Offered Business On England's Worst Street 🏴
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- Опубликовано: 22 сен 2024
- 🇬🇧 Britain; the world's sixth biggest economy. But what is life like for the average Brit outside of the capital city? Well, I went to investigate and what I found wasn't too promising. Join me on a journey into the provinces of this once great country for what might be my most brutal adventure yet...
Thanks to @BackpackerBen for driving me around and please check his channel for his version of the trip.
A sobering reminder of how politicians betray their people😢
With jevvs you lose
Sobering reminder of how similar life is across the West, from America to Europe, we're all suffering from many of the same issues. Going there, talking to friends, watching the news, it's like a parallel universe... Makes you wonder, who's running the show? Why is it the same story? Surely, we are thousands of miles apart, life has to be different... Nope, not really.
It's easy to pin it all on politicians, but none of this would've been possible without a complacent majority. The old Britain wasn't really taken away, people gave it up.
@@バルガ Fair call, you get what you vote for or what you can’t be bothered to do in some cases.
Politicians were always traitors and they stabbed people for money without even thinking. You never trust politicians you check on them and you do it constantly.
Thing is that people were quiet because they were too afraid to talk because they could get marked as nazi by communists. People stop giving a damn about other countryman and what's worse they let media be and so they attacked on feeling of people to accept invaders into their country.
Train tickets in england are actually a piss take
Yep especially compared to France and Germany. Spain is way cheaper too but not as cheap relative to average income.
Yeah ? In Geneva, Switzerland, I pay about 20$ for a 30min train ride
Japan, a fraction of the cost
Everything thing is a piss take. All the money flies up, no trickle down
Hockers are cheap tho - 10 pounds! Sign me up
I remember when Bald was in the capital of Moldova and showed a wrecked pathway leading up some broken steps that had been there for years (right in the centre) and within a week the government had fixed it. If there's one thing governments hate, it's being shown up or embarrassed publicly. Videos like this are more powerful than you might ever believe.
Sadly the British Government is shameless, unlike the Moldovian Government.
Not a chance it'll be fixed.
Unfortunately the British government have no shame whatsoever. They don’t care in the slightest bit about the people.
first video of balds i watched and addicted ever since.
Not in Britian it wont be
You telling that girl "10 years? you're not getting out of here." was probably a huge wake up call. Hope she makes it.
He failed miserably censoring her face. jfl
@@bunb8541It's a public place. Learn your law.
@@barrychuckle5565
Watch the video... He tried to censor her face but you can see it clearly for a brief moment
@@bunb8541 jail for life?
@@bunb8541 that was on purpose lmao
Who needs the ruins of Greece when you have the ruins of Britain
😂😂😂hah
Wait he deleted the video??
When did he go to Greece
Almost watched the entire video then proceeds to delete it 😭
Almost as good as a bunch of yellow rocks
This whole video felt like a documentary of a civilization collapsing
It is at this point. Almost every western country has been captured by entities bent on destroying them
Some will blame brexit or some other nonsense but the same level of decay is common in a lot of western countries. Planned deindustrialisation, etc.
Very sad to see how so much culture, history and architecture left to rot 😢. I would choose any city to live in Pakistan over Plymouth, western super, yorkshire and bradford. ✌️ 🙏. Thanks bald for showing, ppl don't forget he is just a messenger.
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 based fellow noticer. Keep noticing.
Welcome to bald and bankrupt
Watched all of Bald’s videos and thought Eastern Europe was depressing and grey….then we get a video of our home country and my god it really has become a depressing shitshow.
It is 100% exactly the same in the US. Hmm. Anything that ties the two together? Progressive ideology run amok maybe?
нормально все. Главное для британцев - поддерживать войну на украине и гадить русским. Остальное неважно
Plymouth is amazing compared to the places bald goes to. The problem is you are comparing places like Plymouth Blackpool hull the most run down poor towns in the uk to places like London, Manchester etc.
К сожалению по всей Европе много таких запущенных городов@@ne_skazhu_nikomu
As a Janner I can say he showed the absolute worst of Plymouth. Firstly the parts he shown (Union Street) is not the city centre. Secondly yes it's run down and sadly left to rot but it has been earmarked as part of the Millbay regeneration program which is still ongoing (albeit taking forever). Plymouth as a whole is a great place to live with great sea views, parks, woodland, many restaurants, not a bad nightlife and is central to many little known beaches a short drive away. Even the the football team ain't too shabby these days :)
Homeless people in a place full of empty buildings. The sad irony.
Unless you're Pakistani
The way the council paints doors and windows onto empty houses to make them look like they're lived in reminds me of the Truman Show with Jim Carey. We truly are in the the last decades of decay in the UK.
North Korea does the same thing.
Very Soviet. Vote for Socialism, get Socialist results. All the cash goes to the political elite. Just like in China.
A Potemkin Village.
Yep I can't believe I didn't think of that term whilst there@@SignorNessuno65
A population will always grow to fill the space and resources available why would empty houses be a sign of the end no man it’s the opposite
I almost choked on my coffee when the woman said the ticket was 50 pounds for a ONE way trip, ($96 AUD) for less than 2 hour trip. I checked a similar trip (Melbourne to Bendigo) approx 2 hours and the full fare is 5 quid ($10AUD) one way. The UK is broken...
Plus the train gets delayed, slow, old stations, its basically a rip off
Privatization works really welll thank you thatcher and friends co.
@@Houthiandtheblowfish It worked really well for Thatcher's friends in the CIty; not so well for the rest of us.
It's a 100 mile trip. For me to get to London it's £75 return for a 70 mile trip, so 50 quid looks reasonable!
Then you’d literally suffocate in the USA. lol. $150 for a 1.5 hour flight
I'm never gonna complain about living in New Zealand ever again
I m trying to shift New Zealand from India what u say
New Zealand isn't much better. It's a regular police state...get rid of your politicians.
