CLACTON - Charity Shops, Mobility Scooters and Lost Hope
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- čas přidán 21. 06. 2024
- This week I visited Clacton on Sea, the town which voted 73.04% in favour of #brexit and where #nigelfarage is standing in the coming general election.
#clacton is a small seaside town of 50,000 population. The town centre is shabby and neglected. The people in Clacton appear to be poor and deprived. It is evident that many people are overweight, no doubt because of poor diet, and many are dependent upon mobility scooters.
There are eleven charity shops in the town centre. There are homeless people in the town who clearly need help.
Clacton voted overwhelmingly in favour of Brexit and yet it seems clear they they have suffered from the consequences.
Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK is standing for Parliament and could well be elected on 4th July. It is very doubtful how keen he will be to devote time and attention the the poor citizens of Clacton
Nigel Farage is the Pauline Hanson of Australia. Appeal to the poorly educated and low socioeconomic group with simple solution to complex societal problems.
I came out of school with just one GCSE. Did a few vocational courses in my late teens. And didn’t develop my political education until my late 20s. Don’t let that be an excuse. It’s never too late, on so many levels.
@@ErinStephanie-mf2qk Most people don't care so easy answers from conmen/women are popular and they won't bother to look into issues for themselves.
Alas poor Pauline, I knew her well, Bruce.
I saw the rise of Hanson, which wasn't very far, actually. She was just a second-grade grifter.
Same for most hardcore right wingers though, some of us, for example we Germans even support whole political parties of one easy solution for many many complex problems now🤦🏾♂️ Because actual explanations how to achieve your goals are more boring than fancy one liners
"trickle down economics" has turned millionaires into billionaires, and the working class, into the working poor.
what's new then....
@@terrythomas3755 I agreed 💯👍
Thatcher promised home ownership, today anyone can indeed afford a tent.
Neo-liberalism delivers!
Yeah! Affordable Housing has had to become "portable" 😏
The privately educated former commodities trader with a Coutts account is a true man of the people 🤣
Of course he's a man of the people, I've seen him supping a pint of ale on telly 😂.
@@TheBigMidweek1889 Or a true Clacton Man - a raging alcoholic.
He'll walk it, particularly when you consider the Labour candidate.
And he confused Clacton, with Grimsby, the people he helped as an MEP on fishing.
@@nickjames5366 Helped?
I hope the people of Clacton soon see FARAGE for what he is. He has no interest in Clacton and will not be an effective local MP.
Clacton stage not big enough
For the last 14 years, the Tories have royally shafted the British people, be they Leavers or Remainers.
It serves the "British People" right for not doing anything about it.
@@None-zc5vg They did but the rigged FPTP put the Tories in every time
Clacton seems like a nice place ... that could be turned into a bustling town if someone actually cared about it!!! Same as my town, Tonbridge, held by the Conservatives since 1974 ... it is now a graveyard, no energy, no innovation, no decent public service be it bus or rail, no High Street Post Office and every other shop in the High Street is a charity shop or boarded up! Thank you Tom Tugendhat, my MP. If you can't even run your own town properly what on earth made you think you could run a country!?!
I’m just down the road from you. With a bit of luck we can get him out.
Yours is a true statement not only of the conditions in Tonbridge/Clacton......BUT, for the whole BROKEN Nation, that's not just the state of the BROKEN roads THAT REFLECT THE STATE OF THE COUNTRY !.
Its slowly but surely turning into a FILTHY LAWLESS UNGOVERNABLE GHETTO.
That's the UK today!!!, & why MILLIONS OF SO CALLED TOURISTS FLOCK HERE IS AN UNANSWERABLE QUESTION!!!! Dont they ever read up before travelling here?
Huge Muslim population where I live - and they are hard working people - something the media doesn't like to cover!
Read Invisible Doctrine... I feel you will enjoy 😉
Making money for there cause
We believe you.
@@gjthomas9770You will enjoy 'The Art of War' authored by Sun Tzu even more.
@@firestarter1888 I've read it Yes , it's a classic
“About 50.7%: or over half of all the food bought by families in the UK is “ultra-processed" , more than any others in Europe. Ultra-processed food is made in a factory with industrial ingredients and additives invented by food technologists and bearing little resemblance to the fruit, vegetables, meat or fish used to cook a fresh meal at home... In Italy: only 13.4%, in France: 14.2%." (Guardian 2 Feb 2018)
Like economically deprived areas of US
I hope the people of Clacton don't think that Farage is the answer to their problems... If they do then they will soon be disappointed.
time will tell....
Farage will do absolutely nothing for Clacton. Just as Brexit has done absolutely nothing for Clacton. Sadly it appears they have decided to find out the hard way. Roll on 2029.
He's already laying the groundwork for treating the UK parliament like he did the EU parliament. He'll say it's corrupt and doesn't represent the people. He'll go in and make nonsense speeches to grab headlines. It'll be another joke to him.
who mentioned Brexit and who will you vote for stop waffling
brexit WAS, cancelled by the civil service ! (remember them, they are the tossers who ARE SUPPOSED TO WORK FOR the 'little people', but have, since BREXIT spent most of their taxpayer funded lifestyles destabilising this country as a direct consequence of not REMAINING IN, they wanted to REMAIN because they wanted to join the eu gravy train for 'services rendered' to brussels.
