Descent: Come Too Close

[@jdub3999]

I always enjoy Charlie documenting the decline of civilization.

[@clownworld5474]

For real. The depravity on show in public even before dark is shocking really

[@susanjolly244]

He earns money off declining civilisation, WHAT A PUSSY. WHO DOE,S THAT. SEEKS ATTENTION THEN CO PLAINS, he,s all about COIN . He can naff off with that Hitler / porn moustache.

[@jasonparfitt5936]

F hell thank god there is no National service anymore,can you imagine the quality of the citizens the UK could call upon if there was a war.

[@fredturpentine6651]

This is Labour's plan. Keep them dumb... Keep them poor... Keep them voting Labour...

[@1991enduro]

Politics no matter what party its all corrupt off course it is ...

[@tonyburman4131]

Charlie showing the side of Manchester the tourist board don't want you to see. Great docu Charlie keep it up

[@truckerfromreno]

The state of it. Blame the left. Doesn't even look like England.

[@jameshuggett]

Thank you Tony, I couldn't make out where this was 👍

[@ethansharma815]

Manchester has a tourist board? 😭

[@harry.flashman]

He should do his videos in scotland.

[@robertandrewbaptie3006]

@@harry.flashman fck that mate my dad's from midlothian we go there at least once a year but he has fam all over I've nearly been FCKED UP a few times WOW 👌

[@LaziUK]

"Gerrof the bus you little shits!!" That had me in stitches!!😂🤣

[@Brad-zf9uf]

Yea that funny

[@therespectedlex9794]

If only it was 7 7 there eh.

[@AdissapointedSonic]

scary ghost man freaked me out alot jfc

[@carparkcampers8407]

Charlie gives a real life insight into the city

[@ladylaois8184]

He seriously does

[@chiefstain]

I thought it was Borat

[@carparkcampers8407]

@@chiefstain “ very nice “ 😂

[@riprisk]

Yeah I didn’t know town was like this lol I prefer Trafford centre

[@FirstnameLastname-yx8cy]

Ye definitely does, puts me off going down there 😂

[@61shirley]

The good old days before McDonald’s needed security

[@jamesphlames7498]

Is this an old video?

[@cyberjohn70]

Not quite as bad as one McDonalds in Birmingham which has a knife arch at the door ffs

[@2icelollys1goat]

The high street, in general, has become a jungle. The volatility levels are extreme

[@CustardCream33]

@@cyberjohn70 What's a knife arch?

[@99ron30]

@@CustardCream33 Metal detector I guess.

[@Secret_Squirrel_Scottishgamer]

Never a Dull day when Mr Veitch comes out to play!! 😁

[@brendan555]

Charles is like the superhero of Manchester stopping crime and helping people around. This should be on a tv show.

[@MartinDingley]

Knob.

[@brendan555]

@@MartinDingley typical crackhead talk 🗣️ lol

[@JJ-006]

The fact Manchester mcdonalds has prison bars on the doors 😩😂

[@MS-zt2ho]

It's for rough sleepers I think

[@thomasdoran2363]

The Ol' 90's reference to 'Mad-Chester', has never been more apt ! I'm saddened by the continual decline in it's societal values [sigh] Good work Charlie Stay Safe Fella ❤

[@SpeccyMan]

its, not it's (it's is the contraction of "it is")

[@Teddy-ez9qq]

The decline we see is all engineered to absolute perfection. Little changes to society put in place 20/30 years ago are now bearing fruit. It’s going to get a hell of a lot worse over these next few years with the price of living skyrocketing the way it is.

[@ehrenwood2539]

@@Teddy-ez9qq Eastern Europe is the way to go I suppose

[@Dwahada]

Women not marrying young and cheating family’s has created this society

[@nothinspermanent8039]

Love it Manchester shows so much English culture.

[@TimeHandler]

Moustaches really coming back in a big way... 🙏🙌🙏🙌🙏🙌

[@issimondias]

I spent an afternoon in Manchester a couple of years ago. That Piccadilly square area was full of people like this. I genuinely have never seen so many in one place and at one time. It was eye opening.

[@antreb15]

I can remember when Manchester, London, Birmingham and other major cities had completely different demographics.