I live in Auckland and it’s not good , the decline in the last 15 years is astonishing . Unfortunately I blame mass migration and it’s not getting better
@@Shofixi you import the third world ( as in migration) , you get the third world and there are definitely third world communities in Auckland that never were ten years ago
@@Shofixi wouldn’t we all
Bald dosen't need to visit Eastern Europe anymore. His homeland is slowly resembling post-soviet states. I'm a welshman and every time I walk through the town centre of Port Talbot I look around see it resembling stuff I saw in Balds classic vids of him trekking across Belarus and Moldova. Sad times to be British are ahead I'm afraid and don't even get me started on the state of Swansea
Oi oi mush! Cardigan boy here butt. If port toilet is bad now... id hate to see it once tata steel goes. Nightmare for the area. Lived in swansea for 10yrs, left 13yrs ago. It was bangin when i was there. Now its proper fucked. Empty. Soul less. I miss escape club that's for sure. 😊
I don’t know which Eastern European states you mean, but in Russia, where I live by the grace of God, there is no such decline or very little.
@@saintfiacre8712 kremlin propaganda reeeeeeeeeee
@@bobfruit7400 Why do you think so? Western people do not have their own point of view. The ruling class tells them what to think and what to say.
@@saintfiacre8712 im being sarcastic, but it doesnt translate well in text. I 100% agree with you
This video should be screened in The Houses of Parliament, a must watch for all the politicians.
They don’t give a rat's arse, less so about Belfast.
Like they give a shit. Too busy talking about the latest scandal or Gaza to actually do anything useful here.
turns out royal family likes to spend their income on something other than the peops
You dont understand........ It takes A LOT of money to do something about this. plus the comission everyone involved would get to even move their arse.... It'd be so much money that would never just appear out of nowhere.
turns out royal families like to spend their income on something else
That guy showing him around was a legend
@@anotherelvisthat’s cool as. Thanks. I will subscribe
@Chiichiiwahwah You just missed his worse video ever. He posted it yesterday then I realized he deleted and posted this video. Everyone was saying the vibe was off, it was really weird.
@@Sir-Worthington wait wym the vibe was off? explain
I felt kind of bad for him. He was extremely friendly and knowledgeable and eager to show them around his town and Bald spent the whole time just openly mocking it and shitting on it to the camera.
I know Bald does that in all his videos but at least usually the friendly locals in most places don't understand English or at least can't really grasp the implied condescension or understand that he's taking the piss.
Better than a legend, he was erudite
Britain starting to look like a post-Soviet republic these days.
If only it looked that good!
this is the first time that I ever could not finish one of your videos. Seeing the UK like this is genuinely painful.
Lol he is clearly pushing a certain angle, every city in the world has its rough parts, it’s definitely nothing new
YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH
@@A14M04I19A95 I agree with you, however I don’t think any first world country should have regions like this. Imagine how 100 years ago those places would have looked like..
@@A14M04I19A95Finally, somebody with brain cells.
You’re 100% right, I live near horden like 5 mins away and it’s nothing like portrayed here.
The houses they focus on are abandoned mining houses in the numbered streets, which is now a relatively small portion of the area - they’re also in talks of being demolished / replaced with newer builds.
They ignored any new investment - why not to 5 minutes up the road into Peterlee and have a look around? See how people around here actually live.
@@Saint2CB100 years ago Horden was just rows of pit houses (the same as you see now) but people lived in them.
These are in talks to be removed, demolished and replaced.
The area has had much investment - I could walk around the nice area of Horden / Peterlee and cherry pick, saying ‘look how nice it is up here in the north east’ which is exactly what’s been done here but in the opposite direction.
The main problem with Horden isn’t the location, it’s the lack of decent people who care about their area, many of whom are dole scrounging eejits that ride around on illegal bikes and think they’re above the law or have special privileges (like you get anywhere)
the irony of people living in the streets outside closed-down buildings
everything is in its right place darling
dead civilisation
it's deliberately cruel
There are more reasons why he lives outside. Not just housing.
i hate to see things like that 🤮
UK died years ago. I studied in England back in the 1980's (I'm Norwegian). And it was like living in a proper British world. The pubs had soul, the people were proud and hard working. The buildings were amazing, now all gone.
That was when England was still English
The 1980's was the last time England was recognisable as having it's own unique identity!
What happend? Massive islamic immigration ?
As an empire builds roads the roads work both ways . London now looks like India and Pakistan .
@@777dragonborn their compassion has stabbed them in the back
Aged 15, in 1955, living in Birmingham, I didn’t need a weatherman to see which way the wind was blowing. I stuck it out for 20 years, then gave up on the UK. Left n returned. Best move I ever made.
so you became an immigrant to get away from immigrants ? makes sense.
Not wanting to be nosy, but what greener place did you find? And how much greener is it?
Please show more of the UK, we need to show people how ruined the country is
Thanks to who? Leaders?
@@honiahakaa Depends where you go tbh, local councils, the tories, economy in the shitter small businesses being driven to ruin and replaced only by shitty franchises
Tony Blair for one
Bald needs to tag the MP's for every single place he visits. We must at least shame them into doing something! 😔
@@skefsongames Yeh, but also the people who allow this to happen. I've seen a documentary in Walsall where sofas and shit were lying around in peoples gardens.
Everyone is sick of what's happening to the country
and yet we do nothing cause we're too busy surviving...
Blame politicians.
And yet you keep on voting on the tories
@@user-lm9oq6yw6n And yet it is Labour run councils that tend to me the most run down and have one very common theme
Left wing and mass migration. You destroyed yourselves. Why?
The fact we've allowed to government to neglect the entire country like this is criminal.
You should do something about it
Problem is that we think the government is God. We need the ability for people to buy land and then improve on it without someone else complaining about it and blocking it.
need guy fawkes back
Governments
Free Ireland, then fix yourself or you're going to find yourselves without a choice.
I'm saying this again , thanks for never quitting youtube and this is one of your best videos.
17:00 the view we've all been waiting for! 😂
Agreed...one of his best. More, please!
Why?
Bald is truly so much more than a youtube vlogger. This is hard hitting journalism at its finest in an age when that's a dying art. Thank you and please keep doing what you do
All our MP’s need to watch this
too busy corrupting
Agreed, but they are NPCs... They wont understand it.
They know, they;re causing this on purpose. Vultures picking a corpse clean.
What? You think they don’t know?
Wake up please. It's a pantomime for crying out loud, they don't care about you and in my humble opinion it's completely orchestrated to fulfill their nefarious agendas.
