not. Maybe the flag waving wannabe Tory types that hate migrants feel that way but almost everybody I know hates the British establishment and wants to distance itself from the medeival gangsters the rest of you seem to idolise
@@brendanmoore3938 I not only fly the liver Bird, but was born in the city, the vast majority of my family live in the city, including my farther who’s a season ticket holder at Anfield, and me him nor anyone I know shouts this embarrassing I’m not English i am scouse nonsense and are all proud to be English , you tell me what Hillsborough has to do with being English, I will save you the bother, it’s absolutely nothing whatsoever.
The first time I visited Liverpool my car was broken into within 15 minutes and all my camera equipment was stolen, it's the only time I've ever been robbed. It was a bad introduction to the city and put me off returning for a lot of years. I've been back since and enjoyed exploring the history of the place but never again left anything in the car lol
@peterbiggin7193 lol if you left it on display, it kinda is your fault. I've had this discussion with friends and family who have a habbit of leaving laptops and other expensive stuff just sitting on their car seats. They haven't been robbed, but its tempting fate imo. Regardless of what city/country your parked in.
Same here lad, The booing is pathetic. Don`t know how It`s not possible to be a proud Red / Scouser & British at the same time. It`s like being against the `England` team.
Nah it's not slang term it's idiots who actually say they're not English because they don't like Tories, I say they're idiots because they say they're anti establishment and then they vote Labour.
Cities develop reputations and there is often a kernel of truth. I'm from Newcastle ( a Geordie) and we are generally seen as friendly, practical, pragmatic but not sophisticated or subtle and often unintelligible. It's a city built on engineering. Liverpool is a city built around docks. Dockers pilfer, it's a universal truth and it's generally just factored in as a cost. So buying and selling illegally obtained goods didn't carry much stigma. So the light-fingered stereotype. But also convivial and witty company.
Lewis Carroll - lived in Daresbury in Warrington which is where I live - we have lots of symbolism of him - the pub Alice through the looking glass - we have a stone sculture that people can sit on of the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. The church in Daresbury has stained glass to commemorate him
Connor I grew up near Manchester, now live in Birmingham and am a Liverpool fan. They all have a bad reputation which can be true but are vastly overstated. All 3 are great in their own right.
Cornwall was where the trade was in previous centuries, so the navy was in Plymouth - which is actually in Devon next door. Then the Americas were discovered and the trade routes shifted from south to further up north. The prevailing winds played a part when there were sailing ships.
17:30 the Hillsborough disaster. I think I gave you videos about that last year but not sure you watched them. It was a devastating incident and it was all filmed because of the football match going on 😢 I was 5 and remember it being on the news, it's taken so long for them to get some sort of justice!
I am a Londoner and have never been to Liverpool but I like the Scouse accent I hated Margaret Thatcher and I always will, and the rest of the Tories too.
the "port stuff" you mentioned at 24:58 is around 8km from the city centre. so if you look at that image - the building with the clock is The Royal Liver Building (Li as in light not li as in lip). Anyway those red things in the backgound are floating cranes with the 3 that are closest being the newest. I remember them being towed in to the mersey harbour a few years ago. Anyway it is possible to complete an almost traffic free run or cycle as far as those cranes, then just around the corner (approx 500m) you are lead on to Crosby Beach - which in turn leads on to Formby beach and some of the premier coastline of Britain. We have an abundance of museums, galleries, victorian parks, 2 cathedrals, several beaches on both sides of the river mersey. People love Liverpool and the people from Liverpool for a very good reason - even if the national press and government have never given a f*** about us.
There are no term limits for a Prime Minister. Remember, the PM is not the head of state and we don't vote for the PM. That said, the longest-serving PM was the first, Robert Walpole, who was PM for about 20 years. In more modern times Gladstone is the longest-serving (12 years 4 months).
The type of opposition between cities with on the one site the capital and economical center (at least the yuppie type) is something you see in many countries. Liverpool/London, Rotterdam/Amsterdam, Marseille/Paris etc. I wouldn't know if it goes as far as this video states, but the underlying "class" struggle seems to be all around.
BTW when you talked about cornwall being a good place for a port... or this part of the country. Well, when you watched the Gun Race, that was Portsmouth vs Devonport. Devonport is basically on that part of the coutry that sticks out at plymouth. Aside Bristol is also not too far and is one of the key ports of the Empire.
There are no term limits on a PM, as long as their party keeps winning the elections. The longest serving British PM was Sir Robert Walpole 20 years and 314 days.
Not a word about the Heysel disaster, before the start of the 1985 European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus. "The tragedy resulted in all English clubs being placed under an indefinite ban by UEFA from all European competitions (lifted in 1990-91), with Liverpool being excluded for an additional two years, later reduced to one and 14 Liverpool fans were found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to six years' imprisonment".
Yes it happened but a lot of sorrow hapoened too. There was hooliganism throughout the UK at the time, no top flight club was immune. It was a tragic affair, no one truly knows what made it explode in such a way. I am trying to be pragmatic here. But some very good lessons were learnt from that disaster. We're you around at the time?. Did you see it on tv or what happened at the stadium.
@@jimbo6059 yes - I watched it on the TV - The one thing I’ve never heard from a Liverpool fan then or since is an apology because their fans actions resulted in people dying and the ban on English clubs in Europe. Yet they can’t seem to understand why the club and its fans are detested and resented.
@@jimbo6059I was a little kid at the time and lived in Italy with my English mom and Italian dad. I remember as clear as anything an older boy calling me a hooligan because I was half English. I barely knew what football was 😅
@@seancorker5815 Nonsense. That's not the reason why the club and the city are so detested, it is because people are ignorant, and exploiting a horrific tragedy to reinforce their own prejudices. Same as the sick Hillsborough chanting you still hear to this day, when some very twisted people can't wait to sing about a disaster when other human beings lost their lives. You're also badly wrong to assume that nobody feels regret or guilt about what happened on that tragic night. Unfortunately, you just get some ghouls who make assumptions when they've no more idea than anyone else who threw the first missile over the fence.
I'm from Liverpool. The video inaccurately and massively overplays the Scouse, not English thing. It's only an extremely tiny vocal minority of Liverpool Football Club (FC) fans who believe in and tout that complete nonsense. You'll notice that all the images in the video referencing that nonsense are of Liverpool FC and its fans. And that the ONLY lecturer they spoke to is wearing a Liverpool FC Hillsborough 97 T-shirt and has a framed picture of Liverpool FC on the floor by his chair.
I’m from Cheshire too 😸and my sis in law is scouse!! I live between Manchester and Liverpool! Northwest music capital of UK!!! People like to have a laugh and we are friendly and like a chat! Also the bit in Wales where you said women firing a gun we use to go surfing there in the early 90s!! 😂
Perfect Connor :) You explained it perfectly at the end there. I have never heard that Liverpool is (or was) a bad place. I've spent a lot of time growing up in Manchester during summer holidays when I was a kid, & being so close to Liverpool, it was seen as an enigma by everybody. Totally iconic, never looked down upon. I think this documentary is quite misleading imho. I'm from Dorset, (Born & bred & Scouse is extremely iconic & we are proud of Liverpool) (Just saying...) ;P
I don't get the Irish thing as being an "influence". I come from Coventry. Literally whole areas of the city are dominated by Irish ancestry (myself included as my Mum was born in Ireland). We're still proud to be English. I've never once heard our national anthem booed here
Coventry is not dominated by Irish ancestry like Liverpool is. Today around 75% of Liverpool's entire population has Irish ancestry. During and following the Irish famine and mass migration out of Ireland in the mid-late 1800s. Liverpool's population ending up becoming around 50% Irish-born. Only the cities of Dublin and New York had larger Irish-born populations.
