Blackpool: Sun, Sea & Spice

Recently I visited Blackpool for the first time since many trips as a young boy. On return to the seaside resort, I couldn’t believe what I seen. Behind the bright lights of the sea front, is a the dull back streets of harsh realities!

[@rossseed1451]

Thank you for putting this out, lived and worked in blackpool for most of my adult life and it's a very tough place to be. I hope these videos raise awareness and help these people in some way. Cheers and all the best!

[@andrewbleasdale790]

I was born here 1970 and the changes I've seen truly gut me

[@MegaMoe63]

How does this bullshit help anyone? It is bullshit Blackpool is what you make it, if you want to drink and drug yourself to death thats your bag do not blame Blackpool for your failings. All this click bate does is harm Blackpool, people see this BULLSHIT and don't want to come to Blackpool then there is no jobs for people.

[@ianstewartorr8455]

@@MegaMoe63well said that goes for other U.K. places too

[@5threelborn]

@@MegaMoe63 Was you born in Blackpool ? And do you claim any benefits ?

[@MegaMoe63]

@@5threelborn Have worked ALL my life, 50 years in employment!! :) There is work for people who seek it hard enough!!

[@darynsax]

I used to love Blackpool in the 80s but sadly after about 15 years gap we eventually went back and what a shock. Blackpool always looked scruffy to me but the atmosphere was amazing, a truly spectacular place for fun but now I wouldn't even think of going back. One shock was the fairground wanting to charge you just for walking around what a mistake, my wife and my mate used to go on the rollercoasters whilst myself and my mates wife had a pint in the fairground pub this time non of us went in. When I look back at the photos of the good times we had and look at the place now I feel so sorry for the people that live there. We used to stay all weekend, go on coach trips for the day hell we used to jump in the car and drive down on a Sunday for a wander around the fairground and have a doughnut all the way from South Tyneside. RIP Blackpool

[@oddities-whatnot]

Good post that. You are 100% correct about the place. Sadly through work ive seen the arse end of the place, cheap property but no wonder.

[@Our.lad.co.Lynne999]

I've only been to Blackpool once in 1980 it was a typical beautiful English seaside town then we got ripped off for glow in the dark bracelets but they are everywhere now.

[@A2Z1Two3]

The U.K. homeless should camp outside the immigrant hotels right across the country to highlight their plight .

[@sonsofblackwoodmc4570]

Stupid stupid person. Immigrants are not the cause of homelessness. Do yourself a favour and go read some books that don't have pictures in them. Or keep blaming innocent people suffering something you could never imagine, whilst those actually causing homelessness continue to feck us all over.

[@Alien_O1]

Should camp outside downing Street.

[@krude-ck3wy]

Or maybe they should have got jobs and paid rent instead of making themselves homeless. People should be held accountable for their own actions and stop looking for hand outs.

[@23bit76]

​@krude-ck3wy what an original, informed and constructive view point ...we thank you for your contribution to others 🙏

[@krude-ck3wy]

@@23bit76 it's not a point of view, it's facts!

[@Notapizzathief]

So I know most of these people, I'm from Blackpool, and I've been homeless in Blackpool as a rough sleeper myself, and let me tell you what pisses me off. The ONLY time half the people I had a conversation with seemed to 'care' about me is when they were using homeless people to bash the refugees living in the Metropole hotel. Don't get me wrong, I was I had been given a hotel by the council. I wish we were helping our own people. But if I'm homeless in this country I have options: I can go to the food banks, I can go to emergency shelters if there are space, and I could shoplift food if I had to. There are people who could give me spare change. Those poor people living in that hotel, the ones people love to frame as somehow dangerous - if they go home then they have absolutely nothing because nobody has anything. There are no shelters. There is no food to steal. There is no spare change to be given. Usually the only jobs available are those extracting minerals to make phones for rich western countries or shit like that. I'm so sick of people pretending to care about the homeless when really all they're trying to do is be racist. Being homeless sucks. It fucking sucks. But it's a lot easier here than it would be in some other countries. There are 7 empty buildings in the UK for every homeless person - the problem isn't refugees, it's the government and it's the greed capitalists who won't help unless they can make money off it.

[@guessooTube]

So you're saying these people ( regardless of their motivations , or the fact they could be a religious extremist or whatever ) "If they go home they have absolutely nothing" So that entitles them to what we have here ? please just clarify that one point for me.

