10 Poorest Places in The UK
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
- What are the poorest places in the UK? The last thing that’ll come to mind when the UK is mentioned is poverty. It’s not among the countries you’ll associate poverty with. This should be clearly noted as we begin. Yet, not every part of Great Britain has the affluence of London, Edinburgh, or Glasgow. Some places in the UK are poor. We’re here to show you the 10 poorest places in the UK.
These places are the same neighborhood with the biggest shortages of basic social infrastructure and facilities such as playgrounds, parks, pubs, shops, and sports centers. You’ll find some of them among the areas left behind in England, Wales, and Scotland. Authorities have to do something about these 10 poorest places in the UK.
10. Newport, Wales
We’re starting in Wales. One of the poorest places in the UK is a city and county borough in Gwent in Wales. We are referring to Newport which is situated on the River Usk close to the river’s confluence with the Severn Estuary. It is 19 kilometers northeast of Cardiff. Newport’s population of 145,700 at the 2011 census notwithstanding, all is not going on fine with the city. It can’t get past its nagging poverty.
Imagine this: of Newport’s 95 neighborhoods in Newport, 23 currently rank among the most deprived in Wales. Do the math, and you will find out that this is about 24 percent of the authority. That’s the biggest percentage of deprivation in the country.
9. Greenock, Inverclyde, Scotland
Wales doesn’t have a monopoly on poor places. Scotland has, at least, one of the 10 poorest places in the UK. You’ll find the ninth on our list in Inverclyde. This is Greenock, a town and administrative center in the Inverclyde council area. The town with a population of 44,248 is located in the west-central Lowlands of Scotland.
As proof of how gripping the poverty state of this town is, its population reduced by almost 3,000 within 10 years. In a report that shows how poor some parts of the nations are, Greenock tops the list. In the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation for 2020, Greenock has the highest number of deprived areas in Scotland.
8. Halton, England
England too has some of the poorest places in the UK and the first of these on this list is the eighth poorest place in the UK, Halton. The district and unitary authority that registers its name on this list has a borough status in Cheshire.
When you consider its ranking as one of the worst areas in England and Wales by a global children's charity that also ranks Halton as one of the worst areas in England and Wales to be a girl, you will understand why Halton slipped into the rank of the 20 most deprived areas in England. Other indices like life expectancy, children poverty which is 25 percent, health inequality, and unemployment rates are not in a positive light for this district.
7. Merthyr Tydfil, Wales
We’re back in Wales to find Merthyr Tydfil, the main town in Merthyr Tydfil County Borough, as the seventh of the 10 poorest places in the UK. The town administered by Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council is about 37 kilometers north of Cardiff. Often called Merthyr, the town believed to be named after Tydfil, daughter of King Brychan of Brycheiniog, has a population of 43,820.
This town seems to be hitting above its weight as the go-to place for those looking for gloomy job news. As of March 2018, the unemployment rate was 5.7 percent. Even though it's an iron producer, poor transportation service is the bane of this town that makes it so poor.
6. South Elmsall, England
South Elmsall is a small town and a civil parish lying to the east of Hemsworth with a population of 6,519. When it comes to safety, this town is among the most dangerous of small towns, villages, and cities in West Yorkshire. It’s faring badly in income deprivation, employment deprivation, education, skills and training deprivation, health deprivation, and disability. The 2021 overall crime rate in South Elmsall was 111 crimes per 1,000 people Living in this small town, you will be on a downward spiral of ill health and at the risk of premature death or the impairment of quality of life caused by poor physical or mental health.
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Poverty isn't about facilities. Poverty is going to bed on an empty belly not being able to keep warm or keep the roof over your head.
All too common now in UK.
But just look at how many of these towns vote Conservative and supported Brexit? It’s like they want to stay trapped in poverty
Shame what a 3rd world country
Isn't poverty a state of mind? I go bikepacking, pushbike and tent. Total kit worth less than the cost of TV. Watching sunrise in the middle of nowhere is priceless. I feel like the richest man on Earth.
Are you homeless?
@@dilbaramirzayeva4471 The natural world is my home.
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Great if you can afford to eat and somewhere to live. Where is your empathy?
Enjoy your fouled up existence then-!!!.
A lot of poverty in the UK including London!
I’m an Italian living in Hartlepool..and I love this town..facilities are second to none..Shopping, Restaurants, Marina, History..everything that you could possibly want..and to top it all the people are amazingly friendly..
I was born, raised and lived in Hartlepool for 40 years.
Then I saw sense and left. It's a dump.
@@philswales3814fackin hell took your time lad
This is the poorest races in the UK?
@@philswales3814 It's nice around Ward Jackson Park, with all those mansions.
@@lordelpus2099 that's about it. Even the marina is crap now.
