Taking Back Control | Britain's Forgotten Men

Many white working-class men are struggling in today’s society - low education, poor jobs, high crime.
Filmmaker Dan Murdoch spends a year on the fringes of Manchester in some of Britain's most deprived estates. He finds anger, resentment and frustration. But he also finds a spirit of camaraderie among the estates that are fighting to stay above water - fighting not to be forgotten.
In part one, Mikey puts on a party for his community and Jordan tries to survive on the streets.
Britain's Forgotten Men is an ongoing series. The first four parts will be released daily.
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[@kimberlyjaye7312]

I was homeless and lived in my car. I had a job but couldn't make enough to rent anywhere. Now I try and help people in my community. This is where it starts and where it ends. Help when and where you can.

[@Thirdfish]

Good for you pal, people like you deserve a break in life. Good luck.

[@danw1374]

Fair play kim, you sound like a good honest person with a good heart, I wish you all the very best x

[@Emcfree2084]

Very true Kim, but do you know why these white families have ended up like this and why they need the help of strangers instead of their own friends, communities and relatives?

[@dankadybong7948]

Kim Snedeger . never rent, it always eats up your money. get a sensible mortgage.

[@dankadybong7948]

Red . euribor is -0.314% or smth. the yearly interest on my €20k mortgage which i got left is smth like €80 which i get back as asistance.

[@mrnumba154]

I grew up in a place not much better than this and the key issue that I saw and still see is a lack of aspiration. Parents have very little desire for their children to achieve anything, they don't read to them, they don't teach them respect, they constantly make excuses for them when they get in trouble at school, they don't monitor their school work, they expose them to inappropriate adult situations, the list goes on.

[@harryb4839]

Mr Numba 1 hit the nail on the head, it’s a constant cycle in which they treat their children the same way they were treated by their parents because they were never taught any different and they were never educated out of school or taken to museums etc (cultural enrichment) like middle class kids ,which is why they will never escape this poverty and mindset and will always be working/lower class

[@erikeweingaarde2930]

True

[@pedeepete]

bang on mate.

[@brianmitchell9504]

You clearly didn’t live like these people, Pureee ignorants.

[@hbeer3480]

I foster a Child who grew up in the same conditions

[@loulou6760]

We are all 2 pay packets away from being homeless. Never forget that.

[@ReasonAboveEverything]

Louise Close unless you own your house

[@loulou6760]

@@ReasonAboveEverything miss 2 mortgage payments and you won't own it

[@ReasonAboveEverything]

Louise Close Lol, fair enough. I took it for granted that my parents and grandparents "just own apartments".

[@loulou6760]

@@ReasonAboveEverything they may do. But most people don't own their properties untill they're in their late 50s. Xxx

[@ReasonAboveEverything]

Louise Close If my life goes as I expect, I will never own one unless I inherit one.

[@oliverwelch1000]

"Chris has been squatting for a year" *ULTRA SLAV INTENSIFIES*

[@MultiAllen93]

"Chris has been squatting for a year". DAMN he must have really strong legs.

[@skiz-7104]

Ayaz Khan lol

[@dylanhunte1]

Ayaz Khan Chris don't skip leg day

[@georgehennon7781]

Chris invented leg day

[@bricktop.]

Ayaz Khan His gainz must be off the scale.

[@jamesknox64]

Ayaz Khan Yeah it's about time he did some upper body work. I imagine wide grip chins will be pretty tough with all that leg mass. Start with the lat pull down and the bench press i reckon.

[@catherineneil69]

This is what happens when parents aren't educated enough and sometimes not capable of raising and supporting their children in a stable environment. These kids come from the most vulnerable families on the UK, that is why they're asking for more support. Does everyone in the comments actually believe these young men come from well rounded families? I could bet my life at least one of the boys shown on this documentary have come from an impoverished family and their parents are either alcoholics or drug addicts. This is why they're really asking for support, because they were never given it growing up and now they've been left to fend for themselves without been given the right skill set or education to make it as an adult in the real world.

[@catherineneil69]

I'm glad there are people who can see beyond the surface of this video. You'll never have a chance in life if you've not had the support and encouragement throughout childhood. People are commenting that the boys are "stupid" or "chavs", things like "why can't they just get a job, there's plenty". I'm sure most of the boys dropped out of school. Why? Because there's nobody at home pushing them to stay in school. So they go to the streets, since that's the only place they fit in. With the rest of the kids who come from similar family backgrounds. They way you behave as an adult is a learned behaviour from childhood. How can you expect these boys to be model citizens when they've not had the same start in life?

[@NotAnotherKuromi]

This is the most sensible comment I have seen on these videos. It is not a simple case of lack of housing, it is that these people have had no guidance in their life & they need knowledge & self worth. If mental health help, teaching & social care were better managed & had more financial backing it would improve millions of lives better than just creating another council estate.

[@andrewtowey934]

Catherine Neil Or when they aren't Muslim and can't get all the free hand outs and brown privledge

[@Jman10011]

Marta Motevassel a

[@tollesache8432]

i was raised in a enviroment like that and i have a stable job infact i was in the navy for a couple of years

[@luc1ferblack]

it is all a little twisted. my nephew was kicked out for threatening his mum with knives and violence so they gave him a bedsit and told him if he is good they will give him a council flat. i have worked my whole life and live in a house share that said a council place is not a god given right. these kids complaining they have nothing but it isnt given to you you earn it

[@ant-vi7vv]

If nothing is given to you why are people born into rich families and can laze about and not do shit all day

[@benmellor8191]

@@ant-vi7vv that’s a minority

[@darleyt1]

every private school boy I knew earns over 50k, explain that.

[@karlcallaway5170]

I'm sorry but those people definitely aren't the type of people that "want to train, want to go to university, want to put taxes back into the system"

[@jameswebb3286]

Didn't you hear what they said at the start? It's too late for us you need to just look after the new youth.