So, wake up & smell your stale coffee.....
@@wilbursmith2955 Precisely, Wilbur. No one's talking about the elephant in the room.
@GeorgeGeorgeOnly
I overheard the receptionist where I work telling a customer that the reason why his goods haven't arrived is "due to the B word we're not allowed to mention these days..."
Remember the being Homeless is a life style choice according to former Home Secretary Suella Braverman. Which I think, perfectly sums up the the Tory mentality.
Clacton has become miserable. They hate everyone. Negative, bitter. They hate londoners, and immigrants. And politicians. And anyone really. You have to stand in shops and listen to conversations. There's little said that's upbeat or happy. They read their daily mails and see only negative. And thats jog just old people, the young too seem to have no hope. There was an EDL march in the town when I went. One old lady shouted at them to go away.
My son is film industry. He did a day or so location shoot on the sea front. Twice they had toy stop filming because of attempted suicides.
Your comments apply to hundreds of towns across the country. The main causes being disastrous lockdown policies & massive influx of Turkish barbers/vape shops! Online shopping has hurt but footfall has collapsed when all there is to see is the aforementioned money laundering enterprises.
Industrialised hate is the currency of the Mail/Express/Telegraph. Despair shuts down the cortex and produces the knee-jerk ignorance that has given us the last 14 years,
Clacton High streets looks like any typical English town centre now with run down shops and empty units all lost to online and out of town shopping. At least it´s clean and tidy and I didn´t see many homeless or beggars but Britain is rapidly becoming a deprived post industrial society. I live in Spain and it´s completely different here. New cars everywhere, shops full and thriving, high employement and an air of prosperity and optimism abounds. I hope your eye is not a serious problem Michael and that it gets better soon.
Thanks Stephen 😊
Clacton sadly looks like many towns in the UK. There’s no money among ordinary people and local councils, if they’re Labour controlled, have been deliberately starved of funds, so they can’t invest in infrastructure or services. My own council has seen budget cuts from central government of over 25% in both 2022 and 2023. That’s a cut and you can add the effect of inflation on top of that. Things are so desperate they’re looking at selling council buildings, like our local library. The swimming baths closed down some time ago. That’s why almost everywhere looks shabby. There’s no money. The Conservatives have deliberately pursued policies that punish those at the lower end of the income scale whilst rewarding those at the top. As a consequence, the economic divide grows ever wider. An example of this is the freezing of the income tax threshold to £12,500 per annum since 2021. More and more low paid or part-time workers pay tax or, relatively speaking, pay more tax, as this hasn’t kept pace with inflation. When inflation is high, as it was recently at 11%, that has a devastating impact on people’s net income. It’s a hidden tax rise. Most rich people it seems today aren’t the philanthropists we used to see. Locally here in Yorkshire many of the fine stone buildings and public parks we have that date from the 1800s were built by those rich industrialists who made a fortune through the textile trade. There are exceptions today of course, but it seems for most rich people greed is the order of the day and even if it’s just a few quid; Farage saying happy birthday for £40 being a good example or the latest Tories betting on the election being another. People like Farage prey on ignorance and apathy. Politics is far from perfect and politicians do need to take a look in the mirror perhaps, but they are definitely not all the same.
Farage = Fagin. Not the smily nice Fagin of Oliver the musical either. But the real Dickensian Fagins of the slums of Victorian cities. He thrives off ignorance and apathy and poor health.
"The former Reform UK candidate for Clacton, Anthony Mack, is preparing to stand against Nigel Farage as an independent." [Politics Home.]
I remember seeing a (Channel 4?) news report from Jaywick pre referendum, where the residents were led to believe that all their problems was the fault of the EU, hence the subsequent high leave vote, with one young mother stating "It can't be worse than it is now."
How I wish I could find that report - and the news crew do a follow up, particularly the woman that made the comment to see what she thinks now.
People of Clacton area, don't forget - Nigel Farage was one of the main foghorns shouting at how much better off you would be by following him then. So why would you trust him now?
Ironically the EU funded improvements in Jaywick, they now have decent side roads and drainage systems installed. Like a turkey voting for Xmas.
This is no worse than 100s of towns across the UK. It's shameful. But we must protect the water company bosses at all costs to keeping dumping crap in our sea.
So many towns in the UK look just exactly like this. Sad state the country is in.
Tired and angry people are the easiest to manipulate. They are desperate and will follow anyone. They have less to loose.
You know he's talking sense Michael, listen to him.😂
Did you notice the absence of black and brown faces.
Yes, great isn't it ! Seriously though if you can't see that followers of the 'religion of peace' do the exact same thing then you are incapable of independent thought.
Fararge while a MEP did no work turned up to one meting of the fisheries council A lot more is expected of an MP .Can not imagine him turning up to a surgery ever .
If you think Clacton is a sad depressing place, you obviously haven't travelled much in the UK. Decades of mismanagement by "successive" governments have taken their toll on many UK towns and cities.
but....but...how can that be? According to 'Our Nigel', everything in the UK was perfect, a veritable land of milk and honey until those small boats started arriving in 2017. Until they arrived, we were all rich, free from the shackles of the EU and everything was wonderful....how did those pesky boat people get onto our councils....???!!