[@TheEx3rgj]

The good times are never coming back, those days are gone for good. I loved Blackpool as a kid in the sixties and seventies, the streets and houses we’re so different then it was packed with people and a thriving town. So sad.

[@JohnnyWaterbucket]

Believe me, its not just Blackpool that is like this. There are dozens of towns and cities like this now, especially in the North. This country is on the ropes and desperate beyond words for a new direction not just with this type of thing but everything.

[@ezedjay]

I remember Blackpool in the 70's/80's. Was a nice place back then. Looks the same but dirty now.

[@kayjay12465]

Blackpool is my home town I grew up here and it was amazing in the. 70s 80s 90s. I left 20 years ago now and I went back home about 8 years ago and I was shocked and upset at how run down it was. Both my children were born and raised here but sadly I'm glad to say they are not living there anymore. Blackpool people are the nicest people you could wish to meet and it's so sad to see the councils running this once great seaside town into the ground.the people don't deserve this! Blackpool will always be home to me and I miss the way it used to be, but I could never live there again. 😢😢

[@tubedoode2345]

I was in Blackpool recently for a weekend and was appalled by how this once famous resort had deterioted. Last time here was in the 80,s and today is no comparison. We stayed in Norbreck castle which looks well from the outside but a dump inside. They even tried to sue us for illegal parking after we left. That's another story. We will never return or recommend this once wonderful resort to anyone. The atmosphere in this deprived place speaks volumes.Regarding homelessness and immigrant housing ,this problem is not unique to Blackpool. A lot of the homeless have other mental and addictive issues whereas the immigrants do not. I believe this to be a factor in immigrants getting first preference. Thank you for this informative and applicable video of Blackpool.

[@user-jy8mo5fi5q]

My parents moved us as a family to Blackpool in 1958 when it was a vibrant holiday town. The high school I attended had only opened the year before and spent many happy years at school and working in and around Blackpool. My job took me away from Blackpool in the late 1960's to other parts of Lancashire and then in the 70's elsewhere. Almost all of my relatives who lived in Blackpool have either past away or living elsewhere. So I have not been a regular visitor for the past 40 yrs. It breaks my heart to see what the town has become

[@richardmarshall4322]

I live in nearby St Annes on Sea and yes Blackpool is suffering. The problem is a high percentage of poor and homeless who arn't from the town. Many have come and decided to doss here. I am sure if most left and went back home it would improve the situation. Now we have an influx of immigrants. No point keep blaming the authorities. People need to take responsiblity for themselves. Its not just Blackpool. Its all over Britain. Its becoming a shit tip.

[@jaylondon8354]

What happened before Immigrants, homeless was still an issues. Majority of homeless is caused by excess alcohol, drugs, some cases divorce, domestic violence.

[@medusa8772]

Also , those with a mental illness ,homeless, through no fault of their own, unlike the drug addicts and alcoholics who have made those choices

[@runehawkwood]

Putting immigrants first has hardly helped the situation...

[@munaali840]

They have tried to help, the degenerates from everywhere are dumped there. There needs to be jobs and the surrounding areas need to look after their own addicts. Mandatory rehab needs to be implimented

[@donfranktv]

It's sad to see the homeless being forgotten about in this country.

[@garywayell7211]

Leave our own on the streets,come to england on a boat from france get a 5 star hotel food, clothing,money. Does anyone else think that this Government has its priorities in order

[@wooliewoollard]

totally agree gary,trying to get a home from the local council is impossible if your a native from uk

[@trickyuk386]

As a kid in the eighties blackpool was a highlight day trip.. Christ i wudnt take my kids there!!!

[@vinstyles]

Oh so sad. I went to Blackpool with my new wife in 1980 on our honeymoon from Dublin and it was wonderful and beautiful. So sad....

[@paulbrodie6085]

A nation wide boycott of the council tax for a couple of months would maybe make the council take notice

[@vaultboy101bailey3]

Afternoon all, I just wanted to impart my two cents. I have 6+ years professional experience as a Homeless Outreach Worker, it is my job to locate people rough sleeping, support them into housing, and making sure via welfare checks that they are alive each day. Homeless services and housing provision have not been funded to meet the need ever prior to when I began and to this day. Our budgets are smaller every year. Whilst poverty and the hoarding of more and more wealth at the top of society contributes to more and more people sleeping on the street. This neglect by our government started BEFORE any asylum seeker or economic migrant was placed in a hotel- this is a fact. I am now seeing more and more refugees rough sleeping because the home office typically now gives them 7 days notice to leave once their paperwork is processed. Can you imagine that for just one moment? We have people who have had no parents due to war, who have been unaccompanied minors since they were barely teenagers, who upon being told ‘You can start a new life here’ are also told ‘you are homeless in 7 days’. Please please can we direct our frustration at the government who create these conditions not the vulnerable people who end up on the street? Peace ✌🏽