[@mclovin9191]

that is the image that media has given you. 'Those' people do not have the opportunities as everyone else due to their location and situation with the council. If they had more opportunities then they would be training or at uni but the council has not facilitated that

[@nl5455]

Their parent's may not have given them much support, pushing them to focus on school, read them books, enrich them with culture and ideas, showing their kids a bad side like alcohol, laziness - it creates a cycle where the young may not aspire as much.

[@andrewharper1609]

The point isn't that they don't want to go to university and contribute. The point is that if your parents weren't University educated you're less likely to be yourself, if there aren't well paid working class jobs in the area (a lot of the factory work was outsourced to China and India) there is less for them to aspire to anyway.

[@mrswolf3084]

They probably pay more into the system than you know, do you think people who hold onto their wealth consume by shopping at the same places or even paying the same prices as they overcharge a lot in interest if you're on a low income and have to pay nearly triple the amount to what a wealthy person would have to? University isn't a good measure of an educated person anymore not to mention the huge amount of debt you're left with afterwards. If communities came together more then you would have electricians, plumbers and mechanics and who knows what else if money and funding and most importantly empathy given to those who haven't been dealt with the best in life though no fault of their own! we need to take care of the young in our society as they will be the ones keep it going not the governments! Also having been brought up in poverty and lived on a council estate myself I've experienced first hand that everyone is trying to survive hand to mouth and very few want to live that way and poverty has been proven to rewire your brain as lack of nutrients and the main focus is just surviving that day and this leads onto bad choices being made due to just wanting basic comforts such as heating, food etc and how can you save when you've hardly got any money to begin with and the big TVs people sneer about are brought at an exototinate cost from pay monthly schemes, yes the people who are poorer than you can and should have access world you know as everything is online now and that costs money. I also have a very wealthy father who was tight as anything and hoarded his wealth and never contributed a penny! so saw both sides of the coin and can say the wealthy side was much much more meaner and crueler as they dont know what it's like to have nothing, or very few do! If people were less devided though sheer snobbery and came togther you would find you have more in common than you ever though was possible!

[@shanice-rochelle.j5897]

Finally... a series which isn't about black boys from London, thank you BB3 for proving that the government is affecting the whole of the UK and not just black boys ✌🏽💯

[@PrimitivePresents]

Shanice-Rochelle .J Thanks Shanice. It often seems like most black people have no empathy towards White people whatsoever. I am genuinely speaking from experience here with black friends. One used to speak loudly and proudly on Facebook to free a guy who stabbed someone. When I asked why his attitude was sympathetic, about how he grew up rough. But then again I've also heard him mock poor, scruffy looking White people asking for change or being hopelessly addicted. The guy who stabbed wore stone island jackets! Hardly impoverished in comparison but it's as though black people have been brainwashed to always look at whites with contempt. All in all I would say that poor blacks have more opportunity than poor whites. Especially from the state. What holds blacks back in the toxicities in their own cultures - especially afro-caribbean.

[@PrimitivePresents]

To summarise - the black attitude seems to be - If a black man stabs another he is a victim of circumstance. If a white man struggles to get by and needs help he is a wasteman bumbaclart.

[@shanice-rochelle.j5897]

Fowl Raoul you're right sadly, however the 'Black mans' attitude will not get them anywhere, me being black and knowing a lot of obviously black people has shown me this also, I've seen it with my own eyes

[@shanice-rochelle.j5897]

Obviously not all blacks are like that and all have the same attitude, so not to stereotype however... youknow the rest

[@PrimitivePresents]

Shanice-Rochelle .J Looking for a white BF? I'm rich and hench.

[@jackduffy1359]

Working class to me is someone who works hard to provide for themselves and gives back to the community, not people who refuse to work because they think minimum wage is beneath them

[@tommyatkins2527]

Jack Duffy amen did our Victorian ancestors smash up towns because they were under paid we didn't fight world wars for this shit

[@000TQ000]

Jack Duffy working hard for minimum wage nowadays is unfair! Everything is so much more expensive.

[@suddin2690]

I was unemployed, well working long hours in a curry house for little money. Even though I would have been better off on benefits, I worked my ass off to get out of the trap. Once you're on benefits, you are trapped.

[@bri1085]

Terrible comment

[@sz6708]

None of them said it was beneath them he's begging on the streets you mental idiot. But generally I agree but I'm middle class and I see what you describe there. Lot's of middle class on benefits because work is beneath them. In my early 20s I was one of them.

[@grapefives7762]

Honestly these are the guys that go to my school and don't do anything in school and get shocked when they don't get a job

[@jediael9906]

Well if they don't use our free education they turn out like this

[@SmokeyDaGoat]

@Michael Srite you dont get the point

[@easycoding8255]

This is what happens to people whose parents don’t make them pay attention and behave when they go to school. Education is free at the point of service and it’s one of the most valuable things you will ever get. Use it. It’s not just a government problem, it’s a parental one.

[@kimjong-john1ultrainkorea319]

Forgotten as they are all jumping about with designer gear and expensive bikes

[@blisterrbub1714]

Stolen mate.

[@kimjong-john1ultrainkorea319]

Seal Fantamide Oh ur hard."they steal coz their poor"NO!They steal coz they don't care about anyone else and also should've tried to do well in school to get a good job then blame it on the council

[@kimjong-john1ultrainkorea319]

Bradley Dalton 😂South totally no fae Scotland ya bampot

[@kimjong-john1ultrainkorea319]

Bradley Dalton You're more southern than me so that one didn't work out for you did it?

[@woolzwoolz4429]

Kim Jong-John #1 Ultra in Korea Seems like life on the dole has its perks.

[@nordavind4036]

I'm quite glad now that my (foreign) mother told me off to go out and hang around and made me do my homework even though I hated it back then. Yes, we were poor but my parents insisted on education. I went to uni and now I have a stable well paid job and a family of my own. I pity those boys who obviously didnt have a good upbringing.