Thank you for the information about UK
Hope to see more of it in you tube.
Not 1 person mentioned the big elephant in the room. All the millions spent on the mornachy...🤔 & these areas can't be improved. Makes no sense. What a SHAME...
Perhaps local councils have a part to play to improve life, such as setting up a training centre/college for foreign students.
Accept Jesus Christ he loves u died n rose again for ur forgiveness 🙏🏽❤️
Also, Jaywick is not a town. It’s an old caravan park that people simply refused to leave.
It is full of drug dealers ask Russ!!
Why should they leave
They stay because they cannot afford to move anywhere else.
@@MENSA.lady2 Same thing with the impoverished parts of North Yorkshire. Can't afford to move.
I can see Jaywick was a nice break away from London back in the day, but when times get hard, the usual thing to do, is sell the holiday home to keep you're main home.
Moving from bricks n mortar to a place not supposed to be for full time living is a false economy, especially when there are very few jobs nearby. Now those few jobs can only be found even further away.
If your going to state that Newport in the county of Gwent is on of the poorest places in the UK why are you showing photos of Newport in the county of Pembrokeshire. If you cant get the start of your video right then that cast doubt on the rest of the video
you can't mend "thick" I don't know where they get this rubbish from.
I doubt there's any human input in the creation of these videos. It's like an AI clickbait generator. If a person is behind this stuff, they need to seriously up their game.
He's doing it to provide material for another video for the "10 Most..." series. It's going to be "10 Most Half-witted RUclipsrs"
Doh!!
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I read the many comments! I'm Hungarian. Since I was a high school student (I majored in English and Russian, at that time Russian was a compulsory language, but it was okay because it was easy and I graduated from it), but I have been angloman throughout my life. I never wanted to see Paris, I wanted England! Then I saw it, drove in and loved it! Rural England is still dear to my heart. All my life (because of science) I wrote and worked in English and I can't even read Russian, although I have no problem with the Russian language, I just can't practice it. Take care of your beautiful England and your beautiful cities! God bless you!
Yes parts of the English countryside no matter what the season is like a picture postcard. Glad you have fond memories 🙂
I'm french and I tell you, england is much more beautiful than france. Even the poorest cities in there are much more fine than in france
Teso azért a nyelvészet kurva messze áll a tudománytól. Majd szólj ha valami hasznosat is tanulsz. Nem fog majd annyira tetszeni ha az arcodba savat öntenek az egyik ilyen gettóba. Anglia már nem olyan mint a kétezer tízes évek elején volt.
thank you . Good man. Am in born here 👍
Thank you unfortunately it's not appreciated by most.
It's not just this selection, the whole of the UK is in terminal decline.
Except my 5 houses! All looking better than ever!
My Dole money has just gone up and the child support I get for my 7 kids comes in handy to spend down the Bookies and for me knock off ciggies.
Na not buying it John.
@@lordelpus2099 you know, most people who receive benefits would much rather be rich, own their own homes and smoke cigars rather than scrape by on dodgy cigs and trying to win big at the bookies (which is stupid whether you're rich or poor). Alas life is not fair so we have rich people who never have to worry about a thing, middle class who can afford to live and then the lower classes, who (most of them) have mental health issues or have been let down by parents, schooling, the government etc etc and have fallen into bad situations which are almost impossible to get out of. Trust me, I used to be homeless and on jobseekers, there is nothing worse, i would have given anything to have someone spot my potential and actually help me make something of my life. Just remember that one day you may need support too. so just be nice.
@@DBSUK 3 people whom I went to school with have never worked a day in their lives and have done very well out of milking the system. Tis I, who have grafted hard all my life who wears the mill stone around my neck. So don’t you tell me to be nice.
These poorest places are way better then places in my home country.
What is your home country
Accept Jesus Christ he loves u died n rose again for ur forgiveness 🙏🏽❤️
I was born in the heart of the UK in the mid 1960,s UK has always been poor, and it is not confined to areas it is the whole country.
No Buckingham Palace on the list, that's too bad.
Uk has a gdp of more than 3 trillion they mostly just spend it on London,Manchester and Birmingham they should spend some more money on some poor cities
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@@yourcontentplug I’m Muslim but I respect Christianity☪️🤝✝️
Thank you for sharing😊
Interesting! I've enjoyed watching and listening!
Some of your photos of Newport, Gwent are of Newport, Pembs, which is a jolly pleasant place. I was looking at the boat club and thinking, that's the Parrog, surely, so t'is. Hugh Harries is going to want to have a word with you.
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Thanks for the information. God bless
I was going to mention that there are two Newports in Wales, and that it looked like some of the photos were from "Little" Newport, which I found quite charming. Sounds like you have spent more time there than me.
Yes Jay wick is very run down when I went there I could see there was a problem with poverty.Ashame really cos a walk along the beach path at night was lovely.