[@vaultboy101bailey3]

PS to the chap who runs this channel- my respect to you for giving vulnerable people a voice, and producing empathetic open minded informed videos 😊👌🏽

[@AdikiaMedia]

@vaultboy101bailey3 Thank you sir I appreciate that. Maybe you could come and talk on my channel sometime about your experiences working with homeless?

[@ericshaun6078]

Spare us the lefty propaganda about them being war refugees... If you can't see a correlation between the 10m a day or whatever the gov spends on these newcomers (mostly young men) and less money for British people (yes including ethnics) then...bless.

[@paultilly]

About time we all voted for reform and get rid of this 2 party system that has failed for years and years

[@jasonbarron3047]

Reform are just as bad as tories in fact the tories are a right wing party now

[@janettemarsden3713]

I totally agree with that. I have been trying to vote Labour and Conservative for years

[@callthebigman]

I'm Scottish, went there in 1981 and it was a magical place and wonderful holiday, sad to see the state it's in now.

[@MikeHarrisHazchem77]

I will always love Blackpool. The way it has gone is so sad. I'm still going to go as soon as I can.

[@kayjay12465]

I grew up in Blackpool it's my home town. I moved away 20 years ago now ,but when I went home again after about 8 years I could not believe what a dump it had turned into. The councillors are happy spending money on the infrastructure of Blackpool but nothing else. Immigrants are definitely treated better than our own people.....

[@hmq9052]

That might be because migrants can work. Wheras this lot don't look they could even be at a job on time let alone do a days work

[@jj68]

I grew in Blackpool also. During the 80's 90's it was a great place to be a kid. After my parents passed I met a lady and moved away in 05. It is such a shame what has become of Blackers. I only return now to visit my folks in Carlton Crem... The magic has gone.

[@dominicturner77]

Same here. Its my home town. I left 20 yrs ago.

[@kayjay12465]

​@@hmq9052migrants are not allowed to work.

[@70sboy62]

Just really sad, I remember being a young child and my parents taking me here in the early 70s my anticipation / excitement was unbelievable, they had saved up for weeks for there annual holiday in Blackpool, my dads highlight was wearing his best suit and visiting the Tower Ballroom now this, they would turn in there graves.

[@karenchance6098]

Mine too. It was a magical place. Going there in the 60’s as a child was wonderful. Seeing the decay now over the years is heartbreaking.

[@salvadormarley]

We used to go there on holiday as a kids in the Seventies. We would have one night at the pleasurebeach and the next night in the club for our parents, Alternate nights so it was fair. Really great times.

[@juneseghni]

I was born and brought up in Blackpool but I left when I was 18 to to go to university in the early 80s. It breaks my heart to see it like this.

[@MarcoMercado-ps1yl]

Well I'm cancelling my vacation to Blackpool

[@johnthomas9259]

It has lost its way. It once used to boast THREE railway stations to cope with the demande of holidaymakers, now it has one and a bit. My first hotel holiday was Blackpool and that building has been demolished ( The Balmoral Hotel/Argosy ) Hotels knocked down everywhere now and others stand boarded up and empty. The rest looks SHABBY at best. Nothing but a cess pit, to be honest. I'd say Blackpool has a problem, then I look around every town and city in Britain and see the same. The disease is within us all and especially made worse by that brought from abroad. We have a nation of slobs, who gaze at their mobiles all day, which is why everything is falling to bits.

[@bradleycooper1609]

Mother England mothers every one except it's own 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🧐

[@scottking869]

Thats weird cause i have quite few friends that are british and dont work at all and sponge of the goverment 😂

[@Heaven-dy9lj]

You're right. Knew Blackpool back in 97, and you could see it getting worse over the yrs. It's like there's a front, to front the hidden degradation behind. Some serious investment, for all the people living there, instead of tourism and boat peeps.

[@billywin2289]

Every Town is same nowadays,easy to walk round with a camera filming all bad bits. Blackpool also has its good bits too and am from Bolton. Am actually going Blackpool Sunday and booked 2 nights in Blackpool for the new year.