The second city of the Empire was Glasgow. The growing trade with the EC/EU boosted the ports on teh east coast of Britain and weakened the west coast ports like Bristol, Liverpool and Glasgow.
I'm from Luton and love Liverpool and the scoucers. I've been there many times and tbh even the so called bad areas are no worse than any other city. Whatever happened to the Grafton? 😂😂😂
Liverpool's independent-mindedness goes back over 1,000 years, to the Viking age, when it had its own 'Thing' (Parliament) - as did the separate Viking colony across the River Mersey on the Wirral. The Mersey formed the northern boundary of Mercia and the southern boundary of the Danelaw, then later Cheshire and Lancashire; Lancaster was Liverpool's county seat until the formation of the metropolitan county of Merseyside in 1971.
This is nonsense, Liverpool became like this when the irish started migrating in huge numbers there and bred like rabbits. Liverpool was actually very conservative before that, same with Glasgow.
@@fyrdman2185 Is there some point to your comment? You say my comment was "nonsense" yet fail to actually dispute or refute a single piece of it. The only thing you do is add "conservative" but don't say how that's incompatible with my description. If you're going to accuse someone of nonsense, try and do so with a little sense.
@@fyrdman2185 I give facts, you just assert. Saying "it's as simple as that" is NOT factual, no matter how smug you feel writing it. Why don't you actually address the history I wrote?
@@nemo6686 lol you just claimed a bunch of nonsense, first you will have to provide me the evidence that Liverpool was ever "independent minded" before the arrival of the irish. Most of the resentment towards England and anything British from the Scousers is due to their irish ancestry.
I once worked in an IT department with a chap who had a proper "khaaalm down" Scouse accent. One day, while he was attending a meeting, we popped the letter-keys off his keyboard and replaced them all with the same letter. When he returned, he found that his QWERTY keyboard now said "A, A, A, A... etc". Luckily for us, he has a great sense of humour and thought it was hilarious.
@@dannjp75 There's no doubt - it happened in this instance, even if it was my friend who did the key-swapping, not me personally. Maybe he was inspired by the joke, but I don't know if he was. We were a large IT department, supporting a few thousand users, so we had plenty of spares with which to do it.
If you want to know more about my city, the fella who's accent you like Is Frank Carlyle, local historian, has a series of videos called Liverpool Unravelled, brilliant and informative.
Also the last champions League final Liverpool played in against Real Madrid the French Government tried to blame things on Liverpool fans yet again for their own cock ups and they nearly created more tragedy for Liverpool fans and was pepper spraying and beaten our fans
I believe the scouse not English topic isn’t that they see themselves not as English but they disagree and are anti establishment due to the establishments neglect of Liverpool that history shows us that went on and to many the final straw was the cover up by the establishment over the Hillsborough disaster. It also should be noted that around 11% of the city are of Irish descent it was known in history as the capital of Ireland outside Ireland. 🔴JFT97🔴YNWA🔴
@@andywilliams7323 the video said a quarter which is 25% and that was back in the 1950s so 70 years on and with potential emigration I just guessed 11%
I used to work at the Albert Dock. The red brick building with the stone salmon coloured columns shown 6:40 in the the video. My cousin was a policeman during the Toxteth riots. Liverpool is no different than any major city. The reason the Liverpool Football fans booed the national anthem is because since 1939 the figurehead President has always been a member of British royal family. The fans felt betrayed by them for not calling for a full investigation of the Hillsborough disaster. I think there are very few people in the City who wasn't connected to someone in someway to the 97 who lost their lives and their families. It was an occasion that brought the who city together including the two rival football teams, Liverpool and Everton. I however was saddened at Liverpool supporters booing the anthem when a game was played on King Charles's Coronation Day. A day that had brought the country together. The supporters don't speak for the City where a lot of people love the Royal family. Also no-one I know says I'm scouse not English. Again, I think this comes from Liverpool football banners. created by a few people.
many in uk can't stand the royal family. the royal family are thankfully not allowed to be involved in politics or public commentry so asking elizabeth widsor or her son to get involved with hillsbro. would be impossible.
The references to crime and stolen wheels etc all stem from comedians from the 1980s, particularly a guy called Stan Boardman. The poverty in the 80s was also portrayed in two very popular TV shows called Bread (a comedy) and Boys From The Black Stuff .
The reason most English counties are hugely patriotic to the region is, central London governs but look only after themselves, often its people from regions that move to the Capital, once they've moved and doing well, in their eyes they've made it and often forget where they came from, they become very shallow, ambition and money driven. Not all to be fair, its worse from those working in the Capital and from fairly close by.
Harry Enfield did a series of sketch's making fun of the Scouse stereotype, with 3 actual scousers playing his friends (good sports). There's a good compilation on TH-cam.
Just stumbled across this. I'm the creator of the video, so glad you found it interesting and I hope you get to visit the city one day! Filming this was my first time there and I loved it.
So your proud of your propaganda are ya? Yet ya don’t even live there ya divvy cunt🇬🇧
Yes, the Cheshire Cat is named after the county of Cheshire. The reason for this is that Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice was from a small town in Cheshire
The county is Lancashire. It's named after the city of Lancaster.
Hello connor, best wishes from the Dingle area of Liverpool. Many people have a bad opinion of Liverpool, yet most of these people have never been here to qualify them to have any opinion.
Wow, McJ, that was a powerful video! Thank you. The Hillsborough footage was very moving...and yes, I think the cop WAS telling the crowd to get back into the enclosure - that's part of the problem/cover-up. I think the Police originally said they didn't know the stand had collapsed and just thought the fans were being yobs trying to cause trouble. But we all now know that was a lie! An awful situation. You know...I am learning so much about my own history and culture from you and your videos. Cheers, mate!
Connor. It is not pronounced BirmingHAM .. It is BirmingUM.
Other place names which end in HAM are also pronounced with that last but as UM
As in
Cheltenham ... say Chelltenum
Bellingham ... say Bellinum
Rotherham ... say Rotherun ... Okay ?
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I've only been to Liverpool once, but I bloody loved it! I'm a born and bred Londoner, but I would move to Liverpool in a heartbeat. It reminded me of how London used to be when I was growing up, before much of London was gentrified and it was still a friendly place to live. Any sense of community has mostly died out in London, but to me it seemed to be alive and well in Liverpool.
Cheers Andy! Your not the same Andy Baker from Essex are you that lived in Brixton years ago? If so I know you!
@garyrigby21 No mate, I grew up in Battersea (so not far from Brixton) but I'm not from Essex!