Never knew . Great video thanks
Iron hasn't been produced in Merthyr for over 40 years. Other than the town (which produced Iron) there's a number of ex-Coal Mining villages which includes Aberfan where in 1966 there was a devastating accident which killed 116 children and 28 adults.
True story
I woke from a nightmare hours before the aberfan disaster
I dreamt it happening before it did.
I think several of those pictures are of Newport in Pembrokeshire (West Wales), not the intended Newport City (South East Wales)
Love to go to Great Yarmouth in the summer time, can't believe it's top 3!
I go there on a regular basis and have family living there. To lump GY as one whole deprived area is absolute nonsense. I was there 2 weeks ago, spent a whole week in a campsite near the front, and had an absolute wonderful time, walked around the different areas with much fascinating history, visited a couple of museums and galleries, ate in several decent eateries, rowed on the boating lake, had top quality coffee sitting enjoying the restored Venetian Gardens. The working age members of my family there are in work from ordinary jobs to high level ones. Some relatives receive great GP and hospital services.
One problem is for them to get hold of decent trades people to do work, but as for everything else made out as an almost over whelming negative, basically it’s cods wallop. Yes there are issues, a high level of benefits claimed, obvious people with addiction issues, a cross section of “interesting” examples of the human race, but overall I would have no issues living there.
GY is a toilet, 💯 grim.
Why are British 'holiday resorts' so awful?
Huge importance depends on local Council as i live in a town where it feels the most!
Thanks for sharing so I know what areas in the UK needs the build to make life good for all. As long as the areas are powered and got the internet connection the areas can be developed to become good places to live the good life.
In my opinion all them billionaire bigshots should take over such deprived communities/towns but all the b*st*red want to do is play silly buggers trying to get to Mars!!
Is there reason why you are talking in Km's @learningcanteen? We have miles in GB. Km in france.
I am amazed that Jaywick is so deprived. Commuting distance of London, I would have though today it would be awash with affluent commuters. How wrong can I be.
I think Port Talbot S Wales is up there, really surprised it's not on the list.
For a nation telling the rest of the world where they are going wrong, we are not doing too well ourselves are we 🇬🇧
Usually the case, of the abuser setting moral principles, to ward off their guilty consciences, and deny having to work upon and improve themselves.
@@nialloneill5097
Well how about we scrap the 11 billion quid foreign aid budget, and spend the money HERE instead. I think we could get a lot of improvements, dont you.
@@daneelolivaw602 Well, the idea of such aod was to help peoples who were much worse off than our poorest areas, not just to help them, but us too, by preventing their radicalisation whereby they become aa threat and enemy of the West. In truth, the real enemy is the casino-capitalisation of the West, which put me out of a job, and destroyed the communities near me, and has created haves and have nots all around the globe. And the haves are becoming monstrously powerful and rich, and laughing at the rest of us, or could not give two hoots, so long as they are alright. It became much, much worse after Thatcher, who handed the rich our infrastructures and silverware, so hard to see a way back now. I always said it would lead to WW3 between East and West, then anarchy would break out in the West too. I still think that this is how it all ends. Will we ever have a good society? After all the traumas that we face, yes, for the few left. A Kingdom of God, when the true King will appear, and lead men out of the wilderness, and unto the spiritual heights, and perfect bliss. Then, I really like happy endings!
@@daneelolivaw602 How about the 350 million a week that you lot were promising?
@@PNETriffid
I never promised anything, sunshine. And maybe things will get better after Britain has finished paying the fine the wonderful EU demanded we pay them for leaving their club.
And in a few years when Britain has finished paying this fine, i am looking forward to the wonderful EU having to raise taxes to cover the loss of our HUGE contribution.
The French in particular are going to love that. Fun times.
I assumed Jaywick was a brand of lavatory cleaner until I saw all of those lovely documentaries 💕
Well thats really cheered us all up hasn't it ... some of this looks an old video "Woolworths / Peacocks" store signs.
I remember the documentary about "Jaywick" a few years back ... yes it was run down and lacked a lot of infrastructure ... the people who lived there were struggling in life to say the least ... but they had a sense of community and helped each other out ... I remember one lady who cooked for lots of people to keep them fed ... you would not find that in many places.
That's because there were lots of older people from South London East London salt of the earth people who had been through the war Spain wasn't thought of then jaywick was so popular but them in charge let it go to rack and ruin please God one day it's finds a way back
Welcome to the British class system ; - have you been away? Oh & was the food okay?
