Jaywick: Most deprived place in England (2010) - BBC News

Six months ago in a by-election, Clacton became the first constituency to elect a UKIP MP - heralding a "coming of age" for the party, according to its leader Nigel Farage. Like all constituencies, Clacton has its own set of particular needs. But in 2010, one town within the constituency, Jaywick, was named the most deprived place in England, in the Department for Communities' indices of deprivation.
It is not a label of which the people of the town are proud - many would like the politicians that represent them to help turn around the fortunes of their home. BBC News visited the town to find the part politics plays in people's day-to-day lives. The candidates for the Clacton constituency are:
Douglas Carswell (UKIP)
David Grace (Liberal Democrat)
Chris Southall (Green)
Giles Watling (Conservative)
Tim Young (Labour)
Video journalist: Ed Ram
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[@mickyarams]

I heard some Afghan migrants opted to return to Afghanistan after they were offered housing in Jaywick

[@abdulqudus425]

Lol, I'm not sure if that's true or not but if it is that is hilarious.

[@britnic5394]

if you know of any that stayed behind, i need some new mud flaps for my car..

[@marianatividaddelangelhern4620]

Whatever condition in England is better than any condition in Afghan

[@Rain-ze8ny]

Michael yea I heard that

[@indiekiddrugpatrol3117]

@@marianatividaddelangelhern4620 no shit

[@UncleFeedle]

Had a little drive around in Street View, and this has to be the most depressing place I've ever seen in the UK.

[@andrewcottle5372]

Have you been to Rhyl north wales. That takes some beating as the worst place in Britain.

[@itouchdeadpigeons]

I went down there yesterday and I saw what it looks like on Google Earth and it looks much better because it’s dry and the roads have been redone and it really isn’t as bad as it looks

[@satpxl]

@@itouchdeadpigeons you probably went to the good side

[@itouchdeadpigeons]

@@satpxl I haven’t and I also went here in 2021 and it’s all like taht

[@woodenseagull1899]

That's rather harsh..! It is a small town with a quaint and lovely atmosphere for all to enjoy. Settled on the beautiful Essex coastline. The locals are lovely...!

[@gggshah5531]

Go to the most deprived place in England, talk to 2 Tory landlords instead of people who are actually struggling. Well done BBC for continuing to show your bias.

[@KumaBean]

My thoughts exactly, they must have managed to find and interview the wealthiest people in the area, I've seen documentaries on the poverty around there and this video ain't it.

[@ukbackyardmma]

2 Tory landlords? Did you watch the video, one was a Ukip voter and the other said he is a lifelong green party supporter but would vote tory in the next election.

[@Jay_Johnson]

@@ukbackyardmma UKIP is tory, they are further right, and the green voter said he would vote tory next election. hardly examples of deprivation.

[@russellwhite1581]

@@Jay_Johnson "UKIP is tory, they are further right" No, if you look at the history of UKIP, it has continually been to the left of the Tories on economic policy, so it is incorrect to say they are "further right" (unless one only takes immigration and the EU policy into account). The political spectrum is about more than social policy.

[@benparr7310]

@@russellwhite1581 The point Is he wouldn't be voting Tory if he was experiencing the same deprivation the community is

[@MrGrdnrmn]

That eeriness is my absolute favorite thing about England.

[@prynceshiftos6496]

Dumping ground for the weak and vulnerable. Places like this died when flights abroad became affordable

[@100nb6]

100%

[@andrewcottle5372]

Jeez what a shithole.

[@mrbearbear83]

Part of the reason for the brexit vote. If I was forced to go to jaywick, skeg, Brighton etc because I couldn't travel, I'd be pissed

[@oddities-whatnot]

I dont have any desire to go abroad on holiday. Rather spend it on property. Two weeks in the sun getting pissed ? Yeah, clever.

