Locals carrying machetes, shoplifting and homelessness plague 'best place to live in England'
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- IT was only last summer that Plymouth was named 'the best place to live in England'.
But locals say the historic maritime city is now plagued by mobs of destructive kids as young as 11, shoplifters, and drug users openly dealing on the streets and "shooting up" in shops.
Business owners have complained about a rise in people stealing and abuse towards staff, windows being smashed, and young gangs trying to break into buildings through skylights.
On the morning The Sun visited we were met by boarded-up shopfronts and walls of graffiti, groups of arguing youths and drunks zig-zagging up the street clutching cans of booze.
Pete Monsgrove, 53, is Plymouth-born and bred and said crime has noticeably increased in the past few years.
“The way things are going are bad," he told us. "I saw a guy, someone I recognised, and he was carrying a machete round town.
"I was like, ‘What are you doing?' and he said, ‘It’s for my protection’.
“This not a huge city with major crime, it’s just a small town, but it has its problems. There are a lot of homeless people now.
“The council are investing millions on one end of town and nothing at the other end. Look around you - it’s a ghost town."
He added that the opening of Drake Circus, a large glass-fronted shopping centre completed in 2006, has had a knock-on effect on the high street.
“This used to a be thriving town, but since they built that hideous mall, the town is dead.
"It’s full of charity shops, the businesses left are struggling.”
Statistics from 2022 show Plymouth is now the most dangerous city in Devon, putting the crime rate at 64 per 1,000 people - 40 per cent higher than the county’s average.
On an evening in January a gang of up to 60 youths rampaged through the town terrorising businesses, smashing windows, climbing onto rooftops and hurling things down into the street.
Three police cars were reportedly smashed up and the police later made more than 10 arrests.
It prompted businesses to call for action. At a recent meeting between police, the city council, Plymouth Against Retail Crime (Parc) and Crimestoppers UK, the chief executive of Plymouth City Centre Company, Steve Hughes, declared: “We can't tolerate this any more.”
"They were throwing things, being abusive and running into shops," Steve told The Sun.
“We’ve got a lot of low rooftops in Plymouth and they were throwing things down into the street. When the police were called, they had no respect for the law. Some of these kids were only 11."
He added: “All city centres have crime, but it’s escalated here. The cost-of-living crisis means there are more homeless people living on the streets.
"We've got people with mental health issues, people with drug addiction and alcohol problems. Shoplifting is at an all-time high.
“On top of that, in the last year or so, we have an awful lot of antisocial behaviour from very young people. We are lucky in that we are a resilient community.”
Businesswoman Lesley Park, 63, who owns a string of franchises of the pasty store Oggy Oggy, told The Sun: “I’ve had people outside the shop causing a disturbance, fighting outside the shop, arguments over drugs.
"I see drug deals openly taking place on the street outside and it’s a huge problem.
“The back area of our shop has been smashed into and we had someone break in by climbing through the toilet window to try and get cash, so we’ve had to install reinforced shutters.
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I am ashamed to be English, what we have allowed Governments and councils to do to our people, it’s hart breaking .
they have not built social housing for over 20 years.
@@buy.to.let.britainand private housing is too expensive
on purpose.@@mycatspethooman5590
@whirled.government Try 40 years! The housing stock was never replaced after right to buy. Its intentional scarcity and demand keeps rising as children grow up, more migrants come to work, monies people buy holiday homes to put on air bnb and older people live longer. Therefore prices have never stopped increasing.
It's happening all over Europe and indeed the world for the so called great reset and NWO
This is NOT just a Plymouth issue, there are far worse cities in the UK. It’s a reflection of the decline of the UK as a whole.
But what cause it?
I also looked at some videos from NY and other cities in USA, they have similar decline. So that is not only in UK.
What is happening?
Exactly, England as a whole is on a major decline. It's visible in every city and town
Nottingham turns into "Night City" When the sun goes down
@@callumward7503 how
@@FileForenameAs in New York and other Lefty held cities, Plymouth here, is held by a Labour Council. Tons and Cities decline under Lefty and Socialist policies.
Nothing for kids to do? Try growing up in the sixties. We didn't loot shops or carry machetes. The police also did their job and were respected.
They've been bleating about 'nothing for the kids to do' for as long as I can remember. It's no excuse!
Neither did we. At that age people made their own entertainment. I expect these people are too stupid to do anything constructive.
Nothing to do???? In the 60's we had brains, and were inventive. EG. me and my pals made a 'space ship' out of cardboard and wood, one summer. We sat in it for ages, playing. Of course we set fire to it before going home for tea...
My comment was deleted. More dysfunction in the brains of Britain eh? We can't handle an opinion.
@@sebastiennesp1978 Exactly, people had brains 20-30-40 years ago. Now they have mobile phones. They don't need brains anymore :(
Anyone else starting to think this is deliberate and we have become the official migrant camp for Europe,
You're just catching on that this is being done deliberately? No wonder we were so easy to wipe out.
It's happening across Europe and Northern America deliberately for sure.
OF COURSE it is deliberate. All a part of bringing in their ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT. They are destroying national pride to make it easier for them. Time for people to DEFEND THEMSELVES.