@@lizzyloughton7501 I agree with you 100%. Help is needed now.😥🏴🇬🇧🇨🇦
@@jamesbong7852 you really have a sense of humour!!😂👍🏻🏴🇬🇧🇨🇦
They all voted leave in these areas and are now 25% poorer as a result
Good information
I live in Wales, after holidaying here for many years, and I have been through Newport many times, and spent some time there for various reasons. I never imagined it to be any poorer than any other place. Was it a vibrant, lively, cosmopolitan hub? In all honesty, no, but I have been in far worse places in my time.
@@kangahyaojeremie8861 Fine, I don't pretend to believe in Jesus, and I really have no opinion about you. Thanks for playing....
Your 2nd 3rd and 6th? Photos of Newport are of Newport Pembrokeshire - not Newport Gwent. The Pembrokeshire Newport is incredibly affluent. A couple of photos are of the Yacht club, not usually a feature of poor areas.
I was thinking the same. I have been to Newport several times, and there's no coastal area over there!!!...😁
@@TheOvi92 you have obviously never been to Newport Why would it have docks if it wasn't coastal.
Poverty is not an area or a percentage, It can happen anywhere to anyone at any time.
Yes 100%. Please tell me about Newport. Is that truth?
Yep, but especially if you're working class & under a tory government.
Indeed!!
They say poverty is a state of mind.
@@LisaMaryification Are you saying the poor chose poverty as their preferred lifestyle???
Thank you for sharing your memories I want to visit all these places and see for myself,did you see any meerkats?
The picture at 1.00 is of Newport in Pembrokeshire not Gwent
I think they just stuck random pins in a map. I can think of at least 10 places near Halton that are worse.
My grandfather took us to Jaywick Sands in the 1950's , I still haven't recovered !
shame it was a nice place then Butlins was just down the road a bit and nice new bungalows in jaywick lots of entertainment coaches bringing day trippers one of grey greens best runs it was Great
I don't understand why government with poor people will not help they people and want to help countries with oil like guyana and they are rich
Great Yarmouth was family's favourite holiday destination, loved the caravan parks. Tbh i was expecting places like Doncaster and Sunderland on this list.
Interesting Content.
Add Southampton. Once a city you could be proud to call your home (myself included). Steeped in history, with a thriving cruise industry boosting the local economy (although you wouldn't know it if you walked up the high street). It has descended into a shadow of its former self. Beset with chronic begging and rough sleeper issues, A serious drug problem which is openly apparent - but that seems to be the blight of many places across the UK. What has happened to this once great country.
Portsmouth is the same - beyond the regenerated harbour area, it's a desolate ghost city full of boarded up shops, drug addicts and homeless people. I bet French people coming off the ferry get a real shock when they arrive!
What went wrong is when old and young started accepting wrong and abnormal to be right and normal. This is the begining, if the issues are not tackled, by the so called leaders the worst might happen. We could be seeing Britain without the Great attached to it, and this is the whole truth.
I have noticed that Canbone, Redruth, Pool and Pendeen, (2 town and 2 villages in Cornwall are very deprived
But vote Conservative 😂
Cornwall is the 2nd most deprived area in Northern Europe
@@camwillsmusic7153according to a highly flawed EU funded study that compares Cornwall against the much more wealthy Luxembourg and Scandinavia. There is no way on earth that it is the 2nd most deprived. The central belt in Scotland is miles more poor than Cornwall, which is full of rich retirees and lovely market towns.
I lived in Jaywick in the mid 60s and it was a great place to live. All those small roads with the prefabricated houses were always spotless and it wasn't unusual to walk down the roads and see people painting the outsides of their home or the fences. I remember too, the gardens always looked pretty. The people who lived I. Them would offer us cold drinks on hot days. We lived in Golf Green Road very close to sea front and my brother and I would walk up to the amusement arcades and help out on the bingo. The whole place, during summer, was packed, alive and very vibrant and, as a young lad, was an exciting place to live. Sadly we only stayed a couple of years before we moved. I was very surprised to look on Google earth at the sad state it is today.
@alanmac Me too Alan in the early 70’s 👍 It was as you say very clean as the folk were the working class salt of the earth, but like we were they mainly poor and it was all we could afford. The south coast properties even back then were like telephone number££££!
BUT……The outside cesspit/bucket/loo was the most awful place to be first thing in the morning, especially if the 4 of us had a vindaloo the night before 😳🤣
Reminds me of the Norfolk coast where all the chalets were like this.
It's rapidly being re-claimed by the sea. Had some beautiful holidays in Lessingham, Happisburgh, Corner, Overstrand!!!!!!!
I went on holiday to Jaywick when I was young it was a great place then. Doesn’t have to be swish to be good.
@jacqueline fox I go down to Jaywick each summer to enjoy the beach . The stretch along the nature reserve is beautiful, walking towards Brightlingsea.
I’m happy for everyone to think Jaywick is a dump.
the less people want to go there, the better for the rest of us to enjoy.