[@dianeshelton9592]

No it was already dying from the war onwards , Londoners who owned most of the beach chalets , which these homes are , didn’t go down and maintain the wooden chalets in the war( it was a huge no go area, mined beach and patrolled and kept empty to prevent invasion) . and post war the decline really started. Then a lot of London gangs bought up the private chalets and rented them out to people who couldn’t get housing elsewhere , still the Kray family are major landlords in Jaywick and I met Charlie Kray, whilst I was working there. The gangs generally rent them out at exorbitant rent to those who can’t rent property else where due to rent arrears or antisocial behaviour and do nothing to maintain the private roads or chalets, the majority of which have outside toilets and are deemed unfit for human habitation. They are proper slums, one room for cooking, sleeping , and eating in , no bathroom and an outside loo. Don’t blame foreign holidays blame people like this women who owns the condemned chalets , rents them out and doesn’t maintain the private roads she is responsible for and them blames refugees. You couldn’t make it up!

[@steveholmes3471]

I remember going to jaywick on holiday in the 80s, it was made clear by the really strange local people that we were very unwelcome, so much so that we never went to any local shops, absolutely vile people

[@fredgalaxy7632]

It's still the same!

[@AlyxAesthetics]

But why

[@zaydal-rubeyi6340]

@@AlyxAesthetics thats what im curious about

[@LANBritain1]

@@zaydal-rubeyi6340 "This is a local shop for local people!"

[@kincaid7550]

@@LANBritain1 we don't like strangers round ere 🤣

[@colallison6152]

No lie i dropped my wallet in Jaywick. Some kid picked it up ran down the road and handed it back.

[@chazbaz4519]

The poorest people know the hardship of losing.

[@colallison6152]

@@chazbaz4519 Yeah man. Youre right 👍

[@diegolove173]

She said a vote for UKIP is good for jayshit hahahaha

[@EdgyNumber1]

I wonder how Brexit is going for them.

[@mrbearbear83]

@@EdgyNumber1 well there's plenty of work now....

[@tm5267]

1:35 "I have a small income from... errrrrrrm..." Careful what to say 😂🤣

[@abdallahomer5463]

T M 😂😂😂

[@oc4026]

Definitely growing more than carrots

[@suzannerossiter1682]

😂

[@mariapierce2707]

Right! Be careful now ! Lol 😆

[@Lennon6412]

'No houses or jobs for British people', yet is also a landlord...

[@Jay_Johnson]

smh, going from green to conservative what is that jump?

[@russellwhite1581]

@@Jay_Johnson - ...because "Green" voters include social conservatives who are sceptical about capitalism, not just progressives.

[@bexcpfc]

I know this is 10 years ago, but...The landlord is woefully ill informed about politics, having a goldfish bowl philosophy about a place that they chose to live in that's destitute because of the poor housing and poor opportunity. Yet both this man and woman are happy to admit they're both landlords who profit off the issue. Stop exploiting poor people for your financial gain maybe? Live somewhere else?

[@dianeshelton9592]

I used to work there in 2018. Bear in mind all these roads and houses are privately owned. A lot by the Kray family or other London gangsters. The properties have been condemned as not fit for humans to live in. Yet the owners refuse to stop renting them out , mostly to people who are unable to rent else where as they have defaulted on previous rents or have anti social behavioural writ against them. So now you have a situation where the feckless will pay exorbitant prices in rent to gangsters ( that they won’t dare default on their rent to ) living in homes not fit for human habitation. Clacton council finally won an on going battle to refuse to pay housing benefit to anyone living there. As the homes are not fit for humans to live in and so hopefully the private landlords will now sell the properties and the council can get on with regeneration of the area. The silly woman writing to the council about the dangerous state of the roads is an idiot, they are private roads , the council has no sway over them at all and she calls her self a landlady, I bet she owns a few of those rat infested dumps and rents them out and is therefore financially responsible for mending the flipping road herself. Talk about not knowing anything about what’s going on. And apparently she thinks migrants are the problem, where as she herself is perpetuating the problems. The council have been desperate for years to buy up the properties , as you can see from its position it is very valuable land yet the owners find they make more from being slum landlords than they would form the sale of the land. In the 1930s when these beach huts were built it was really a fashionable place to visit from London, then the wooden structures deteriorated during the war, when Londoners didn’t visit , by the 50s the place had really begun to go down , then the Krays etc got involved and there you have it a self perpetuating mess that people blame the council for when the fact of the matter is the blame is greedy private owners of the slums and private roads.