I'm from the Czech Republic and I can say that in big cities like Prague, Brno, Plzeň or Olomouc, a lot of old buildings are restored, but in smaller cities, especially in poorer regions, old buildings are often very damaged and neglected, just like in Plymouth. But I think it's like that everywhere in the Europe.
Not in Germany so far..
It's like that everywhere in the world.
Spot on, thanks for confirming. Czech Republic has spent a fortune on Prague as its a tourist city. Plymouth is not anything in relation to Prague. A small Czech city would compare.
Just come back from Prague beautiful city with yes, well kept historic buildings
There are laws in germany to prevent that from happening. There are some exceptions though, for example one of the most occuring reasons for a house to rot in germany is when the owner is incapable to renovate the estate because of dementia
More Britain content please. It's the issue of our time & you have the platform to show it.
100% back this comment.
Looked more like India than Britain
Here here!
See "The British Empire Was NOT The Biggest!"
Hypocrites count wastelands but not waves Brits still boast of having ruled. Spain had the biggest empire. They lied.
Sunak noticed this video actually especially in housing part.
This video made me realize that future RUclips will be Chinese and Indian vloggers touring smalltown UK looking at ruins and saying stuff like 'look at that Victorian monument, try to imagine these streets with smiling people..' etc
Civilizations are cyclical. They rise and fall. We are on the cusp of an old one on its death throes and new ones on the rise. That's just how it is!
Walking around towns full of boarded up and abandoned buildings, then you hear the lovely homeless chap tell us the council "are still looking for somewhere" for him to live. Shelter is shelter, councils must find a way to get people off the streets and make use of these. Well done for highlighting this Ben!
the buildings are probably unsafe structurally i mean look at them it would probably cost more to fix them than to just build new buildings
They'd put him in a hotel but it's probably filled up with "Asylum seekers"
What’s annoying is that you read about a family of immigrants arriving two weeks prior receiving a four bedroom house, with that poor guy living on street.
who introduced right to buy and how’s it going?
Why is it the Governments responsibility?
This is why England has turned into a shole, you all voted your Responsibilities away to the Government
£50 from Plymouth to Weston by train? That is a disgrace.
That’s Britain, cold, expensive and broken
Yep! Train prices here are a joke!
That’s Tory privatisation for you.
I can fly (FLY ON AN AIRPLANE) from any place to any place in EU, and then back again, for that money.
it really is. where is all the money going ffs
The local guide was great. Nice you included him
This is a TASTE OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, USA! Detroit is worse! They knock down buildings when they start falling down there and leave empty lots.
Dude is a gem
Joe works off tips but Bald just left him there standing haha
Wonder where he was rushing off to when he decided to become a super-mare sherpa.
Looked a bit of a set-up, like Bald 'bumping' into Backpacker Ben. But it was good to get a local's perspective.
Hey bald. I am from Plymouth myself. the places you saw are not even the worse we have to offer! Despite this we do have some really nice spots in the city and it is 100% worth coming back in the summer and seeing our best parts. I'd be happy to show you!
Hi James, I'm from holland and made a good friend from plymouth, we lost contact.
His favorite pub was "the odd wheel" is that pub still open?
My friends name is Mike Howe, he's probably 50 now.
@@tokomarwina9964 Hi! Yes it is still open, I’ve never been in there myself but it is open
Great videos
Joe seemed like a very intelligent and genuine lad. Would be great to see him on another trip with you!
Cute too ❤😊
Why would Benjamin do something logical like that...
He should make yt channel and travel Britain
@@Pure-Luck447he has he is joefish on RUclips 😊
Maybe Joe should become a full time local guide for tourists.
What a beautiful smile that lady had. Kudos to you for treating her with respect and dignity, I suspect she doesn't see that happen often.
he used her youtube views
she doesnt respect her self mate trust me ,
Imagine being all over RUclips comments sections kicking someone whilst they're down and troubled, she can get help for her troubled and live with dignity again but you have absolutely no humanity and I don't think that's as easily fixed as a drug addiction
As you said...She CAN get help , but chooses not to and doesnt want to take the next step, Ive suffered with addiction for most my adult life, I've done things im ashamed and not proud of, I've done things which i wont say on here but ive drove all around handsworth and the surrounding areas daily, I know who she is, i know what road she lives on and what she does, She could get help but she dont want to, Most drug addicts will admit they like getting high and dont want to move on, or theres a deep fear of living life clean without that high , She could easily move away from handsworth and stay stable on a methadone script and not smoke stone, but she chooses to stay in the chaos, And just because someone uses drugs doesnt mean they have to give up there dignity, I know many addicts who are clean clothed ,presentable and still have there morals, And how do i not have no humanity? Dont assume or label me as someone whos cold hearted and lacks empathy, You can only help those who want the help and trust me she dont want it atm @973
Considering how many ppl have seen this video... Purely based on statistics, he's found her a lot of new customers as well. Good luck not thinking about that now.
Genuinely upsetting to see the decline of my country. Thank you for bringing this to the attention of the masses.
💯 government are to blame and we all sit back and do nothing
Exactly what bald said, don't get upset on me, I am just a messenger showing you. However I still don't get it that there are unfilled jobs there, that they need to bring hundreds of thousand of workers from India. Visa program!
As you can see from the boarded up houses, the western nations “housing crisis” is completely MANUFACTURED to inflate house prices and falsify the wealth of the nations on paper.
Huwhy R u geyh?
@@AsalKh1Problem is these so called Visa programs government create to try fill all these low paid jobs native Brits justifiably can’t accept come at a big price what piss poor workers from India, Ghana etc are going to be able to afford these working visas and the high cost of living to stay in this rotten to the core stinkin corrupt shite expensive country ?
I’m live in UK for my last 10 years and I see this country going worse and worst every year and I’m scared about my future in this country, but now when I see you are video about this towns I’m getting more preoccupied about my future in UK. This is sad
Mass immigration and cultural destruction. The English are being displaced and have lost their traditions, religion, folk music and all else. Very very sad.
What a sad state of affairs seeing thousands of abandoned, derelict houses accross multiple towns and cities in the UK, while thousands of people sleep on the streets, it will never make sense to me
Capitalism
@@nebhalabir1201anything but. “Capitalism” with non-stop State intervention, regulation, fines, penalties, while money is sent overseas & foreigners cram in by the millions? You’re a joke.