@@monk3yboy69 When the tide comes in do those little whatever they are still sparkle in the moonlight? I don’t know what they were but the whole beach back in the 70’s was covered in them being washed in with the tide and it was a sight to behold and like being in a nature program ……probably all dead now with the sewage dumping ☹️
For a place to be poorest, you should see homeless shelters and people living on the streets.
There are different types of poverty, you can have a roof over your head and still be in absolute desperation to feed your children and keep warm. If you have a very sick child constantly in and out of hospital, poverty increases because you need to find the money for vital costs such as transport to and from hospital so your child can access vital treatment! 🙄
You forgot wythenshawe greater Manchester.
The largest council estate in EUROPE.
A truly horrible place.
I have relatives who live there.
Trust me it's bad.
Worse than most of the places in your video by far.
Just street view it.
Google mapping it most photos look really nice
I am from number 10, Newport S Wales. Born at the Royal Gwent Hospital on February 28th 1987 and the place I spent my childhood, and it has gotten worse over the last two decades. The council attempted to revamp the John Frost Square some years back but shop and business exodus has continued on the high street with no let up. Shop dereliction and run down streets with crumbling Edwardian town houses goes on. I am surprised Port Talbot S Wales is not on your list, it's only purpose is the local steelworks and should be way up the list, Bridgend and Neath are good candidates too. Most of South Wales other than Cardiff is Deprived in some form, but I was born here and deprived and poor or not it is still home for me.
But still i want to move here and work here.
@@iamjhayceebrown23 Crack on as long as you are British.
There is no chance to work here if its nit british. I want to move from philippines . For better opportunities
To be born Welsh, Is to be born privileged. Not with a silver spoon in your mouth, But music in your blood, And poetry in your soul.
Very good information thanks
The music in the background is disturbing. I could not watch the video, sorry.
I love it
when was this filmed ? a woolworths still open in bristol must make it mid 200o s surley
Oh god there is the Yates’s Wine Lodge in Hartlepool - I remember my mates downing a glass of sweet Cyprus wine plus beer chaser in Yates to get hammered ASAP
Gt Yarmouth is rich in Roman history and i thought it was a pleasant place to visit/holiday in. It did not seem dangerous but resembled Blackpool in Norfolk. Quite surprised.
Great Yarmouth is not poverty stricken, I assume this is just a personnel perspective and not based on facts. It is rather beautiful and a great place to vist
@@MCC499 That post is brought to you thanks to the Great Yarmouth Tourist Board 😂
Your Newport, South Wales section uses images from Newport, West Wales?
Thats good narrative good coverage…
There's lots of places in the UK with difficulties, choosing a small number for a list just means lots weren't mentioned.
Exactly. About 95% of the UK is in poverty and deprivation. From Scotland to York to parts of London.
London is beautiful but lonely for many. There is so much to do. I enjoy it more in the evenings when I shoot my RUclips videos
I lived in jaywick for a year or so, i was in a caravan and one morning i got up to go outside and my steps had been nucked and it was nearky 3 feet drop to ground level.
Jaywick is pretty grim. I went there 2022. Public toilets are even trashed. Rougher locals not happy to be seen as a tourist attraction. Some fairly reasonable properties and locals to be fair though as well.
What about Birkenhead? That place gets collections from donations given by poor African villages
What do you mean poor african. Africa is the richest country in the whole world but knowledgable people knows what went wrong, and wrong with Afica as a continent. Africans are friendly and trust and welcomes foreingers easily and they are taken advantaged of. DEPRIVATION IN THEIR OWN COUNTRIES. TOO BAD.POOR OR RICH, EVERYONE WILL EXIST THIS EARTH ONE DAY.
May Allah Ta'ala help all human beings to distribute wealth fairly and control poverty so that all people can lead a prosperous life.
May human beings use their God given brains and not irresponsibly have more children than they can devote time to and provide for. Stop the cycle of generational poverty.
Jesus will help every one , dont worrie jesus is the only one god 🙏 🙌 ✨️ no other god exists 🙏
You are so on point!. God gave enough resources on the planet to make everyone have access to a fairly decent life. Unfortunately, greed hasn't allowed us to distribute these resources well, n I mean globally.
Yarco is a mini version of Blackpool (better imo) as soon as you go one road back from the seafront the deprivation is obvious. Money is being invested though, such as brand new marina centre.
Aah...... one road back from the seafront.
For the same effect, I'm thinking Skegness, Weston-Super-Mare, Margate, Sheerness, etc.
A very interesting video and commentary. Does anybody know with exception of Greenock how these other areas voted inter Brexit referendum? I am wondering if there is a casual relationship here?