[@fedup8347]

Actually, roads in local areas are local councils responsibility BY LAW they aren't "private" as the road is used by the entire street so maybe get your facts right before gobbing off

[@fedup8347]

I agree about the vile landlords though

[@dianeshelton9592]

@@fedup8347 rubbish a private road is by definition a private road, hence why roads to distant farms are not maintained by councils, or roads on private estates are not maintained by councils. Or roads to private houses are not maintained by councils. Having lived on a private road and paid to have bloody potholes filled in you need to learn to use Google or phone up your council.

[@brackenphillips6086]

i think there r estates in basildon more deprived than jaywick

[@curtiscarpenter9881]

Community interests, social enterprises, charity shops, employee owned businesses. This is not a silver bullet but it's a good place to start.

[@lifeisnotreal6092]

What do you mean?

[@FannyLerouxTime]

So, they vote conservative and ukip, then moan that the area is run down. You can't argue with dumb.

[@benparr7310]

It's not their fault education hasn't been funded enough

[@IamJackTheRipper]

If you actually watched the video, you will see the UKIP candidate was the only candidate that they said offered help and hope. The video is from 2010 which is around 13 years of labour government. You can't argue with dumb.

[@dinkdankdoo3035]

The beach is beautiful

[@tedcrilly1]

Paul sounds just like one of Charlie Higson's characters from The Fast Show! 🤣

[@harveymorgan1749]

I lived in a seaside town like that, it is nice but also depressing. Good for writing

[@ianmartin3407]

I live in jaywick for 20 years now I live in bucks now I still miss jaywick

[@doveronefoxtrot4417]

It doesn't matter who you vote for, the government still gets in. Maybe if some Mp's were forced to live there, then things would change.

[@stevenhensman2541]

My dear brother there is no such thing is an immigrant we are all from mother Earth don't matter what race what colour we are we are all one thank you

[@stevestaff7425]

Idiot

[@womblowbobble1139]

My mum says, “I’d love to live near the seaside” or “I wish I lived closer to the ocean, maybe a beach town” if this place or Blackpool or hull doesn’t change her mind, idk for her lol

[@likeadino8580]

Or cornwall

[@richflu4774]

'Voting Conservative' 'Voting UKIP' Well, there goes my sympathy.

[@zaydal-rubeyi6340]

i genuinely sympathise with you when you say you lost your sympathy when she vote UKIP, i may be right wing but that is wayyyy far right for my liking

[@fedup8347]

I mean when you wish poverty on people based on who they vote for it makes your progressiveness a lie. I say this as a Labour voters myself

[@Noodles37UK]

Try Cambuslang outside Glasgow, Southeast. It's the most empty, aimless, depressing hole I've lived in. I was suicidal for 4 and a half years there, in a rut till i moved eventually. All it has, is a Morrison's and a gym. A few local pubs, and a half dead Main Street.

[@user-xy4ff5yp7b]

Noodles37UK Cambuslang is way better than tons of other places in the central belt lol

[@tingtong8781]

Anthony, can you name them?

[@thornbird6768]

Noodles37UK Ahh wasn’t it supposed to be the town of the future ? Unfinished and left to rot , it’s criminal , I’m sure it would have been a nice place to live when it was first built but like all these 60’s / 70’s estates they became dumping grounds for the local councils to put unemployed people , it’s all wrong !!

