How Britain Criminalised The Poor | British History

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That's how I see them in my mind too! Really have to pinch yourself when you hear they existed so far into the 20th century. Thank you for the comment, lovely to hear from people who enjoy these videos :)

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Hi Luke thanks so much for taking the time to comment! And while that's definitely an important topic I wouldn't currently feel like I'm the right person to talk about it, but I'd perhaps be interested in looking into it somewhere down the line.

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Indeed that’s a horrific situation. The problem isn't so much that ex-servicemen don't get the support they need, though, but that people in general no longer get proper support. The Tories have turned us into a nation with some of the lowest living standards in the developed world, with one of its stingiest, cruellest, most punitive welfare systems. Johnny Mercer, minister for veterans, said recently that struggling veterans using food banks simply don't know how to budget, which is exactly what Tories say about all struggling Brits. Folks like Mercer with right wing politics believe in a world in which people, including soldiers, should either sink or swim. So if you're drowning you just need to swim harder. If all the people who pretended to care about helping 'our own' while complaining about foreign aid and refugees actually wanted to help our own the UK wouldn't be the unequal, poverty ridden hellhole it now is. We wouldn’t have had so many sick and disabled people die needlessly, including many veterans, who the right pretend to care about, due to the safety net no longer catching people. I’m sure, like me, you find it deeply frustrating when lying, two faced, unscrupulous people use the needless suffering of Brits to cry about foreigners, only to then go back to insisting Brits who need help are undeserving ‘scroungers’ two seconds later. Sadly I only see it getting worse and I wouldn't be surprised to see the return of even more Victorian solutions to the 'laziness' of the poor.

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Thank you for this video! I had to read Oliver Twist for school, and while writing my essay I struggled to find information on these workhouses and the New Poor Law (the main character of Oliver Twist grows up in a workhouse). I'm not from the UK so the political terms in most explanations, I was unfamiliar with. this video explained it nicely, even for someone who has barely any knowledge of British politics. Thanks a lot!

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Thank Stefan, I've briefly looked at these before so will put them on the list to look at for a future video. Cheers for the suggestions!

[@emuu6232]

i remember learning this is school, and i think that this mentality still has hold over Britain today. I visited an old workhouse, it had a “disorderly ladies” room, but nothing like that for men, basically put “badly behaved” women in solitary…

[@harrywalbyoff]

I think you're right, these ideas definitely stick around and don't just disappear with the passing of a law! And that's really interesting, I remember seeing an old BBC doc where some mildly famous people had to experience the workhouse with Ann Widdecombe, and she had to go into women's solitary when she refused to work. Thank you for sharing

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I'm not but I do have a history degree! Thank you so much for the comment and taking the time to watch

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"white men" as if the entirety of britain wasn't white smh

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"Lets be honest white men" uhh yeah it was 1800s england...... imagine talking about ancient China and saying "lets be honest asian men" uhhh yep thats who where there

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The rest of the video was good but that confused the hell out of me. Obviously they're white. Why mention it

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Nice video however i do wanna ask why say in the beginning "rich white men"? since i think you have to be really stupid to assume that it would be a rich black man in 1600 England. Other then that great video!

[@harrywalbyoff]

Thanks for the comment, glad you liked the video! Mainly because throughout the 19th century Britain was so imperialist, and I'm just trying to highlighting the extent of the privilege that these men would have had within the British Empire. But yeah, you're right, it does kind of speak for itself that a rich man in Britain at this time is going to almost always also be white.

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England and Wales *and Ireland Brilliant video though, as always

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The ideas of “rich white men”..What has race got to do with it?

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You mean back in the 1800s? Do you honestly think all races had equal opportunity at that time?

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DEVIDE & RULE. COLONIZATION WAS BUILT ON SLAVERY. HINDUSTANI PEOPLE WERE TAKEN FROM INDIA & sent to various BRITISH COLONIES. ONE OF MOST SAD CRIMINAL CASES. RAFI MAINE USA-PHD

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