[@dandlion7748]

Why do they keep us like this..run by extremely clever people who've had the finest education in the world ..and still this is their best..hundreds of years of having all the money in the world..all the power to make all the laws and this is their best..this is what they have achieved.. this is their vision.. change must come.

[@michaelharrison3602]

I can understand somebody winding up on the streets it happened to me but 27 years you must be doing something youself.ive been a Heroin addict, crackhead alcoholic and convict but after a few years i thought "fuck this im not helping myself so knocked all that crap on the head ;wasn't easy but definitely worth it .haven't touched smack ior crack in twenty years. Haven't been homeless or in prison in that time either. What a coincidence

[@AdikiaMedia]

Keep going mate that’s brilliant 👏🏻

[@brantnuttall]

everyone can make mistakes. it's how you deal with them that matters. Really well done and best wishes to you!

[@stephenholmes1036]

​@brantnuttall introduce me to anyone whp hasnt made a mistake

[@brantnuttall]

@@stephenholmes1036 indeed so, including me on far more than 1 occasion. who, not whp btw. lol

[@tattyshoesshigure5731]

Been to Blackpool many times for work over the years & it’s always appeared to be a bit of a khazi. Strange thing is if you drive south along the coast road for a short distance you enter a pleasant parallel universe once you pass under the ‘Starr Gate’ - a place called Lytham St Anne’s!

[@angiedougan]

It's over our country is gone forever 😢

[@user-sc5xu6hc1n]

Was there in September for an overnight stay to see Funny Girls. That was great but the town is grim. I remember it as a young child in the early sixties..what a wonderful place it was then.

[@herecomesthemoney1220]

I grew up in Bournemouth, was a lovely place but now the center is slowly becoming like this, lots of druggys, alcoholics etc You do not feel safe walking around there at night.

[@charliekarting3401]

All life is equal, let the homeless in the Hotels too!

[@PaulHipToBeSquareAllen]

The government don’t get paid to house our own people.

[@northernpickers]

lived here all my days! and nothing has got better apart from the unaffordable new houses! polluted sea! polluted streets and polluted minds running the job! Progress!

[@deanbembridge8640]

I agree with the young lady in the tent ,, why are these people denied help but immigrants get everything the government and the council have totally got there priorities wrong

[@Astucious]

So sad to see Blackpool like this as I have memories of happy holidays there when I was a child back in the sixties. It makes me angry to see my fellow countrymen/women being sidelined in favour of illegal immigrants who are here to take as much as we will give them whilst they are also a threat to national security.

[@peteraustin4077]

There's no money in it for Local Authorities to help the poor British, but it's a cash cow for gimmegrants!

[@duraosunda]

Gimmegrants is great!!

[@johnbirch6365]

That guy shaking like a shitting dog needing his hit and you asked him how's your mental health 😭🤣😂

[@andrewpowell9159]

It's such a shame as people only see the first few back streets in and around the prom. You walk for ten mins towards whitegate drive heading up to Stanley park, the houses are amazing. Stanley park was voted best park in UK a couple of years ago. We moved from Londonistan a few years back and being close to park it's great. Free concert's,shows etc ,good local bars , restaurants. So not all bad .

[@tonywebster8311]

it's my home town, yes it's got problems and a Council that gets lots of money to house problem families from out of town..... all this does is add to the ongoing problems of low paid jobs, high unemployment, drugs and alcohol. Not all of the Fylde Coast is a shit hole, definitely not. The surrounding area are quite affluent.

[@janetagbugblah8127]

I agree. This video shows a small area of Blackpool where there are problems with drunks, druggies and down and outs but the hard working people of Blackpool have to fund these people as we pay some of the highest council tax in the UK.

[@Fuzzmo147]

@@janetagbugblah8127 True…. I’m sick of paying for the illuminations every year, pointless

[@MrMagoo-hf8yk]

The Salvation Army do a FANTASTIC Job with what they Have!.. I lived with them in a Few Cities when I was homeless, they Fed us.. Clothed us where possible..and tried to put a Roof over our Heads in the Colder times and Christmas was a real Joy to spend there tbh.. Fantastic People, I couldn't Praise them Enough tbh.❤

[@stephenholmes1036]

They help everyone regardless

[@MrMagoo-hf8yk]

@@stephenholmes1036 Like I say... Fantastic People who're just trying to Help!.. They Genuinely helped Me...MANY times, I couldn't praise them enough tbh.