[@jmacnaughton8881]

About fifteen years ago my mate at work was delivering to a shop in Cambuslang. He was driving an artic. As he reversed round the corner of the pub next to the shop he hit the satellite dish with the top of the trailer. This might not have been a problem but the pub was rammed with guys watching the football. They went mental😂

[@Renato_Pinheiro.9]

Triste. Uma prova de que independente do país o grande problema é o tipo de gestão dos impostos a uma população. Um grande abraço no coração do povo da comunidade de Jaywick.

[@zaydal-rubeyi6340]

eles votaram em um partido do governo de alt right, eles não gostam de imigrantes aqui mesmo eu experimentei isso.

[@phily8093]

She pronounced Jaywick three different ways in as many sentences.

[@Svetlana-says-it-as-it-is.]

I noticed that but I wasn’t quite sure if it was me or what... I live in England for decades now but English is not my native language and even in my native language that’s Portuguese I still come across words I never heard before and have to google dictionary and also how to pronounce certain names of people and places.

[@kevinparker461]

Walked down to Jaywick from Clacton about 20 years ago. Reminded me of a Township in South Africa. Road was just a dirt track & there was two burnt out car shells. I turned back, too risky!!

[@SheBYaya]

Which township in SA did it remind you of?

[@CBTvideos]

And if you go there today, all them shops look exactly the same, with a few roads resurfaced

[@anotherreason]

A decent amout has changes to this date a year later

[@Svetlana-says-it-as-it-is.]

This documentary is from 2010 and it’s 2022 at the time I am writing this comment and from what I gathered this place was built as a seaside resort in the 1930’s for Londoners and I think that over time people lost interest and started to go abroad to experience new things. The newest information I got is that very little improvement was made, if the place is private, roads are private and so on then I think it’s up to the owners to find the funds to do something about it. I honestly don’t think it will ever go back to what it was but I could be wrong. Don’t get me wrong but to me this place looks like somewhere in Eastern Europe or worse.

[@andrewcottle5372]

The only place you can still book a holiday.

[@AbbieInfunderland]

We were learning about this in school it used to be a butlins! Damn how did it get so bad

[@michaelcurtis5844]

You chavs infect everything you touch. That' s why.

[@WoxIsShite]

Michael Curtis lmao not everyone is a chav here chavs do ruin it though and those crackheads but when you meet the right people it’s fine

[@patrickwright6343]

@@WoxIsShite Up the Essex

[@joannesmallman9528]

It was never Butlins Butlins was on Clacton seafront

[@EdgyNumber1]

@@joannesmallman9528 No, I stayed at a Butlins resort here and it was okay actually. But we're going back about over 25 years ago though.

[@StefanSzczelkun]

People finding this might like my two recent plotland books: 'Plotlands of Shepperton' and 'Chalet Fields of the Gower' for a perhaps, more positive view of what is possible from a plotlands beginning.

[@aimswillbeback60s97]

How close Essex is close to London just shows how much the mps care it’s sad to see people who are afraid of a place they use to live in and can’t love it anymore but they don’t care but I do I care about people because I’m a human god bless all the people 💜xx

[@toppertruthio]

I bought a 15 room mansion in jaywick.It cost me 25 quid.

[@tomdebowski6240]

toppertruthio you have sooo overpaid

[@britnic5394]

did it come with lots of squater's blaming everyone else for there lazyness in life?

[@missg3188]

I dont get it.it looks like a lovely place to live.i mean to have the beach on your doorstep everyday.some people could only imagine that sort of view

[@ian9037]

5:45 so very articulate.

[@stevo728822]

Err...that's a private road, not the council's responsibility.

[@thevelvetsociety]

It's not a private road, dumbo. Look on Google maps.

[@kellyedey5952]

The dumb are you darling?.lol

[@danielmartinezdowsett4776]

Private road lol

[@helenm2169]

i wonder what it looks like now 10 years on

[@kirstinetermansen7234]

That has to change wonderful beach and chances to open shops

[@kevinbrown-ge6sz]

In the US, properties on the beach are sold at a premium. Americans with money would fix up those houses and convert them to vacation or retirement homes to be near the beach. It seems like just the opposite happens in the UK. Beach properties seem to be the poorer areas.