Jewish Bolshvikism take over of Britain since 1945
@@nebhalabir1201lack of it.
@@nebhalabir1201feel free to move to North Korea
I live in Horden, cannot believe it! Can't imagine seeing Bald walk around the streets here! For context these houses, First Street - Thirteenth Street were once for pit workers who received them as part of their job. These streets were very desirable to live once upon a time. When the mines closed, a lot of them were bought by private landlords, on the cheap, who rented them out and simply do not care for the upkeep - a lot of locals then left for neighbouring towns as Horden started to become rundown. These streets are now derelict because the council wants to knock them down and replace with new housing. The rest of Horden isn't too bad, it's just become a hotbed for petty crime, theft and drug use as it's felt the effects of austerity with little investment and opportunity here. Most of the villages around here are the same unfortunately. You couldn't wish to meet a friendlier bunch of people though!
Maybe brexit takes a toll? Isolation is no good way to do business as every other land apart from north Korea is looking to lower border hurdles 😂
@@mmuller2402yawn. Brexit happened precisely because lots of people live in places like this - deindustrialised wastelands - and they hoped that by taking back control, things might change for the better. They didn't just turn to crap overnight in 2016. How do you lot still not understand what it was about?
@@BritishJuche yet I am almost certain they regret it now, had they voted Leave (unless you're from Boston, then you don't)
@@BritishJuchefalse, that is not why brexit happened 😂 Brexit happened because the EU was overstepping its boundaries and tried to tell the British courts what they could and couldn’t do. That’s the main reason why Brexit happened.
I grew up in Houghton Le Spring but live in Florida now, been watching Bald for years and to see him pop in Sunderland then Horden is crazy..🙈🤣
I'm from the UK and now live in Switzerland. I can tell you, going home is like being hit with a hammer. The UK (outside the centre of London) is barely scraping along as a first world country these days.
Me too,it hits hard.
Only true to a certain extent. The University towns are doing very well.
I was in the Baltic states for just a week and when I came back it was a reality check🤣
Really? Soho road isn’t my favourite part of Birmingham, but the city is beautiful and very cosmopolitan, many great suburbs to live in and the city centre is looking great with massive redevelopment and building projects, a very friendly and welcoming people with lots to do and see with some of the best restaurants and street food in Europe let alone the uk…
I live in Serbia and traveling to UK regularly just for my mental health. you have no idea how much better even current state of UK compared to real poor countries
England is one of the most depressing countries I have ever visited
what parts did you find most depressing
You are right. I moved in UK a couple of years ago and can confirm that it is the definition of the word "depression"/ :)
Where do you live now?
The weather is making it
Please keep doing these England episodes! most of us in North America only really ever get to see London so it's cool to see how real Brits live and that England is not just central London.
In fairness, he's picking the worst parts of the country. Outside London is generally much nicer than inside it. The UK is mostly very nice.
@@entropy5431 not saying the UK isnt nice, just nice to see areas that wouldn’t normally be shown to a wide audience.
@@Drooopyy Fair enough but you said the way 'real Brits' live. A lot of the people weren't British and the areas were the worst you can find. Not really a fair representation of the UK in general.
@@entropy5431 okay? Don’t really know what you want me to say? You win I guess?? Good job ⭐️
I left London 10 years ago but last year I returned for a friends wedding. Away from the tourist spots It was like downtown Mogadishu 😂
I think that German woman summed it up quite well: unless you have a little bit more money than average to compensate, you’re going to struggle. As someone that has done a bit of travelling to a few European countries recently, especially to countries that on the face of it we as Brits would probably looked down our noses at, the quality of life, the infrastructure, the culture, the cost of various different things from rail travel to pints of beer, are miles ahead of the UK and as someone who has become very disillusioned with the UK and concerned about how some certain things are going and how this will impact the future UK society, I have been exploring my “escape routes” so to speak.
I don’t think the UK is the only country experiencing this decline; I would also argue that some our nearest neighbours are also going through it. However, I think the difference between us and our neighbours is that our neighbours are prepared to do something about it because they still have unwavering pride in their country. Unfortunately, I see very little evidence of this pride and willingness to do something about it in the UK. We have instead adopted this fatalistic attitude of the damage being already done and that there is very little chance of anything changing so we may as well focus on other things and whatever will be will be. It’s incredibly sad.
That is a very good description of the attitude I feel people have. It is truly sad how resigned they have become and I am willing to do anything I can to put things on a better course
France does seem to be in a similar situation. But there's still way less litter scattered around.
On the last couple of self drive trips to the alps it seems the roads and countryside in France are in a much better condition but some of their towns look very run down on the outskirts, more so than places I've visited in England I would say. Obviously I'm not a massive expert from my two recent road trips mind.
I was also lucky enough to do a small ski trip to Norway at Christmas, and what a amazingly beautiful place that is. I would move there in a heartbeat even with the minus 20 winters. That said a country 3x larger than Britain with a population the same as Scotland isn't going to be litteted mess like overcrowded England 😩
The indigenous population have been gaslit to despise themselves.
Which neighbors are you specifically talking about? Apart from Denmark and Norway, pretty much every country the UK shares a maritime border with is in a similar situation
@@Martin-zm8gq You said it. Apart from the Nordic countries, our neighbours across the channel are going through similar problems. But as I said in my comment, I sense that people there want to do something about it and I don't get that from people in the UK.
I could be wrong and I'm happy to be proved otherwise
Pretty insane that Bald can tackle the Darién Gap, but gets tilted by Birmingham 🙃
Home sweet home
I was just about to post the same thing.All those crazy adventures and he doesn't feel safe in his own country.
Our Birmingham makes your Birmingham appear safe and tidy.
@@alabama2uzunfortunately you are correct. The Alabama version isn't all that bad but there are neighborhoods you don't go to at night because of all the gun/gang violence. It gets pretty sketchy.
Come to Kingston in Philly literally land of the dead
ENOCH POWELL WAS RIGHT
He did understate it though
No he wasn't, he was cr ying about Indians mainly and they became a vital part of the health service etc. he was a spa
Funny how that homeless guy was a lot more hospitable than the "new resident" of Birmingham.
i know him well, he's a decent man but like a lot of our homeless he's stuck on waiting lists that abandon people to years of limbo
@@josephbrennan9712yet there seems to be enough accommodation for our friends who arrive on rubber boats.