@@andybaker2456 ok must be a different Andy, sorry
@garyrigby21 No worries. Funnily enough, I do know someone who grew up in Southend (Essex) who went to school with an Andy Baker, I wonder if he's the one you knew! A fairly popular name though, when I was at primary school I had a pen pal in Australia called Andrew Baker. And when I had my first ever job, there was another Andy Baker on the payroll. I found this out because I didn't get paid on my first payday. It turned out that they'd paid my salary to the other Andy Baker, as well as his own salary. I bet he had a few nights out on that until the error was discovered! 😁
@@andybaker2456big up Battersea & junction massive👍🏼
Lewis Carroll invented 'Cheshire Cat' there is NO such breed. Liverpool has the oldest Symphony orchestra in the UK, the largest and most comprehensive Art Galleries next to London and also Museums and the second largest Cathedral in Europe. It has has the largest number of Grade I and Grade II Listed - historical buildings of any single borough in UK.
It has an enormous university sector.
I left Liverpool 40 years ago - but still have the accent and yet in London when I explain I have been a University Lecturer and am an Oxford educated Barrister - counts for nothing, I am described as a Scouser.
Also has sky high crime, above average unemployment and a percentage of people who actively lie. I used to live across from Hillsborough and I know what I saw. But hey, museums make up for all that don’t they.
@@TheRedPeril You seem to think that no other major UK city does not have the same problems.
YOU SAW NOTHIGN AS YOU WERE NOT INSIDE THE STADIUM and the Police Chief ADMITTED HE LIED.
Cheshire is nothing to do with Liverpool.
@@fionagregory9376 Ryan asked a question right at the beginning about 'Cheshire Cats in Alice by Carroll - pay attention.
Have you seen the British blue
Im from Cheshire and know lots liverpudlians that are proud to be British, so its probably just a minority that feel that way
It is a small minority in the city
@@garyrigby21 Your bang on there mate 👍👍
Very small, 👍
British not English, Scottish are British so are welsh and technically Irish are British until we settle on a better name for the Isles
@@oswk9 as a collective we are British, singular, English, Scottish, Welsh, northern Irish.
The final act of the American civil war happened in Liverpool. The Confederate ship CSS Shenandoah surrendered in Liverpool on November 6th 1865 five months after the final shots were fired in June.
Every British city has areas where it's rough and you'll 'have your hub caps nicked' whether it's Liverpool or Birmingham. I live 20 miles from Liverpool, i went to university there and regularly go there still for work and never had a problem. The museums in Liverpool are amazing and there are some beautiful buildings and architecture
Been to Liverpool loads of time for the footy, always guaranteed a good night out on Matthew Street, super friendly peeps..❤
I've never had trouble in all my life in Liverpool, moved to London for uni and 2 lads attempted to rob me after 5 months 😂
@@dannjp75 funnily enough even though I went to uni in Liverpool, I never went on nights out there I always ended up in Manchester at Rock World and Jilly's.
Actually tell a lie, I went to Cream once, got really paranoid and spent most of the night in the toilets 😂
@@DisconnectedRoamer I would not feel safe in that there London. I've been a few times to Olympia with the horses and nipped into Harrods just to buy the cheapest thing possible and get a Harrods carrier bag 😂
@@DisconnectedRoamerdifference is Londeners know their city is shit scousers just lie.
I’m from Liverpool lived here all my life and franks accent is almost a parody of the real Liverpool accent 90 percent have a much milder accent it’s we call it playing the scousers franks a career scouser
Proud to be English, and a Scouser. BTW there are TWO football clubs in Liverpool, Everton and Liverpool.
Tranmere Rovers?
@@pabmusic1 other side of the river, Tranmere is in birkenhead
Where in wallasey
The two best teams in Liverpool are Liverpool FC and Liverpool FC reserves.
Proud to be English, and a Scouser. BTW there are TWO football clubs in Liverpool, -Everton- and Liverpool Reserves.
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This is the best video I've seen to explain Liverpool to the rest of the world. You cannot ignore the hardships Liverpool (and much of the North) have had to endure from a London-centric, sink or swim government. It has sculpted the people of Liverpool into the resolute, helpful, weathered and wise people they are today. The people of Liverpool are the main attraction of Liverpool, not The Beatles. No tourist video tells it like it is. So thank-you Connor for taking the time to learn about Liverpool's people and their painful history.
I worry for some American reactors with a homogenised view of the UK that when they visit Liverpool they'll walk into the nearest pub say 'We loved Maggie Thatcher, We love your military. God Save The King !" ...and get immediately deported...to Chester.
Nonsense.
Is right la, ! well said.
@@mrjinks5641
You haven't been to Liverpool so why comment?
@@robertcottam8824
Really 🙄 that was a boring comment.
I'm a country boy and hate cities. But boy would I rather live in Liverpool than London
I was born close to London in what was countryside many years ago but, I would agree with you.
Bloody agreed with you on that I'm a proud Englishman but i wouldn't live in London not even you paid me 🤣
There are no time limits to PM service - Walpole served 40 years, Lord Liverpool 14 years and Gladstone four terms the last started when he was 82, he was from Liverpool. The Prime Minister before Thatcher was Harold Wilson, serving four terms between 1964 to 1977, who was actually a Liverpool-Merseyside MP.
Wilson served 2 1/2 Terms actually. 1964-1966 (Early election because of extremely small majority. 1966-70 (Defeated in 1970) 1974-1976 (resigned midway through term due to health problems.
@@Waterford1992 There is no such thing as a 'half term' they are measured in full by Dissolutions and Elections - 1964, 1966 , 1974 and 1974 two GEs, so FOUR Terms. .
But he was actually a Yorkshire man
Some of the idiotic, stereotypically negative comments here just serve to reinforce the sense of otherness felt by many (although not all) Scousers. It's a great city and I love Liverpool, although I'm not a Scouser, I live about 30 miles away. The name calling that the city and its people are subjected to is ignorant and undeserved, and is tantamount to racism.
wet wipe
Thanks David for that comment I'm a scouser born and bred never moved away don't feel the need too,I'm proud of the people in my city but not the council that let it run down.
scousers are not a race....liverpool is a city in england-uk.
Scousers are still culturally English and, in fact, majority/plurality English by descent too. Though there's also a fair dollop of Irish and some Welsh in the mix.
I’d say at least half have a mixed ancestry, at least in my experience. Not much different to other big cities though, urban Britain is a story of immigration. “Ancestrally” there’s more Irish and Welsh in my family than English, and the English side has both Nordic and Jewish in it as well apparently.
Liverpool became a major port because it was the closest to the industrial revolution cities of the interior, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester which required food, raw materials imported and exported manufactures world wide from there.
That is why the Liverpool to Manchester Railway was created, the oldest proper, scheduled, regular locomotive driven passenger and goods railway system.
And the Manchester Ship Canal
You're probably right Connor about why Cornwall didn't have a major port. Wrong type of harbours, little infastructure and no major cities. The other major trans-Atlantic port and city is much further up the SW coast, Bristol, pretty much where that SW leg of Britain starts to jut out, much better infastructure, canal and routes to London.
@@TimeyWimeyLimey Yes, and eclipsed by Liverpool as an entry-export point. The rise of Liverpool on the Mersey can be dated to its replacement of Chester, a major mediaeval port, city and county town and to its far sighted Corporation enclosing the Pool natural feature as a non-tidal Wet Dock from 1700.