[@jimmythemac869]

I used to work in Blackpool, Traveling from Manchester everyday. anyone could do the job just nobody local wanted to do it.

[@davidwilliams7654]

I definitely agree with what that young lady was saying immigrants get more help then our own British subjects this homeless problem has been going on steadily since the 80s when Margaret Thatcher became prime minister everything's gone down Hill ever since don't forget we've had the same government in for 36 years if that is not dictatorship time for a change

[@davidwilliams7654]

We've gone right back to the Victorian era where the landowners aristocracy and monarchy have got rich of Margaret Thatcher's sell-off in the 80s and things of gradually just got worse and worse and worse for the working classes

[@kelvincarr6172]

Am 60 now have had some great times in blackpool

[@PlasticGirl65]

200 people homeless is nothing compared to Brighton that has 2.5k. I moved to Blackpool from Brighton and it's much better here than Brighton. The people of Blackpool are also much friendlier than Brighton.

[@curtisducati]

So true , I used to go Brighton a lot years ago , now a changed place and ran by the Russian mafia who run all the pubs and clubs , those 6ft 5 blokes as security guards are mafia , very dangerous place now , Blackpool is 100% better .....

[@lynnedelacy2841]

So so sad seeing my home town like this

[@Englishsea24]

I feel sad about it and I don't even live anywhere near it. It seems like it could be such a great place. I had thoughts about visiting not so long ago, but I recently changed my mind sadly

[@paulcritchley464]

Look after your own first Cheers have a great day

[@jamesarmitage8399]

1.45...lass hit the nail on the head!! Charity begins at home not to all the immigrants, dingy people etc!!

[@DaveBeaven-tx2tp]

Totally agree.

[@ianwhitehead691]

Some of them don't want to pay Rent, Council tax, Gas/Electric, They just want to spend there money/Benefits on drink or smack/crack. I had a friend just like that, He made himself homeless.

[@samjohns3227]

With a minority it is a lifestyle choice

[@pjsmith2744]

Really like your videos mate. Keep up the good work your highlighting a problem that most people ignore.

[@davidrobert9555]

CORRECTION required here.... The local council WILL house these people in temporary accommodation. HOWEVER, the person housed needs to be CLEAN, I.e.off drugs and drink. Who's fault is that!

[@zizzyballuba4373]

its the same story in cities all over the world

[@Adulthumanmale]

Not if you are a single male or don’t have children family’s top of the list couples next then single people they might offer you a hostel for the night but they absolutely don’t just put you in temporary housing unless you are very lucky. I’m a single male was told by the local council could take up to 3 years for temp accommodation no drugs don’t drink so can’t blame that.

[@wilfulsprite555]

@@Adulthumanmale Correct. And that is the issue with regard to the immigration issue - the council *does* have a legal obligation to house them, where they don't have one to house single locals.

[@wilfulsprite555]

There is no legal obligation to house single British people with no dependents unless they have a mental health issue or something else that classes them as vulnerable.

[@Joe_Peroni]

At 1:30- a homeless person's tent. Immediately previous to this we went down a street filled with VACANT houses. So why aren't the homeless being accommodated in THESE?

[@Joe_Peroni]

@@ROBERTTONUS Bastards. Britainistan is ruled by criminals who are helping criminals.

[@Joe_Peroni]

@@thesaxon2266 Spoken just like an AMERICAN. Where homelessness is "your own fault" and where, obscenely, there isn't even a PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM. I could understand this if America was just a little busted-ass sh*thole of a country. A recent chart I saw was headed: "Number of people who lost their homes because of medical bills last year": Australia 0, Japan 0, Netherlands 0, UK 0, USA 540,000. As for the empty homes just deteriorating in that street, those should be OCCUPIED. No one in a civilised country should be forced to live in a TENT.

[@user-oh1wm4hs3y]

Row a boat five minutes out then row back in…..house car and all the benefits…..there ya go

[@eddieobrien1411]

Levelling up has been a huge triumph

[@2MSecurity]

girl in blue Hoody, you are not wrong. I was refused housing help because I apparently did not have a local connection despite having a daughter who lived with her mother in the area while I was moved out of homeless hostel. apparently they do not become a local connection until they are over 18 and then they will find another excuse not to help you. Good luck my heart goes out to you

[@philcollinson328]

Cheap package holidays to the sun started UK seaside town's demise from the early 70's onwards. 50 years on and this is the result.