@@dc56789those two things aren't linked.
@@bandits99yea sure buddy
@@kaarislakrim6604 yes one is an actual home and the other is a tent somewhere in the middle of nowhere or some rundown building that has 4 people in one room at least
As a soldier in the British army, the war memorial bit made me sad beyond words. I have zero faith in this country anymore compared to just 4 years ago. How far we have fallen
that the torys for ya
Same
@astroboirap would of been worse if Labour was in. 2 wings on the same bird. We need a complete reform and the public need to wake up to politics instead of worrying what on Netflix and football drama.. too distracted.
No it wouldn't. Labour has a way better track record and you know it. @@ragnarjakobsen7722
In Canada, people don't even wear the poppy anymore. And the government has taken most of our budget away. It was making me so depressed that I had to leave or else I probably would have drank myself into the ground.
As a Brit who does not live there now I cant believe there has been no revolution in Britain given the way the current government is behaving. Because people are too apathetic.
Or they left like you.
Revolutions happen when people can’t eat. People are being kept in a state of flux. The young rejected their countries traditions and this is the result.
I think the weather would make anyone feel worse. It adds 80% more depression to an already depressed country.
Agreed, which is why I moved to Australia
The weather has always been like that and people were poorer in the past. But back them the country was more homogenous and we had communities that supported each other. Diversity and mass migration has destroyed that.
Yupp depressing
It's depressing when you believe it is... Ultimately it's just weather. It drains me when people keep talking about it. Buy some waterproof clothes and you'll be alright. There are tonnes of things that are better in the rain, running, walking, camping etc. not like belting it down rain though. It torrentially downpours in Australia for example leading to flooding we never experience but I guess we ignore that. We don't get hurricanes or storm surges that frequently, again ignored. This is one thing I reckon the English should get over and then we'll be alright.
@@adamburton5184 running, walking, and camping are better in the rain?? come on now..
Felt very bad seeing the state that girl was in, I hope she gets cleaned up and turns her life around.
Probably won’t help the poor girl having her face on the thumbnail of the video either….
Enjoy balds videos but posting her on the image is bad taste.
@@Superman_. Do a deep dive on Baldy, he probably took her up the offer.
And the guy at 13:03 who is being lied to by the government to avoid helping him
Its good taste @@Superman_.
The best days are behind us.....EVERYWHERE!
People might not want to know the truth. Prior and during the Victorian era this country was built on the blood, treasure and suffering of peoples of the third world. Maybe we are now reaping the seeds of what we have sown.
not everywhere
make it better? it's all about selective perception. There are amazing parts of the UK with lovely people.
To samo jest w Polsce. Cudowne lata minęły. Jeszcze w wielkich miastach może tego tak nie widać, ale wystarczy pojechać dalej żeby zobaczyć prawdziwą biede...
@@stevenhull5025 Absolutely. Nobody can remain on the top forever. Glory fades
£50 gets me from Belfast to London on the plane. Train prices in GB are outrageous!
I'm not sad or horrified; I'm seething mad. What an absolute f'ing disgrace.
It's time for Reform. Lib/Lab/Con are all the same WEF in disguise.
@@MrAn0n
Turn it up
It's called Parasites voting for Parasite Politicians that are mirror image of themselves
Absolute squalor whilst the MP class lord it up selling us out.
Well, you're on the internet, the perfect place for that.
@@jamessones4044
No…
Not absolute squalor - those streets looked safe and quiet in the daytime.
Just such great people, friendly and light hearted.
I love them.
England is like seeing your old friend from high school. Your old high school friend was the brightest in class, and very funny, social, popular, creative and just a joy to be around. Expect now, you see your old friend on the street - homeless and broke and broken. You try to talk some sense into your old friend, but there nothing of that person left anymore. Gone. That's England.
That's a lot of places in europe tbh
@@babaentertainment6615Yes a lot of places, but still not everywhere. My comment is pretty bleak I know, but I still have hope for a good future
Do you think Britain has gotten poorer? Really?
@@WeMuckAround do you think central bank issued usurious fiat money means richer? Really?
@@WeMuckAroundThe news is a good start bud, then read
Mr Bald god bless you for this one. Shining a light on the disgrace that is modern Britain. Your interaction with that girl with the black eye in Birmingham made me deeply sad.
Don't get why he kept blaming New Labour and Blair for it mind. No mention of tory austerity.
@@codenamemilo7398he didn’t blame them at all imo & I hate the tories
He's not blaming Blair... Blair was in power when he left the UK, did you watch the start?
@@codenamemilo7398 Blair started the rot, and the subsequent govts have continued the good work ...
@@codenamemilo7398Typical leftie not being able to critically think.
The first interaction with someone in Birmingham just sums our country up
That was weird. 😳 Don't they need to prove basic English skills to get a visa in the first place. 👁👁
@@fluffy-puffy-puppy No, unfortunately, they're all welcome. In fact, the taxpayers have to pay for translators for them when they claim benefits (which is also at the taxpayers expense)
I feel sorry for the street girl. She’s someones child or even mother at the end of the day. Anyone would be heartbroken if she was one theres, seeing her like that with a black eye knowing she’d been beaten and abused. Who knows what issues people have in their lives that lead them down a wayward path 😢
Felt the same. A real living example of the consequences of how we've slipped. It's easy enough to see trash or boarded up buildings and only feel a twinge of remorse, but seeing someone beaten and abused like that, that's the face of the nation when we let things slip.
Absolutely heartbreaking, the girl and this whole video
Does this youtube guy get release forms for putting people on the internet like this?
May want to have a further look into this guy and his seedy past
@@casinowilhelm filming the public, in public is not against the law? Why would he need release forms 😂😂😂😂😂
The guy that greeted you at the hotel is actually proud of his hotel. That is the problem, they think it is alright and have no idea that decent people would find it disgusting.
When he said the view is nice, and it's all trash was eye-opening. I am from Mumbai and I want to address the elephant in the room but I'm not sure how.
@@MarduksonofEaplease go ahead and
As the saying goes "Import the third world, and you become the third world" It's kind of sad tbh.