@@swanvictor887 Uncontrolled mass migration is a desperate attempt to shore up a flagging economy, through cheap unskilled labour. It won't solve the problem and will continue to cause considerable harm. This wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't for a Europe with open borders and a French government that facilitated Channel crossings as soon as the referendum result was announced.
What really stands out to me is how free from litter the town centre is.
…and Indians.
Remember, Firage rhymes with Mirage... God help these people, one doesn't need a PhD to put food on your plate or believe in these politicians crap.!!!
Best Michael🙏🕯️👍
I hope your eye is okay ... 👍 good video 👏. It looks not to bad there... i have to say ... the first steet ... the oh Dear 😳
Thanks 😊
Dear Lib Dems & Greens in Clacton. You know what to do. Please do us all a favour & vote Farage & Tories out Tactically.
Labour could win. Lend your vote to Labour to save Clacton.
You havent seen the polls have you. Reform 48%
Tbf the Labour candidate is a bit of a prat too .
@@Globaldave1970 Very interesting, thank you, Dave.
Apparently, the former Reform UK candidate for Clacton, Anthony Mack, who Farage ousted so that he could have that seat, (perhaps you know him) is preparing to stand against Nigel Farage as an independent. What do you think about that?
Of course he probably won't beat Farage because as an Independent he has no outside affiliation. And yet, if he's a local then at least he might properly understand his constituents.
How well does Farage really know Clacton? I’ll bet that Farage does nothing for Clacton. He just wants an easy seat in the commons.
@@GeorgeGeorgeOnly Too much is made of local MPs. There are local councils for local things.It could be argued a lot more get get done because Clacton will be high profile now. It has been the forgotten town. Sure, its a stepping stone for Farage. This seat gives him the best chance of getting into Parliament. Reform are definitely campaign for PR. FPTP is a ridiculous system.
@@Globaldave1970 Except that it is still the "candidate" that You vote for, David, not the party, and it is still the "candidate" that wins your constituency's seat, and who then will be representing You in parliament. Not the party, or the government.
So just because we vote for someone because they represent a particular party doesn't change the fact that it is still their name alongside which we place our 'X' on our ballot slips. It really is that literal.
It was clean, tidy, the roads and pavements looked good too. Unlike where | am on the south coast. Don't knock it.
The Monster Raving Loony Party once had a policy that Britain should be closed for two weeks every year for redecoration. It was meant in jest but frankly Britain really does need spring cleaning. Cleanliness is very uplifting.
Yes, it is and this country is very dirty these days. I grew up on a main city road. Road sweeping lorries were regulars for the gutters, but they were accompanied by men with brooms who swept up the litter from the pavements (usually swept into the gutter for the lorry to suck up) and following behind came a man with a weed killing sprayer on his back dealing with all the weeks around the trees and garden walls on the pavement side. It was nice.
I'm just selling that childhood home now. The pavements are awash with litter, old fridges, bins that are never emptied because they have the wrong things in them and the weeds are knee high in every crack and gap. It's so depressing.
The Tories have left Britain needing boarded up.
Civic pride is everyone's responsibility. Easy to say, much more difficult to initiate
Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.
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To be honest if I was living in clacton I would be very annoyed that Farage is using the situation in my town as a vehicle to get into parliament! They must know that if he gets in he will do nothing for them! He is a despicable little man who doesn't care about you or I in any way shape or form, just his relentless ambition to be relevant! I hope the people of clacton can see through him and do like every other place he's tried to get the vote and vote for anyone other than him! #votelabour
'#vote Labour ' - after a few years of those grifting big state corporatists they will become as extinct as the Tories. Make the most of your last hurrah and enjoy all the taxation !
Having lived and worked in several major European cities for the past 15 years, one thing which always strikes me when I visit the UK is the lack of individual shops, especially green grocers. At least Clacton has a Post Office and at least one bank. I didn't get a vote on Brexit and cannot register for the next GE, I can no longer work in other EU countries only the one I am resident in. England has become a hopeless case of apathy, waste, and corruption, oh hang on, that's why I left when I got the chance 15 years ago!
So it was exactly the same when we were in the EU, Michael makes out it sound like the land of milk and honey pre brexit!😂
@@edthompson9337 pre brexit any uk citizen could freely travel and work anywhere in the EU without any problems. If like me their work was easy to find abroad they had the opportunity to go. What I experienced in the UK was, no jobs here move to London, or no jobs here sign on.
@@chrisvalford So after 22 years of the UK being in the EU you still couldn't find work unless you moved to London, hardly a glowing report of our membership is it! Places like Clacton were no better off when we were in the EU, this is just biased reporting.
@@edthompson9337 Well... I'm from the South Coast, and since leaving school in the late 1970's have constantly been told that I should move on as my employer couldn't see a future in their industry. So moved with my various jobs, electronics technician, electrician, then into I.T. and eventually a mobile phone developer. From Hampshire to the Isle of Wight, to Milton Keynes, then Devon, and finally Cornwall before moving to Europe. I have lived in sea-side towns, as well as cities and they all have the same issue, which appears to be the same in Clacton. Once the bigger employers leave there has been no plan to provide real jobs to the newly unemployed people. Without real jobs the whole economy eventually collapses and that's when the politicians start to blame each other, even though they neglected to take any real action when they had the chance. In one instance after being made redundant I found myself to be too old for youth training, and not unemployed long enough for any other free training. Working in Germany in large shipyards, I found a lot of older guys complaining that their futures were uncertain, but at least their social system gave them good support for their final working years before retirement. When I lived in Switzerland and got made redundant, I was paid 80% of my wage and where the EU rules allowed me to transfer my unemployment to another EU country, I took the opportunity to take a much lower paid position in Spain. My last connection with work in the UK was a remote working contract for a company in Macclesfield, when I visited there once a month I could not believe how run down the place was and the lack of prospects. At least being a member of the EU gave local people the chance to apply for EU grants, there was a lot of this in Cornwall.
