Can Blackpool overcome a poverty and health crisis?
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- Опубликовано: 19 ноя 2019
- Blackpool has one of the worst rates of male suicide in the UK, and one ward the lowest male life expectancy in England.
The Golden Mile now sometimes has more fly-tipped rubbish than tourists.
We joined the Labour candidate for Blackpool North, Chris Webb, on a tour of the area to better understand why there are such high levels of poverty.
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I just got home from Blackpool, I'm 27 and it was my first time since I was very young. The sun still shines In Blackpool although I'm old enough now to notice the desperatey and streams of forgotten hotels and B&Bs the place still has the wonderland charm. At the same time it is the definition of bittersweet
Keep safe 2022
Gosh if it was like this 4 months ago what the hell will it be like in 4 months from now after businesses closed for weeks on end - I love Blackpool and hope to visit this year at some point
It's truly ridiculous to not be able to survive when your working.
Who knew that importing millions of unskilled migrants might hurt the British poor. What a surprise!
@@raydematio7585 yes amongst many things Blair wants hanging for, this is one of them, but as leaders know these days police have got there security down to a t, and so they can do what they like without fear of assassination.
@@raydematio7585 how daft can you be!
Its always the people’s fault mate!
If Sonya or Ivan can come and make a living here, without even having a great command of english, so can Joey and Jane!
Stop blaming the migrants, the fokin horoscope, and planets alignment😅
If there is will, results follow.
@@raydematio7585 so where are all the workers now?
I,m so glad i,m old enough to remember those Golden days and illumination nights.
How long before the whole country never mind Blackpool, goes BANG because of poverty?
Why are these big hotels being built and the town centre having millions spent on it ,who for if nobody goes on Holliday there ?
Austerity policies, slowly killing of the North.
The South has sent hundreds of billions of pounds to the North. How much do you need?
Northerners take more than they pay and then complain.
There is an austerity of hard working people.
@@raydematio7585 I am from London.
@@raydematio7585 found the tory
The sheer speed Blackpool is going down hill is a crying shame.
And Covid-19 hasn't helped
You know it m8...full of winos and half the town does the druggie walk!!..ya saw it more when town was empty with the virus....sad...once you get off the seafront 50 yards and your in something like Mordor but with more chip shops....(heard that in another clip)☹️
@@jimbush1 they have nothing to fill their life's. That's why they are taking drugs. But if you want to make this city better don't ever leave . You must say to yourself :it's up to me to make it better. You can be the mayor. If you can do it. I believe in you chap
It was a dump in the 80s when I went as a kid
Convid
The result of a decade of Tory inflicted austerity.
RaoulDuke6666 lol good one. And if you believe that, you’ll believe anything.
People have been Fleeing this dump since 2001 Two thousand and one for fuck sake!
it was turning to shit under both parties
Blackpool lives on Tory Southern money. Where do you think the money for all those dole cheques comes from?
Then they vote Marxist and complain their town is crap.
Hardly a surprise. Let's blame it all on Thatcher, who left power 40 years ago, that'll make things better.
No doubt that's had a huge impact. But Blackpool is in the same position as other similar old seaside towns like Great Yarmouth and Southend. When people started to travel abroad from the late 60s, their days were numbered.
The Council WILL Find the pregnant woman and her partner somewhere to live, they have to by law.
Also I live down in the South and trust me, it is not the paradise Northern people think it is. A one bed flat, not particularly posh one will cost in excess of £900 per month. Wages are not that good for many and we have a long health waiting list too. Mental a about 9-12 month wait. Do not believe the Media B S.
been living in Blackpool for 11 years now continuously and all there really seems to be the odd retail job, hotel work and temp seasonal work and even that is now difficult to get - applied 12 xmas vacancies and not even offer of one interview even with plenty of retail experience and up-to-date references . If your a tradesman or lucky enough to be able to get a job with the council/hospitals or in a bank then your very lucky down here and it's even harder for very young or over 40 and even then it's mostly minimum wage.For people that do work self employed such as prom/pier vendors very little wages and hardly any tourists 8months of the year and it's getting worst. Government needs to invest more but same for all seaside resorts. Do love it here though even though little rough round the edges plenty to see and do but with little work can't do a lot of that ? Ha ! Lol !
Your comments are much the same all over the UK, the south is very expensive with high cost of living drugs are all over the UK, big cities are very dangerous ,drug gangs, stabbings shootings on a daily basis in London and Birmingham , high immigration in these cities ,Blackpool would be no were near has bad bad, be careful what you wish for
I'm watching this in February 2023, the cost of living crisis is in full swing and now 3 years of covid 19. How bad must it be now in Blackpool.
I can't wait until I'm old enough to get the hell out of Blackpool.
Had a Job interview outside Blackpool last December getting invited to the interview was like like getting a Willy Wonka golden ticket.
And now im finally getting the fuck out of this dump.
@@nullvoid564 I was planning to buy a property in blackpool because it's cheap. What's bad about living in Blackpool?
@@lestermorillo3733 Only Buy one of those REALLY cheap ones if you enjoy visits from burglars
Heroin addicts everywhere, hardly any jobs, The available jobs have too few hours/too low pay to lead a good life and if you go to one of the nicer places most of the houses are being converted into housing for ex-prisoners and junkies
Lester Morillo do not buy a house in central Blackpool town centre, soul the shore or anywhere in the middle. If you’re planning on moving here which I down recommend, look for places in the outskirts of Bispham.
Many places in the UK are much worse be careful what you wish for
Tried to go to Blackpool but there was a sign up saying CLOSED.
its all fun and games till Blackpool finds a massive old mine
oil
true dat
They wish 😂
Blackpool had always been a depressing place to live, it is my home town but I moved away 32 years ago as an 18 year old and my family evetually relocated years later to the Chorley.
