Growing up in steel town: 'Give Scunthorpe a chance' - BBC Newsnight

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  • čas přidán 7. 08. 2019
  • Reports suggest a deal to rescue British Steel - which employs 3,000 people in Scunthorpe - is edging closer.
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    In the second in our Rust and Revival series, film-maker Maya Rostowska returns to meet some of its younger residents.
    As the town waits to learn its future, how do they see their own futures?
    Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews.
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Komentáře • 95

  • @abcun17
    @abcun17 Před 5 lety +17

    I wish the people and the town all the best. This is pretty sad. We have screwed up this world and left future generations with a mess on their hands. They'll have to clean up everything we have done to make their lives miserable and more hopeless than our own.

  • @TheHalalHam
    @TheHalalHam Před 4 lety +13

    Scunthorpe’s the best place ever

    • @oliverurry9332
      @oliverurry9332 Před 3 lety

      Yessss it is the best buzzy park is full of chavs though

    • @alainportant6412
      @alainportant6412 Před 2 lety

      @@oliverurry9332 Scunthorpe

    • @tlnkj1910
      @tlnkj1910 Před rokem

      Why you taking the piss bro I know your joking but it’s actually depressing to see how many kids in Scunthorpe live in poverty most of there parents are on drugs it’s infested with drugs dealers gangs drug addicts and prostitution

  • @justinjarrett5868
    @justinjarrett5868 Před 2 lety +3

    I lived in Scunthorpe for 8 and half years back in the 80s. Scunthorpe Steel will remain and will not close. If its closes the town is dead. Scunthorpe United will one day be back in the football league. The view looking down the hill to the garden centre westerly is breath taking. It's beautiful amazing. You don't get in Southport where I live know. I am proud that I lived in Scunthorpe

  • @shoresy4703
    @shoresy4703 Před 4 lety +5

    I live in scunthorpe and I must admit there I'd a side that's very different and not the nicest place to be but the moment you move away from the roads it's all green and a nice place be

  • @jamesmiddleton1278
    @jamesmiddleton1278 Před 5 lety +14

    Nice bunch of people. Good luck to you.

  • @datpotatodancing8496
    @datpotatodancing8496 Před 5 lety +4

    I like how they only filmed up the like new bits of town and Central park the literal end part

    • @Bailey.H0729
      @Bailey.H0729 Před 2 lety

      haha and westcliff i live in scunny and im not proud of it

  • @aimeezcg
    @aimeezcg Před 4 lety +2

    fr though Scunny has a steelworks ight? but like it doesn't change us like I forgot it was there until it was aid it were shutting down

  • @jakecomerford8876
    @jakecomerford8876 Před 3 lety +5

    I love the smell of lung disease in the morning

  • @jonsmustache7704
    @jonsmustache7704 Před 5 lety +12

    Turn back now, these comments are pure cancer.

  • @HaraiGoshi345
    @HaraiGoshi345 Před 4 lety +3

    Ahh Jamie, the old 2C owner.

  • @tiggystardust4405
    @tiggystardust4405 Před 4 lety +7

    That's my sister wtfff

  • @Leon-ko5so
    @Leon-ko5so Před 2 měsíci

    Lived in scunny for years its waaaaank

  • @trueg66
    @trueg66 Před 5 lety +3

    Maybe this would be a great place for tourism, the UK's future will be there after brexit, and this is so unique, just saying :-)

  • @chasezaffuto3252
    @chasezaffuto3252 Před 4 lety +4

    I live in scunny and it’s utter shit

  • @looneyfawn6973
    @looneyfawn6973 Před 5 lety +5

    That Leigh j kid looks like a nice guy

  • @BenWillock
    @BenWillock Před 5 lety +2

    No.

  • @mrchocolatebean8878
    @mrchocolatebean8878 Před 3 lety +1

    scunthorpe

  • @aw9522
    @aw9522 Před rokem

    People make the place not the other way around. Stop blaming the government, Brexit etc. It's up to the people who live there to make it a decent place. What youth centers? Kids who want to achieve more have their day full of schoolwork, sports, etc.and no time for loitering. Education is put at the bottom and quick money at the top and most youths living thinking the world owes them something.

  • @yns000
    @yns000 Před 4 lety +3

    Naah dusty

  • @stuartpaul9995
    @stuartpaul9995 Před 5 lety +3

    Make the same video in a few years time post Brexit, and there`s a fair chance Scunthorpe will look like a Mad Max post apocalyptic chaos.