These people coming in are an army, only a few short months before they are given arms and set loose on the public!
Of course it's deliberate. The Barcelona treaty from 2002 will give you a bit of a clue. It was playing out well before then, but it will give you a bit of an understanding. It is 100% deliberate and forced across Europe.
I'm not too familiar with the USA & Canada, but my understanding is that there is something similar happening there too.
In a nutshell, it's to keep the status quo of the elites and rulers. Keep the low low, give them distractions, hatred towards one another, moaning at the state of this or that , creating racial divide, reinforcing it in the press, creating silly diversions like sexuality, political correctness etc. Yes, it's all pre planned , if you dig deep enough you will find videos from late 70's , early 80's predicting all of this, eerily uncannily accurate.
almost all towns in Britain are like this now.
Left the uk. Went back to my hometown last year which was a thriving bustling town 15 years ago. Most the town is boarded up. Some was being knocked down. Rubbish everywhere. Backstreets were all overgrown with 10 foot weeds and were full of sofas and old fridges. It looked like a third world country.
That’s what you get for being REGGlN LOVERS
Thanks Biden for not closing the borders and having lax policies. I sure hope Trump gets elected!
You should see cities in California.
Seems like yesterday you wanted PCdiversity
Look at that headline.... "locals carrying machetes" yeah right 😅 "locals" just becuase you move into a area doesnt make you a local....
The media will never admit what is causing this.
In my town it IS the indigenous people that are robbing houses, cars, dressed in black with balaclavas on.
They're feral.
We all know who's carrying the machetes.
Who ? Why not tell us
@@brocktoon8 Drug dealers? Thugs?
Britain is no longer the same country that I grew up in, I love Britain and proud, but I am not proud about the way our government is leaving it to rot.
This one and those before. The decline of this country has been going on for decades now. It began in former industrial areas and coalfields, but is now apparent in nearly all towns and cities across the UK. Our society is declining and becoming poorer whilst the radical demographic change, purposefully begun under Blair, is transforming the country to ensure that things will never be what they were ever again.
@kenneth....The government is the end product of the voters . Blame youselves !.
Same in the US. I no longer recognize a once beautiful Country. Much of it is a sewer and unsafe. Vicki
I am glad I am 60 tomorrow and not 16! This Country is unrecognisable to what it was, I honestly don't want to live here anymore 😢
They aintleavi g it to rot, they are running it into the ground.
Sadly this is pretty much the picture across Britain, not just Plymouth.
Lawless broken Britain with Broken borders.
he homeless are on the street because the council are housing dinghy migrants...illegal migrant criminals get first option...this video blames the white homeless ...but a lot of crime is done by the 4 star hotel criminals
And America 😢
And canada
Immigration. Polutical Correctness. Labour Governments. Tony Blair.
Homeless everywhere, but not if you arrive by rubber boat, then it's milk and honey all the way to your free council house.
no homeless boat men however homeless UK citizens , a wake up call to all we have been hijacked by evil forces.
via the docs to register for free health care.
So true
You cannot get a dentist, or a doctor, if you live in the UK and are a tax payer. Different story if you get here in a rubber dinghy, or in the back of a lorry.
'They' need to get The Replacements off to a good start. @@3554ELM
£15,000,000 Fifteen Million goes to support Illegals every single day, 7 days a week.... forever.... and that figure grows and grows and grows.
We are a lost society. We are a society in decay.
We have lost our way and unless radical reform is bought in we can expect exponential decline.
Tories are toast.
VOTE REFORM UK 🇬🇧❤
I would mate but it's only a vote for labour at the moment even tho voting Tory seems even worse now. . What people are waiting for is Nigel farage as he Is about to join the conservative party maybe just after the election. This election is lost to starmer but the next one we are waiting for is Nigel in blue. This seems our only hope. That 15 million a day rips my heart seeing that amount money spent on people that actually want this country to become Muslim. Just imagine what that could do for towns or schools or anything but spending it on illegals.
They've made it very clear who they care about - and it sure as hell isn't us.
Vote Britain First, Tommy Robinson is joining them. Don't think Reform Uk have the best people to help out this country or working class people. Britain First are not a far-right neo-fascist party, if anyone believes what the media and our government say about them, then you are lost, and so is our country.
That's not even taking into account the lost revenue to the local economy by filling hotels with these individuals instead of tourists, business people and holidaying families who will each spend a small fortune in the local area.
It's a blight on the town centres and seafront in many traditional British seaside towns, where they tend to use expensive seafront hotels to house those coming here illegally, indefinitely....⚠️😲😳
I've wrote here before and you tube keep blocking it
So you can shoplift upto £200 worth of goods without getting nicked, That's the Problem surely 😮
Also there are 10 times more shoplifters than policemen and they can't cope with it so they don't bother any more.
It's cos it's a better paid graft😂@@philippedley5073
£200? - I think you just give me the tip, how to save a lot of money on groceries
Just like Immigration laws there are designed to make the problem worse.
So basically theyre doing the same thing in England as they are in places in America like California - You can basically steal up to $900 of items and not get in trouble for it.. Then people wonder why crime is skyrocketing, stores are closing down in certain neighborhoods because they cant take being ransacked anymore. Society everywhere is collapsing thanks to progressive politics.