The vast majority of places in this video are all Conservative voting places and voted leave in the referendum
Where's Salford,Eccles levenshulme,,oldham,mossside,longsight,Burnage,gorton ,gorseybank,Clayton,rusholmewalley range,and about another 50-100 off the top of my head head that I can think of without taking my hat off
Though I know many people in the UK have a hard time economically. Compare this video with similar American videos, where there are abandoned buildings and gang warfare. There seems to be a big difference between American poverty and UK poverty.
I’ve seen documentaries on UK prostitution and drugs. The areas were way worse with homeless drugged people sleeping outside. I think this has been a very gracious list.
There is. This is my argument when they go on about how poor people are in the UK. We have a very very generous benefits system over here, so generous in fact that my single parent sister who worked 15hrs a week in a shop could afford botox, fillers, had a clothing allowance of £400pm & £100pw for socialising. This was after her mortgage & bill payments plus her dental care & prescriptions were free.
I’ve been to America, & I’ve seen the poverty. I couldn’t believe that in a country so wealthy people were living in conditions akin to being in a 3rd world country.
However with the cost of living currently it’s those NOT on benefits who are suffering. Those on benefits get taken care of generally.
I call BS! There is no such 'clothing allowance' or similar paid to anyone under the UK welfare benefits system. Mortgages are not paid, bills (ultilities, fuel etc) are also not paid for claimants. Bills must be met by the claimant from their welfare allowance from the DWP. Rent and healthcare are (mostly) covered for some claimants.
I was a benefits advisor for a charity. Our benefits system is not 'very, very' generous but it is civilised for the most part and avoids people having to literally beg in the street for food. Many European countries have similar or more generous systems.
Either your single parent sister had another (very intimate?) source of extra income or you are just talking utter bollocks!
@@joolsn5823 I didn’t say she was given a clothing allowance. She gave herself a clothing allowance in her budget & I don’t know what you’re implying by ‘very intimate source of extra income’ can you explain?
Are you implying she was a prostitute?
Wow! So you’re saying because she’s a single parent mum she must be selling herself for extra income.
You need to check yourself!
Sorry for laughing at you.
My old mate dave g moved from leeds to Yarmouth in 1997 he's still there although his partner died young years ago bless her hope David and his son Connor are OK we lost touch and i need to get away from leeds so i may be heading out to great Yarmouth to see dave by the summer time
I used to stay in Newport, went to Bristol and Essex ,Bristol is a nice city
Im surprised Birkenhead wasn't on here considering all big companies have moved elsewhere and the small businesses barley stay open for a month before shutting down and moving elsewhere. The streets are full of drug addicts, homeless, litter and more. While everyone else is living in a rented house with kids on the brink of being kicked out and also earning very little benefit money for food and bills. Most of the houses have been bordered up and sometimes used as a drug house too.
There can be some nice spots but once you drive even just 5 mins out you back in the craphole Birkenhead is known to be.
You don't earn benefit money.
I can't believe there was no mention of Lower Uncton.
Never heard of Jaywick, but if it's worse then Hartlepool and Great Yarmouth (and Grimsby didn't even get a mention) then it's got to be worth a visit.
Basically, all caravans. It used to be a holiday site, and people never left, essentially. It's got a certain reputation for being a shitty area 😂
@Learning Canteen.....
I've only just found this channel and, although it was quite an interesting topic, the background music is far, far too loud.
PLEASE reduce the volume of the music, and maybe use something a bit more ambient and sombrely relaxed.
Otherwise, I'd be interested in viewing your other topics.....without any loud rapid music. Thank you, and stay well.
Some parts of london are poor areas..We are not all living in luxury!!
Hi Kathleen how are you. Greetings from Ireland. I feel for people who are having a hard time with high costs for heating and food. I wish you a good week and stay safe 😊🙏 Michael
The poor areas extend well into the so-called affluent south-east of England too, where many towns supposedly leafy areas suffer poverty and deprivation and social issues
This is sad, I am shocked there are so many poor places in the U.K. more should obviously done to correct this.👍🏻🏴🇨🇦😥
The laughingly called "Levelling Up Policy" is intended to resolve these issues but many millions have been spent on favoured areas, namely the constituencies of the great and famous Tories, eg Sunak
@@alandigweed8713 Hopefully Boris will be replaces soon , and this problem will be fixed. Why is it we help other countries when help is needed, we should look in our own backyard! Look at the lack of help to the poor indigenous in Canada. They have been abused and neglected for many years.👎🏼
Every place in the world has poor localities, UK is no different.
@@philiptownsend4026 The problem, as I see it in the UkK is the yawning discrepancies which are growing each year
@@philiptownsend4026 That’s why governments should be making sur their own countries are not lacking, before committing to others first. It’s always great to help others, look in your own backyards first, and help.
Thank you very much ...
problem with hartcliffe is people cant be arsed to work and smoke too much weed, its not deprivation its just laziness.