[@JudeTheYoutubePoopersubscribe]

Nobody wants to live at the beach because the weather is crap all year

[@Know-Your-Nation]

British weather is shit

[@JudeTheYoutubePoopersubscribe]

@@Know-Your-Nation lol exactly what I said. Weather is much better inland.

[@krachenford9594]

Why is the whole street full of garbage? Are they too poor, to pick it up?

[@stinkerboo5028]

Krachen Ford Too lazy to pick it up more like

[@krachenford9594]

@@stinkerboo5028 I know, i was trying to be funny, but failed . . . i'm german, sorry!

[@indiekiddrugpatrol3117]

@@krachenford9594 that was actually quite funny, first German I've ever met that has a sense of humour

[@misfit2022]

Did the person who wrote this headline visit Stoke?

[@SuperMissblueeyes]

If it wasn't for people moving to the UK from abroad, there would be nobody to take the jobs Brits don't seem to want to do & my hospital stay (with COVID) wouldn't have been so positive. The nurses from abroad made up most of the nicest nurses while I was desperately ill & incontinent! It was a couple of British nurses who complained & made for a couple of unpleasant nights for me in hospital when they ignored my "fall risk" status & put me at risk! If it wasn't for the lovely African nurse, I would have been at even more risk on one of the nights those nasty nurses were on shift! The African nurse also blew the whistle on them! That's what I call a good nurse!

[@woodenseagull1899]

Were the English nurses, the ones carrying the buckets....? If so, that's not their Job...!

[@davenolan3082]

Wellertons?

[@FredLimestone]

So basically East Londoners moved to Jaywick and it went to shit?

[@aclark903]

No, mate, unusually tight planning rules mean the market hasn't been allowed to improve things.

[@TheSm1thers]

@@aclark903 Well the market should abide by planning rules then

[@michaelcurtis5844]

@@aclark903 Tight planning rules, you mean laws that prevent chavy developers from building homes for second class people who are having eight to ten children, thus ruining what is good about Britain. Fuck off A Clark.

[@britnic5394]

jaywick was a holiday resort.. lots of shacks were built and then people have decided to live in them.. mostly old, some demented, some lazy, few can work but dont, they blame it on having no licences to drive and alike... lots of these shacks were built on no known roads and are no responsibility of a council.. most people there rent homes, throw there rubbish out into there gardens then wonder why they have rats in there homes and blame the landlords.. jaywick is a shit hole caused by the very people that live there...

[@womblowbobble1139]

J. Harris. Yh bcuz the ppl of jaywick are poor but there is No way of making money there not even illegally where as in east London making money is as simple as murder

[@ChrisEvans1001]

Wellatons

[@donaldkrump7564]

It's a disgrace. It could be glorious. A beautiful place. Knock the slums down. Get rid of the smack heads. Dope heads. It could be a top class place. I think it will in years to come

[@melbell5157]

It seems like a really nice place to live. The houses are spacious and upright. You don't have crack heads stabbing you for copper wire in your home. You don't have meth lab explosions or dead prostitutes in delapadated homes. There ain't no drive bys. I lived in Willow Run, and I had some friends who lived in Waterford, Detroit, and Poniac.

[@gary36104]

I'm with you on that but then their someone else's problem

[@oscar6487]

I would love to come to jaywick and see for myself what it's like and meet the people

[@maninthewilderness5795]

Are things in Britain really as bad as these shows portray...or is is just Media Propaganda?

[@compassion333]

Man In The Wilderness yes this is Britian unfortunately

[@maninthewilderness5795]

It seems like they look for the worst places just to make a TV show. Not all of the UK is like this is it?

[@compassion333]

Man In The Wilderness well all places are like this. the difference is that this place is abandoned. no tourists are going there anymore, people are also leaving. i live in Birmingham, currently the bin men are striking as well in Birmingham for higher wages and it's dirty everywhere; looks like a 3rd world country. there's no affordable housing as well unfortunately and the council treats you like a peasant.