When you replace the father with the benefit system, stop parents from disciplining their children and turn churches into apartments, where do people expect them to learn self discipline?
Parents can discipline their kids. They just can't beat them. And the welfare system steps in when fathers won't. Not giving them welfare won't convince the deadbeat fathers to do something.
Don't think church is the answer?
100% agree.
They learning rubbish on Tik tok and Instagram these days.
@@michaelametty8809 Tik tok and instagram is better? Turning people in to brainless zombies.
Well said 👍I totally agree,especially with the discipline aspect.I was brought up in a large family in a very deprived community but if I misbehaved I got a clip from my father or older brothers.Not one of my family got involved in criminality.The future imo is very bleak 🥲🥲
No hotels for the English,my local towns are all like this.
Government policy is decided by governments.
Drugs and Islam is killing the uk
You killed it yourself stop crying
☪ancer
Could not agree more 👍
Islam is the prob@@nb9293
What has this video got to do with islam? Did you watch the video? No. Have you ever been to Plymouth? Very white. You must blame Islam when you loose your house keys.
We live in historical times of moral degeneracy and collapse of civilization
Shockingly reminiscent of the fall of Rome.
Same in U.S.
You got that right boy
@@CelticSaintthe whole world is going to fall
@@Tipperary757 And Canada.
Correct title should be 'imported local criminals.'
Did you watch the video? Did you see any brown faces? No. Those are local people, and local youth. You've obviously never been to Plymouth. A cultural melting pot it is not.
@@tetsbristolI lived in Plymouth for 10 years (2002-2012). I returned there 2 weeks ago to visit a friend and was shocked by the demographic change.
@@CelticSaint OK, so Plymouth has become less white, and more like the general UK population in the last 10-15 years, but as this film makes clear the down and outs, are predominately white. What I'm saying is that the reaction to people reading the title of this film 'Locals carrying machetes, shoplifting and homelessness...' are assuming that it is foreigners that are being referred to, but it's not. They really mean 'locals'.
What made me comment in the first place is that the comments I was reading are totally missing the point. The problem in Plymouth isn't immigrants. The people with problems aren't immigrants. And the reason the people shown in this film have problems - mental health issues, drug addictions, homelessness etc, aren't because of immigrants (I know this is the argument that many commentators here will naturally respond with). The problems highlighted in this film are because of 14 years of Tory government and austerity that has destroyed the things that used to support these people so that they didn't end up in such a desperate situation.
I know that's not a fashionable argument on the internet - look at the comments here - but watching the film makes it abundantly clear to me that this is what has happened.
@@tetsbristolI do agree with you actually. Definitely in Plymouth the majority of problems are down to either locals (Plymothians) or, and this is increasingly an issue in Devon and Cornwall, people who have been moved down here in to hostels who have drug problems and/or have committed sexual crimes against children. A plethora of such hostels have sprung up in the last 10 years. I live in a small market town and we now have a large group of people who hang around outside the local church who are always being done for theft, public drunkenness, drug dealing and general anti-social behaviour issues.
Betting shops, pound shops and charity shops are an indication of the direction in which a town is going.
You forgot the booze shops ….
@@griswald7156 Plus kebab shops and Turkish barbers
@@HarleyHerbert vaping shops , metal roller shutters , concrete bollards in front of shop windows..
@@HarleyHerbert what is this thing about Turkish barbers, it seems peculiar to England
@@markwalker8374There are lots of 'Turkish' barbers in England. Some of them are not Turkish and some of them dont want to give anyone a haircut (money laundering).
The story of this whole country
Well.....and most of Europe and USA actually. You should see the Fentanyl problem in US.
@@littlepippin8445 nothing like this in Europe
Utterly disgusting state of affairs in what were once beautiful cities.
All by design. No 'mistakes' are being made. Agenda 2030.
As recently as 3 years ago, the number of homeless people on the streets of Plymouth was a fraction of what it is today. Since then the University and Council have brought in thousands of new residents without any significant increase in supply of property or public services. None of those new arrivals are living on the streets. But, like the woman in the shop says, 'Obviously I can't say' what is really going on
You traded safety and freedom for PCdiversity at any cost
Your damn right @@silentmajority8365
I lived in Plymouth for 10 years. Moved away 3 years ago, visit back here a few times a year - yes, it has definitely deteriorated in that time. To be fair, this is happening everywhere now, but coastal towns worst affected. 😢
It's not just Plymouth, it's all over the UK.🇬🇧
She dosen't need to say anything, we all know what's happening to our community's.
Money for war, but not for the poor !
Have the poor tried working ?
@@georgemorrison9280 Yes I’ve met everyone one of them
interesting how a lot of these poor people always have money for drugs or alcohol .
sorry, priorities are all wrong
Foreign wars and foreign aid.
@@316kennyj …..and £900 mobile phones .
Our politicians are to blame 100% !
It is all being done by design.
@@CelticSaint definitely 👍🏻👍🏻
I live in Yorkshire, just about every town and city in this county is plagued with this problem now, and that is from the smallest town to the biggest city.