@@uingaeoc3905 At one time Parkgate on the Wirral was an important port and lots of Irish immigrants would have arrived there. But the River Dee silted up and Chester took over.
@@Lily_The_Pink972 Emma Lady Hamilton was from Parkgate!
When I first visited Liverpool around 2010 I was really impressed with the wonderful architecture, especially on the banks of the Mersey. The way the old wharves have been renovated and turned into museums, interesting shops, cafes and restaurants has created a great glimpse into the city's trading past, albeit totally rejuvenated. Overall I really loved Liverpool - it is full of character, has a great vibe and a very welcoming feel. Very well worth a visit. Taking a ferry across the Mersey (it's a very wide river) is a great way to see the cityscape.
A lot of it based on the slave-trade’s expense.
@@Nutrient-Gold A very small portion of its wealth was based on the slave trade. Its major wealth came from the port trading with the world importing and exporting commodities, second only to London docks. But hey! you're exactly the type spoken about in this reactors channel, trying your best to drag down the city with ill informed diatribe.
@@Nutrient-Goldno one gives a f
@@purelayermanplayer4062 I think you’ll find a lot of people with a modicum of intellect give af and find the link between the past and now interesting (past trading/architecture etc) but I guess that’s not within your brain capacity so…correction: YOU don’t give af because you’re an ignorant hunt. That’s better.
@@Nutrient-Gold very big intellectual
brain were your ancestors slaves or slave owners? You stuck up Berkshire Hunt
Liverpool was the only city that fought back against Thatcher surely they should be praised for that not hated
Rishi Sunak loves thatcher
@@oswk9 I'm not surprised about that at all
I'm from Liverpool and this is not a common thing in the city most people in Liverpool are proud to be English
Find a Welsh or Irish community bonus points if they were displaced during the troubles
I don't get national pride. I'm a Swede but I'm not proud of it, it's just where I happened to be born.
@@michaelmay5453 Why would you not be proud of who you are? You're a product of your environment. Sweden is a wonderful country, you should be proud to be part of that
Its a strange once because Liverpool seems to have this reputation, yet I've never met a scouser who wasn't proud to be English.
I suspect its due to a handful of Liverpool fans who think its "edgy" to be anti English and the media then egg it on
@@newuk26not edgy at all. I think it’s down to who your family/father is. Many get their beliefs from their family. Some (rightfully) have this belief and some (rightfully) don’t. They can chose what and who they represent.
Wow that's interesting, never knew that! Lobscouse sounds like lappskojs, a northern Swedish (and, I presume, Norwegian) dish made of meat and potatoes. Lapp- being an old word for the Sami people in the north of Norway, Sweden and Finland. The meat in lappskojs is raindeer meat.
I need to get you to watch some bits about the Liverpool-leeds canal. Fred dibnah did some good vids on it, the history of it and the navvies who built it. When you come Iver you'll definitely have to be introduced to our canals, the motorways of the UK before cars existed.
17:04 unimaginably heartbreaking, still brings me to tears today. The manager, Sir Kenny Dalgleish, went to every single funeral for those that died. Not long after he left as manger. King Kenny will forever be a legend.
I'm like you Connor. As I get older I listen to music less often. I appreciate silence a great deal more than when I was younger
14:45 Falmouth. Its one of the deepest natural harbours in the world (3rd I think).
They have docks, they make super yachts there. Cornwall is docked up to the eyeballs. Every other village has a dock.
But yeah Cornwall doesnt even have a motorway and you can take a short trip up the Severn to Bristol or Cardiff, or up the channel to Plymouth, Portsmouth etc all of which are better connected than the whole of Cornwall .... we are an Island.
There is good sea access everywhere.
I believe the deepest is the Mahon harbour in Menorca
@@steddie4514 The deepest natural harbour is Sydney in Australia. Then Mahon. Then Falmouth.
Edit: Actually no thats not true Falmouth is deeper than Mahon on checking I am not sure what the second deepest is but Falmouth is the deepest in Western Hemisphere so I would assume there is a deeper one somewhere else.
Edit: Apparently its Milford Haven in Wales is the second deepest natural harbour.
It’s absolute nonsense, I was born in the city the vast majority of my family lives there, and none of us say I’m scouse not English bollox, and nobody I know does, it’s a small fraction of people.
I'm not from Liverpool I'm from Lincoln but i do have family who are from there and they no there English and there proud to be English really don't understand the purpose of this video 😂
@@Anglo-Saxon-96
It’s bollox a section of Liverpool fans sing it at some matches, and boo the national anthem, wonder how many actually believe in what they are doing, or just go along with it because others around them do it, maybe even do it because they think well isn’t it what we are supposed to do ?
Wonder how many are from or live in the city .
Many Liverpool fans don’t agree with this shit.
totally agree.
It would be good to have autonomy though
@@DisconnectedRoamer
From who ?
Liverpool has loads of influences on it's accent.. It was probably one of the most diverse cities in the UK outside of London. Large Welsh and Irish communities among others.
Same as for music, Sometimes you can't go without it.. but mostly listen to other things these days
Every city has it's bad area's.. You generally find the places with less problems tend to invest in the people, if they have the money.
Liverpool is English and I'm from Liverpool this is offensive to me I'm a proud Englishman end of just because there was Welsh and Irish doesn't mean shit most of us are English decent common fact 🏴🏴🏴
@@Anglo-Saxon-96 well said 👏
Went there for the first time for a Union conference around 10 (ish) years ago. Had a great time in the evenings. From the main station down to the docks was surprisingly good and entertaining. Unfortunately, part of it was blocked of as they were filming one of the "Fast & Furious" films.
Hiya Connor, this film touches upon a very common feature of the parts of the UK that are not in the affluent south-eastern part of England - where people are raised and nurtured into a culture that thinks rather more highly of itself than it ought to... This is because London is the seat of Government and all the national and international financial and legal institutions, are there; and while there are still more working class people living there, struggling to lead very normal lives like the rest of us; there is a disproportionate number of very well-paid executives who have been raised within well-off families and educated for the most part, in the public school system. These people also speak in AP English and I'm afraid, do tend to look down upon the rest of us, just as the man in the film says.
British people - and especially those of working class backgrounds, have a great deal of stoicism and dark humour, that we use in various ways to respond to those who would look down upon us, and Liverpool is one of probably three major cities (the others are Newcastle and Glasgow), who do this particularly well. They are unpretentious, hard-working, artistically-expressive and very sociable souls who will sometimes come up with pretend political banners such as "The Republic of Liverpool" or even more outrageous slogans such as "Hurricane Baw-bag*," as the Glasgow press produced in response to the recent phenomena of naming major weather events, a few years back! (*Baw-bag is the local word for scrotum!)
Since 1974, Liverpool has been within a county area named 'Merseyside', and Manchester has been one named 'Greater Manchester'. Both now comprise of several unitary local authorities, but they are historically parts of Lancashire. As well as the Cities of Preston, and Lancaster itself, the other major towns are Southport, Lytham St Annes, Blackpool, Fleetwood, Morecambe, Warrington, Wigan, Chorley, St Helens, Skelmersdale, Bolton, Bury, Accrington, Blackburn, Burnley, Nelson and others. The towns of Kendal, Ulverston and Barrow-in-Furness were also included prior to 1974, though these now lie in Cumbria.