[@charliewardgames8678]

Notts, brum, manchester, wolves, Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin, everyone always forgets all the poverty going on here because they put all the helping shit into London, walk round just outside the centre of all these cities it's a mazza

[@uaintboutdatlife2473]

Liverpool lad better believe it

[@thealbion7988]

Londons a shit hole as well mate outside the city centre and middle class/rich areas look at all these gangs and stabbing in big estates

[@AK_AVFC]

@@thealbion7988 not as bad as people say it is, safe for a city with 9 million people

[@---xi7ev]

@@thealbion7988 london has been extremely gentrified compared to other parts of the uk.most of london’s notorious estates no longer exist

[@jahnj2523]

@@thealbion7988 not like brum mate. It mad here innit

[@maureentait8607]

I was brought up in a working class area in Leeds... But I got any job I could find. Cleaning, factory, hospitality.. I love hospitality it took me all around the world....

[@AuthenticMentalHealth]

'We have to do it ourselves now' isn't that what life is about? Doing it for yourself not expecting hand outs🙈

[@inkspots1323]

Authentic Mental Health people rely on those handouts cause they have nothing I’ve known people in England who just do the same as there family fail in life they never succeed in life I’ve seen year 7 kids smoke weed do cigarettes and drink alcohol. I’ve known people who overdosed on heroine about 4 months ago a guy I New is dead because of that and his parent are probably the same as he was. They always end up like there parents nothing for them except a free council house and some benefits which aren’t that much.

[@joeutm212]

Authentic Mental Health people who say that r posh boys who took hand outs of their rich parents

[@illford]

Authentic Mental Health if your 25-30 with no job you'd like the government to help

[@nikaymackenzie3692]

But what if there is notging to do?

[@marcrietveld7683]

Authentic Mental Health that’s what tax is for you dumb bag of shite

[@BA-uo1pq]

'White Privilege'

[@joshs8704]

Not needed.

[@staceylouise6482]

Saint Ayejax ! If you were born in the uk then these are OUR people who we should be taking care of, clearly living in poverty in a rich country. The fact you look down your nose on people who are not as fortunate as you is actually a reflection of YOU not them. Why don’t you put your hand in your pocket and help change somebody’s life. They are people who cannot change the fact they haven’t got any money or a home. Yet this country takes in immigrants like they’re going out of fashion when our own people are living like this. And to be fair I actually think mikey is a lovely caring guy who tries his best with the shitty cards he’s being dealt. Maybe you should try be a “saint” instead of talking about poor people like they are a piece of shit because if the area they live in!

[@K20rotrex]

These are not the white privileged members of society the privileged ones are off on gap years or traveling the world which is the biggest lazy excuse really. They can only do that because the have rich parents and a trust fund.

[@cnsmooth]

I think the comment was sarcastic. The term white privellege refers mainly to middle class people.

[@trump3075]

Stacey Louise commie skum!!

[@gaiusjuliuscaesar7761]

“I’m a land pirate and I’ve just stole your building. If you want it back, take me to court” - thats entitlement

[@dbsk06]

Lol thanks for the subtitles. even as a native English speaker I can’t understand what they’re saying

[@hjc9114]

I don't think this is a new thing, if you watch the film 'this is England' you can see the exact same problems.. Many people are forgotten, it's not because they're white or men, it's because they are poor

[@LeoHodges]

'This is England' is a great film! :) highly interesting.

[@asbo7654]

Like a scene out of clockwork orange in that underpass

[@artistaprimus7080]

That's exactly what I thought as well. Its surreal really.

[@lostsoul7136]

Most of them don't even want to work.

[@ellissamoses6083]

No human being should have to live like this in our so called civilized society.

[@tig3662]

The Uk used to the most civiizled country on the planet until we opened the flood gates and allowed our own people to get in such a mess in areas.

[@justray3518]

There is nothing civil anymore just the rich shitting on the poor

[@JW-hn5nt]

These people live a life of luxury next to others. Not everyone can be rich. Life is never going to be easy for everyone :/

[@bradysmith3024]

@@justray3518 the "poor" used to get along fine when they were all ethically English

[@Shnayblay]

Get a job then

[@THISISLolesh]

It's almost impossible to get a council flat nowadays, especially in London. You could have lived here your whole life & have all your friends, family everything here & the only chance you have is being moved somewhere far and away. But people who aren't from here have no problem getting one & are jumping out of disable permit cars without a problem wrong with them, funny that. Reading through the comments so many of you have lost your humanity it's embarrassing. Probably got stronger feelings for another persons pet than a human being and it comes from ignorance, you all pretend like you've been there and it's all about 'working hard' or 'blaming others' if anything it points to just how out of touch you really are.

[@3rk4u]

The social cleansing of London,clear out the riff raff.

[@borntohula]

+3rk4u There is a cleansing happening it seems. Who is being cleansed though?

[@georgehennon7781]

I am sorry but this is baloney. If you need cheaper housing get out of London and move to the North and then when you have earned the right to live in London you can move back if you like it so much. All of this whiffwaff about family and feelings is ridiculous make those short term sacrifices to benefit in the long term. This rompous pompous joke we call "poverty" is hysterical if you want to see real poverty take a trip to Cape Verde where the little children are shitting in the street and are actually in poverty. Living in the west from UK to USA if you are short term poor my heart goes out to you G-d bless you and I pray you get well soon. If you are long term poor no excuse whatsoever you are TERRIBLE with money. I have been working since I was year 10 at 14 years old where I washed dishes for a restaurant and even before that in my area I would offer to clean peoples car for them, wash windows, mow the lawn anything I could do. I know so many people now I am older who work their asses off and pay taxes for what? So people like this can keep living on free government assistance which decreases the incentive to work while they sell drugs on the street and have babies they cant afford to raise through having out of wedlock children? They have no goals and for anyone to ever help them they need to have the desire to help themselfs

[@georgehennon7781]

98raza20 they are prepared to live in those conditions because they know later on down the line they will be able afford to buy a proper house. As a Native I say majority of Brits are lazy and entitled who believe they should have the world at their feet because of their 15 year degree in lesbian dance theory

[@anthonyokenwa6024]

Don't rely on government housing free loader

[@mrjules2008]

It really pissed me off when he smirked at the guy for giving him 25p.