[@maninthewilderness5795]

Wow. I am sorry. I watched this and just thought.....that HAVE to be just picking the worst cases they could find just to make an entertaining show.

[@andrewbrigg1978]

But too many are becoming like this. Rural villages and areas are continually being told to build more in order to make room for savages such as those in Clacton and Jaywick. I'm also thinking of people who continually have children so that they won't have to work. I'm also thinking about those who enter our nation knowing or caring diddly squat about what it takes to survive in the western world. Just give us twenty years and even Detroit will look like the land of milk and honey. Socialism does not work. Handouts do not work. Job creation in a climate that encourages job creation does.

[@xkromas]

3:28 No jobs or houses for British? So there are jobs and houses available for other nationalities? I didn't quite get that messy lady who votes for ukip and has an England flag on her property like it's a bloody government building.

[@guidofarage7457]

***** She's talking about how immigrants with large families are typically prioritised over local Brits who've been resident for generations. Exactly the sort of thing which has been happening in Barking, Dagenham (outer East London) for years. A lot of people in Jaywick and Clacton are ex-East Londoners, they moved out to escape multiculturalism. In other words: White Flight. The White British population has declined rapidly in Greater London over the past 10-20 years, so no wonder they move out to White areas of Essex and UKIP are popular there.

[@GhulamMustafa-ic3xr]

Xkromas agree with ya there mate

[@mielerodriguez5678]

What don't you get?

[@AndrewG1989]

I blame the government, Essex County Council and Tendring District Council for not helping out Jaywick. I haven't been to Jaywick. But I have been to Clacton-on-Sea and other places in the Tendring area. Even Walton-on-the-Naze is also claimed to be "deprived".

[@rexel666]

"Wellatons"?

[@russellwhite1581]

Local dialect.

[@sail4549]

Wellingtons

[@JayyJayyTripz]

honestly it looks nice there lol

[@pzychomyth9391]

JayJay- tripz its really not

[@morgo0459]

It is I live hear it's a good cumunity

[@MikesBakes]

This is like Westview in WandaVision

[@rinchhensherpa6972]

Sad looking garden. Soo much possibilities though.

[@tectorama]

We drove through there last week, by mistake. Like being in downtown Beirut

[@mt6271]

It’s luxurious compared with living in some places up north I lived at. Who doesn’t like a beach 🏖.

[@MrCostas32]

I'd rather be dead than live in Jaywick

[@perryturner6343]

They dont include the term "Essex" in the report. I wonder why! :D

[@dixgun]

It looks very dreamy ☁️ ⛅️ 🌊 despite the flaws.

[@ijustdidahugeshit]

I am a qualified lesbian

[@richardgoode5314]

Investment as policy by goverment with a future as industry as option.

[@GrumpyOldMan9]

I think it looks rather cozy.

[@iroscoe]

TavernSenses It could be,but a lot of the houses are like something from Borats home village and many of the current residents have been moved out there by London boroughs and are not exactly the cream of society .

[@johnread1147]

Me too

[@morgo0459]

It is I know I live hear

[@FredLimestone]

Who doesn't love dirty smack needles? very cosy indeed.

[@Clissoldkid]

You need to go to SpecSavers

[@oscar6487]

You need a council that has a understanding executive

[@100nb6]

You can tell this town was bustling in the 60s

[@andyhumphrey9351]

jaywick makes margate look awesome and thats a shitole its self lmao.

[@krushingbro6620]

Jaywick is how the rest of the UK is starting to go, have you noticed?

[@vecinoslacalavilla]

started well and abruptly did turn into a shit hole.

[@BlueNeahno]

Now watch the video on ‘Hartlepool...The place where police don’t come out’.. jeez !!

[@neilrafferty2097]

Adrian Jeffery Set the bulldozers loose on half of it . Seems to have a lot of potential

[@raymondchassell4204]

Sub titles are crap

[@savedbygodsgrace.9058]

Seriously though i was expecting to see burning car tyres.