Your inverted snobbery is laughable. Everyone in Southeast England is 'affluent' talk with a plumby accent and look down on everyone else, north of Watford. Meanwhile, the North of England is solely inhabited by honest to goodness salt of the Earth types, who spend their days lamenting 'that London' Perhaps you should lay off the Ken Loach movies and actually spend.some time outside of your self satisfied bubble.
Great post that Paul 👏
We call it soccer too - 'soccer ' (for 'association football') was a British term to distinguish it from 'rugger' - rugby football. Nowadays it's mainly 'football' but it shouldn't be such a big thing.
the gobshites who get upset at americans saying soccer is at best idiotic. americans have their own version of football so soccer differentiates away from this. i sure there was a football magazine called soccer in the uk 1970s.
I went to university in Liverpool, have spent nearly half my life in the area. I have never come across people rebelling against being english. Yes, very proud to be scouse but I've never heard booing or any more dislike of england than anywhere else. It is however very anti-tory, mostly labour and very against government power and corruption. There's a big history of trade unions.
The assumption it's full of crime is still there but i think more said in jest now. It was a pretty spicy place to live in the 80s and 90s though, primarily due to high levels of poverty and the race riots. It has been compared to Baltimore in America - similar big successful city falling on hard times when the government leaves it behind. It was the European capital of culture in 2008 which had huge benefits for the city and its PR, and its a great city these days. Loads of culture, friendly people, affordable housing.
love your channel and videos / your opened minded approach willing to learn about our culture country and history.. keep them coming thanks Dave ...
Everyone knows a Dave 😂
I'm from Suffolk England and all the Liverpudlians I have met on my travels have been very friendly. The press have a lot to answer for.
Well said
Press is a bit of a loose term for the red tops, such as 'The Scum'.
Liar
@@SeeDaRipper...see da ripper rhymes with dirty bin dipper😳
@@purelayermanplayer4062wow, you’re so clever. Is that why you’re 26 and still attending a special needs school?
People have been lied to for years about Liverpool the national media gave the city a bad image years ago without ever visiting the city. All the prejudice and discrimination Liverpool gets is totally uncalled for
how do you know they never visited.
I'm from a town about 20 miles north of Liverpool right on the border of Merseyside and Lancashire often referred to as 'Posh Scousers' although the Scousers call us 'Woolybacks'. You can tell which side of the town people are from by how much Scouse is in their accent
St Helens?
@@grahamrogers3345 I was thinking St Helens too 🤔 I'm in Warrington and when I was a kid I'm sure my mum and dad (who were raised in Liverpool) referred to people from Widnes as woolybacks
An interesting point you may like.. the last battle of the American civil war was fought on the river Mersey! A few months after the confederacy had lost on the mainland, their ships were still out and about.. the last one was hunted down and sunk in the river that Liverpool sits on!
That’s not quite right, the last surrender was on the River Mersey. The Confederate ship CSS Shenandoah came to the Mersey after the end of the war because a lot of the crew were from Liverpool and Birkenhead (where many Confederate ships were built). Liverpool and Birkenhead were pro-Confederate and there were still Confederate officers in the city.
CSS Shenandoah was not sunk it it was given to the USA and then sold.
@@peterrobinson9402 that's interesting I didn't know those details! I was under the impression that the ship was sunk and still under the water!.. maybe an assumption but I read an article on it maybe 5 years back.. people had came to Liverpool from southern US states in a kind of memorial thing, and it had said in that article something that implied being sunk!.. you obviously know your stuff though haha
@@jonathonrudge8485 there is a wreck of the Lelia which was a blockade runner that was lost off the Wirral coast.
You mentioned Lancashire? At one time until a boundary change and the forming of Merseyside (Metropolitan County) in 1974, Liverpool was part of Lancashire.
never figured out why they changed for instance how is st.helens , prescott , whiston ,southport became merseyside. same with greater manchester , wigan , bolton , bury , rochadale etc.
Cornwall actually had a very busy port at Falmouth (the 3rd largest natural harbour in the world). It wasn't as busy as Liverpool but important all the same.
one of the deepest ports also i think.
I’m Welsh but lived in Liverpool for about 15 years in the 80’s and 90’s. Certainly before “Scouse not British” became a thing but I used to mingle with strongly Welsh and Irish identifying scousers so it felt like a natural progression to me. Since then I’ve lived in a few other big Northern English cities and some have that strong self-identity, some not so much.
Currently I’m living in Newcastle and, while you might not see/hear them booing the national anthem (I don’t know, I’m Welsh, I watch the rugby, not the football), I’d be willing to bet a sizeable proportion would identify as Geordies before English and I saw that Scouse before (or instead of) English back when I lived in Liverpool.
I’m more than willing to believe the extent to which the Scouse not English phenomenon runs rampant is somewhat exaggerated, but you’ve got a city where a lot of people certainly used to still identify as Welsh or Irish too, hyphenated Welsh-Scouse or Irish-Scouse. Adding “not English” to that is a pretty small step.
While it’s far to say Liverpool saw (mis)managed decline under the Thatcher government, a lot of the North of England did too, as did South Wales. If you ever see a video that refers to Boris cracking the Red Wall, this is a swathe of constituencies that were always Labour after the way Thatcher devastated them in the 80’s. Apparently 40 years is a political generation.
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@@mrjinks5641Had to laugh at the previous post when he mentioned Newcastle fans not booing the national anthem....somebody needs to tell him you need to play in cup finals in domestic competitions if you are going to boo.....Newcastle United don't play in Cup finals lol,Up the Reds! RIP 97.
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If I’m honest I had to laugh at all of it.
never met any scousers who identify as welsh or irish what cack are you speaking.
I’m from London and we use scouse words down here too… antwacky and arlarse are the two I can think of
Really ?
Never heard of them ...
BS more like
My mum uses antwacky all the time, she's from Liverpool originally and still has a slight accent. I've never heard of the other word though 🤷♀️
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Try pronouncing it owl arse, " alright owl arse", " hello my friend" 😂
@@Tom-771derived from "old arse"......an elderly person 👍
Lancaster is a city in Lancashire….the county is Lancashire.
Oh it's a beautiful city. If you ever go to the UK it's one of the three you absolutely have to visit. London, Glasgow and Liverpool. I'd put Birmingham, Suffolk and Dundee on that list as well but perhaps that's just me.
I don't know why Liverpool has such a bad reputation, it doesn't deserve it at all.
From Suffolk. 👍!
@@josefschiltz2192 I like your city! I was there a couple of years ago and had a great time. :)
@@michaelmay5453 It's nice to have our home county appreciated. Suffolk, depending on your viewpoint, could be called 'Constable Country' after the well-known artist of the area, or possibly even 'Miss Marple country' after the Agatha Christie character. Much of it is certainly scenic countryside and a working environment agriculturally. I grew up amongst small farmers and familiar of their life and tribulations. I am glad that some where among our personal and family friends, including one somewhat elderly lady who ran her farm virtually single-handed. Rosalind - or Roly, as her friends knew her. A great character and force of nature.