[@CallumSk8er]

yeah its better than nothing

[@jodeneny2252]

@@CallumSk8er What can you get for 25 p ? I think it was just desperation on his part, don't be too hard on him.

[@shak9558]

@@jodeneny2252 he's sat in one of the busiest areas in Manchester.. If 72 people gave him 25p he'd have enough to pay for a room.

[@alecgurney9305]

@@jodeneny2252 you can get a fredo

[@nickcc20]

Fredos used to be 10p

Clean it up boys. Fight what needs to be fought. Not the decent folks.

[@rewind12354]

Angela TraumaMama Women are the key to all this that’s why they are being targeted. They want white women to abandon white men.

[@tatterz__]

Darn the council is not doing anything for us *WhY dOn'T wE gEt KnIvEs AnD rUn RoUnD tHe StReEtS*

[@nohypenavaz7985]

I live in Manchester and I get chased all the time with people with knives on mopeds 🏍 it's crazy

[@LeoHodges]

If I were you, I'd run. I would run as far away as I could. Try, the countryside or a little town.

[@lmckennen8673]

A coward can only run for so long arm yourself up and stop expecting the spineless police to help you when they’ve got grooming gangs and pedophiles they would much rather protect

[@joecook5689]

I would want drugs if I was on the streets.

[@uttaradit2]

and deal em

[@matthewkolmer7546]

Get together. Get organised and get heard whatever it takes. Rise up..

[@richardnewton638]

Get educated get a job and get out of the benifits system is the only way out of poverty. Stop expecting free stuff, no one owes you shit ,once you understand that if you choose to be out of work and be uneducated then best chance you will get is small.

[@Kpot009]

@@richardnewton638 thank you!!

[@moesizlak2733]

@@richardnewton638 well said these people in the video think too much of themselves and are expecting to get stuff for free🤦🏾‍♂️

[@pooperscooper9176]

2019 ? And dear God we need more fighting spirit x

[@NymAM]

Back in school it was always kids like these that paid no attention in classes because they were "too cool to study"

[@moos2223]

even in the poorest and the most vulnerable communities in the third world, people still work to survive and save their dignity. what's happening here is "rich country's problem"

[@audioxix]

I can highly commend that comment. My fiance is Indonesian (I'm from Glasgow) everytime I go to Jakarta the place is amazing I mean it's a very rich city but it's also full of poverty and there i no social divide, you have gated communities and big mansions next to literally shacks and shanty towns. Yet the people in the Shanty towns don't run around in gangs or play victim, they do odd jobs, they do anything just to make ends meet. Just like my family done and raised me like also. We came from the most deprived areas in Glasgow and not once have I pissed about and moaned. I literally striven for my education because I knew if I fucked around in school I would become a product of my environment and end up like the lazy people I grew up seeing. After leaving school finding a job was hard but I kept at it until I got a break, I was out everyday searching, handing CV's, networking with people, talking to locals, talking to people in shops, on buses, literally everything I could do it find work and then after that the rest is history. Had to work in some horrendous jobs but it was money and it was survival. Now I'm in a decent job and living a steady life. I came from the gutter and managed to make a living. This video doesn't highlight real poverty and social issues, it highlights "rich country problems" like you said. Always wanting something for nothing. I bet all these people in the video would refuses a cleaning job if offered because they felt it was below them or they didn't want to do it as it wasn't glamours and then piss and moan that they are in poverty. The UK is horrendous and getting worse. It's true that the working class in Britain and the government are scum towards us always trying to keep us down, but these people in the video do not help themselves. Rather than sit around and complain get of your arse and go find work, any work and then work towards what you wish to become. It's a long and hard road but you just have to suck it up and get it done. You comments is so true mate, very true narrative on how the rich nations are becoming.

[@jokuihmehyyppa]

That's because there is work to do for anyone who isn't crippled. The situation is far different in the western world that has these simple jobs either transferred to 3rd world or just doesn't need them anymore. Can't compare someone going through trash to find something they can sell to someone who'd be arrested if they tried to go through trash.

[@RM-tj6ju]

Pffft get the fuck out of here claiming ethnic blacks/browns are any more hard working, you go to Paris, Milan or Berlin etc you will see Africans doing a whole lot of Fuck all on the streets all day long

[@mrseenitherefirst3383]

4:37 did I just see a parent with her 5 kids with 5 beers going to the party recipe for disaster that lord help me.

[@louisupton3740]

He died for your sins (Jesus Christ)

[@TVtwarn]

Using deprivation to cover up the fact you're breaking and entering to run a free party ...... How admirable

[@StarzzyJJASD]

Chris should be the poster boy for a dentist 😁

[@aneesaahmed211]

Working class means you work???

[@egnnyn5200]

Chris is a great speaker. Id keep on listening to him all day!

[@ProSwiss]

0:25 he"s high as a kite

[@_LilacRoses]

No sorry, I'm screaming. WHERE ARE THEIR PARENTS? What do you mean theirs nothing to do, sit at home, read your books, go to college and LIVE!

[@ffi1001]

Candy Mary-Ann parents are on crack or the bottle

[@jktm9441]

Candy Mary-Ann read books and live ? 😂🤦🏽‍♂️ jokeman

[@Anonymous-et7we]

J K T M she means gain knowledge from the books, get a good job and live life to the fullest with your dream job and money, that's what im doing right now!

[@anklz25]

fat slob glad too hear lifes good so your able too do these things.everyone doesnt have that

[@LoydAvenheart]

The parents are working 9 hours a day mate. 12 hours. Children are alone for so long in the day. I know how it is to fuck around in the street nothing to do no parents back home.