[@PaulDuckworth88]

Shout out to the veterans standing protecting our veteran statue's in Blackpool. Major love and respect. ❤

[@guessooTube]

Well said mate.

[@PaulDuckworth88]

@@guessooTube top man

[@PaulDuckworth88]

Im Supprised I have not started a full blown argument @bill6678

[@guessooTube]

@@PaulDuckworth88 Yeah i find theres a fine line , i dont like arguments in RL or On line but some things need to be said or fought for. But anyway give em time , the student union bars probably started kicking out by now.

[@kellydavid8328]

They never think of us British at all.

[@ruth_southernstar]

Thank you for sympathetically putting this together. How sad

[@kurthill7030]

Said this why are British people having to sleep on the streets but people who arrive in boats and we don't know who they are get to stay in hotels just doesn't make sense where do we go if we are being picked on by are government 🤔🤔

[@adamrees3675]

They are victims of war caused by your country so your country should house them, is it too difficult to understand?

[@kurthill7030]

Do you understand flee from war go to the country that caused the war that makes sense all British people and people who where invaded in the 2nd world war went to Germany did they show us all the evidence of that Germany had to look after them did that really happen show us all who looked after the people in world war 2 witch countries was it 🤔🤔

[@jasonvlogs423]

I lived in Blackpool for 10 years was a nightmare its filthy streets and beggers especially the druggie, its always had very bad reputation glad i moved 18 months ago ,best thing i ever did ill never be going back to that dump

[@Halfscotboy_39]

Never come to Scotland because it's just as bad in parts too. Stirling, Glasgow, etc the town type areas.

[@drummerboy1390]

Blackpool has been in steady decline since the sixties, with the availability of cheap air travel and package holidays. People unsurprisingly went for two weeks in the sunshine in Spain, as opposed to traipsing around Blackpool in the pissing rain, spending a fortune keeping the kids amused indoors. When you’re dependant on tourism and the tourists aren’t coming anymore, you have a problem and it’s nothing to do with the homeless, or refugees. It’s been a steady decline over decades. The days when people flocked from the industrial cities and Scotland to Blackpool for their holidays are a distant memory. We took the kids to Blackpool for a week, but left after four days. Never again.

[@martinball54]

I went Blackpool for a week one afternoon

[@tommyprice5854]

We should prioritise our own first (ones who genuinely want to better their situation)

[@JanetHill-ft7rk]

To the editor ..why do you keep using the now derelict old police station on Chapel Street to reinforce your views.. this is being demolished for the new Cental Gatwway. I have also noticed that the people on the street and beggers are not actually from Blackpool. They have moved away from the their towns to be homeless by the sea... bringing all their problems for Blackpool councils etc to deal with. Maybe if they moved back home to where they came from or where they had local connections they would have a better chance of being housed 🤷‍♀️

[@nab1uk]

I'll sum it up !! Broken Britain!!!!

[@leechappell6394]

Moved to Blackpool 18 months ago. Great people very friendly great atmosphere great pubs restaurants great for kids and great nightlife great beaches has its problems like all places homeless and drugs. People are drawn to seaside resorts from all over. There spending millions on the place massive regeneration

[@SamanthaRiley-wd8mv]

Where

[@Fuzzmo147]

All on the prom & town centre with new hotels that ordinary folks can’t afford to stay in. All for the tourists, yet again

[@wilson42cc]

I never thought of how the government dumps people in certain areas, but recently I have seen it with my own eyes , they choose areas and heard all the drug addicted, homeless, no hope of ever working people in that direction, it’s bloody disgusting, hi from Australia,

[@AdikiaMedia]

Hi mate, all the best 🇦🇺 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧

[@ste9071]

Blackpool has never been a dumping ground for the socially inept buddy. The problem lays with people assuming they'll find a better life in Blackpool and live the dream life. What they fundamentally fail to recognise however, is that Blackpool is a seasonal town, and whilst finding meaningful employment is somewhat easy between the months of April and November, during the winter month's, unemployment, homelessness and boredom, skyrockets. Blackpool has always been an attraction resort, in more ways than one sadly, but the novelty wears off very quickly, particularly when winter arrives. Blackpool Borough Council, like all council's within the UK, can not and will not house those arriving in the town with no local connection, thus it isn't logical to assume it's a dumping ground for those whom lack social skills ect. They make their own decision to elope and migrate to Blackpool, only to find that unless they have savings or financial security, employment lined up, or family in the area, they're pretty much redundant. I policed Blackpool some 20 years ago now, and when I first joined the job, the amount of people I dealt with whom had simply arrived at Blackpool North train station without a plan in place, or had been laid off at the the end of the season and could no longer pay rent, was insurmountable. I work in a different part of the country now, and thankfully no longer a district officer dealing with public order offences and low level thefts, intoxicated stags and hens ect. Blackpool will always be close to my heart though, it was an amazing place to begin my career before climbing the ranks.