[@pommiebears]

So can I. That was also when I was a Robinson too. Mint name, Anthony, my maiden name is Robinson. 👍🏽🌸

[@frankmageean6027]

Yep, then it all started to turn to shit in 1997

[@bergeracvandamme]

I was just thinking the same. They're unrecognisable now. I avoid them as much as possible.

[@swededuck7947]

@SHOWLINE it’s not just Europe and UK. The States have been worse for decades. I feel 100X safer in MCR.

[@bgdabg6769]

​@@swededuck7947I'm from Europe too... nothing similar in my country and as long as we live as nation we are not going to become UK, France, Germany, Sweden... Not without a fight. Not even if we disappear in that fight. Europe and destroyed Western nations are not the same thing.

[@franktherabbit42]

What a lovely, civilised society we have.

[@ladylaois8184]

So love just to see kids being kids! Absolutely made my day. You always do a fantastic job out there. Never been to Manchester so appreciate you showing the fun games and rest 😂

[@colinsmith1288]

Too many crazy people in city centres,that is why l try to avoid them.Brave man for filming modern life in britain,warts and all.

[@gilbertpillbrow6978]

I love how you instantly recognise the people who were in your previous videos

[@Neil2022]

You know the worlds turning to shit when you need security at McDonald’s

[@Paulusthewoodgnome515]

Very true

[@stuart23969]

I've seen security in a greggs aswell, at least it creates job roles

[@Winsomelosesome777]

There was definitely some horrendous medieval massacre on Piccadilly Gardens hundreds of years ago.

[@nige3801]

It was a mass grave in the middle ages, there was the Peterloo massacre nearby of course

[@Winsomelosesome777]

@@nige3801 there we have it then. Very bad juju 😳

[@joeking55555]

Never a dull moment in Manchester. I never see any of this when I'm there. Mind you i Stayed in a Piccadilly Gardens hotel a few weeks ago and the square was constantly full of police throughout the night.

[@WoollyWanderers]

loving the Borat look, it very nice!

[@flyerh]

I thank god I’m Cornish and live in Cornwall.

[@shamalamadingdong6648]

What in the universal credit is going on at McDonald's?

[@josephcopeland2996]

🤣

[@biglummox9862]

You won the Internet on this day in history.

[@jacksigsworth7573]

Hi Charlie, I met you today it's jack can't believe the primark guy is out up to new tricks again! Look after yourself, pleasure as always! Inspo for free speech!

[@kry102001]

I finally met Charlie today April 1st outside MaccyD, I was so starstruck, thanks for the comforting hug, keep up the great work (Kry10)

[@TartanArmy85]

Starstruck!? Lol

[@anthonymitchell8893]

did you go down on him ??

[@kry102001]

@@anthonymitchell8893 no, there was a queue and unfortunately you was first in line.

[@Philljag]

@@anthonymitchell8893 wow you really are a cowardly troll

[@MartinDingley]

Stupid person..

[@bearking7735]

Mr veitch back at it again with another mint video keep it up man love your work mate stay safe

[@AB-er5ii]

Good to meet you magnum PI, watched you since I was ten years old and still to this day. Keep it up brother

[@MartinDingley]

Twat

[@R3DASH09]

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.” Matthew 6:25-27, 34

[@SuperBowlJeffyTV]

Big love from liverpool charlie . Hope to see you back over here soon

[@keithwhyte8583]

Liking the content, the real Manchester the stuff mainstream TV doesn't show us, excellent 👍

[@FunkyNan]

Felt very trippy this one Charlie In a good way 😀

[@keyboardwars1554]

Love your videos man keep it up!

[@Adamsworld1234]

The bald black guy doing security in McDonald's is a legend who I look upto in the security industry 😎👊

[@comeonengland5312]

It’s a sign of the times when we’ve got to have security in McDonald’s, 20 or 15 years ago you’d send your kids down there own with a few quid on their own to get a cheeseburger or something but those days have clearly gone 😮 what has our society become 🤔🤨

[@frankgallagher7812]

Scary ghost man starring at me 😂😂😂😱

[@DJRyanJamesUK]

I just want to spend the day wondering around Manchester like a lunatic for bants...hopefully I'll make it to one of your videos!