Education is the main problem, some people know no better. Instead of importing some of the best minds in the world we are getting the worst, we have enough of those already.@@MarduksonofEa
@@MarduksonofEa More like "import the third world, put them in third world conditions, and impose austerity on everybody else, and you get the third world".
Train ticket prices are criminal in the UK. When I was a student, had to shop around weeks in advance like its an airline ticket.
The wonders of privatisation.
It's the same price to fly to Medellin as a train to London from Birmingham 😂
I'm a bald brazilian 41yo man. Been to London two years ago and after travelling by train, when I left the city I was bald and bankrupt.
@@bobsnow6242hard to blame that…I am flying in the US today from SF to Tucson for $200, on a private airline
I genuinely can't remember the last time I took a train and I can't understand why some people still do. There're very few places where an ebike, bus, car or other option aren't only marginally slower but 10x cheaper or longer distances where again, air travel is usually cheaper.
My partner just said, there's no greenery. And only then I realised, it's even more depressing because of that. No trees or plants in the neighbourhoods... Making people even more depressed for sure 😢
I must admit, seeing Ben explore England in the way he would usually explore what we perceive as ‘decrepit’ foreign land is so eye opening. Without taking a step out of our comfort zone, I would have never had seen this side of the UK. You see and hear it on the news but Ben’s unbiased exploration truly shows the real world.
Unfortunately you're completely wrong about it being unbiased. He's deliberately visited the worse parts of Plymouth to make it look as bad as possible when its actually a beautiful place to live with lots going on.
Perhaps you need to take a step outside your own comfort zone to see the real world...
@@MarcusDrivesZxr yes, the point is to deliver shock factor. There are still some nice places in the UK. But for how long...?
Yeah England’s fallen. Labor destroyed the nation. And the tempest immigration to welfare situations making it a pure Muslim nation. And wat h you’ll see massive cope comments about how great it is that the pubs are gone and it’s all kabobs.
@@MarcusDrivesZxrmost of Britain looks this way buddy. Also native Brit’s are being replaced by Muslims.
When a young Romanian lad says it can dangerous it’s time to get out of town
ROMANIAN ARE NOT .GYPSYS
Grow up. 😆
@@piotr5338 no one said anything about gypsies.... romanians have bad reputation around europe too, not just gypsies. also many gypsies are romanians. so chill.
It’s not even that bad, I’ve lived like 4-5 mins away from Horden all of my life and I’ve never had issues. It’s all about who you associate with. The area has its idiots the same as everywhere.
It’s funny to hear this cause in Romania it’s very safe) all gypsies left in 2003, and only 300k of them remained. Meanwhile there are 1 mill of Romanian gypsies in France. So I don’t get it when you think it’s dangerous in Romania.
I left the UK 12 years ago and couldn’t think of anything worse than going back. I grew up in the 90’s and thought it was an amazing place but over a very short period it turned drastically! Now Britain is unrecognisable and the people of Britain deserve so much more. It is going to take a working class man/woman with pride to lead a revolution and rip down that horrendous government and rebuild.
We need a sense of national pride and respect for ourselves.We wont revolt though, we haven't in a thousand years. I sense of national pride is what binds people together and forms a cohesive society.
Where’d you go?
@@naturalbornchiller158We had a republican revolution and a civil war around 360 years ago. There are many uprisings throughout our history, from the Peasants' Revolt to the Diggers.
Brexit wasn't a very good idea
@@naturalbornchiller158National pride was what drove the last nail in the coffin: Brexit. A little less pride, a lot less whining, and a little bit more of rolling up your sleeves and hard work. The only ones left working for real in the UK are south Asian immigrants.
When Ben talks about architectural buildings and letting them so to s**t , we have the same issue in Detroit. Thankfully they restored the old train station but alot of the buildings and homes were just left to ruin.
We can fund wars but not help historic towns and the homeless
He hearted this.
"we"
@@fatalf4t4l we, the people
This is how capitalism works
@@alexandernovikov5963 it's not the only way capitalism can work.
Ooof when he asked the homeless woman in Birmingham 'Are you alright?' - 'Not really love, you?' That fucking shook me. What the fuck England.
That shook you? She had a black eye obviously things aren’t going great for her
Once an empire now a shit hole. literally ...
They're known as curb crawlers.
She needs help to stop drugs and prostitution
@@WraithTheSlayerwhen we had the empire people lived in even worse poverty
As a North Yorkshireman, I realise how fortunate I was to grow up in the dales and the fells. Heartbreaking - that lady with the black eye is pretty. God knows what her life could have been like.
This reminded me of some of your trips to Russia the UK has fallen off
I’m glad you’re showing real Britain. People who don’t actually live here only see London (which has also gone downhill) but truth is much worse.
This is what happens when you let Conservatives run things - Don't make the same mistake...
@@BassandoForte Like Labour are any better, the UK needs reforms and a new party that isn't just Tory-lite Red edition.
@@vista9434 - They're trying to poach Tory MP Lee Anderson - How are they different..??
The last sustained period of growth was under Labour, that's how they're different, Toryboy... 😛🤣
@doForte Apart from the fact that they left government with nothing in the bank. Just FYI, I've voided my vote in the last few local elections and intend to do the same in this general election so I'm hardly a Toryboy.
@@BassandoForte You have a short memory. Growth under Labour was brief, less than five years, fuelled mostly by cheap imported labour from Europe. The economic slowdown started in 2008, with manufacturing output decling by 7% and unemployment rising by 8.3% with Q4: −2.2%. The Tories weren't elected until 2010. The Blair/Brown years were just a giant ponzi scheme that crashed.
Broken Britain and the truth is that most cities in the UK are like this one
Agree every town & city are like this now
This is what happens when governments forsake their birthright citizens for the gratitude of instant voters coming in to the country by the planeload on a daily basis.
@@terryrobertson111 Or it's what happens when right wing governments get in and suck the life out of everywhere to allow their pals to make billions. Councils in England have lost up to as much 80% of their funding from central government since 2010, but have had more responsibilities put on them as the Tories have cut funding to important medical projects.
The issue is the right wing, it always has been the right wing. Stop being a sheep and think critically about how neoliberal wealth extraction has caused these problems and nothing else. Immigrants are nothing other than a scapegoat for people to blame.