@justwilliam Yorkshire ! Labour stronghold since Adam was a lad . I was born there . Also read many ''just William ''books in the 50's .
Yep originally from Darnall Sheffield! now there's a place in decline if ever there was one. shame really 25 years ago it were ok
Illegal immigrants from Africa and the Middle East will become the majority in Britain sooner or later.
Same here. It's frightening.
50 years Of neo liberal economics..then covid..
Neoliberal economics, globalisation, Marxism and mass immigration.
Yea, Sir Keith Joseph warned Thatcher back in the day, that her social economic policies would lead to a feral underclass in the UK. He got That right
Convid
Always with the Thatcher! How many years since Thatcher? Why is it happening now? Blair ring any bells and you DID vote for him didn't you.@@josephhenry9924
You never bothered to read a book on central banking, eh?
The problem is that it is not just Plymouth… it’s almost all of our seaside towns. Even the big name well known ones that we thought 20+ years ago would be well kept holiday destinations by the sea forever are now hollowed shells. Soon if you want a British seaside holiday you won’t be able to for fear of attack injury or illness and if you live in a seaside town what once was a desirable home will be worth next to nothing. The government and local authorities need to come out of the cities and look at what they have done to our seaside towns… they had the opportunity to look after them and fumbled it so badly it’s now undesirable to live in a seaside town.
very true I went to Torbay in the 1960s and it was fabulous. Going back in 1990 I could not believe the decline. To be fair it's not quite as bad now but it's still not a shadow of itself in it's prime. Last I heard they were dumping African asylum seekers in Paignton But they thought it was so nice they looked forward to bringing their families
It's all by design EVERYWHERE.. ☝️
I think people are gradually waking up to that. Bit late unfortunately.
100%
Conspiracy theorist alert!
We had little to do in the 70’s , no money .
But I certainly didn’t walk around with a bloody machete.
well said
Well we live in a sinful wicked world and people had biblical views back is 70s.. now that's gone out the window. Now everything is godless what do you expect. There will be a decline in safety and everything when sin and darkness reigns
We need vigilantes.
Go ahead
We need local militia.
We need to stop illegal migration and stop funding so called third world countries, Britain is quickly becoming a third world country.
Shut up
We need a honest Government that cares about people born in the UK, zero chance of that ever happening though.
Useless police do nothing expect fine motorists for any reason, easy money.
The 15 million pound each day used for illegal immigrants could be used on improving these areas. Put the navy in the channel and turn them round then spend the money saved elsewhere. Charity begins at home but the British Public are being left to places like this
15 billion for Ukraine
Look after our own. Stop the migrants
Funny how they can afford drink and drugs
They fund drink and drugs by stealing
Simply a case of poor time management, it is hard to learn an instrument or do boxing training when you are prioritising vandalising bus stops and playgrounds and sniffing nitrous canisters.
@@Ken_oh545 There are many areas in the U.K. that don't have the funding for such programs for the youth; therefore is it any wonder that anti social behaviour is as high as it is?; ever since poo-guzzling Tories have been in power they have obliterated public services including youth services. Lastly, regarding learning to play a musical instrument, that requires parents to have the money to buy a reasonably good musical instrument, and then pay for weekly private tuition for at least 3 months, something only the privileged classes can afford.
@@PSYCHIC_PSYCHO On the music front, since Spotify and other audio streaming services, and now upcoming AI generated music, there's no dream of 'getting signed' and becoming a rock star. It was a very unlikely prospect back in the 80s/90s, but possible. Now, there's not much money in music even if you do 'make it'.
@@Ken_oh545 no it is reduction of someone to a base behavior. Just dismissing it and judging it does not solve it if anything it just further marginalizes people... also do some research on addiction
Don't look like locals to me and carrying the usual weapons of choice
They are locals, from a slum in another country.
@@geraldhagen2989 they're all murderers in their own countries then change their names and run here to hide
Diversity at it's finest!
Diversity? I didn't see much diversity in this particular video 🤔
LOL I like that even when everyone in the video is white, somehow immigration is to blame. Taking a few leaves right out of the old Tory playbook are we?
No they are getting all the housing so are locked up in their homes while the English people are on the streets There are no hotels for the English in need mate. Only for the migrants. There's your diversity. .These places are full of them and if you don't know that you don't know anything. They just aren't out on the streets visible. @@JohnCashin
@@JohnCashin John - Billions 💰 being plowed into foreign wars (Ukraine, Yemen, etc) and billions 💰 into mass immigration.
Millions💰 being plowed into diversity programs to place people from other countries, religions to mix with white British indigenous peoples.
So yes Diversity and the UK governments obsession with multiculturalism and encouraging many different religions and many foreign languages continues to be be implemented into English / British society - Is a huge failure
The diversity line only works with London & Birmingham. I know fellow Brits have their heads in the sand but White kids are failing too and it's due to people like you. Not taking any accountability and wanting to blame someone else. This is why London is in the state it's in, it's always "My kid was a good boy" despite that kid appearing in multiple violent rap videos. We've become a nation of victims
If that's the 'best place to live in the UK', we don't have a hope⚠️😲😳
Broken Britain 🇬🇧
I don't buy the, 'kids don't have anything to do or anywhere to go nonesense blah blah blah.' Absolute rubbish!