    • @johnathanpearson3203
      @johnathanpearson3203 Před 5 lety +4

      Your hate for this country makes no sense. The French have said they will block all french ports if they can't fish in British waters after no deal. Looks like they are thinking again. 70% of UK fish goes to the French. Unmm. Lovely cheap British fish.

    • @johnathanpearson3203
      @johnathanpearson3203 Před 5 lety +1

      @J. Harris. so what your saying (BBC style) is that you are looking forward to the regeneration of the British fishing industry?
      🇬🇧Buy British 🇬🇧

  • @Txzie
    @Txzie Před 5 lety +1

    😂

  • @richardharling5825
    @richardharling5825 Před 5 lety +6

    Pair of bag rats of scunny days everything

  • @discobiscuits4233
    @discobiscuits4233 Před 3 lety

    😂😂😂😂😂as if wtf

  • @a-khanation5279
    @a-khanation5279 Před 5 lety +2

    I maybe was born in scunny but i live in Burnley all my life,
    Burnley Burnley Burnley, Lancashire

    • @gamingminecraft2898
      @gamingminecraft2898 Před 4 lety

      WHEY BURNLEY FC WHEYYYYYYYYY

    • @leemcmahon2879
      @leemcmahon2879 Před 4 lety

      ‘Maybe’ born in scunny?

    • @a-khanation5279
      @a-khanation5279 Před 4 lety

      @@leemcmahon2879 on passport it says Scunthorpe, also you don't remember anything up until the age of 3 or even 4 or even close to 5 years old

    • @leemcmahon2879
      @leemcmahon2879 Před 4 lety

      A- KHANATION so you WERE born in Scunthorpe, not maybe.

    • @a-khanation5279
      @a-khanation5279 Před 4 lety

      @@leemcmahon2879 🙂

  • @ethoin8099
    @ethoin8099 Před 4 lety +3

    I grew up and live in scunthorpe. The steel works are NOT a vital part of scunthorpe. Scunthorpe was NOT built on the steel works it was a viking settlement and it is a wonderful place and a lot better then the media makes out. And yes i agree ther are some bad parts, just like every other town/city

    • @jono_high
      @jono_high Před 4 lety +3

      You're deluded if you think that the steelworks isn't a vital part of the town. Scunthorpe may not have been founded on steel, but it grew exponentially because of it.

    • @ethoin8099
      @ethoin8099 Před 4 lety +1

      It is a vital part of employment of scunthorpe but most people think scunthorpe revovles around the steelworks

    • @tessuals9689
      @tessuals9689 Před 4 lety

      Etho in nah you’re dusty

    • @TheTrooper115
      @TheTrooper115 Před 4 lety +1

      Aye, Scunthorpe existed before the steelworks but not as we know it now. Scunthorpe was naught but a village before the works arrived and if not for the works would have stayed a village.
      No works, no Scunthorpe town. People don't say it for no reason.

    • @elkiemart4132
      @elkiemart4132 Před 2 lety +1

      Ah yes old Skuma's Village i remember it well but not very vital 800 years ago

  • @slanemaddison628
    @slanemaddison628 Před 3 lety +1

    i know the blue haired girl its saff 1:17

  • @Aspartame69
    @Aspartame69 Před 5 lety +4

    I just want to point out, that unlike this representation, scunthorpe is not 75% degenerate weirdos.

  • @mariuskidikas9514
    @mariuskidikas9514 Před 5 lety +4

    project fear

    • @nbarrett100
      @nbarrett100 Před 5 lety +2

      Just keep saying 'project fear' and everything will be fine

    • @andrew300169
      @andrew300169 Před 5 lety +1

      Scunthorpe’s dead post brexit with tarrifs

    • @garsm2290
      @garsm2290 Před 5 lety

      Exactly. Scunthorpe is going to boom after Brexit. What do you think will be the main boom areas?

    • @andrew300169
      @andrew300169 Před 5 lety

      Gar Sm Heroine will probably be a growth area, taxis as nobody can afford to own a car

    • @garsm2290
      @garsm2290 Před 5 lety

      @@andrew300169 After Brexit, British manufacturing will be expanding, taking advantage of worldwide trading opportunities that Boris Johnson will I'm sure announce in good time for no-deal Brexit on October 31.

  • @tetsumeaoepaidowha8394
    @tetsumeaoepaidowha8394 Před 4 lety +6

    Feels weird seeing the town I grew up in a video