[@billyjones574]

Blame the tories, end of. Class work from these people ✅💯

[@user-Red5hield-exp0ser]

Tories are the lowest, but they get their instructions from above

[@user-Red5hield-exp0ser]

@BulletKingIsHere Correct. Head sheds of NATO and other organisations too. Cabalistic high level freemasonry and above. Incomprehensible to the majority. Beings on acute cognitive dissonance to most.

[@1nsurgent_860]

BulletKingIsHere Boris is a bullshitter and Corbyn is a socialist, so I don’t want either.

[@deniseg-hill1730]

Yes blame labour and conservative. I cant think of any government that has helped the white working class. Especially in the North. They were abandoned years ago. Where is the white privilege here.

[@aljack1979]

Blame new Labour also!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@panismith1544]

Yip been down that rd, homelessness, born from a mother who let me go as a baby luckily a English lady who had her own children read an article in a local paper about me & went down to the Orphanage & decided to take me & raise me...unfortunately I had deep issues with in me which has caused major problems in to my adult but now at 53 my adopted mother has passed on now but I have never forgotten about what she did for me... Rip Mum. "Like you said you didn't drag me up you raised me up"

[@freegiftcardglitch]

At least there is something good in this video 4:49

[@jhardworkpaysoff474]

Just study and open doors for your self

[@kevindurand7230]

How many tens of thousands of ex soldiers are homeless? No help for them but 50000plus Illegal Immigrants are currently being put up in 4-5star hotels, why is this?

[@vadimislearningguitar4977]

at least BBC3 did a documentary about them --------- that's not much - but it's something

[@stevenng4037]

Maybe try putting down the weapons and pick up a book.

[@elias_xp95]

These are the people we forget and brush aside to help the refugees.

[@andrewmurphy5310]

EnigmaOGN More brushed aside to give tax cuts for the rich.

[@elias_xp95]

Andrew Murphy Nonsense. Tax cuts benefit society. Taxation is theft.

[@andrewmurphy5310]

I would disagree, as in taxing is essential to provide public services. I think the rich should taxed more and the wealth better distributed. A good analogy I heard is that you can either drive down a potholed cracking road in a Rolls Royce. Or you can drive down a smooth road in a BMW.

[@t8506]

Pat Riot Take some responsibility and stop blaming "muh emmegrants"

[@patriot3079]

t dont you like the truth, its our country, we should come first

[@annahtarumbira76]

What total jokes. Why do people like blaming others for their failure? In this country so many jobs exist but some people are too lazy to either study hard for it or go out and look for one.

[@BRsalami]

Annah Tarumbira yessssss

[@RapidSteve]

Annah Tarumbira let me guess, because their white that means their issues are automatically dismissed. If they were black people would blame the "racist" employers and government. Easy to say they are lazy when you have never been in their shoes

[@cammro]

well someone didn't watch any of it, it's about how the local council doesn't open up their parks or centers, so that guy goes out to reclaim them, and you just assumed all of that, how about shut the fuck up kid

[@annahtarumbira76]

Rapid Steve totally wrong. I have been "in their shoes" because when i lived in north Manchester I couldn't even get a job at all until I was almost 20 when I moved down south. Can't just make an assumption based on my comment. I wasn't talking about the homeless people I was on about the young people that blame everything on the government. Some of these people don't want to go out and look for jobs I have seen it first hand mate. Can't involve race in this either because I know for a fact some people pick and choose which types of jobs they want. If you aren't properly qualified then there is no need to complain is there?

[@annahtarumbira76]

Camero56 I did watch all of it and I'm aware how the council works because I'm a tenant myself. My point was about those who pick and choose not to work. Your observation about my comment is wrong so before you say "shut the fuck up" ask what I meant!

[@harrisonbowers5654]

How is there a kid on a Segway then at 4:30 if if there’s nothing to do 😂🤦🏼‍♂️

[@kensyskye8965]

People can mock all they want but the truth is that there’s nothing more saddening, terrifying and dangerous than young men with nothing to lose! My son (working class)has gone on to do very well thankfully, but I had to fight every step of the way.....Sadly a lot of people just accept what is! Blaming and finger pointing does nothing to steer these young men in a positive and productive direction..😣

[@thomasnishantha4941]

Only thing these lads have forgotten is that YOU are in control of your own future.

[@tonycammie1269]

That would be the case with funds, but no funds you have no control over your life.

[@melanatedqueen]

@@tonycammie1269 they don't need funds to better themselves. They need desire. You can't buy that. They go to schl literally for free, jus turn up. Of coz not everyone is going to go to University granted, apprentices are there for all of those who want to be someone. Sitting and saying hello, I need more money has never helped anybody. Frm whatever city.

[@definitelynotcharlie4001]

@@melanatedqueen yea they can go to school but with what house to live and study in, what safe place to actually take in the information, what place where you aren’t exposed to drugs and deadbeat friends because they are the only people you can talk to because the rest of the world treats you like shit, the working class have it hard and it’s time Britain treat them like people

[@nl5455]

@@definitelynotcharlie4001 Those drugs and deadbeat friends will do more harm if they aren't cut off. Going alone is better then. Focus on your self. Push for your desires.

[@definitelynotcharlie4001]

@@nl5455 then what are you supposed to do cut your friends off while you starve and lose your social skills, aside from not having a place how are you going to nail an interview if you can barely get through a friendly conversation, I swear the attitude from most people on homeless people is either “starve” or “oh just get better without access to anything that would make you better”

[@lorrycamill941]

England must vote for Real English politicians not like Khan money for himself first ,England open your eyes

[@jak9483]

Unfortunately it is a very corrupt political system. The Muslims voted in Khan. Nearly every major British City now has a Muslim mayor and they speak to their people in Arabic. There are 33,000 Mosques in the UK. Muslims are a minority, the Mosques are a show of power often paid by tax free donations from Saudi etc. Let's hope the new Prime Minister will turn things around. The Jails are run by Muslims who have their own Mosques. The white men are either enrolled into Islam or suffer an unholy time in prison. To every American out there, Great Britain is roughly the size of Wisconsin and Illinois, it has over 90 million people.