Blackpool, Haverhill, Gravesend, Workington, Wolverhampton some parts?, Wrexham, Rhyl, the list is endless.
I've been living in the UK for 17 years, all over the country, I visited many places. The UK is shockingly poor almost everywhere I went. Even London has parts that are shocking. Tottenham, some part of Wood Green, some part of Walthamstow, East Ham, just to name a few.
Weird to see you all town of Haverhill mentioned 😂😂many have never even heard of it! Yes, it's poor. Bury gets everything. 😢
Rhyl? Really?
Stopped watching when you got to 9 - Greenock. Two of the photos you showed were of a semi-derelict farmhouse that could have been anywhere and two others were of Gourock, Greenock's twee neighbour. Hmmmm....
Honest journalism.
Well, that’s cheered me up.
In the thumb nail of this video, they showed a place and I realised it was Jaywick. Many years ago an Uncle died who had lived in Jaywick for a few years. My husband and I went to the funeral, and we were shocked at the place (we were living in Devon at the time). It was so run down and shabby in general. So many homes there which have been cobbled together which bits and pieces. No planning permissions required. Some started out as holiday chalets and people just started building on to them to make them bigger and it seems the council didn't care at all. A lot of them were falling apart. We had to stay in the area overnight and honestly there was not one decent B&B or hotel to be had. It was just awful. We counted ourselves lucky to be living in Devon; we were in fact Londoners who had moved out of London in the 80s.
As someone who lives in Jaywick, it's not that bad, there's just no jobs, no money, no good houses, no community, nothing really.
But at least it's not Clacton
@@spewn2123 you ain't convincing anyone but yourself with that self-like. Jaywicknis awful, at least in Clacton there's only a 30% chance of being stabbed in the foot by a needle! Not great but better odds!
@@spewn2123 It doesn’t sound like “ Living” if it’s as bad as you say! It seems like there is no future! Unless the town councils get off their ‘Butts’ and do something to bring a better future.😢🏴🇬🇧🇨🇦
@@spewn2123 It doesn’t sound like “ Living” if it’s as bad as you say! It seems like there is no future! Unless the town councils get off their ‘Butts’ and do something to bring a better future.😢🏴🇬🇧🇨🇦
@@bettyrobb8219 They never will, the councils will never get funding, the money is made in London and stays in london, Jaywick and clacton are just dumping grounds for undesirables like the homeless or ex-cons, Clacton has a 50% unemployment ratre, it's not somewhere the londoners wanna invest in
Have you covered the whole of the UK to come up with these ten? Have a look at West Cumbria, Workington, Whitehaven and surrounding areas are either the poorest or worse places to live in the UK.
God yes. And you didn't even mention Barrow!
@Ian Livesey I visited Barrow last Sept and found it bad with rubbish in the streets, plus dog dirt. Places in West Cumbria are far worse, with the locals being absolutely horrible to themselves and outsiders. Small towns, small-minded bigots. That is putting it very politely.
West Cumbria is so poor and so far away it was completely overlooked.
@@chesterdonnelly1212 That's the problem, out of the way, so forgotten about it.
I'm from South Wales valleys left just after the 2008 crash having grown up there. The towns are trapped in time and look same as they did 30 years ago
All but one of the images of Newport (the very last one) make it look like a nice place!!!!
The stats are one thing, but the photographs are another. Although Greenock has some of the most deprived areas in Scotland, the images you show are of the more affluent parts. House prices there can be anything north of £500k. And the imaage of burnt-out farm isn't actually in Greenock...
Totally agree and what about nearby Port Glasgow, with those lovely tenements visible from the railway line....far better images to get the message across
Well because a seaside location will have 50% less opportunity as these locations don't have 360 decrees coverage for companies so they're at the end of the road, most industry would pick a more central locat, that's part of the problem plus half of the employment would be seasonal for the summer months mainly
Greenock is actually surprisingly nice
I agree with you, stevouk. The images shown for most of the ten places were not appropriate to the supposed deprivation of those areas. There was not enough research done on this topic.
Talking about deprivation while showing the Esplanade 😂
You haven’t been to some part of London yet
They mention Merthyr, its not just Merthyr its most of the Rhondda and throughout the valleys that is poor
This is two years old now, I'm watching March 2024 from USA...I'd like to see updates on these quaint towns and any progress made
it's got same beach and sea as Frinton Walton Clacton but as been festered with undesirable people that has made jaywick the pits out of site out of mind
It's yet another load of cobblers article, agreed, Jaywick is terrible, but the other nine seemingly random entries? No, I strongly disagree. The vague statistics mentioned do not portray an accurate description. There are more deprived areas in the UK
But its based on quantitative measures and thus must be right. Facts are facts
So what are the 10 poorest?
Jaywick in Essex looks absolutely ghastly.....I'm so very pleased that I live Ribble Valley.