I I'm from Moscow, Russia 😊
@@neptune1525 I wish that things could be better at the moment and that we all had better peaceable leaders of nations. I remember a naturalist from your country, Nikolay Drozdov, had a series called Realms Of The Russian Bear. I bought the series on DVD and I thought your country very beautiful. A friend of mine visited The Hermitage in St Petersburg on his very last cruise. He had visited before and wanted to see as much as he could before he died. He passed away in 2017, glad that he had the chance. My health prevents me from travel, Russia would have been one of those places. It's sheer beauty is astounding. My best wishes.
Proud to be from Liverpool, people can hate on us, we don't care, we have a strong sense of community in this city, we give each other shit over football whether supporting Liverpool (which I do) or Everton, however, when outsiders attack our city with stand together and stand strong.
Road and rail access to Cornwall is also an issue.
This idea of Liverpool being not english or part of England is a load of crap. Liverpool is a great city in a great country. I'm proud to be english and a liverpudlian.
I am from Liverpool I love where I live and proud of where I come from. There are good places and places in Liverpool but you get that where ever you live in the world. My cousin was at hilsbourgh he got broken leg to this day he carn t talk about it. His sister's boyfriend was there he died. It was hard to watch on tv as all the football fans loose their lives and see them being injured. Thank you for sharing to learn about Liverpool you don't get a lot of people do that .
Yes yes I have always said that you get good and bad everywhere you live 😊
I think most of the anti-english sentiment in Liverpool comes from the Irish catholics, they've been handing down their hate for generations. It's the same in Glasgow with Celtic.
You're right about the beatles though, 'THE' most famous and successful group in history.
rubbish. for your info. liverpool were the protestant team in the city 100+ years ago.
just driving to Cornwall in a car is a pain, never mind introducing mass transit - also it relies on tourism that they have because of the beaches soooo not happening. Liverpool is just across the Irish sea from Ireland / Dublin.
The old guy speaking you like has his own TH-cam channel goes live regularly great content he does I'll post his link underneath
youtube.com/@frankcarlyle.liverpool?si=szsaHrKFATZyqUL9
Thank you for actually taking the time to Learn about Liverpool. The hillsborough disaster was such an eye opener to see how the press think of us. Ive never been able to meet my uncle because of that disaster and yet the press had the nerve to blame Scousers. We really are isolated from the rest of the uk.
I’m so proud to be Scouse and will always be Scouse no matter where I am or where I go ❤ YNWA
If your family are originally from Lancaster you should do a reaction video about the fearful Lancaster Castle.
Hi Conner a very proud Scouser here. I’ve travelled the world even lived abroad for a while but the call is always there in my heart & soul. As they say you can take the person out of Liverpool but not Liverpool out of the person . Liverpool has had an awful reputation as said in the video for those very reasons! Today we get slagged off by people who have never been here! This is a vibrant wonderful city. The friendliest people in the UK dare I say the world! We have a great sense of humour & don’t take ourselves too seriously. I say to anyone before you judge come here! Then decide on your thoughts about us. No matter where I’ve been in the world every single place I’ve visited they ask are you a scouser ? I say yes a very proud one. They say we love you scousers. Met many you are great people. Down to earth funny & kind! It’s a pity some of our own countrymen don’t feel the same. And they’ve never been here! We are a large university city. Many students end up staying here afterwards because they live this city like we do. My next door neighbours are doctors. Both been here for years. After finishing uni. We are a melting pot of people from mainly Ireland && Wales. My paternal grandparents came from Ireland my maternal grandparents from Wales & Scotland. Many families are the same. We get many visitors from all around the world especially from America because of The Beatles. Once they’ve been here they always want to come back. I’m a 54 yr old woman. A mother & grandmother. I am Scouse before anything. Then I’m English. Then British. I love our Royal family. I cried when our Queen died. I watched our King at his coronation . I wouldn’t boo at our national anthem. Please come to Liverpool! You will love it. You will meet people who will become your friends. An amazing City in a great country. Xx
I lived there for 4 years mate. You're not funny, you're thieves. You're not friendly, you are vile xenophobes. Scousers are druggies, mechete wielding thugs. I was mugged 3 times and burgled once. Could not wait to leave.
Been a reds supporter for 40 years, been to Liverpool countless times, great city, great people. Never had a bad time..utfr
to be honest your sounding desperate to be liked.
There’s loads of parks in Liverpool, typically names after the local noble family, the Earls of Derby. So, there’s Derby Park, Sefton Park, Stanley Park. Much of north Liverpool was fields as late as the 1930s, despite the docks being only a few miles away.
I originally come from North Wales, about 30 miles by road from Liverpool. When I was in primary school (age 5-10) in the 1960s Liverpool Education Authority ran an educational camp about a mile from our village school, where Liverpool kids would come to study in the countryside - we used their pool to learn to swim, as it was the only swimming pool anywhere near us, and we used to have meetings so that both lots of kids could learn about the other. I remember both sides often had to repeat what we were saying 2 or 3 times, as we genuinely had trouble understanding each others’ accents. I think the Scouse accent has moderated quite a lot over the last 60 years or so.
Back in the 1880s my great-grandfather worked as a stoker in a gasworks in Birkenhead, the town on the other side of the river from Liverpool, he got married there and his first 3 sons were born there (so we used to go there to visit relatives when I was a kid) but by the time my grandfather was born in 1890 he’d moved back to Wales as a farmer, though the “capital of North Wales” line is true.
One thing the video doesn’t mention, is that the original wealth of the city largely came from the transatlantic slave trade, and there have been some reassessments of the history lately.
Slavery was lligal in England plus we was fighting on the high sea to stop slave leaving Africa so educate yourself more on the subject because nowadays people like to change history because they don't like the facts and no offense your Welsh what the hell do you people no about us seriously 😂
Liverpool isn't different to the rest of England, we're proud Englishmen.
Couldn’t agree more 👍💯
No we're not. Maybe the flag waving wannabe Tory types that hate migrants feel that way but almost everybody I know hates the British establishment and wants to distance itself from the medeival gangsters the rest of you seem to idolise
@@mrjinks5641 you fly the liver bird, i assume your a liverpool fan, and yet after hillsborough you can claim to be PROUD to be english, how come?
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I not only fly the liver Bird, but was born in the city, the vast majority of my family live in the city, including my farther who’s a season ticket holder at Anfield, and me him nor anyone I know shouts this embarrassing I’m not English i am scouse nonsense and are all proud to be English , you tell me what Hillsborough has to do with being English, I will save you the bother, it’s absolutely nothing whatsoever.
Well bloody seid mate 🏴👍
The first time I visited Liverpool my car was broken into within 15 minutes and all my camera equipment was stolen, it's the only time I've ever been robbed. It was a bad introduction to the city and put me off returning for a lot of years. I've been back since and enjoyed exploring the history of the place but never again left anything in the car lol
lived here 30 years and never been robbed, I'm gonna blame you for that one
@@lukespooky don't blame the victim. The thieves were to blame
@peterbiggin7193 lol if you left it on display, it kinda is your fault. I've had this discussion with friends and family who have a habbit of leaving laptops and other expensive stuff just sitting on their car seats. They haven't been robbed, but its tempting fate imo. Regardless of what city/country your parked in.