[@lorrycamill941]

England must bring in Christian people that build Christian churches and that speaks English even Orthodox are better then Islam they have no hate ,the bible first priority and must be given in schools ,England must do the law Koran is 5000 years behind the bible children must knows this ,and the world must knows that woman are running away from there evil religion and why God Bless England

[@harrysalt5277]

@@agm3333 at least you know I have Jewish heritage and agree with what your saying

[@iamadam2011]

Why dont you get an education a job and change things instead of smoking weed drinking lager or visit cider and watching Jeremy Kyle ,now that jerk is off our TV's maybe you can read

[@ArifSensationEntertainments]

@@jak9483 There are so many errors in your statement that it is not even worth reading!! Firstly there are 66 million in the Uk not 90 millon, so only 24 million out. Khan is only the mayor of LONDON! This is in MANCHESTER! The reason why this country is at breaking point is because of the current goverment making massive funding cuts to all public services since 2010. This cut were not made by the Muslim population they were made by non Muslim men so stop using my community as a scapgoate for issues that are nothing to do with us!!

[@tristanmason7405]

The tricycle...I mean...The Bicycle Gang! 🤣😂😆💥💥 🚴

[@oo--7714]

Man I was 15 when I watched this, I'm now 18 and and considered an adult. This video imo is somewhat realistic though most of the poor don't live like this 70% of people which is practically the underclass that all live in the same shitty copypaste council houses in the uk aren't this messed up, though a portion around 30% are variously fucked.

[@radlightgamma4554]

The problem I have with modern mindsets is that it shifts blame away from individuals and places it on the state... The sad but realistic fact is you can throw money at these people but if they arent willing to improve their lives themselves, educate themselves etc then they wont change. I came from a single parent household in an ex-mining communuty in the North of England. I very easily could have ended up like these people just as many of my peers did at school but I knuckled down determined not to end up living like this - I haven't... I have a good job, my own home and travel around the world. The first bit of this video concentrates on a person hosting an illegal party with under age drinking, drug taking and causing an annoyance to the people who live around them... That isnt helping anyone... We are living in a society with all sorts of support out there for people both governmental and charity based but these people arent interested in bettering themselves. Its a very fluffy mindset to have this ideology that its the governments fault etc it isnt... These people need to learn to empower themselves as I and many others have done. Stealing peoples properties and branding yourself a 'Land Pirate' isnt fighting back at the system its theft... You're making victims out of people who do pay taxes, do knuckle down and work hard... The people who pay for the vast majority of services within this country including the NHS, Fire Brigade, Police, Education etc.

[@isntitj]

Tony Blair was right. Education education education.

[@sodaking6858]

One thing he didn't lie about eh

[@davemcmahon4045]

@@sodaking6858 the only thing bliar didn't lie about

[@sodaking6858]

@@davemcmahon4045 well at Least he will have something to reflect on when he's either on trial or in hell

[@uixmat]

Imagine if u went on Google and typed in "Jobs in Manchester"... the shock.

[@ukantifa9274]

Nothing for the working class, factories all closed, check out old Trafford, full of abandoned factories no longer in use, Bradford too, Birmingham, Rotherham, Rochdale you know the places

[@RustyOrange71]

Looks like everyone outside of Manchester and Liverpool have forgotten the 80's and the 90's. It looks exactly the same except there were more obvious common links between the northern cities and those in the south like London and Bristol.

[@theotryhard8651]

The music is so over dramatic, putting some kids playing around in slow mo like they’re dangerous criminals or something.

[@PxGamerHD]

Milley actually seems like an extremely intelligent person.

[@fuckffcunt3912]

The guy with the baseball bat doesn’t even want to hit the other guy he was purposely missing

[@krystingrant6292]

I understand their frustration it's like that over here

[@mokhan8815]

I grew up in a rough community surrounded by drugs guns violence,i worked hard now im a lawyer

[@jrp9879]

Mo Khan Congrats bro well done 💙

[@frankboothsedated.7054]

A lawyer that can't spell or use punctuation properly.

[@MegaPianogenius]

yes, probably not a lawyer probably a cleaner at the courts

[@masterdrunken6292]

sam333 It rhymes with lawyer but is spelt liar.

[@tommyatkins2527]

Mo Khan good for you well done true working class man

[@chrismill9896]

What a nerve: covering their faces! That's not allowed unless you have brown skin and look like a letter-box ! Then it's ok.

[@annemcniell6956]

😂😂😂

[@nikhilsuri99]

They should all be fined...it's only legally fair if there White right

[@laurencehutchinson8644]

@@nikhilsuri99 you mean its only leagal if they are black and muslim

[@peterpamlockwood]

thats called Black/ Muslim privileged

[@mogabriel5238]

@@peterpamlockwood where havent felt any why do you whites demonise us instead of fighting with us hey???

[@97I30T]

Angry men who feel disenfranchised are a very dangerous thing to society.

[@nomisvagabond139]

Where is the skatepark by the bridge ? Looks pretty good 👳 . .

[@hcn3651]

These young men need some kind of purpose. When they’re not driven to do anything they’re left creating chaos to get their voices heard and it breaks my heart. So much potential suppressed by people who don’t understand nor care (and I don’t mean just the government)

[@ShadowyFigure83]

Thats not how you sharpen a machete with a baseball bat....Amateuts!

[@gayannppc9554]

I'm Canadian and feel the same. Working poor. I should be retired but will have to work until I die. Canada did have a middle class. Now it's rich or poor.

[@richardnewton638]

There wont working class. Some areas in the uk have had this culture since the 70s of benifits, would get out of bed for that and I'm entitled to it. Now three generations of them occupy whole housing estates and this is what you get. I grew up in an area like this and the same people are there now as then theres just a lot more of them.