This honestly looks like a way nicer version of most US mid sized cities the past few years, its crazy how our countries seem to be undergoing the same problems
Even the guy signed of with mental health is better off than any of the countries he normally visits. Benefits housing free health care. Have some respect for the good things here.
"While it's 3 AM in Tokyo, and 1 PM in New York, in England it's still the Middle Ages." 😀
The middle ages were a doddle compared to this nightmare.
😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Better days them Medieval times. Only one black in Britain and that was the Black Death 👍
Thanks for doing the England stuff. I always wanted you to do it.
It's heartbreaking to see what's happening outside if London. Britain needs some serious changes, thank you Ben for shedding some light on this
What is happening inside London is worse.
London is worse off
What do you mean OUTSIDE OF LONDON? London has turned into a sh$t hole.
Heartbreaking to see what's happened to London as well
Yeah coz Londanistan is a bastion of morality 😂
I feel like he could do an entire "We're in the worst most abandoned soviet township on earth' video for 2 hours then reveal its just some random town in England that has a somewhat recognizable name
It's almost worse!
England is In A Bad Way If You Take A Couple of Cities Out Of The Equation . Northern Ireland is Gobbling up Money when it’s Needed In England.
He certainly knows how to Google the 10 shittiest towns in Britain, lol. If it's so shitty, why are house prices still so high?
@@jam99 land, eventually corporations want land
@@ChichiNaka That makes sense.
Money doesn't trickle down. It flows to the top, to the people that make and enforce the rules.
immigration is bad
There's no money at the top to trickle down, it's all printed out of thin air!
Happening all over the world. It’s screwed.
The only thing that trickles down is shit
Capitalism + antitrust enforcement is what we need, imo
You've walked around the roughest part of easily one of the best places in the UK to live. Where is the Barbican in your video? The Royal William Yard? The large Victorian houses surrounding the area around the University? The Hoe? West Hoe? The river Plym? Plymstock, Plympton, Wembury? The new village of Sherford? Anyone can go to a Mosside equivalent of any town and call it all the names you did. As a previous resident I've been longing to go back to this great town for decades. It's suffered since the airport closed but most non commuter cities have in their own way declined, but that doesn't take away from the fact that Plymouth is big, beautiful and packed with awesome people. The city has sooo much to offer, anyone considering visiting this place should ignore your video and go and see it for themselves. It also has arguably one of the best pubs in the country The Dolphin Inn, which sits on an historic road facing the Mayflower Steps. There's so much there for all, don't write it off.
Exactly. Union street is well known for being awful. But there are gentrified areas that have improved it. Lots of building going on around the Barbican and Millbay.
You are literally the meme of a Dog sitting at a table while his house burns saying to himself, "this is fine, im ok with this"
@@andrewkaminskas7721 Where do you live?
It is very easy to go to the rough parts of anywhere and slag it off
blad is an agent of Russia who gets funding from the east to make the Eastern bloc romantic and make the west look like crap.
Cabot wasn't a slave trader, he was an explorer - hence why his name is still everywhere. You may be thinking of Colston?
Half the buildings are empty and yet there's still people living on the street literally right outside. Britain summed up.
They’re for illegals only I’m afraid.
You know legislation was brought in 2002/2003 ish that allows local authorities to compulsory purchase long-term empty properties - amazed they don't use this to create housing.
@@ocnb because of labour councillors. Left towns to rot yet still wasted multi millions of tax payer money. More labour council in Birmingham than any other city
Homeless people wouldnt maintain the buildings and look after them, its easier for them to be left alone then deal with the fallout
@@booster330 Ugh I'm apolitical tbf - to me it looks like failures of councils at an officer level and a lack of political will in all parties to do anything.
Bald misses the depressive Russian countryside so desperately that he went to Britain's worst rated town and it's still not the same... We miss you too, Mr. Bald
Plymouth is quite nice. Grimsby, Luton, Peterborough etc are bad. Then there are ethnic ghettos in the cities
Ha ha so true
The Soviet places had an air of exoticism about it. Britain is just straight up depressing
Bald is one of my favorite (no offensive letter "u" in favorite) Limeys.
-Dave the Bloody Yank
Who can forget the old Soviet Kolya of Belarus?
Keep doing the UK. People need to realize how bad everything is getting. People are in absolute denial about the reality of the worlds decline at the hands of progressive liberalism.
1%= 75% wealth
New,,,,,world,,,,,..order
It blows me away how brainwashed some of the old people are to say they think it was the same, “just hidden” typical liberal mental gymnastics. Nobody can just admit, “yeah things are shit, and it’s because of liberal politics”
Progressive in the way that Cancer is progressive.
Neo liberals perhaps?
Thanks for showing what Britain looks like for a very large part of the population. Most people in other countries don’t have a clue how bad it can be.
The UK is so good at showing a healthy facade with all its tv series about a romantic country life, antiques, history, stylish home renovations, police drama in picturesque villages, the war effort, upstairs and downstairs, etc etc. Almost never how grim modern life in the UK can be today.
There's loads of programmes showing the grim side of life what are you talking about? You just probably haven't watched them
@@abbotsford85 yes there are many videos on RUclips showing the grim side, but most people in other countries don’t have a clue how bad the situation in UK really is. This even goes for UK's shrinking middle class.
@@E_L1000There's still loads of countryside places like that in modern Britain, but everyone wants to live there. They're usually very white and they're not cheap, especially if they have a good commute. I live in the countryside 20/25 minutes away from Liverpool and Manchester, it's gorgeous and affluent. The state of places like brum in this video have always existed, especially inner city areas.
@@Jim90117 UK has some of the most beautiful country side in the world. But it’s almost impossible for common people to buy a property in the popular areas.
And if you find cheap land, you are often hindered to build, due to archaic laws and powerful old landowners.
Joe was delightful! ❤ I would love it if you kept in touch with him.
joe has a channel , joefish on youtube
@@Kevin-xp9ly cheers, mate!
This episode reminded me a lot of the depressed areas of Appalachia. Parts of Kentucky and West Virginia are a lot like those places. Sure, the scenery is different but, the hardships are the same.
The working class, especially in industrial/ex-industrial towns, are forgotten about no matter where you go.