[@SpeccyMan]

You'd be far better wandering than wondering. I wonder if you could wander around Manchester wondering about wandering about. 😁

[@maffman2001]

Thanks for what you do Charlie. You are a brave man, its a shame the people that should be helping us and keeping the streets safe are missing in action.

[@stephengrafton5021]

Bum licker Brave 🤣 the place is gone cos of scared people like you

[@kurtmalpassbrickwork6255]

“What do you keep saying mu tie for mate “ 🤣🤣🤣 dead

[@bigbasil1908]

When I saw those kids hanging onto the back of the bus I said out loud 'little shits' and then you said 'little shits' lol

[@sweetheartivyivyherbert307]

Was great seeing kids get up to the antics i did as a kid.

[@GaryOK]

Scary that this is daytime recording .... flipping heck

[@locastmincer]

I'm imagining a narration in the style of David Attenborough; "And here... we see... the native Chava, making his evening journey to the Mcwatering hole. He must succeed in procuring food for hibernation, of which he must awake in time to collect his giro."

[@swisstony662]

Verrrrrry goooood verrrrrry niceeeeee

[@clownworld5474]

Imagine getting kicked out of maccies because your off your face, even before sunset 😂😂 those were weird looking undercovers lol

[@SpeccyMan]

... because you're off your face ... etc. (you really ought to learn the difference between you're and your!)

[@CloroxBleach-dr4xl]

13:28 is fraz the chad comedy guy lmao 😂😂😂

[@chickedee1085]

7:18 just imagine renting a room in a shared house and you get up during the night to use the bathroom and suddenly a door slowly opens and he appears….. 😱

[@lachefjay3875]

Lol that under cover with the Gucci pouch I’ve seen in other videos lol

[@Nickbaldeagle02]

Charlie, get to Chinatown early in the morning and check out all the "homeless" being given their instructions on where to go begging. Used to see them all the time when I used to do housing repairs at Faulkner Court.

[@61shirley]

I love the tash, it works

[@davidjohns.3065]

About time you did some vids Dan.

[@61shirley]

@@davidjohns.3065 one day I’ll get the itch. I’ve got other stuff going on atm. I can’t stop metal detecting. Gonna get a go pro for my forehead and document it.

[@melike1984]

Veitch has a freddie mercury look now days.....🎸🤩

[@BulletMagnetLive]

I always think of people from other countries with an idilic view of Britain coming on holiday and finding out what it's really like and I find it amusing.

[@keithphilbin3054]

"I will try and behave, and don't call me Shirley."

[@Ronno4691]

I had a little adventure in Manchester a year ago and I recognise of all these places including this McDonalds :-)

[@heskie8878]

Hey Charlie what the hell has happened to Manchester? I'm currently living in Melbourne and Manchester was my local city where I used to work. When I came back for a visit 5 yrs ago after being away for 7yrs I was totally shocked at the shithole it has become. On Picadilly approach at the station there was a blood spattered mattress on the side walk to greet you. I walked through Picadilly Gardens and it was full of Spice Heads. It was like the Zombie Apocalypse.. WTF has happened....? Love your show dude!

[@stephenogden5470]

At a guess the Kalergi Plan is on overdrive!

[@KittehHawk]

It seems a lot of major cities in the UK are in a rapid decline. City centres are now just a scumbag central. I'm from Leics and the city centre is almost a no go area for me personally. Once I'm there, I want to leave immediately. I used to love going into the city centre as a kid, but now completely loathe it. Too many spice heads, drunks and bellends who harrass you for absolutely no reason. Travelling up to Manchester gave me the same vibes. Went for a football match and have never felt more unsafe walking around a city at all times during the day. This area in particular felt like a hot-pot of crackheads and scum. Oddly enough, London was the one place I felt completely safe.

[@pommiebears]

I’m in Newcastle, Australia. I’m from London originally. Moved to Australia when my kids were in primary school. Every time I come home, I’m a little more sad about how I don’t recognise it.

[@eastwood978]

Melbourne has a huge problem with drug abuse, ice & meth, maybe you don't see them hanging around like in Manchester although Hosier Lane was known to be pretty grim.

[@PungentBunda]

Australia just as bad if not worse

[@elizabethdunn2992]

It really is a jungle out there. Good work Charlie. Big Up.