[@ConnorPriday]

This is why an education is important.

[@moredogsplease5584]

Forgotten, because they have done nothing worthy of remembrance

[@TheTaterTotP80]

Like 99% of humanity. We live to die. So try and do universally good things instead of playing into the system.

[@radlightgamma4554]

TheTaterTotP80 The system has created everything you likely take for granted. I know its seen as edgy to fight the system but when we are now living 40+ more years than our forefathers ever did, have access to modern healthcare, clean water, electricity etc that system is whats keeping us in this very comfortable lifestyle... Pay into the system and be thankful you were born in a time when it existed.

[@AkkarisFox]

no radish I will not stand while diminishing expectations are shoved down my throat. that is what a dictator says to his slaves...

[@AkkarisFox]

you take for granted all the cushy things yourwealth can afford. you take for granted that several hundred thousand dollars keeps making money if you sit on it. but what does 25 bucks in this world make? nothing.

[@radlightgamma4554]

Zeno Nexus Again... What kind of life do you think your forefathers had? What diminishing expectations? The world owes you NOTHING... If you want something you must EARN IT... You're going on about slavery and dictatorships but you're freely commenting to an audience of millions on KZbin, sat in a warm home with access to some of the best services known to mankind. You ARENT a victim... Stop portraying yourself as one. You are apart of the luckiest and most looked after generation to ever grace this planet - this is all thanks to the stability government and technological progression has brought us. Again, you aren't a victim...

[@SyndicateBastard]

Ayo chavs, I read an article that UK fields are missing workers from EU so veggies might get rotten, you can go and do it.

[@jayjospeh4003]

Who else reads the subtitles, and reads no what your hearing 😂😂💨

[@booldawg]

Mikey = Salt of the Earth.

[@jiggajigjones8210]

Make no mistake...these men will save us. For Europe!

[@scott6504]

God, I hope so!

[@joecook5689]

What do you mean?

[@coreywilliams1454]

"can't get a job" If you spent less time hanging about on a street corner, you might be able to get a job. Hell if you really can't get one, go join the Foreign Legion.

[@TheTaterTotP80]

That's a great alternative to unemployment, go fight and die for France.

[@yorkyleefairbank]

I was in the foreign legion and its a hard life but they wouldn't just take anyone on you have to do mental, and physical tests. Its not easy only 1 in 35 get in but I can't knock you for trying

[@largosdad8787]

Corey Williams FACTS

[@Matthewgriffiths18]

Not easy to get a job there is like 10 jobs for idk ICT or somet like that , for like 100 people on job sites

[@emeraldibis7510]

@@Matthewgriffiths18 I was living in Manchester from 2015 - 2016, and it seemed like virtually every restaurant and shop had 'staff needed' signs in the windows. I'd left by the time this video was made but I doubt there was such a dramatic change in the space of a year.

[@terrymullins9772]

This is an intelligence free zone

[@steveharvey7602]

Education is free, check what there grades are, and how many days they've missed

[@MrTrickymex]

Born in 84, raised in a council estate in east London. I have zero education, literally not a single GCSE. Have worked hard all my life and have a senior management job with loads of benefits. I’m paid a lot more than the national average and own a house in a nice area. I have 3 cars and savings. I’m in the process of starting my own business. These idiots are full of excuses. You have all the opportunities you need to succeed, stop blaming everyone else for your failures and work for your success

[@dreamweaver7797]

“In a squat I get a warm safe dry place”..why don’t you get a warm safe dry job mate

[@kurtis8583]

Cuz employers don't want a homeless person working for them?

[@mrangler1782]

Easy for a woman to say

[@StarzzyJJASD]

Because when your working with the public your required to smile lol 😁 and chris will scare them away

[@LeeReed1002]

The shots of the kids kicking each other or dressed up like gangstas with bats and knives to sinister music sure doesn't give off the wrong message.

[@colincox1716]

They need so show their anger at the doors of the BBC as Gary Lickarser and his mates walk in !

[@jeremyjackson8196]

As if they been swept off to the side to make room for a another group

[@user-tn7kl3sq2r]

what group exactly ?

[@jasminebali8068]

@Kate Johnson Oh you mean working girls in the worlds oldest profession! Bet the money they earn for their East Euro pimps goes aboard! While they are locked in their small rooms!

[@kimjongun3897]

I bet these mans are the type to go to a job interview wearing hoodies and track suits. These fools just claim benefits all day erday.....

[@sukhbirdhillon2102]

hilarious that they call themselves working class, seen more effort from homeless people collecting cans lmao

[@S-North]

@@sukhbirdhillon2102 They, their families were and are working class, their family historys are working class. They have every right to consider themselves working class. It's just that when industry was sold off in the UK , huge districts and regions found themselves in a dire situation as the areas around them degraded and slid into poverty. Thus various consecutive governments ignored the issue. The flooding of remaining work places with cheap foreign labour and now huge influxes of 3rd world economic migrants coming in and claiming welfare has made the situation much much worse. Think, before you comment, the UK is getting sick and tired of comments from privileged protected groups of people.

[@mcfcok1748]

Announces ‘Manchester’ about 50 seconds in then proceeds to show footage of Salford

[@randomperson2606]

This reminds me of the northern town I grew up in. It’s sad. I want to go back and help but I don’t know how or even where to start.

[@danielfay]

There's thousands of people every year that come out of these areas doing absolutely fine in their lives. Poor parenting and then failing to take responsibility for themselves when they become adults is the problem with these guys.

[@paulieheydrich9772]

Why does the UK government help all these other ppl who aren't even from there? same in America we give all these ppl who don't even like us billions while my father can't retire and has sht' health insurance

[@WHUFC71]

My ex wife divorced me at the end of may. I lost everything. I had nowhere to go so I've been living out of my car. These kids just want to cause trouble. Expect the council to give them housed and won't work for the money.

[@sitluxetluxfuit4481]

A working class hero is something to be.