@@DoggfatherUK exactly. Though Australia is generally a lot better than the US and UK with this, I definitely grew up in post-industrial areas like this a kid. The only difference Australia has is a rapidly growing population resulting in extremely rapid gentrification even reaching into the Outback. It's the reverse of the UK and US and I find that fascinating.
Globalism is spoken universally
The part of Appalachia I live in is beautiful, clean & safe.
@@dingobonzahave you left the clutches of a capital city recently?
I lost it when you showed the view of the back of the hotel 😂
As someone who lived in Birmingham for 5 years you barely scraped the surface :D
Jesus that poor woman...... so so sad 😢
Reminded me of the movie Nil By Mouth
Hurts my heart to know someone is so lost.
christ yeah
One of the reasons why the peddling/smuggling of narcotics is a crime punishable by death in many countries
Infuriating. And I’m not even English. Wtf is going on in England?!
Great video. Utterly, utterly soul destroying to see what has happened to my country.
America is collapsing also mate.
@@rachelbaziak4159yeah and England is collapsing because of America. Don't think that the English don't know who's at fault.
@@twogermanysit's because of people like Tony Blair opening the flood gates of mass foreign immigration, what are you talking about?
@@twogermanys As an American, I can’t see how we destroyed the UK - our greatest ally.
The Empire, in fact many Colonial empires, were severely weakened by WW1. The results of WW2 finally pushing the colonial era to an end.
What you’re seeing in this video is happening not just in the UK, but in much of the West, including many cities in the USA.
You all voted for it
I have been many times in the former GDR city Leipzig during last 20 years. First times many buildings looked like the damaged and boarded up ones that you show here. Then, each year I saw more and more houses being renovated completely to get back their former beauty. Now the city is completely wonderful and full of life. It is definitely possible to bring back old houses and cities, but it requires hope and money. I can't see any of that in this video.
That first guy in Birmingham SUMS UP the situation rn
😂😂😂
💯
what the kid who didn't know anything and ignored all the questions?
@@FranzFerdinand55 The guy who didn't speak english
YEAH AND THE FIRST GIRL IN THE VIDEO SUMS UP HIS EDITIING SKILLS IF YOU SLOW THE VIDEO TO .25 YOU CAN PAUSE THE VIDEO ON A FRAME WHERE HER FACE ISNT BLURRED AT ALL... nice job protecting her privacy mr. bald...
I went to Spain last week for £32 return and they wonder why British seaside towns are in ruins
Yeah it's insane how much train prices are. I wanted to go to Wales a few weeks ago and the fare was £80 per person. I didn't bother in the end, it would have been more expensive and slower than going by car. Absolutely nuts.
That's a Tory government for you. Complete disregard for public services. I'm going to France next month for a £110 return trip including AirBNB for the weekend. 2 nights. It would cost nearly that much just for the train fare and back to a "sunny" seaside beach in the UK.
@@stevenb3854Mate I'm in Scotland and we've got the same problem and we're run by the SNP, it's not just a Tory problem.
@@stevenb3854 I don't disagree. £32 return and £144 for 3 nights. Train would cost me that from where I live to the coast in England
@@jakemarshall360The SNP and Tories alike are just a bunch of cronies. Anything good in those parties was wiped clean in the early 00's by a bunch of loonies.
Our country is truly on its knees. I travel all over for work and see first hand that the struggle is real
You guys are straight up being taken over lol enjoy, we’re all in the same boat
How cool is that Count Duckula painting on the pub
Homelessness in Britain is messed up. I've been homeless for two and a half years. I have a full time job on living wage but I still can't afford to rent anywhere. I've even been told by one estate agent that "we don't rent to homeless people". I could be housed quicker by the council but guess what's holding me back? The fact that I'm sober. I've been sober over two years now and the council have said that it shows that I'm coping. Go figure ✌️
Fuck yeah man. Stay sober and keep on going
In this situation I would become a drug dealer.
fucking hell mate, what a sorry state of affairs... Wishing you all the best
just tell them you got an addiction, how would anyone check on it ?
Become next Pablo Escobar of UK I believe in u bro
Thank you so much for shining a light on some of these forgotten communities, Bald. The state of decline is ubiquitious in the country. It doesn't matter where you go - north, south, east, west - you'll be met with boarded up shops, derelict pubs and closed-off public spaces. A crying shame and a stain on the government.
I was in the US Military over there and I thought it was terrible! The SW coast of England is supposed to be nice from the warm waters of the Carribean.
We know now that the government is a corporation that's in business to siphon the wealth from the many to the few, and it has largely succeeded thus far.
We know what kind of video he’s trying to produce when he’s purposely booking 3 star hotels that cost £28/night.
Never forget it was 14 years of the Conservative Party that had caused this. Not New Labour.
One of the best videos I have seen showing the sad reality of many towns and cities in the UK. Many thanks
It’s not really reality.
It’s actually very cherry picked to ‘prove a point’ or get views.
I know, I live around 4-5 minutes from Horden where they filmed (maybe 15 mins walk) and they ignore the populated areas, new buildings and modern investment and just focus on the old abandoned miners houses (numbered streets) that are in plans of being demolished and replaced.
I’d rather be here than ANY city centre.
All our politicians should be forced to watch videos like this and get a glimpse of the reality that so many people are living.
That poor woman, God bless her.
It's enough to make you weeep
£5 for jiggy jiggy
@@Colby_0-3_IRL_and_title_fightsfuck it im booking train tickets
Would have been decent to blur her...
@@Colby_0-3_IRL_and_title_fights for 5 pounds I want the full program
I'm even more depressed about what's going on in my country after watching this. Thanks Ben!
2 uploads this close together? We are Bald and Blessed.
Yeah but the other one was the worst yet
He forgot to upload the previous vid on daily bold 😂 maybe forgot his log in z 😂
He definitely made a mistake on his login 😂
last video was the worst video i have seen!
He deleted it
One of my ancestors -- John Alden -- was on that ship of which you spoke that left Plymouth, England to sail across the pond to establish Plimouth Plantation in what is today Massachusetts.
Nice blur edit lol, face not at all visible.
Exactly 😂😂😂
I was laughing so hard on the A+ censor job
I wouldn't call it super