They have far more to do and go than we did in the 1960s and1970s....😮😊
i agree making excuses is part of the problem .
Was just waiting for some numpty to say, "they need youth clubs".🙄
Yes well in the 60s and the 70s you was allowed to play football in the street Andrew wooden get bullied and find and you was allowed to scream and she'll and run around and make things but all of a sudden it's now classed as anti-social and you're not allowed to do it
@@geraldnixon6511 The ONLY reason we played football in the street was because there were no football pitches to play on back then...
From where I am now there are 7 full size football pitches, 4 astro turf all weather floodlit pitches and 4 tennis courts, all within a 10 minute walk...
And youth of today say there is 'nothing to do'....🙄⚠️😲
@@mrbenn1489 👍
Even in Ireland the homeless are left out to die .14000th Irish homeless and unvetted all men immigrants with no identification or passport's. Staying in 5 star hotels. Sickening
its outrageous how can it be justified
No one has ever said Plymouth is the best place to live in England. There’s absolutely no way.
The old chestnut “there’s nothing for the youngsters to go” doesn’t wash! They are drug addicts!
If there's nothing to do then that leads to crime an anti social behaviour, make it make sense.
@brimcilroy9002 So what is it you think youngsters had a few generations back that the current ones don't? It's a deterioration in parenting/family life and a societal attitude of entitlement that's changed. What happened to kicking a ball about with your mates then going home to watch evening TV with your parents?.
@@brimcilroy9002 They have libraries, beaches, beautiful walks. Most children have bikes, phones, and some luxuries. People need to learn to be happy in nature and with family and friends and within themselves. There is no excuse for violence and anti-social behaviour.
@@fparkes5781 I agree to a point, but in many inner city areas there's much less for the youth than in more upmarket areas.
@@jswmonkey197 yeah when we were kids we played football etc but sadly that don't appeal to everyone, and it's easy for a good kid to get dragged into the drugs game these days but you seem to have overlooked these realities.
Just the beginning. Britain will be the next Yugoslavia
Why is that good?
@@louisvuitton56 Not good it was a warning
ENDDIVERSITY
Do you know the history of the breakdown of yugoslavia, very interesting yet scary. I studied that for some time.
@@ThehulkGreenPray do tell.
@@louisvuitton56You don't seem to understand the assertion. It's a portent of even worse to come.
All this going on our streets and our church is giving away 1 billion pounds in reparations ,if the church has that much money WHY are they not helping our lost souls living rough on the street’s?
Because the system is corrupt through and through.
Austerity - the gift that keeps on giving.
Or not?
Grate Britain, and the rot is still spreading. Thank you London!!
@@spudspuddy Spell police warning....NO it grates!
not so great now very very sad
@@stitchlover633 cos of all the traitors letting boat loads of criminals in everyday
south of essex, no rubber boat criminals down here, 100% better than anywhere else in the UK, warm, dry and hardly ever any crime
@@spudspuddy Ha, now look out the window!
NO hotel rooms for those homeless, free food and bicycles .?
Hey they use the bikes to deliver people's food !!!
The obvious problem is that there is no consequences for carrying a machete, stealing etc. The police doesn't act because they don't want to endanger themselves for nothing. Laws need to change to make petty theft a felony with a long sentencing
If the prisons are supposed to be full we need more built but yet again at the taxpayers expense!
@@pamcullen537 Well, who else pays for things?
@@17losttrout Well said 👏🏻
Also I noticed the parc officer guy said they don't contact police if it's under £200 worth of stolen items - ridiculous
People need to regain their belief that life can get better, start helping family and friends more.
Become a politician and try mate . Why not
👍
Our scummy politicians did this to us!
The Tories have been in power for 75% of the last 40 years, so I'd blame them .
It is called a managed decline of Britain . It is to regress peoples lifestyles and living standards to almost Victorian standards
All western economies are in decline, and they are all doing the same thing.
Indeed. To a master and servant situation. Sounds like Communism to me.
It's good to see that some people see the truth.
Immigration is our strength 😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂 yeah it's that bad hence why everyone wants to live here.
@@user-ur7kx8pz9b no. Weed stops people from working. Makes them extremely lazy. People used to be paid in beer and everyone drank in pubs . Now there are hardly any pubs. There used to be much more drinking so what u say is incorrect.
@@user-ur7kx8pz9b I take it you don't even live here . Alcohol is so expensive that drugs are the choice these days . £6.20 in my local for one beer . There's hardly anyone in there .
There used to be a problem with drunks and pub fights and all sorts of problems with drinking on the streets but it's spice , weed , brown, crack, meth , these people have sores all over their body and no teeth . nothing .. Alcohol doesn't do that . What I saying is I WISH WE HAD AN ALCOHOL PROBLEM LIKE WE USED TO BECAUSE ITS BETTER THEN WHAT WE HAVE NOW .
As is clear from all these 'coloured' folk in this video. ....