[@gearoftones8585]

It always amuses he how people get so angry at being filmed in public and are utterly convinced you need their permission despite the fact they are being filmed by the state and private companies as well as on dash cams everywhere they go but dare to stand filming what you can see in public and some people utterly lose their minds and take it as an aggressive act. There needs to be a huge educational campaign on the right to film anything you can see in a public space. If you're in public, you can be filmed. It's as simple as that.

[@djinnxx7050]

You make a fair point. Though the difference is that it's literally a guy standing there filming you, even if only in your head is it you specifically. Like, some just don't like being the centre of attention, especially when they're unaware of the intent behind it. People get self conscious, some lash out defensively, it's not hard to understand really. A little empathy goes a long way. I get where people are coming from. I wouldn't like some random guy filming me, I'm already annoyed that I'm constantly filmed by CCTV, I don't need a member of the public doing it to. Yet conversely, I have no such issues when I'm skating, like shit, if you want to film me losing teeth dropping a ten set, be my guest. I want that shit filmed for posterity and if I'm not filming it myself, I'd welcome the audience. It's basically time and place.

[@gearoftones8585]

@@djinnxx7050 if people are so concerned about being seen, they'd be as well not leaving their house. Cameras are everywhere and people need to accept that if you're in public, you might well be filmed. The same way the state films us, the same way public transport films us and the same way private businesses film us, not to mention the police and dash cams. One citizen holding a camera isn't going to harm you unless you're saying citizens shouldn't have the right to film but everyone else who I listed should?

[@djinnxx7050]

@@gearoftones8585 No one should have the right to film anyone without specific consent at the moment filming is taking place.

[@djinnxx7050]

@@gearoftones8585 As i understand it today, many tv shows, KZbinrs and news broadcasts have to blur peoples faces if an individual requests not to be filmed. But only if they request it. It's like the organ donor system in Wales. Instead of previously opting in, which was correct, they instead made it an opt out system, which means you consent by existing and are effectively guilted into remaining on the donor register. You now have to go through some hassle to opt out, thus making it more likely that you have compliance by making it harder to reject than to accept what was previously an infringement on individual rights to decide either way before any action was then taken. Obviously, for organ donors, you're generally dead so can hardly opt in at the moment you can actually donate. But for being filmed, we accepted it by doing nothing about it, and now here we are in a surveillance state, and the last thing some people want to tolerate is some random person also filming them without their express permission. If you just happen to be passing by, then there's no need to kick up a stink, so most don't. But if you're stationary and feel like you're the subject being filmed by an individual, there is a limit to individual tolerances. One camera, two cameras, four cameras, eight cameras... and now this prick just brazenly standing there filming you, you can't attack or show your distaste to the man behind the other cameras as they're far away in some data centre, but you can verbally express it to that guy in front of you. Have you never previously walked past CCTV and raised your middle finger in the early days? I did. If I did it now, my finger would become very tired. We can't wave our middle fingers forever. You understand what I'm saying? This dude, he's simply like an extension of the surveillance state that people can actually have a go at. And so, they express their frustrations towards him. I'm not saying that they're right in doing that, I simply understand it. I think we all have to understand eachother better, have respect for others. You don't repair a broken society by antagonising, whether by accident or purposefully, the broken cogs within it.

[@gearoftones8585]

@@djinnxx7050 but the law says otherwise. That's the point. The law allows anyone to be filmed in public. You can call you a change in the law but it won't happen. There's no expectation of privacy in public. Period.

[@yonmusak]

That McDonalds manager doesn't give a toss - legend

[@LeonardSamuels75]

A busy city street is an alien concept in New Zealand now... I gotta watch the Veitch to remind me of how the world used to be.

[@swally4704]

This is not how the world used to be Leonard

[@vladsgamingworld]

Hey I saw you in Public! That's Market Streets in the beginning 0:41

[@simondavids9438]

Top video Charlie.

[@timothymorris4571]

Moo Thai and Blue. A formidable Piccadilly gardens duo.

[@jynx8501]

14:07 love how the guy just knows who you are ‘yo Charlie don’t do that man’

[@mkapp8724]

Did he mean dont film me?