@@chrisvalford Thanks for such a detailed post and glad to hear that you are doing well, your reply proves my point that these problems were here long before Brexit, I just wish people like Michael would tell the truth that EU membership didn't bring prosperity to many parts of the country.
I'm in San Antonio, Texas and am so saddened by what the conservative party has done to its constituents. I've always been a liberal because I believe in change for the bettering of the people. Please change your alliance and help yourself. You also need to get rid of the monarchy. They are filthy rich and don't give a darn about the people. They represent the filthy rich here in America. We're in the same position. Good luck and God bless the UK.
You’re not even British but understand the ridiculous situation here better than a lot of natives, many of whom voted for Brexit after falling for farages lies and unbelievably will no doubt vote for that fascist again. May the US stay blue and the UK turn red.
You have enough of your own problems in America to deal with, so start lecturing those in office over there before being critical of this country & its Monarchy, which, brings into this country every year £MILLIONS, which of course is not used for the betterment of the population but IS soon wasted/given away by the corrupt tories, to their mates in the next scam.
The state of these poor people results from a system with two objectives: The first objective is to squeeze money out of the people at the bottom so that the people at the top can put more in their pockets. The second objective is to concentrate and isolate poverty so it's in its own little "ghetto" and doesn't upset the "Have's' and the tourists with the sight of the people who have not. It is the same in the US. Poverty has been "Criminalized" via the stigma that poor people are too lazy to work and become rich. So the poor are treated like criminals. Nobody asks to be poor. But like those two fellows with the tent, they have to go somewhere where they won't be seen in order to try to survive. Meanwhile, you have pillocks Like Sunak who think that they have sacrificed because they didn't have some fancy television network at home while they were growing up. That disconnect is what keeps poor people in tents rather than homes and sick people on streets rather than in places where they can get the care they need in hospital, or outside of them.
"If society cannot save the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich." John F Kennedy.
Just spent a week in Clacton. Surprised how good it was compared with the north. No boarded up shops, no potholes. If they are complaining we are in a mess.
i like clacton a lot
As a child our family visited Clacton a number of times, we always stayed in Jaywick in a caravan and only went to Clacton to shop for food.
Unfortunately the world has moved on and people have different ideas on where they should spend their vacation, I suppose that area of the UK is not on anyone’s list. As you say there are many old seaside towns that are suffering the same problems and people like Farage sing a tune that people want to hear, on a personal note I feel that throwing milkshakes at him won’t help, try “Cow Dung Fresh and Steaming “
Having said all the streets looked fairly clean and clear of the detritus of poverty….
apart from the homeless guys sleeping in shop doorways and beggars....
Thank you Michael. Spot on.
Despite the doleful music, this place looks like most towns and cities in England. It reflects the death of high street retail more than anything else. The days of locally owned retail premises with 100% mark up won't return.
It could thrive. Drop the rents to a nonimal fee and reduce business rates by 90%. This will encourage a million micro businesses and artists across the country to develop a new high street and cultural attraction to the UK.
There's nothing in this entire video that I would ever want to buy or leave the house for.
High street retail of the past doesn't make sense anymore. These places need to have a purpose. Filling them with shops that nobody really wants doesn't solve anything.
Either it needs to become an actual tourist location and attract visitors or serve an actual community with some kind of job creation else the town is kinda pointless. Amusement arcades aren't a hot tourist attraction in 2024 and will only extract what little cash the locals have.
The fact councils have no funding and need to charge high rates to balance the books has little to do with the actual core issue that this town currently makes no sense.
@@stephanguitar9778 Fantasy thinking. How would that money be sourced?
@@padraigohooligan8363 taxation on additional forms of income/renumeration, offshore owners, targeted industries, specific assets there's roughly infinite ways to raise capital in a leading economy of X tens of millions of people even within the rules Starmer has set himself.
This isn't your household budget and we've not even heard the *actual* budget yet.
Room temp IQ doomer takes.
Great trip to Clacton Michael. Thank-you!!! It is upsetting to see a town where people live, work, and connect within their community in the U. K. Despicable for Firage to 'take a seat' in Parliament on lies to these people. To take a seat on the BACKS of these people??? Absolute SINFUL!!!
Laundry in Clacton??? Maybe that's why Firage is running there!!!
Crapped on - On - Sea.
We are a nation in decline, our problems are complex and the result of many decisions taken over the years. Treating the problems as separate and proposing simplistic solutions, such as those offered by most of our politicians can never arrest the decline.