@@liverpooljft9623 no I'm not stupid enough to leave my camera gear out where it can be seen, it was in the boot
Rule number one , don’t leave stuff in your car anywhere
Most people who say this are usually Liverpool FC fans. As one myself, I find it a bit sad. We have a wonderful city.
Same here lad, The booing is pathetic. Don`t know how It`s not possible to be a proud Red / Scouser & British at the same time. It`s like being against the `England` team.
Couldn’t agree more 💯🏴
I’m 60 this year and still listen to music all the time, from today back to the sixties.
You could basically say the same thing about many places in the North.
And the south.
Its not, they are English. Its a slang term used for people from that area. In the same way that someone from Newcastle is a Geordie. All are English.
Nah it's not slang term it's idiots who actually say they're not English because they don't like Tories, I say they're idiots because they say they're anti establishment and then they vote Labour.
15K views but only 492 likes?? Come on guys!! It's Liverpool!!!
Cities develop reputations and there is often a kernel of truth. I'm from Newcastle ( a Geordie) and we are generally seen as friendly, practical, pragmatic but not sophisticated or subtle and often unintelligible. It's a city built on engineering. Liverpool is a city built around docks. Dockers pilfer, it's a universal truth and it's generally just factored in as a cost. So buying and selling illegally obtained goods didn't carry much stigma. So the light-fingered stereotype. But also convivial and witty company.
Lewis Carroll - lived in Daresbury in Warrington which is where I live - we have lots of symbolism of him - the pub Alice through the looking glass - we have a stone sculture that people can sit on of the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. The church in Daresbury has stained glass to commemorate him
Connor I grew up near Manchester, now live in Birmingham and am a Liverpool fan.
They all have a bad reputation which can be true but are vastly overstated.
All 3 are great in their own right.
Cornwall was where the trade was in previous centuries, so the navy was in Plymouth - which is actually in Devon next door. Then the Americas were discovered and the trade routes shifted from south to further up north. The prevailing winds played a part when there were sailing ships.
17:30 the Hillsborough disaster. I think I gave you videos about that last year but not sure you watched them. It was a devastating incident and it was all filmed because of the football match going on 😢 I was 5 and remember it being on the news, it's taken so long for them to get some sort of justice!
Legally speaking Liverpool is not part of the UK; its classed as an Independent Criminal Enterprise.
I thought it was a colony for people who speak nasally.
is it really 🤓
I am a Londoner and have never been to Liverpool but I like the Scouse accent
I hated Margaret Thatcher and I always will, and the rest of the Tories too.
I agree with you - I also hate Labour, the Lib Dems the Greens and the Natzionalists.
the "port stuff" you mentioned at 24:58 is around 8km from the city centre. so if you look at that image - the building with the clock is The Royal Liver Building (Li as in light not li as in lip).
Anyway those red things in the backgound are floating cranes with the 3 that are closest being the newest. I remember them being towed in to the mersey harbour a few years ago.
Anyway it is possible to complete an almost traffic free run or cycle as far as those cranes, then just around the corner (approx 500m) you are lead on to Crosby Beach - which in turn leads on to Formby beach and some of the premier coastline of Britain.
We have an abundance of museums, galleries, victorian parks, 2 cathedrals, several beaches on both sides of the river mersey.
People love Liverpool and the people from Liverpool for a very good reason - even if the national press and government have never given a f*** about us.
There are no term limits for a Prime Minister. Remember, the PM is not the head of state and we don't vote for the PM. That said, the longest-serving PM was the first, Robert Walpole, who was PM for about 20 years. In more modern times Gladstone is the longest-serving (12 years 4 months).
The type of opposition between cities with on the one site the capital and economical center (at least the yuppie type) is something you see in many countries. Liverpool/London, Rotterdam/Amsterdam, Marseille/Paris etc. I wouldn't know if it goes as far as this video states, but the underlying "class" struggle seems to be all around.
BTW when you talked about cornwall being a good place for a port... or this part of the country. Well, when you watched the Gun Race, that was Portsmouth vs Devonport. Devonport is basically on that part of the coutry that sticks out at plymouth. Aside Bristol is also not too far and is one of the key ports of the Empire.
There are no term limits on a PM, as long as their party keeps winning the elections. The longest serving British PM was Sir Robert Walpole 20 years and 314 days.
You're allowed to say soccer, Connor we know what you mean mate
Soccer was the original name for it
@@garyrigby21 it was indeed
Not a word about the Heysel disaster, before the start of the 1985 European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus. "The tragedy resulted in all English clubs being placed under an indefinite ban by UEFA from all European competitions (lifted in 1990-91), with Liverpool being excluded for an additional two years, later reduced to one and 14 Liverpool fans were found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to six years' imprisonment".
You speak to a Liverpool fan - it’s as if it never happened - twats
Yes it happened but a lot of sorrow hapoened too. There was hooliganism throughout the UK at the time, no top flight club was immune. It was a tragic affair, no one truly knows what made it explode in such a way. I am trying to be pragmatic here. But some very good lessons were learnt from that disaster. We're you around at the time?. Did you see it on tv or what happened at the stadium.
@@jimbo6059 yes - I watched it on the TV - The one thing I’ve never heard from a Liverpool fan then or since is an apology because their fans actions resulted in people dying and the ban on English clubs in Europe. Yet they can’t seem to understand why the club and its fans are detested and resented.
@@jimbo6059I was a little kid at the time and lived in Italy with my English mom and Italian dad. I remember as clear as anything an older boy calling me a hooligan because I was half English. I barely knew what football was 😅
@@seancorker5815 Nonsense. That's not the reason why the club and the city are so detested, it is because people are ignorant, and exploiting a horrific tragedy to reinforce their own prejudices. Same as the sick Hillsborough chanting you still hear to this day, when some very twisted people can't wait to sing about a disaster when other human beings lost their lives. You're also badly wrong to assume that nobody feels regret or guilt about what happened on that tragic night. Unfortunately, you just get some ghouls who make assumptions when they've no more idea than anyone else who threw the first missile over the fence.
I'm from Liverpool. The video inaccurately and massively overplays the Scouse, not English thing. It's only an extremely tiny vocal minority of Liverpool Football Club (FC) fans who believe in and tout that complete nonsense. You'll notice that all the images in the video referencing that nonsense are of Liverpool FC and its fans. And that the ONLY lecturer they spoke to is wearing a Liverpool FC Hillsborough 97 T-shirt and has a framed picture of Liverpool FC on the floor by his chair.
I’m from Cheshire too 😸and my sis in law is scouse!! I live between Manchester and Liverpool! Northwest music capital of UK!!! People like to have a laugh and we are friendly and like a chat! Also the bit in Wales where you said women firing a gun we use to go surfing there in the early 90s!! 😂
Perfect Connor :)
You explained it perfectly at the end there. I have never heard that Liverpool is (or was) a bad place.
I've spent a lot of time growing up in Manchester during summer holidays when I was a kid, & being so close to Liverpool, it was seen as an enigma by everybody. Totally iconic, never looked down upon.