At least you've got the viaduct to jump off!🤣
many towns in the UK are dying. there are islands of wealth like the cotswolds here and there where village life may be clinging on with a bit more vibrancy, but generally with an aging population, the closure of community services and migration of infrastructure and industry to big cities, the modern british economy is sucking the lifeblood out of all of these places. in a few generations there may be nothing left in the countryside but housing and supermarkets; as a consequence more people than ever are suffering with mental illness and addiction to hard drugs, which generates further crises of homelessness, poor health, and generational neglect/abuse. our environment has changed beyond recognition in 100 years and I think we're really struggling to cope with it.
Yarmouth is full of folk with mental health issues and it draws that sort like a magnet
This is so unhelpful for people living in these areas. It could make them even more depressed. Disagree about Great Yarmouth. Yes there are areas that could e described as poor but there has been cash injection, new Marina pool, Venetian Waterway gardens which is lovely. And of course, Danny Boyle’s film Yesterday in Gorleston a few miles away. A Banksy here too.
But it's true! So....
It is easily settled . Asylums must work and pay £2 every month for the social services. The permeant residents pay 3£ every month for the services. Thae citizens pay £1 every month. Unless they move to these undeveloped areas and make it a success. No discrimination from day one as to Muslims -Safi or Shites . No Xmas of Catholics -Protestations- Anglicans- or Hindus- or others including LGBTG and Atheists
No, the fact that Britain is becoming a third world country should be kept quiet from everyone and they should be force fed lies about history too.
Oh wait...
Why use kilometres when we use miles in this country?
Hello, please kindly help me know more about wick Scotland. The cost of living, education and employment rate. Thank you for this detailed information.
It’s a tiny town in the middle of nowhere.
@@bordersw1239 can it be part of the 15 poorest place to live in the UK?
@@bordersw1239 thank you so much for answering
I'm suprised Hartcliffe ranked so high. Architecturally its a beautiful place and one of my favourite spots in Bristol. The only real downside is that it's full of people with no aspirations.
I agree, no way should Hartcliffe be on the list, should be swopped with Port Talbot, Neath, or Bridgend in South Wales.
I once took part in a seance: it informed me I was “King of Jaywick”. Could this have been Lower Edmonton humour?
Jaywick has actually got slightly better. That notorious street used to sum up the town? It's had a total makeover and looks completely different now.
They are trying hard.
I hail from Singapore. One of the world's richest nations. Still, there are pockets of poverty which are not so obvious to the outside eyes. But the government manages this rather well, which cannot be said the same for the UK. But, after living here for over 20 years, I always find life is richer and living in the UK much more enjoyable and interesting.
Isle of Sheppey - I live here, and have to say your report is so wrong, yes there are places that are run down, but also a lot of very, very rich people live here as well. The problem is that Swale Council could not care less frankly, our little Island has had no real investment, just money grabbing profiteers who are hoping to build as many houses as possible without investing in new schools, doctors, actually any decent infrastructure at all. The Island gets choked by excessive traffic everyday, even before all the daytrippers flood onto our blue flag beaches, and now they are proposing a cement factory with constant lorries on and off the island. Our beautiful Island with nature reserves and beaches is fast becoming a living hell, but it is still a great place to live and your derogatory assumptions are wrong, it was only last month that Sheerness was actually in the top 10 places to move to! To summarise, we are no different to any other area, we have good, and we have bad areas, but as a whole its a great Island with friendly people!
Sorry to disagree with you , but sheppy is a dump , just like most of north Kent and Medway towns .
My take on the Isle of Sheppey is locals that have to work have to either travel off the island for work or have a local business or work in one of the very few remaining large establishments. But mostly to me it seems to have become a retirement area for quite a few. That does not necessarily make it a poor area but it does lack enough amenities and can be difficult to live there if you do not own a car.
Falkirk is ridiculously more deprived than inverclyde…. Or anywhere within Glasgow surrounding areas. Prices for homes are expensive, it may have a few streets here or there however by absolutely no means is this place even close to deprived!!! Inverclyde is bustling with businesses
Edinburgh is the same. There are posh areas in Edinburgh, but the rest of the city is in horrible condition, in my opinion. I’ve been a few times in Cumbernauld, and for me, It’s a terrible place to live. I've heard bad stories about Motherwell.
@@JK-12378 yeah Cumbernauld is atrocious now. And Motherwell. I grew up in East Kilbride and back then it was amazing. Such a quiet place with a town that had everything you ever needed. I still love Glasgow and I always will. I honestly can’t believe Falkirk isn’t on it 😂 it has for to be one of the most shittest areas in central Scotland! I’ve not been to Edinburgh for a long time. You would think as it’s the capital they would consistently keep it revamped.
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