Country is getting milked dry but the landlords all living abroad and taking pay packets out the country. Max 2 residentials per person , 25 % stamp duty for any overseas investor on their max 2 , ban banks from buying residentials, and ban people being allowed to have residential property under a business
I noticed that there were relatively few empty shop units in Clacton compared to many other towns. I follow someone who calls himself "Wandering Turnip" who did a series called "the death of the high street". He travelled all over the country looking at towns including seaside ones, where, often, 90% plus units were empty. Jaywick is horribly deprived, most of the homes are badly converted holiday lets. When it comes to people using mobility scooters, the numbers are sadly increasing, nobody sets out in life wanting to be very overweight, there are often complex reasons for this and as you say, poor quality foods are the cheapest.
That's a silly name Wandering turnip, wonder what that means
Interesting channel though
Maybe Wandering Minstrel would be better
Looks quite affluent for the UK.🇬🇧Heaven help them if they think Farage gives a dam about Clacton.😜Looks well populated with people with interesting lifestyle choices!😮 spot on! My Vietnamese tenants-lovely you couple working in a nail bar, with a cute baby, turned my property into a cannabis factory!😢😢😢
Its grimmer on Teesside/Tees Valley. Clacton on Sea looks, like paradise in comparison.
I live in Clacton and your headline is spot on. One of the few things that are good here is the weather, it's one of the driest places in the UK. So we are populated by Eastenders retiring up here after selling their Council Houses. Tories closed the Court house and the TAX office, surprise surprise.
Many seaside towns have suffered since the introduction of package holidays in Spain and Portugal, Canary Islands etc!. As a child and young adult l lived near Southend. During the fifties into the sixties it still had a very large 'Daytrip' clientele, London being only an hour away by train...All that gradually changed when people choose to go abroad...The last time l visited Southend, about 10 years ago, the High Street was pretty depressing......l now live in España. Its a happier place to live..
These places are just muchmuch more attractive. Nobody from NL , D , F or else would ever consider spending quality time there , unthinkable.
I visited Southend from Dublin about 30 years ago. It was bad then a believe its much worse now.
The best part was walking down the pier featured in Minder.
I remember last year in Plymouth overnight the council chopped down dozens of mature trees I in the city centre typical thoughtless nihilistic behaviour
I have muted the sound so I can see this town
without being influenced by sad music. It looks like any ordinary sea side town on a quiet day. many shops have closed due to online shopping and theirs a lot of elderly people reflecting the UK demographic .I agree things need to be improved but it's not a lost cause.
As I watched this video yesterday I thought how Clacton didn't look too bad along the front and the main streets. It was nicely laid out with benches and trees and no broken pavements etc. But what I did notice is how few people there were there. This is the summer season. Seaside towns need to make money now to live off in winter. Clacton isn't going to make enough if it only has the 6 week school holiday period to do it in. There should have been way more retirees on holiday and families with younger children not in school. Great beach. Won't be expensive either. But the visitors just weren't there.
I noticed a pawnbrokers where my Dad's butchers shop used to be. I was born in Clacton and still have family there. They deserve better than Farage
SO, WHO THEN?
@jamesbowskill362 no need to shout! Since before my childhood they've had a tory MP because of the wealthier villages in the constituency. Perhaps try someone else. Lib Dem, Green or even Labour, who knows. Brexit hasn't helped them, so why vote for it's architect
@@bearsbreeches a touching post that. Thank you. They always shout.
@@bearsbreeches Are you mad or too much sunshine?
@jamesbowskill362 you bet I'm as mad as hell at what is happening
I come from the south east corner of Essex. As a child, my family had a caravan in nearby Walton on the Naze. Having a trip into Clacton, was like a trip into the much bigger town. And it had a thriving High street, which kept the town going out of season. Last time I visited Clacton, was when we took a holiday there, after the lifting of the first lockdown restrictions in August 2020. My Dad has just died in the first wave, and us as a family thought it appropriate to visit a place, where we had so many memories of him. It has seen better days. But it’s not the worst place in the world.
But I know one thing for sure. Farage will make the demise and decline of Clacton, even more of a self fulfilling prophecy. Just as his grand idea of Brexit, has done with the country in general. The election of Farage, would send a message to investors: this town is dying, and we’re not worth your money. If the answer to Clacton is Farage, it must have been a stupid question.
so If not Farage who them????
At least he did not go to Eton and Oxbridge....
@@rivergladesgardenrailroad8834 Dont conflate the two. More young working class adults go to Oxbridge unis, than working class kids go to Eton.
Greetings from Denmark. Always not really enjoying listening to the situation, but you are worth listening to.
Maybe a little comfort: at least people are helped getting mobility scooters, I suppose, through your system. I think in the US people in the same situation don't get out at all, they are totally out of sight, out of mind.
The nail shops you were wondering about: I, as a woman, have noticed that the women I meet actually does this more intensively, the less they earn. As if this at least boost their self confidence and a feeling of dignity....
That's so true, the poorest women in the UK have amazing nails and if they're really struggling they have their lips inflated.
Come to the USA. Visit a Wal-Mart in the South. You won't believe the ugly, ugly, fat people. You won't believe the number of braindead zombies wandering around in their pajamas and flip-flops staring blankly into their phones. People with their shopping carts full of sugary soda and candy. I'd rather pay the extra money and shop at a Publix, where they only hire attractive people who smile and make eye contact and the customers look like they know how to use indoor plumbing.