What you see today is years of what is effectively managed decline, the council planners never had a vision of how to change what the town could offer. As an example Disney looked at Blackpool as a place to build their theme park. I can just imagine the council not grabbing hold of these opportunities and looking to the future with better clientel who would bring money into the town. Eventually the holiday makers changed from staying in the town for a week or two to just visiting on day trips, hence all of the empty hotels and B&B's. Even Morecambe has a plan to rebuild, enticing tourists with then new Eden project, which will transform their town. I always thought a Vegas style setup might have worked but it would only work with resorts competing against each other and not just a solitary casino/resort. As they say you can't polish a turd but you can roll it in glitter, about sums up the place.
My gf has moved here from Manchester so I spend a lot of time in Blackpool. It's a poor town and the people providing services talk to us like shit . The staff in the train station , bus drivers , publicans. It's because Blackpool has so many druggies and I'm not but these people immediately assume you are . The difference from Manchester is massive.
I have lived in Blackpool for 25 years now and I think it’s a great place especially for places to visit and entertainment if you also include the other close by resorts as well such as st Annes and Cleveleys especially now the season has extended to January but the other half of me yearns for more - a lot still needs to be done and the council are either hardly doing anything or doing it very slowly - I mean the council have been promising a lot but hardly doing much over the years . I’ve been living here and it’s hardly changed much since the 90s and have seen less and less tourists coming and a quarter of people are unemployed here, there is a lot of crime and homeless increasing - it’s like every 200m I walk along the prom I see a homeless person sitting there and they harass people for money - it’s depressing and Its easy to see how tourists feel when they see this and then the town gets a bad reputation . But year after year hardly anything is being done . There’s some very derelict buildings and houses on the backstreets behind the prom . It seems like the government would rather line its own pockets and spend on the wages for the tons of people in the House of Lords most of whom are not really needed (the elite) and foreign aid and immigration than deal with its internal problems . I don’t think it will ever change significantly enough well at least not for the current generation anyway .
I don't know if im gona continue my application to work for a hospital in blackpool after I've known the real situation in there..
DONT Blackpool is one of the worst shitholes in England and EVERYONE wants to leave.
Getting a Job interview outside Blackpool was like like getting a Willy Wonka golden ticket.
@@nullvoid564 it's such a shame Blackpool doesn't deserve this shit
@@jacobhinchliffe6237
Fled as soon as i got my chance, No regrets.
thing is so did everyone else who made the town worthwhile years ago there has been an exodus since 2001.
Because there is no real work most of the year if you are the type who wants to work to better their lot Blackpool will only give you enough to leave and go to a place that will give you a job
The town has filled with crackheads who have been moved on from other towns their presence alone is enough to seal its fate yet it has more problems still.
Yes i said *2001* right BEFORE the recession and for the people giving the remaining old-stock crap for switching political parties Labour did NOTHING for Blackpool, Tory's wont either but its ahistorical to blame them given how long the decline has been happening.
There are some who cant take off the nostalgia goggles, Blackpool has NO industry outside the service economy and there is no benefit to locating a business there.
to the people who thing it can be fixed with "external investment"/Grants for god sake stop throwing money into this blackhole and invest in places that can reindustrialize/regenerate and create jobs to absorb the people who want to get a better life who cant afford to move as far away and flee like i did
@@nullvoid564 if you think Blackpool is bad come to Birmingham , I guarentee you'll be on the next coach out
I got food poisoning from a hamburger stall in blackpool spent three Day’s on the toilet 🚽... that’s my memory of blackpool.
Lovely
I heard that they're putting massive investment into central Blackpool major building work going on ?
Just wait till covid hots lads!
OK so if the other Food Bank staff knew that man was walking 7 miles due to no bus fare in order to get there to help volunteer why didn’t at least one of the staff/volunteers that has a car offer to drive and pick that man up and then at the end of the day give him money for bus fare to get home? Or is it because that man was not one of their favourites because every church every organization has their favourites that they will go out of their way to help out but everybody else can pound salt.
He might not have said anything, many a time as a volunteer I walked a 15 mile round trip to volunteer when I didn't have a penny to my name and I walked to my training scheme placements every day a 4 mile trip on a daily basis as a teenager. I just didn't like to say anything
@@stronkserbia444 That’s a good point.
There's a dark element that this video doesn't cover. As the Charlene Downes case illustrated, Blackpool has a serious problem with paedophiles and sex offenders. As we've seen so often in the past, paedophiles gravitate towards poor communities because kids are more likely to have chaotic families with nobody acting as their effective guardians. The poverty also makes the kids easier to groom with small amounts of money. The amusement arcades and funfairs attract a steady supply of kids. Blackpool's reputation as a stag do destination has led to an increase in what is effectively sex tourism. It's not unique to Blackpool. Other places have had very similar problems, such as Southend and Great Yarmouth.
yoohoo big summer blowout
Geography guys 💪
yaow
@@Furqh8n yo
Shithole
@@joshstone2377 big shitehole
Great place to live but people rely on benefits an benefits aint for ciggies aint for alcohol an luxeries, has to stop , giro debit cards be next thing bet ya
Dint answer Yr own question, 😃
its never my fault, load of crap
geography is bad
very bad
There's a food shortage for the poor in Blackpool and it looks like Daz caused it.
Blackpool, what a bleak place!
Daz caused it.................wanker you are. Daz is a good send.
yes, it's their fault. There is no jobs in Blackpool, move away, move somewhere better, the world is fucking big.