[@wilson42cc]

@@ste9071 I hear ya, but in Australia, Gympie has become the drugos choice of towns to retreat to , it’s a smallish cite , but when rents went up and recession took the value off money, they all moved from the more expensive areas, like Brisbane capital city , Sunshine Coast, major tourist city , soo in the last 2 or so years, we have become meth city , it’s unreal how many here have the drug f#cked lifestyle choice, and I’m not talking younger people, most older 50 ish , but I suppose it’s like the 60s hippie culture, it too shall pass, I always say China has a cure for that lol 😂, any who, have a happy new year 🥳,may the god of cash smile upon you and yours. Oh yeah these people I’m talking about definitely aren’t looking towards work ever , 😂, just drugs and welfare,

[@johnstephen7557]

Over 20 years homeless!! Cant really blame immigration for that...thats a lifestyle choice.

[@user-lo2ir6wt5h]

Yep but we could still help .. homeless hostels could be funded

[@georgegornall1265]

Powerful film. Well done!

[@flashtheoriginal]

I did my company funded management training, parts 1 and 2, in Blackpool, 1989 and 1991. It was buzzing, friendly people, cheap prices. But some urban decay was already setting in. Really sad to see the decline. The UK homeless should come first

[@AdikiaMedia]

Great point and great pic, up the toffees 😜

[@hashimjaved9262]

The so called "homeless" did cme first for decades & ruined it for themselves hence y theyre homeless now. Its time for change now

[@zefrog7482]

I've been saying for years, the country is rotting from the outside inward. I lived by the sea about 2 decades ago, and the demise in my 5 year's living there was astonishing. Every year the deprivation gets majorly worse. Government just doesn't give a damn though, even though towns in land are now turning to the same at ever accelerated rates. Unless something radically changes, we will be absolutely ruined, and our once rich and vibrant country will just be a wasteland of poverty and crumbling relics of what once was.

[@Craftbeerdude]

Immigration is big business for labour/tory goverment. We have no chance

[@scottishzoomer]

Visited Blackpool a couple of years ago for the first time since the early 80’s. Was genuinely shocked what a state the place was in behind the faded glitz of the promenade. The best thing I can say about it is the beach was spotless. Wouldn’t go back.

[@donnahollins5071]

Worked in hospitality here in the early 1990's . Riddled with drugs then but it was mainly heroin. It still had some semblance of a resort but the back streets were going down even then.

[@michaellucas6466]

Its not just Blackpool where this is happening. Its everywhere in Britain. And we still call it GREAT BRITAIN!!!!!

[@leoncarney2228]

Just a thought but if a homeless person can afford to find a drug supplier and pay for his or her drugs, why can't the well-resourced Police.

[@stephenhoughton4542]

Put the politicians on the streets and see if they like it

[@Tomo-hb2tq]

All them empty places can be used for the homeless

[@deanmadnut2614]

Na don't be silly those houses are awaiting for those who have just arrived on a dingy

[@Tomo-hb2tq]

@@deanmadnut2614 yep I know takes the bloody piss our own should come 1st

[@deanmadnut2614]

@@Tomo-hb2tq yeah we really have gotta do something about it, just so sick of it

[@Ian-gw2vx]

Thank God for the salvation army.

[@jimmartin3162]

Blackpool is not all bad. People are trying their best to make Blackpool once again a good place to live and support those who seek a better life. It is not an easy venture and it will take time. I do admire those who are battling to make Blackpool a more respectable place to which it rightly deserves.

[@wellybobs4403]

I was born bred and buttered there and this started in the seventies. The failures of the local council to preserve its victorian buildings and refusal to demolish the acres of boarding houses was the source of its decline. Clinging to its "modernisation" program meant the housing became run down and subsequently uninhabitable. They missed out by not attracting businesses which went elsewhere. The town is now a reflection of the inhabitants that are left. Scumbag drug dealers and degenerates. It says a lot that there have been no attempts to house migrants in any large numbers there...