The two things the Sun forgot mention is hotels full of illegal migrants and the Sun paid hundreds of thousands pounds to Jimmy saville
Torquay just as bad !!! All these seaside towns real dumps not how I remember it !!!!!!
true, i used to love devon holidays as a kid, don't recognise them any more, isle of wight has been ruined by immigrants too
That poor guy had a bottle for a hand but yet he’s more bothered about the town.
real grit
If the police won't police then the public need to do it, vigilantes will appear for certain, ironically in our stupid country they will be punished and the criminals walk free.
And who's going to control the vigilantes? The vigilantes will just be the strongest gang.
@@allwrighty100 You're not wrong, its a sad state of affairs all around with no easy solution in sight.
At the very least we should be able to protect ourselves without fear of retaliation from the “justice system” that refuses to defend us.
@@allwrighty100 Who watches the watchmen.
Don't worry, your replacements are being well taken care of by the government.
In My town Shopliffting is rampent .. i work in town and deal with it every day , we have to endure these thefts becasue the police will not attend any shop lifting offence unless its over £200 becasue its not worth their time . we are told to report it to 101 and maybe after 5 months and 20 or more reports of theft they might get arrested , but not even surprised there out the next day back at it again .. One prolific shoplifter that actually went to prison for 5 months was out after 30 days and back at it hitting all the stores in town . it just seems pointless now police just arnt doing enough .
ad enough diversity?
In parts of the US the limit is $1000. !! Why? What purpose does that serve? They are robbing stores blind and driving many of them out of business.
@@roringusanda2837 CLOWARD PIVEN STRATGEDY look it up !.
@@roringusanda2837 I was told by a police officer that if they arrest someone for say £60 -$70 and they arrest that person send any CCTV evidence and witness statements to the criminal prosecution. He said nine times out of 10 the criminal prosecution will drop the case because it’s not profitable for them and cost
them more money than what the criminal stole .
So now crimes are based on monetary value if you don’t steal enough, you get away with it ! I’m in the wrong job!!
@@TonyD-UK Total BS "math" by your insidiously corrupt and inept politicians. The area is decimated, and they refuse to see the blatantly obvious cost of that
Charity shops, Nail bars, Turkish barbers, And nothing else in every town including Mansfield.. Good luck to almost everybody.
Apart from the charity shops, sounds more like a drug money laundering paradise. You missed out tanning salons lol
@@sinjohnsmyth8301 and vape shops
@sinjohnsmyth8301 Sorry forgot that one!
only buy online now, the high streets are full of blacks with knives, not worth risking going out
"The best view of Plymouth is from the stern of a Brittany ferry, on it way to Roscoff." (Ron Bendell.)
The legendary Ron Bendell. Now there was a man who would call a spade a spade! ♠️
or in a drug addled haze?
Ron Bendell?
Don’t you mean in your rear view mirror driving away? That’s what he said on tv…
Ron was somewhat critical of Plymouth several times
Blame every politician who called you Far right these past 30 years
The guy in the burgundy jacket is kind & caring.Kudos.
Unfortunately he's far from it! Hiiding in plain site.Dogooding and gaining trust! PREDITOR!!!
i bet this would not happen in Dubai....this country needs tough tough tough discipline....bigger boot camps and jails
well quite, but I can think of better places than Dubai
Societal decay everywhere in uk
Exactly like my native USA. Going downhill and becoming more unaffordable.
The government says diversity and all the doctors and lawyers coming here in the boats is a good thing.
It's amazing how many Millions of people in the UK actually fell for that utter nonsense isn't it!
Have a new government VOTE FOR TOMMY ROBINSON FOR PRIME MINISTER
To many incomers from the big city's have moved in and brought the big city ways with them . Devon and its way of life has been ruined forever.
he homeless are on the street because the council are housing dinghy migrants...illegal migrant criminals get first option...this video blames the white homeless ...but a lot of crime is done by the 4 star hotel criminals
Hopefully they will stay in Plymouth and not infest the smaller towns and villages.
@@CelticSaint oh they have infected everywhere.
@@kelvinsparks4651True. I live in St Austell and there are a large group of druggies and pedos here who all come from the hostel in town. All of them have been moved here from up country.
No Police? Just men in orange Hi Vis vests? What is the Police Force actually doing?
Checking people are using the correct pronouns.
sitting on their fat bums policing tiktok for hurty words against pedos
Broken Britain.
National service is a HOME, A JOB AND A CAREER!!!!
And an education.
It doesn't help that this stupid government and the solicitors ( Lawyers) who are paid for through the legal aid system. Taxpayers
Look after other people more than our own people.🏴
❤ these must be the extremists Rishi is talking about 😢
‘Extremists’ = working class British people…. according to the ‘British’ Prime Minister who previously described himself as “a proud Indian”. Britain will be dead soon…
Sadly it’s every where welcome to the new Britain , but don’t expect any help if your a British citizen FACT
were being phased out the europeans
The South West has become like London. NO GO ZONE!!!
Let's look after our own people first, local authorities are spending far too much money on all the illegal migrants. Start flights to Rwanda...
£100,000 a deportee with one sent our way , no thanks that was always just red meat to put off the locals .