@@Paul-eb4jp :) Mind: SOME of the poorest. Not all women are the same.... like not all men are the same. The lip thing: should be banned, -so disgusting!!! :)
All i can say is my late father was correct when he said the Tories itch to bring us back to a victorian society. All they vote for are things that would being us to a state where there is a very rich upper ruling class and everyone else scrabbling about worked to the bone for a pittance. The totally destitute and lame will survive on charity only. The logical conclusion to where we are going as a society on the current Tory trajectory is a victorian society.
Although probably not exactly the same- wouldn’t be a world superpower and the very poor tend to be overweight and unhealthy.
Country is so depressing, it could be so much better if people had a bit more opportunity and something to give inspiration and motivation but there is nothing. People work really hard and there is no social mobility
Hmmm, i live in southern Germany. When I go back to UK to visit it is very noticeable the difference. The UK does seem poor.
It is poor 😢
"When I go back to UK..."
Don't. Stay on that side of the Channel.
Clacton is one of the poorer towns. Very divided in terms of wealth.
The UK is a rich country with lots of poor people.
8 million a day doesn't help..
Michael,I really feel in a town which has lost hope it is beyond dispicable that Farage a millionaire has the nerve to stand there for election.As if he cares about the people who are poor .
Hi Michael
Thank you for this clip.
Unfortunately it is typical of many towns in the UK.
The tories have destroyed the country and I think the people of Clacton did vote for brexit and Johnson?
They are often the least well educated people.
They arecreadyvto vote for fromage and make the same mistake.....
Hope you didn t swim in that lovely clean sea....
Take care xx😊
Clacton actually looks quite nice. Compared to places like Grimsby, Hull, Walsall,Blackpool it does not look too bad.
Absolutely spot-on as always, Michael, especially re. Fartage.
I live in Leeds and have only recently been into the city centre due to a recent operation on my right leg. My last visit was something of an eye opener. There were always homeless people in shop doorways begging for change.
What was revealing was the increase in numbers AND the manner of the begging - a couple of them were walking up and down one of the busy thoroughfares with a paper cup held outstretched in their arm.
Britain is a state ruled by the bankers class. It doesn’t have a manufacturing sector, only the financial service.
The manufacturing sector accounts for about 10% of GDP.
@@padraigohooligan8363 there's the problem, only 10%
@@10000years "Manufacturing, value added (% of GDP) in France was reported at 9.5438 % in 2022"
"Manufacturing, value added (% of GDP) in Germany was reported at 18.44 % in 2022"
It would be best to do the research before you try and make a point about a complex economic situation.
@@ecaeas4439 I'm not comparing it to other EU states. I'm making a comparison to its past, where it was once a manufacturing power house before the Thatcher era
@@10000years Britain has more capital and investment available to it now than it ever had when it was "a manufacturing powerhouse". Sure, the bankers have far too much power but all of the world's richest economies are dominated by finance & services in general. Going back to manufacturing would not be the way to make Britain a wealthier country.
We should invest in manufacturing to become more self-sufficient which reduces the need to pay globally inflated prices for things like energy, but primarily we need to fix our services, firstly by getting rid of the rip-off merchants who own most of them.
Thank you again, Michael for another really good video. Farage is an absolute curse and a stain on the face of this country. Remember how Enoch Powell was castigated for saying much the same sort of stuff. What bothers me is the apathy of people - even the vaguely switched -on looking people, ignorant of what the candidates stand for - but who, in their ignorance, still vote! Awful.
Farage is a fascist.
Len Pen, Wilders, Meloni and the AFD plus many other EU nations have moved to the right.
Keep telling yourself it hasn't happened 😅
@@bradsmith9689it's happened. But, unlike Sh1t Island they have far less control. EU is still far more centrist than the political toilet that is UK
@robsucher9419 Brexit is good. We're out..How's Remain doing.
I cant imagine Mr Farage spending much time in Clacton after the 4th July.
There won't be any point if he isn't elected. He will clear somewhere else where he sees an opportunity for cheapskate publicity.
I used to spend a lot of holidays in Clacton as a kid & my nan & grandad lived there, my mum currently lives there. Sure it as changed over the years but that's no different from a lot of seaside towns. There are a lot of mobility scooters as a lot of people retire there. Mind you I've never been to a place with so many free public toilets, you can walk all the way from the west beach to well past the pier without getting worried about getting caught short.
We used to go to Clacton in the 60s , as kids and stay in Jaywick . We really liked it ; perhaps we had low expectations then . Revisited a couple of times since in the 80s just for a day trip from London . and then stayed in Clacton for 2 days in a nice B&B in about 2010 . Clacton itself wasn't too bad ; the pier was good fun for our child and the shops were mostly open . Jaywick though was mostly derelict by the 2010s . There was even a Butlins in Clacton in the 60s . I think many high streets in Uk are run down now combination of globalisation , Internet Shopping and under investment .
Just posted my vote. Nope i didn’t vote Tory. Clacton looks pretty affluent compared to where i live In Wales
Labour as been in power for 25 years and what a mess they have made of Wales...
@@vincentblack7467 like the Tories have done a really fine job in Westminster
Try Lowestoft just up the coast in Suffolk for mobility scooters. It’s like the Wacky Races on London Rd North there. I even saw a mobility scooter chopper style like something out of Easy Rider. Customised mobility.