[@lloyd_r]

As long as it's not Islington the MP's dont give a damn

[@andreamcgrath8471]

Horrid frightening place you feel unsafe in Blackpool just walking round or going into McDonald's was very frightening.

[@Andy__L]

Used to love going to blackpool its a disgrace its got in this state

[@jackieridley8465]

I used to love going for a day trip every ten years , but I won't go again,

[@AnonAnonAnon]

What I just don't get, what makes me so angry, is that there has been homelessness for decades in England and a majority of those homeless are ex-squaddies. Countless times its been reported in the media how there was no help for indigenous homeless people and homeless families. Now we have an influx of boat people, illegally entering England, and all of a sudden, the government is falling over themselves providing three and for star hotel accommodation! The illegals were put up in old barracks until they started complaining, and now they're in hotels!! The UK homeless complained for years, and no one listened! The Tories and Labour NEVER look after the indigenous population. They place the burden of higher taxes, poor services and everything else on us whilst giving out freebies to the world.

[@James_08_07]

The government aren't falling over themselves providing that accommodation, they are legally required to provide it while applications are pending. The applications are only pending because the government have understaffed the roles that review the applications. Both cases are issues of mis-management by government and should not really be seen as one getting while the other does not. There is an imbalance in the law, but the government could quite easily pass a law stating that they have to provide shelter and support for the homeless, yet they don't. I would also like to add that they are not "illegals" until their asylum applications have been assessed and denied.

[@briancohenthepfjmassive.4769]

Ex servicemen or not. If they turn to drugs and alcohol for comfort that's the 1st step to living in the gutter. You don't find many Muslims homeless because they don't use neither.

[@PNETriffid]

Citations needed.

[@davidedwards3408]

Blackpool has suffered from lack of investment and not moving with the times. It is unfair to blame others for the council and MP decisions decisions. Most of the town needs to knocked down and rebuilt

[@DaveBeaven-tx2tp]

It doesn’t need knocking down it needs re furbishment. The tatty buildings of now are the same buildings that look great in the 1960s when they were well cared for. Blackpool needs something in winter for people to do as well. It can’t rely on tourism in summer alone.

[@eveoakley6270]

Never seen a place so run down in all my life. A lot of the back street old boarding houses are just crack dens 😢

[@markhusinka4952]

This country is a joke. No need to worry about the police as they don't do their job. And there's no more room in the prisons . Hahaha Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. We have clowns running the government. Third world standards is normal in Britain now. The last time I was in hospital I had to crawl out of the hospital because I couldn't walk,at 11. 45pm . Shame on the doctors over paid tossers.

[@elvis-lr5xs]

.....heartbreaking!god bless x

[@jellyboy123]

when i was a kid driving into blackpool i thought it be so cool living in blackpool but now i realisation its a crap hole

[@billymulloy7279]

Well done uk gov were not that far behing usa and canada its shocking this is just the start whats comming

[@LungsMcGee]

I see so many YT videos of places in England and Wales that I have so many fond memories of as a kid. So sad to see how everything seems to have gone downhill.

[@user-rl8mq9uf7b]

I feel so sad for these lovely people it's tragic the way these people are struggling

[@craigpearce-rnliblackpool8251]

To the ignorant, I’ll educated and uniformed Blackpool isn’t good however, for the people who try make a difference and help rather than just critique or make it worse - Blackpool is trying extremely hard. It has massively improved and will continue to do so. Migration is not to blame - it’s an easy excuse to chose the problem is a lot more closer to home.

[@derekhart3308]

It's totally shocking what the council is doing! Migrates are getting better treatment than the local residents get treated. But, sadly, it's all over Britain no matter where in Scotland, Wales, as well. Costing £8milllion for illegal migrates a day to stay in 5 star hotels.

[@5threelborn]

6 Million per day and these homeless people were not born in Blackpool they are outsiders 9/10 homeless people you will find have moved to Blackpool they are part of the problems

[@Matt-lz6nx]

It’s the government not the council, the government tells the council that they need to houses asylum migrants, the government put theses people in deprived areas to create a wedge and divide people! Also remember that both MPS for Blackpool are Tory fuckheads

[@markjenner7199]

Immigration is the biggest elephant in the room and the woke lefty's can't see it

[@marionmaier8152]

Same in Germany!!!

[@ImakHunt69]

And indeed Migrants....thankyou👍✊👍

[@garyhagen2642]

Keep the good work up.