Too many pull factors to attract the mass of global migrants; too many legal eagles and hurdles to hinder deportation. T.blairs 1998 human rights act enshrined in law the supremacy the right to a safe country. The Rwanda bill will not a jot of difference.
More waste of tax payers money 🙄
Owr own people, you mean landlords or their peasants? Oh, migrants are ruining everything, what about Brexit, Independent as it gets. Still always people from colonies are neh, because they cannot be so easily exploited. The cushion of cheap labour is gone and it's time to move plebs to warehouses.
Why can't you say what the shoplifters look like?
Because the idiots that have caused this don't want to get exposed.
Oh dear what has this country come too.......
COUNCIL there's your problem
They dont care.
Once again, the parents are never held accountable for the criminal behaviour of their kids.
Be cause your told you can't discipline your kids or you get someone calling Social services on you and they turn up on your doorstep. Just because you want to discipline your child.
i blame the social engineering of the media pop culture and hollyweird
What the hell they doing to the seaside towns 😡
Captain obvious here. All by design.
Well in Texas,we have a firearms carry law. They wouldn't last long pulling knives on people here.
That must be why crime is so low in the US then 🤣🤣
Nope crime is out of control in some cities,but I guarantee that crime in Texas is lower than states that have restricted gun laws
There would also be a lot murders, good and bad people you can keep your gun toting logic and high murder rate. One medium size American city has the same amount of mergers as the whole of the uk 65 million people. So we won’t be taken advice from Americans on how to lower crime
How many firearms deaths in America last year per capita versus Britain ? Instead of criminals with knives we’d have criminals with guns !
65 million,that might have been in the 70s but you will find its more like 80 million and rising every day 👍
The wealth is there, but not very well distributed. No need for homeless people of the same nationality. Same here in Germany. We should do something, otherwise this power keg will explode in all our faces.
Its the lazy and the criminals and you imported both
Im the 90s their was gangster rap and of course people worried about it influencing youth but thanks to social media this pathetic gang life is so much more glorified and accessible to influence these kids nowadays
Yeah. Most teens back in the day were just playing pretend anyway. I had my little "gangsta" phase when I was in my early teens. I listened to the music, wore the baggy clothes and used some of the slang that was in at the time, but I didn't live the lifestyle. Worst thing I ever did was go down to a local park while there was a cricket match going on and threw some of the cones they'd set up for the temporary car park into the river. That's the difference between teens back then and the teens of today. Today's teens more often than not do live the lifestyle.
BRING BACK NATIONAL SERVICE FOR GOODNESS SAKE!
Lol 😂
for illegals?
No! For unemployed 17 year olds!
The thing is if we were to do that you would somehow have to convince the layabouts to actually toe the line and get out of bed in the morning. If they refuse, what then? Shout at them a bit louder?
what send them away to die to fight in unjust wars thats not the answer
Ever notice these places always have a “ we buy Gold” sign
They have been removing REAL money (gold) from society for quite a few years now.
or nail bars and kebab shops, all trashy people
If this is the happiest place to live in the UK, the UK must be pretty miserable.
It tends to be these days!!
Thank God i am 70yrs old. I love watching old programmes about what this country was like in its hey day. Suggest watching original All Creatures Great and Small, its wonderful to see. I just try and forget whats going on in the cities
I'm 56 and can totally relate. I have recently been re-watching 'The Sweeney'.
Problem is they are denied benefits because they have no address. Please, anyone in authority who has the power to speak about this in parliament... Speak up. We need to stop this vuscious cycle
Never seems to stop economic migrants getting help ?
Benefits in the right place are a good thing Benefits in the wrong place are a bad thing.
The Benefits system needs sorting out.
Should visit Salisbury, a beautiful cathedral city, homeless people on every corner and full of drug dealers
That's one area off my holiday list
Come to Cornwall, Wendy. You will be most welcome.
This is happening everywhere! Just like Los Angeles.
If people started turning the anger towards the government, something will break. Trouble Is nobody does anything and the vicious circle continues.
Evidently you have the exact same problem in Britain that we have in the USA, everyone is self absorbed.
Depressing.The quality of life is shifting back to the early 80s era.
What are you talking about?
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@@Storm.Z.4uthe early 80s were violent & not much money about, like today
@@marcp3788The 70s were poor, constant strikes bodies and rubbish piling up ,constant blackouts with the electric going off , no central heating, my Family had new cardboard in their shoes every week. I was Born in London , outside toilet and a visit to the local Bath house once a week. The 80s were bloody brilliant in comparison to now we were Free .
no they wasn't, what planet?@@marcp3788
In Tesco the other week,two immigrants were stealing used batteries from the recycling bins. I asked two employees if they were going to ask them what they were doing or ask them to leave,and i was treated like it was me who was doing something wrong. I seathed for days 😡🤬. And before anyone replies how did i know they were immigrants, they were non white in the usual style of dress and demeanor... If i put it any plainer,my comment would be deleted.
Petty AF. . . All the problems going on and your focusing on someone "stealing " literal rubbish that's for recycling.
@@FunkyTomo what a nasty comment. It's the principle of the situation I saw.
@@Lordknowswhere Lack of principle and worthy green credentials the norm. 'V for' Virtue you.