[@LuisGutierrez-ux7mz]

What is the word she pronounces at 2:58? If someone understands. Thanks.

[@SuperLuckyLad]

Luis Gutierrez Wellingtons ,I think that's the word you are seeking.

[@LuisGutierrez-ux7mz]

SuperLuckyLad Many thanks. New word for me.

[@indiekiddrugpatrol3117]

@@LuisGutierrez-ux7mz it means Wellington boots

[@LuisGutierrez-ux7mz]

Ok. Thanks.

[@thomasfromswindon7609]

just watched the Jaywick dock " benefits by the sea" on C5 . The lady at the start with her husband owm several properties that are rented out to people on benefits. they earn at least 4 k a month out of tax payers money.

[@vincebevis2277]

I was thinking the same thing friend.

[@Someoldguy69]

I did the plumbing on her house in 2005. That top part of her house with the green railings is basically one big jacuzzi! Her and her husband are actually nice people!

[@redaabada2782]

Tormented Darkness , she used to be my landlady in the 1998 in harlow essex, she is ok , but her husband was a good man.

[@peterpledge5705]

2:33 black flag?

[@uktravel8341]

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." -- Winston Churchill, 1938

[@suzannel8926]

Churchill wanted us to be a USA lapdog and slave to the international bankers. That's why the rest of north Europe and Scandinavia have less differences between rich and poor and better pensions. A lot of northern towns still feel the effects of when Thatcher did the opposite to Germany in the 80s by making millions of people unemployed, and then blaming those people for losing hope when their only options were supermarket shelf stacking. Tories left us with a USA style economy encouraging people to be yuppies, to live a life of greed and debt, but it all crashed by the early 90s, and crashes every few years since. That was why Tony Blair wanted to encourage more people than ever into university, to give young people from those destroyed communities hope.

[@suzannel8926]

We have a generation who are still brainwashed by WWII propaganda, and think Germany wanted war with Britain before Britain declared war on Germany. They would cheer the leaders like heroes, not being told until the 1950s the government had the code so would hide in bunkers, while the people were bombed. I'm English and think anti EU Tories are the same as Thatcher, when she didn't like the EU preventing Tories mistreating British people, because of the EU saying workers should have enough breaks and genetically modified ingredients should be labelled on food. Then the secret service whistle blower David Shayler told how Thatcher was going along with the USA using British money to fund Al Qaeda in Libya against Gaddafi. A country people didn't pay household bills, while more old British people were dying of the cold than before Tories stole and sold off public owned energy. It wasn't until later that Labour introduced cold weather payments to help stop old people dying. It might not seem a nice idea for the UK to split up, but England has always been run by the international bankers who need our economy to stay closely linked with USA banks, encouraging everybody to live in greed and debt. It has become worse since the 1980s, when Tories did the opposite of Germany by treating workers like dirt, making millions of people unemployed and left us an economy based on little else but encouraging everybody to live in debt, for our economy to crash by the early 90s when many couldn't pay back the debts, and crashes every few years since after the USA. Then Tories use the crashes as an excuse to make anybody suffer not any use at being a slave for the upper classes, bankers and Tory tax dodging donors. Don't expect our media to point out the truth, trying to get idiots to be all nationalist over fishing, while we have the biggest differences between rich and poor and worst pensions in north Europe. What media has bothered to remind our people that our own government funded Islamic extremists in Libya, after our own people were shot in Tunisia and blown up in Manchester by extremists who trained in Libya after Gaddafi?? England is full of Sun reading idiots who call others lefties as an insult, while they expect everybody else to pay for their children and cheer on the NHS, not realising the NHS is a lefty idea. Because they heard some Americans online using the tern to insult multiculturalism, when the USA and other capitalist countries promote multiculturalism more than any lefty country. People suddenly care what the EU thinks after voting to leave, now the international bankers can use Russia as an excuse to start WWIII. Forgetting Ireland had to spend years fighting to leave the UK. How asleep do you have to be to keep voting in governments that cause university students to be £50,000 in debt, while it's free in Scotland? If the UK all split up, the international bankers/war machine wouldn't see us as any use at being a USA lapdog, and might go away to the USA, and English people will see how Scottish politicians look after their people like the rest of north Europe and Scandinavia, and then want to be the same. That's if it isn't too late and English people aren't dumbed down beyond help.