Thanks for showing us around Michael, I am housebound and don't get to see anywhere these days. Your choice of music was perfect....melancholic and haunting. Hope Farage doesn't succeed and that Reform do not get a single seat....
Hi Michael, I've subscribed to you because you talk a lot of sense when we were in the EU didn't they give money to these deprived areas. And as soon as we left that all stopped. Because what I can see there's lots of deprive areas😊 brexit has been a disaster for those seaside towns
Thank you Rob and welcome 😊
Dear Mr. Lambert, wishing you a good and soon eye-recovery we just pass by to say thank you & shbbt slm!
Thank you very much 😊
I've been to places like Hastings and Clacton, they are run down, monuments to a Victorian era of Empire and Industrial wealth. The powering factors behind them, none of which exist now, subsequently these towns have little reason to being. However, what is sad, is that with the right investment, and management both locally and nationally, they could be so much more in terms of rejuvenation, their very out of time character should be their bespoke selling point. Sadly, I think it benefits the people who prey upon these areas, to keep it that way, whilst offering no solutions. It would take the people's of these areas to ignore the foghorns of their demise that offer them no change only continual hardship and despondence, and to drag themselves up, in something akin to what has happened with Manchester, Liverpool and Nottingham. No place will ever be perfect of course, but the level of decline in these areas more than reeks of a little "managed decline", it suits the political overlords and chancers.
ha Ha Ha ......You dont need to travel around the country to see the Victorian era in towns & cities, A small tip, just got to Londanistan & see the FILTH & ugly ghettos springing up!!!!!!! Surprisingly, NONE IN SW1........I WONDER WHY?
How very depressing Michael. What a hell hole. Hope your eye problem resolves itself soon.
Struggling to see immigration problem here
It's even worse here in the northeast. The decline of our towns is sad but universal in the UK. Even cities like Sunderland and Carlisle are like ghost towns now.
If you want to see desolate, have trip to Scunthorpe.
It looks like paradise compared with Runcorn. You should take a trip there and walk through either of its shopping areas.
I lived in Runcorn for 6 months a very long time ago. 1974 to 75. I'd like to see how it has changed since then.
@@russmarkham2197 it's not got better for sure. The shopping city is an awful shopping experience and the main street is totally run down.
@@tonyprice1526 good to hear from you. I remember shopping city. It was quite new then, I think. Fairly soulless back then even. We stayed in a futuristic development of small flats with round windows called Southgate I think. It was a "new town" then. Probably demolished by now!
Yes, but Tony, (Hi there🖐) what are the demographics? This vid is about how RUK have calculated that they can win big in Clacton with Farage as their candidate. If they were certain of being able to win in Runcorn, then no doubt Farage could have chosen to stand there and not Clacton. Couldn't he? (except that Clacton is a bit closer to where he lives, in Bromley, south east London.)
So what are the odds of Candidate - Jason Moorcroft winning Runcorn? At the moment apparently Labour are favourites for winning that seat.
"The former Reform UK candidate for Clacton, Anthony Mack, is preparing to stand against Nigel Farage as an independent." [Politics Home.]
@GeorgeGeorgeOnly it's traditionally a labour strong hold, but this year the boundaries have changes and Widnes has been moved out. With reform gaining support, some labour voters will switch. A lot of people voted brexit so who can tell.
Don`t think they are enjoying their Brexiit, somehow. Perhaps the Architect of Brexit Farage can cheer them up ? Yes he can point out all the Benefits they are enjoying.
They didn't enjoy the 37 years in the EU either, but let's not talk about that!😂
@@edthompson9337 The seaside of shit is a true brexit benefit. I don’t remember that in the previous 37 years.
Nice to catch the voice of reason, after listening to NF.
nice 'cello music 🙂 looks a bit like Plymouth with more trees ( they've recently cut a hundred mature trees down in the centre of Plymouth) Enormous pharmacy in Clacton!!
Clacton probably never looks any better than this
It really doesn't look tooooo bad
Plymouth Council doesn't like trees 😂 Proper Wan€kers
Michael you are a good kind compassionate caring man.Lorenzo.
Thank you Lorenzo 😊
Boarded up Britain going to be a very long time to fix it.
Doesn't matter if it's boarded up if the shops are pointless anyway. Who needs 2 mobile phone shops and nowhere to buy groceries?
As someone who's of working age there's literally nothing in this entire video that I would ever need or want to leave the house for.
These places only cater to extract money from their poor communities.
Worth remembering that a lot of tory MPs have substantial interests in private health-care.......
The tories have no interest in the electorates' well-being.
I believe there is a saying which circulates the medical profession: "Good health makes good sense, but bad health is big business!"
It's no worse than several declining UK towns - actually it's not that bad; the shops aren't all boarded up, there isn't graffiti everywhere, the local council has planted trees, there are people enjoying the sunshine over a coffee... Sure, it's not Monte Carlo but neither is it some post-apocalyptic-looking hell-hole like several Northern British seaside towns.
I'm currently reading Shattered Nation by Professor Danny Dorling its depressing reading! Beveridge’s five evils, want, disease, ignorance, squalor and idleness are on steroids in the UK.
He’s an opportunist, no accountability. Fail to understand why people and the media give him air time. A very dangerous clown.