[@jynx8501]

@@mkapp8724 yeah ?

[@michaelcrompton68]

Charles is the spitting imagine of Henry Cavill in the last Mission Impossible movie 👍

[@uncleernie7949]

who' s that, the guy that plays Tobias Funke?

[@SuperSomphon]

Love that Charlie don’t take shlt from anyone. Finally someone with balls!

[@MartinDingley]

He hasn't got any balls,hiding behind the camera with back up and police around..knob.

[@SuperSomphon]

Boo hoo 😂

[@pauldg837]

The funny thing is that most people today seem to have such a thirst to get social media fame (thankfully I'm not one of them), and I can imagine that those who object to being filmed in all likelihood have their social media plastered with photos and videos documenting their lives, even the most mundane aspects of it.

[@Svoorhout85]

South Park nailed that subject once. Cartman complaining about his privacy rights while on increasingly big social media platforms to ultimately a brain implant that directly puts his thoughts on twitter: thoughts about his privacy.

[@mistaman5471]

Need to take life serious. I don’t understand some people . But thank you Charlie for always putting your self at risk to entertain us 👌👊

[@jamconnell1377]

manchester makes london look like a quiet little country village where nothing happens.

[@RitchieRosson]

Ha! You could make similar videos in Croydon town centre.

[@TheBenchPressMan]

wrong mate, you’ll get stabbed if you did this in South London - the mad hatters there think it’s cool to run around with machetes etc

[@leehenry5764]

Least it's mainly British

[@marcusaurilius5127]

i worked in mc donalds in the arndale center as a kid, it was chaos every day. We didnt have the bouncers back then.

[@1979jasonr]

McD’s St Mary’s Gate…’97-‘99. Never a dull day.

[@skimmingstoness]

Wasn't that Howard from the Halifax in the blue jacket shouting and swearing.

[@PAppMundo]

This is what the city council doesn’t want you to see, the reality of Manchesters streets in 2022.

[@adcolt54]

Damn Charlie, just watched a video of yours a few days ago and there was no lip foliage. Now you have a mustache? You must one of these man that can grow one in a few hours.

[@FunkyNan]

😆

[@leehenry5764]

It's stuck on

[@michaeljohndennis2231]

Charlie, I see the same things happening in Dublin all the time, especially around the LUAS trams around Lower Abbey St and Busaras/Connolly Station, as well as around O’ Connell St, the Quays, Batchelors Walk, Temple Bar, Henry St, Grafton St, Trinity College, and St Stephen’s Green, as I go home to Ireland frequently on the Holyhead ferries on SailRail into North Wall on Irish Ferries & Stena - although I’ve lived in Manchester 21 years, I’m a native of Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath (AKA the “Royal County”) in Ireland, 20 miles from Dublin on the way to Navan & Trim

[@bonnetdedouche]

That tash is like a mash up of Ned flanders and Freddy mercury, and a little bit of the millibands on top 👍🏻

[@davidcummins8124]

8:08 "I'm gonna blind you mate" followed by "What did I do wrong?" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@reenie-d717]

Wow..... there are no longer any 1st world countries.

[@shaunyshaun86]

The little shits bit had me in stitches hahaha

[@chazwalker7156]

Charlie's becoming that popular... they're gonna rename it: *Fanchester*

[@Ian-gw2vx]

I used to love Manchester in the 80's. I took a lot of shots as a photography student. Took a few of street people but they were very friendly back then. I loved visiting HMV and Virgin records where you could just about get every obscure album you wanted. I can walk around Liverpool all day and never feel threatened, Yes, it has it's bad people but nothing like this scale. So sad. I have to agree with the evangelist at the beginning of this video though mate. The world is, and will get worse but thank God there is hope in Christ!

[@JuganautTimelapse]

Love the Borat look Charlie :-) As always I enjoy watching your videos and makes me NOT want to visit Manchester anytime soon ;-)

[@felixcertus2721]

that tache makes you look like Ned Flanders😂😂😂. you go Charlie!

[@trevorrandom]

McDonald's has a strict door policy no riff-raff 🍔👍

[@RitchieRosson]

Hahahahahaha!