I think this documentary is quite misleading imho.
I'm from Dorset, (Born & bred & Scouse is extremely iconic & we are proud of Liverpool) (Just saying...)
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I don't get the Irish thing as being an "influence".
I come from Coventry. Literally whole areas of the city are dominated by Irish ancestry (myself included as my Mum was born in Ireland). We're still proud to be English. I've never once heard our national anthem booed here
It’s the football victims, trying to deflect their own culpability onto the establishment
@@steve7104Sun reader I take it? Shame on you!
I'm scouse and I've never booed any anthem
Coventry is not dominated by Irish ancestry like Liverpool is. Today around 75% of Liverpool's entire population has Irish ancestry. During and following the Irish famine and mass migration out of Ireland in the mid-late 1800s. Liverpool's population ending up becoming around 50% Irish-born. Only the cities of Dublin and New York had larger Irish-born populations.
@@andywilliams7323 I didn’t say all of Coventry was. I said whole areas of the city are. They tended to settle in concentrated areas.
The second city of the Empire was Glasgow. The growing trade with the EC/EU boosted the ports on teh east coast of Britain and weakened the west coast ports like Bristol, Liverpool and Glasgow.
DUBLIN was the second city of the Empire
I don’t blame them, you’re welcome as a part of Scotland any day, love the scousers so we do ❤
I'm from Luton and love Liverpool and the scoucers. I've been there many times and tbh even the so called bad areas are no worse than any other city. Whatever happened to the Grafton? 😂😂😂
Liverpool's independent-mindedness goes back over 1,000 years, to the Viking age, when it had its own 'Thing' (Parliament) - as did the separate Viking colony across the River Mersey on the Wirral.
The Mersey formed the northern boundary of Mercia and the southern boundary of the Danelaw, then later Cheshire and Lancashire; Lancaster was Liverpool's county seat until the formation of the metropolitan county of Merseyside in 1971.
This is nonsense, Liverpool became like this when the irish started migrating in huge numbers there and bred like rabbits. Liverpool was actually very conservative before that, same with Glasgow.
@@fyrdman2185 Is there some point to your comment? You say my comment was "nonsense" yet fail to actually dispute or refute a single piece of it. The only thing you do is add "conservative" but don't say how that's incompatible with my description. If you're going to accuse someone of nonsense, try and do so with a little sense.
@@nemo6686 Because Liverpool never had an "independent mindedness" from the rest of England until the irish started coming, it's simple as that
@@fyrdman2185 I give facts, you just assert. Saying "it's as simple as that" is NOT factual, no matter how smug you feel writing it. Why don't you actually address the history I wrote?
@@nemo6686 lol you just claimed a bunch of nonsense, first you will have to provide me the evidence that Liverpool was ever "independent minded" before the arrival of the irish. Most of the resentment towards England and anything British from the Scousers is due to their irish ancestry.
I once worked in an IT department with a chap who had a proper "khaaalm down" Scouse accent. One day, while he was attending a meeting, we popped the letter-keys off his keyboard and replaced them all with the same letter. When he returned, he found that his QWERTY keyboard now said "A, A, A, A... etc". Luckily for us, he has a great sense of humour and thought it was hilarious.
Yeah, that joke has been doing the rounds for years. So you went and took a handful of “a” keys off keyboards and bust his up did you?
Doubtful
@@dannjp75 There's no doubt - it happened in this instance, even if it was my friend who did the key-swapping, not me personally. Maybe he was inspired by the joke, but I don't know if he was. We were a large IT department, supporting a few thousand users, so we had plenty of spares with which to do it.
@@dannjp75 BTW, nothing was "bust up". The process was entirely reversible, at least as far as keyboards in the 1990s were concerned.
I live across the ferry from Liverpool,called wallasey
I fish at town hall steps 😉👍
I’m also from Wallasey.
I live rudgrave square
Btw Liverpool is a beautiful city as are the people
I am Scouse and regard myself as British, but not English, rather like a Welsh or Scottish person does.
If you want to know more about my city, the fella who's accent you like Is Frank Carlyle, local historian, has a series of videos called Liverpool Unravelled, brilliant and informative.
Also the last champions League final Liverpool played in against Real Madrid the French Government tried to blame things on Liverpool fans yet again for their own cock ups and they nearly created more tragedy for Liverpool fans and was pepper spraying and beaten our fans
I believe the scouse not English topic isn’t that they see themselves not as English but they disagree and are anti establishment due to the establishments neglect of Liverpool that history shows us that went on and to many the final straw was the cover up by the establishment over the Hillsborough disaster.
It also should be noted that around 11% of the city are of Irish descent it was known in history as the capital of Ireland outside Ireland. 🔴JFT97🔴YNWA🔴
11%??? It's actually 75% of the city's population that are of Irish descent.
@@andywilliams7323 the video said a quarter which is 25% and that was back in the 1950s so 70 years on and with potential emigration I just guessed 11%
Liverpool is English all the people i no that are from there are proud to be English so you need to stop with that Irish crap 😂😂😂
'The establishment' neglects all parts of the country outside London, not just Liverpool.
Cornwall at one point was taking 1/3rd of the British Empires GDP through unlicensed smuggling until the English sent in the army.
I'm a plastic scouser, I've lived there for years and even sound like one, but I wasn't born in Liverpool lol...
I used to work at the Albert Dock. The red brick building with the stone salmon coloured columns shown 6:40 in the the video. My cousin was a policeman during the Toxteth riots. Liverpool is no different than any major city. The reason the Liverpool Football fans booed the national anthem is because since 1939 the figurehead President has always been a member of British royal family. The fans felt betrayed by them for not calling for a full investigation of the Hillsborough disaster. I think there are very few people in the City who wasn't connected to someone in someway to the 97 who lost their lives and their families. It was an occasion that brought the who city together including the two rival football teams, Liverpool and Everton. I however was saddened at Liverpool supporters booing the anthem when a game was played on King Charles's Coronation Day. A day that had brought the country together. The supporters don't speak for the City where a lot of people love the Royal family. Also no-one I know says I'm scouse not English. Again, I think this comes from Liverpool football banners. created by a few people.
many in uk can't stand the royal family. the royal family are thankfully not allowed to be involved in politics or public commentry so asking elizabeth widsor or her son to get involved with hillsbro. would be impossible.
The references to crime and stolen wheels etc all stem from comedians from the 1980s, particularly a guy called Stan Boardman. The poverty in the 80s was also portrayed in two very popular TV shows called Bread (a comedy) and Boys From The Black Stuff .
The reason most English counties are hugely patriotic to the region is, central London governs but look only after themselves, often its people from regions that move to the Capital, once they've moved and doing well, in their eyes they've made it and often forget where they came from, they become very shallow, ambition and money driven. Not all to be fair, its worse from those working in the Capital and from fairly close by.
Hiya pal I live in Morecambe n work 3 miles away in Lancaster nice area n big castle in Lancaster too 👍
Lewis Carroll was born in Cheshire so he called the cat in ALICE that as a tribute.
Harry Enfield did a series of sketch's making fun of the Scouse stereotype, with 3 actual scousers playing his friends (good sports). There's a good compilation on TH-cam.