Yes, very, very sad. If only we were as quick to offer help and support as we are to condemn and lay blame.
i agree it's not about immigration it is corruption, in Westminster, a wealth tax is needed for billionaires
Great video especially when you compare to Poland or Germany etc! GB really is a third world country
Your analogy of the mobility scooter is the exact same reason as to why this area will probably vote Farage as an MP .
Yes it's pond life having the right to vote that will regret it in a few short years because they just can't see ahead .
True but pond life don't have the capacity to link actions and consequences so they'll never regret anything. They haven't regretted voting Out of the EU even though they are suffering because of it. They've not regretted voting the Tories in and giving Fartage and Ukip/ Reform, and whatever the next populist 'party' name next, power and a voice for years and years even though THAT is the main reason this place and other xenophobic areas of England are utterly depressing as hell. It's not those EU immigrants- they've all left thanks to this lot and the place is even more dreadful and shockingly poor than it's ever been. EU immigrants clearly have nothing to do with that; but pond life can't make the connection to who has: their beloved Tories/ Ukip - their ignorant xenophobia. That tour and heart wrenching music is spot on Michael.
Ah - one of the patrician classes 😆. It's interesting that you see a big chunk of your fellow countrymen as worse than livestock. Our (self titled) elites aren't exactly making a very good job of things and those who haven't opened their eyes will do soon, after a few years of labour.
Thanks for sharing
Blimey Michael.... THE MUSIC! Funeral march or what? I use to go to Clacton as a kid in the 60's, during the summer holidays. Now I'm a pensioner, I think I'll give it a miss!
Have to say that grim music was a rather heavy handed way of making Clacton-by-the-Sea seem even more miserably depressing and joyless than the place might otherwise appear to a casual observer.
Clacton on Sea looks like the average downtown of a random American metropolis. Just with a little less fentalyl addicts roaming the streets.
It reminded me of Cork, Ireland in the 1980s, before the Celtic Tiger. As a young accountant I was sent there by my employer (one of the big four) to represent a client before the Revenue Commissioners (tax court). Of course I had read about it in the text books, but that was the first time for me that economic decline became a reality. The lack of young people, lack of energy, just old people going through the motions, no future....
The UK desperately need a visionary leader, but sadly I don't think Starmer is it.
All my educated cousins from Cork left for New York,Paris and Barcelona.
Well now I’ve been to Clacton. Doesn’t look too bad.
A strict city looks well to me .It was not bad to me when I worked there .Lowestoft is more horrible for me .We all eat horrible things and we all making mistakes excessive plastic caused cancer ,aluminium dementia.Aluminium is everywhere every choc bar is wrapped in aluminium .
Very sad indeed but think this is the normal for the u.k especially in the North .The reality is now acceptable to let towns die😢
I am not sure if the north is much worse. Towns right along the South Coast all the way to Cornwall and towns in Wales are in a deplorable condition. And in London, I lived in Lewisham for many a long year, try Catford for your money...! There is chronic deprivation in London, so many parts of it.
I don't know about the town but the music was bloody miserable. How about some Chas and Dave?
The music was a bit melancholy, ok, but Chas & Dave would not go well with the video.
It looked very posh to me but I live near Grismby.
Its grimmer up North come to Teesside.
@@Nemo59646 Me too, but the beautiful North Yorkshire moors are a compensation.
@@nickbarton3191 Indeed as is Durham and Northumberland.
Thank you. Interesting conversation and debate. It’s nice to see a different viewpoint that you may have about different types of communities and aspects throughout the country and overseas.. thank you again take care of your friends and family and bye for now.
Thanks 😊
Interesting video, thanks, hope your eye gets better.
Thanks! 😊
First things first: I’m sorry about your eye problem. But, as the notice at the bottom of the screen stated, it is not serious. Although I am not a doctor, I can vouch for that, because many years ago, I had such a haemorrhage as well. But it cleared quickly. Good luck with it! I wish you the best of health. You might want to check your blood pressure, though.
Now, about Clacton… As you said, it’s not Bel Air or Knightsbridge. Nor, as a seaside town, is it Nice! The descriptors that immediately come to mind are depressing, sad, shabby, and, in parts, tacky. Clearly, the town has seen its best days.
But in fairness to Clacton, it is surely not alone. So many towns up and down the country look sad these days. Shopfronts right and left are so often boarded up. Brexit has taken its toll, of course; but so has the Internet with online shopping. When visiting a town outside of London or the home counties, salubriousness is not to be expected anymore, and if it is found, one must be surprised.
Michael, your choice of music for this video, by the way, was spot on.
If I were a young man today, I would never stay in this country. I would seek pastures greener, with despatch, too. Further, were I to be married with children, I would encourage my children to emigrate once old enough to do so. I really do not wish to sound negative or defeatist, but I really cannot see much future for this country anymore. Belonging to the European Union brought us hope, and prosperity. After all, that is why we embraced Europe in the first place. At that time, as we all know, in the 1960s and 1970s, this country was known as the ‘sick man of Europe’. This looks to be our fate yet again!
The Tories were once the party to be trusted with the economy. However, after fourteen plus years of Tory corruption and misrule, we can no longer ever trust the party with the economy again.
We are living through very sad times.
Michael, thank you for this most informative of videos.
And from one pro-European to another, as one might say in German, I wish you _gute Besserung!_
Thank you very much @xelakram - much appreciated 😊
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