[@ChangeBegins9661]

Think it was black tie only that day

[@modgirl7242]

Is anyone ever HAPPY I found it Strange how nobody is phased with what’s happening around them

[@sweetheartivyivyherbert307]

You just get used to it thats why. Cardiff where im from is exactly the same

[@SpeccyMan]

Watching your videos always makes me think what you really need to add a little something to them is a nice David Attenborough voice over. Documenting wildlife is his forte after all. 😉😁

[@123kingcarp]

That would be brilliant.

[@paulhope3401]

What a great idea mate... I can hear it now. :D "...and by the entrance to McDonalds a Mancunian lesser ravaged crackhead is scavenging for its next fix.. " Nature this diverse presents a huge challenge for the undiseased native speices.... but when the morning mist rises, its clear some blue and white chequered hogs have taken up positions to reclaim the territory....

[@philleotardo8923]

And here we have a spice head in his natural environment perched upon a bench falling in and out of consciousness. We've got to keep our distance and be careful not to spook the creature as they have been known to get a little stabby when scared. Watch how he rocks back and forth in a mating call to all the women spice heads who come stumbling over to view him in all his glory. Fights have been known to break out between groups of women vying for the man's last drag of spice and some will fight to the death to protect their stash. Something like that would be great in a David Attenborough style

[@StephenJones-d6w]

❤ you Charles 😂😉 DANIELLE! XX

[@NannyMcFence]

Charlie so close to 200k well deserved

[@TowManDave00]

Your buddy is right... The Stash is Okily Dokily

[@Trail717]

Who in their right mind would sit and eat in a city centre McDonalds? I'll stick to the drive thru.

[@DementeDaDventure420]

You are dead ringer for Freddie Mercury with that task pal 😆

[@DementeDaDventure420]

Tash

[@reeceishere2586]

Those undercovers are blending in too well these days

[@cathal3020]

No way they stick out like a sore thumb

[@stuart23969]

A mate and i used to hold on to the back of buses when we were about that age aswell, looking back it was bloody stupid

[@mosssider]

Cliff Thorburn

[@alannevin2490]

This has put me off Mc Donald's for life

[@simonmuhamed1071]

Dude you're not fucking selling this place to me LMFAO ;D

[@Rezo3]

I like Scary Ghost Man. I didn't realize you all used, "dude." I'm a 90's kid myself!

[@gunsmokegaloreyt6840]

“Because I’m autistic” (expecting something kinda sad) “I cant walk backwardz” Feel you bruv

[@hansOrf]

Jesus, I certainly hope this was on a weekend, either way the fact that this McDonalds has to have bouncers, jesus wept.

[@crone5312]

Charlie is like 6'8 I swear, towering man who can get some towering insights of the shit hole we call Manchester.

[@MartinDingley]

If he was any kind of man he would show some empathy and help people,he is a bully and a coward,,simple.

[@markt9023]

Borat in Manchester, very nice!!!!

[@Adam2050]

Blue's defo relapsed, shame man, he looked well a few months ago.

[@sweetassgigs]

I don't know the guy but I feel for him

[@kyesimon6718]

Cracked me up at 7:16 about that ghost man that kept staring at Charlie lol and the way Charlie sounded as he speaks

[@johnbratley6926]

It doesn't change, back in the 70's when I worked plain clothes it was just like a game for the smackhead shoplifters. I'd lock them up, the magistrates would give them a slap on the wrist and they'd be back thieving straight from court.

[@captaingrammar]

That's interesting, I didn't know there were smackheads in the 70s because most people usually paint a rosey image of that decade.

[@liam..2790]

I hung about in Manchester in the 1990s and it was a lot more feral than it is now, even though that's hard to believe going off these videos

[@Maxwell.Manlove]

@@captaingrammar Rosey? That was when Labour were running the country into the ground and there were regular power cuts - before Maggie Thatcher brought Britain back from the brink

[@captaingrammar]

@@Maxwell.Manlove Yes good old Maggie what a hero she was🙄

[@Maxwell.Manlove]

@@captaingrammar She doesn't need to be a 'hero'. Just run the country competently enough that the lights stay on, which was an improvement on the 70s. That's the trouble with the political class today, always signaling their virtue instead of getting the job done - that's why Britain is in the mess it is right now and getting worse