[@atifrashid2338]

Feel like white working class men are being labeled a bit here, it happens in all cultures and races. Even educated people, are struggling to find work in this day and age.

[@traceyculyer5811]

So true. Even middle class can fall into this situation.

[@alecbrady6901]

People think they are entitled to government help. We can't afford it! We can't afford to give you a great life! You have to work with the system. You can go to uni, there are bursaries in place. There are free colleges. Research and study and get jobs. Don't think you are entitled to free money

[@TheTaterTotP80]

They are from WORKING CLASS families. Their families have paved the way for the systems we have in place, but they get none of the benefits while the middle and upper class reap the rewards. Large scale immigration of people who have never paid into the system or had a hand in creating it are given priority over families who have been here for generations and helped cultivate the society we live in. They DO deserve help from the government because, more often than not, they come from family backgrounds that helped create the systems we have in place TO help. But they don't get that help. Also, going to Uni will leave you in massive debt, it's not a very good idea unless you have a career already in mind that will leave you on the up, otherwise you're just indenturing yourself to the Government even more than benefits does. Secondly, my mother used to work two jobs, but made less doing that than she does on benefits. What incentive is there to work when you can sit on your arse and make enough to maintain yourself, albeit frugally?

[@FeaturedMods]

TheTaterTotP80 Are you stupid? Research the history of Britain, you invaded their countries FIRST. Now they return the favour.

[@AbdulKhan-sm2xw]

TheTaterTotP80 even if the government prioritised non whites, what's that got to do with white people not doing good enough to get a good job? If the parents really cared they would help their children go through school go uni and get a good job, although uni cost you can get loans and pay off the debts slowly, stop trying to blame other people

[@anklz25]

Abdul Khan u sound quite privileged mate

[@alecbrady6901]

You can go to uni with bursaries from the uni which will not make you have so much debt. Also the debt is only paid according to your salary. It's never a worry because it's based off of how much you earn.

[@ninoloso]

There are lots of Government intervention to help people out there... but sometimes it seems like they don't want to be helped.

[@beaverone3837]

If there's one lesson that should be taught in schools. Then it should be that the world does not owe you anything no matter where or how you are born. As to people that say it's the governments/councils fault. How many of them actually bothered to attend council meetings or even go out and vote?

[@user-Red5hield-exp0ser]

I disagree. I have worked hard to get where i am. But, the reality is, council's and government only care about themselves and the bosses. Make no mistake about it. I've never let them make me give in. It's easy to quit your job, but it's not easy to pay for your mortgage and all other bills, alongside dress smartly and have the superifcial things that relate to a normal life, if you quit your job. Its also not easy when the cost of living and inflation rises constantly, but wages don't balance it out, unless you're a banker, politician or something where it's a "Boys club" so to speak. One rule for them, and the rest of us get the scraps, alongside from financially raped with Tax. So I don't know where you're living, but it certainly aint in the real world.

[@mrswolf3084]

@@user-Red5hield-exp0ser Spot on! yes the world owes humans shelter and basic necessaties no one is asked to be born! even wild animals build themselves some sort of shelter yet when humans do it it is mostly torn down and made very hard to do so! voting is an illusion that you have a choice if it made a difference they wouldn't let people do it! old dinosaur ways of thinking will soon be obsolete as I imagine new ways of living will be tried out and progress will happen slowly where people wont have to starve or suffer cruelty of being without shelter, who an earth would want that for someone else? thats insanity to me!

[@blackacidgaming5672]

Ripe for a revolution. Wish i could lead it

[@jazzyg8999]

Black Acid Gaming YES A REVOLUTION

[@oldgitsknowstuff]

You would be killed in the rush to lead a revolution. See how the Left have infiltrated every aspect of English life and values. Education, Local authorities, Benefits agencies, Police and Media. Everywhere you go there's another bloody man hating woman whose spiteful, venomous and pissed with her own power and self importance she's practically climaxing at the thought of her next white male victim asking for support. Perhaps they'll all catch horrible, disfiguring, embarrassing and fatal desease. One lives in hopes.

[@1nsurgent_860]

Fred Bloggs mate he’s talking about destroying all of that.

[@marthab-c5226]

Fred Bloggs piss of mate. We’re lead by a right wing government who support cuts on benefits for the normal people and cuts on taxes on the rich.

[@allpraisetogodmylordandsav5255]

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[@hannahclyma8016]

Am I meant to feel bad for them or sympathise? I get to an extent some of what they say, but their behaviour makes me cringe. Nothing really justifies their lack of sanity.

[@ftmsafc5537]

have you ever had to live one hard day in your life.? They are just bored young lads with no hope for the future so what if their behaviour makes you cringe you are a typical snob.I must say though, as tough as their life is i know rougher and tougher areas than this in North East England. These lads in Manchester are not bad lads they are just trying to survive and make community life better, fair play to them , give the lads a break man.

[@georgehennon7781]

Honestly people like this in the North put a bad name on everyone else. I am 16 and I spend my weekends playing a good game of cricket and enjoying cigar & wine gatherings. Lets move everyone like this and get them arrested

[@thevaultdwellerf6691]

Banzingo NE you are 16 and smoking cigars while also drinking wine? You sure you are 16?

[@georgehennon7781]

TheVaultDweller f I believe so, I was born 16 years ago but then again who knows? With all this transgender popinjay I could be transage or whatever wiffwaff you could call it and may be a 60 year old man who 'identifies' as a bloody 16 year old boy

[@thevaultdwellerf6691]

Banzingo NE Haha. I identify as a pansexual, genderfliud, non binary, 10 year old black Muslim child ... *is a 40 year old white male* GIMME MY BENEFITZ

[@kccox8516]

BBC should be questioning politicians; what are they going to do for the working class? Provide good jobs for men and women that want to work and provide for their families. God bless these people and direct there paths.

[@FordSierraIS]

ocean wisdom 08:43 ?