Grim results of millionaires becoming billionaires at the expense of ordinary folk combined with allowing foreign investors to buy up endless amounts of uk residential property pushing up prices for uk people. Good old tories
why would anyone want to traipse down to the shops and see this when everything can be delivered to home in 2024? This is the result of lack of social housing and thatcher's decision to make the UK a service orientated country. All the decent factory jobs went abroad, and we are left with people stuck in low paying service jobs or no job.
correct its truly disheartening shopping online will take even more jobs away though
replacement theory
This is how mafias take hold .
Gold buying shops,pound shops,booze shops,betting shops,charity shops,tattoo shops,boarded up shops..nail bars ,Barbers shops…all in abundance..
Does Ritchie Sunak know or care?
I think a big problem in the Country is that for a lot of people owning a home/having paid it off, is something unachievable these days unless you inherit either money or the property. People are expected to work 9-5, whilst being too tired to live a normal life, save every penny just to be able to work 9-5. There's very little motivation for the lower class to actually work because sadly there's nothing there for them anymore. Then kids see drug dealers with nice cars, designer clothes etc and that life appeals to them far more than working 9-5 5 days a week to remain poor.
Some people are making a lot of money and living a life of luxury from the heroin and crack addicts while the vast majority of decent people are living a quality of life far less than 20 years ago. It's very clear who the police need to go after and if they don't do so then the bosses and the politicians need to leave office. These people are employed by us and need to start behaving as such. We wouldn't tolerate poor customer service in Starbucks or McDonalds yet we tolerate a shoddy performance from those we pay our hard-earned taxes to.
We have it too, in Loughborough Leicestershire
AMERICAN HOOLIGAN- DEREK "Del Boy" DIABLO of MIAMI CASUALS here, hello all. I for one LOVE PLYMOUTH, returning soon, lived there for most of 6 months in 2019, was back for a month in 2022, then was over for a week last year. I haven't personally seen the sort of deterioration being presented and discussed here as being so drastically different. Everyone is entitled to call it as they see it so not trying to discredit anyone, its just I have a VERY different perspective.
I've been lots of places in UK including London, Brighton, Portsmouth, Isle of Wight, Jersey, Torquay, Cardiff, Caerphilly, Barry, other places... And while I can tell all of you quite emphatically that I LOVE ALL OF GREAT BRITAIN, my Heart is in Plymouth.
The JANNERS are great People, the best. I love Plymouthians and the mighty GREEN ARMY, up the PLYMOUTH ARGYLE, Respect to THE CENTRAL ELEMENT/TCE Firm, the A38's, EFFORD BOOT BOYS, SWILLY BOYS, STONEHOUSE BOYS, UNDER 5's, BABY RISK, BABY WACE. 💚💚🖤🖤💚💚
Things may be bad right now for all of you and I empathize, however its not as bleak as it may seem, always remember that Great Britain is a SPECIAL place, greatest CULTURE in the World, so much has come from England, UK, you are a special People though there is a nasty side to all of it, one not presented in America where the perception is that UK is posh. I know the other Side of it, the dark side, I'm part of that actually or rather an older expression of said ANTI-SOCIAL tendencies in society being PUNK, SKINHEADS, BOOT BOYS, FOOTBALL HOOLIGANS, CASUALS...
I'm not going to meddle in your National or Local Politics, I can only offer my Country as a point of reference, and I've been all over America. The "rot" that all of you are on about isn't just Plymouth, UK, its all over the Western World but not every single place.
While other major American cities are in a similar state of decay and in a downward spiral, MIAMI and my State of FLORIDA are better than ever before in my 50 years of living here. Thing is yeah, my CUBAN PEOPLE came here when Castro took over and TOOK OVER. The existing White and Black People were against Us but we took Miami over and spread all over Florida. No one has the RIGHT to do do so but its what we done. So then a MASSIVE SURGE IN IMMIGRATION and demographic change resulted in a thriving, continually improving and growing City, State...
So it isn't simply a matter of immigration, its the shared culture and values or lack thereof that come into play with the specfic group or groups that come. I have no advice for any of you other than become involved in local Politics and work towards dealing with things as they are and not how they once were.
Above all, keep Faith, things can and will improve but not overnight. Our major American cities didn't get to where they are today all of the sudden, its years of policies enacted and their eventual effects.
Florida gets a bad rap from many out there but what our Politicians have done has WORKED. Not sure what you can take from that but if Plymouth and other UK Cities copied Florida and Miami things will improve.
Lastly, Plymouth is a beautiful place but there are serious Bad Energies there, lots of Violence, Fighting, Street Brawls involving Navy, other Military, lots of different factions and individual nutters, it can be quite dangerous, but that's all part of the charm isn't it?
... all of you are talking about a decline and hearkening to yesteryear, well may I suggest you take an interest in BRITISH FOOTBALL HOOLIGANISM, TERRACE CULTURE, and the CASUALS Scene? Love it or hate it, these are UNIQUELY BRITISH STREET CULTURES.
You want your Country back? Bring back the FOOTBALL HOOLIGAN!
- this has been a Public Service Announcement from DIABLO TV, coming soon to a British City near you!!!
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