[@uktravel8341]

@@suzannel8926 Coal-mining has been in decline since the First World War in Britain, Thatcher was but the latest of a long line of Prime Ministers who managed this decline.

[@Know-Your-Nation]

@@suzannel8926 too late you guys are already US lapdogs

[@antispindr8613]

But how many communities in Iraq did Bliar and his mate Bush help to destroy?

[@asranshahban4977]

blaming immigration not a single coloured person spotted lol

[@gwh3013]

Not all immigrants are non-white

[@brodyredacted3198]

It's a national problem not just with the town.

[@violet-trash]

I don't see how minorities can blame white people for their problems when white people are living like this...

[@flowergirl8815]

@@deekdouglas3055 Gain? don't make me laugh. They come over here take council homes jobs etc. We don't want them here

[@ilikegreenthings6009]

@@brodyredacted3198 it's not a problem, without our taxes many english people wouldn't have benefits money.

[@liquidsnail7305]

Did no one catch the guy's name..... Paul Nobs.

[@spartybrearly7221]

In the name of sanity, why would anyone buy a ‘house’ in Jaywick!?

[@tomroland5467]

So this place is in the affluent South East of England, where all the wealth and power is supposed to be.

[@thornbird6768]

Tom Roland It’s being run down for gentrification !!!! Mark my words these pretty seaside towns all over the country are being deliberately left to rot so it can be pulled down and re built for the rich !!!!

[@unregistredhypercam]

There's plenty of depravation in the South. Been to Poole recently? It's a ghost town. Even McDonalds and Burger King have left. It's never been a great town, but it's really gone very sharply downhill over the last few years. To be honest everywhere went downhill during the 2010s, but I mention Poole's decline as it is especially severe. It's probably worse than Boscombe now, and that's the heroin capital of England. The South East has lots of areas that are pretty rough. Much of this is due to industry that collapsed, just like what happened elsewhere, only it happened more slowly so nobody noticed. How much shipbuilding goes on in Portsmouth now? Seaside towns went out of fashion over 40 years ago due to cheap flights abroad, so places like Hastings are a total dump. This probably didn't help Jaywick either. The South West has its own problems too. The problems the younger generations have affording property here are amplified compared to the rest of the country as wages are both very low and prices very high. Coronavirus is set to decimate the economy more here than anywhere else as it's all tourism based. It's going to get a lot worse before it gets better.

[@grahamcox662]

Wonder what the house prices are like

[@aclark903]

Bungalows for £ 20,000 (yes 20) in 2013. Risk of flooding.

[@thornbird6768]

I bet it’s cheap to rent there , but if you can’t find work what’s the point ?? And if you were rich you’d go somewhere better , the town is in a no win situation !! Shame the beach is lovely 👍🏻

[@sub3ero984]

Dont blame any one else, blame the british weather

[@retiredpainter259]

Carswell and Jaywick match made in heaven

[@deanwilliams7125]

how do i get a house there ...they need decent weed

[@deanwilliams7125]

Abbie- Leigh na defo dnt want to be near rapists il end up in jail for hurting em

[@georgiemayors5453]

Abbie- Leigh really?!

[@WoxIsShite]

Abbie- Leigh people like you just agree to stereotypes but some people are lovely my nan and uncle live their they will help anyone they can and I don’t think there are many rapists just a few druggys and chavs

[@VOLightPortal]

Needs more encouraging of economic development. Get investors and entrepreneurs on board to come up with a 20 year development plan for the whole community.

[@VOLightPortal]

Also, area definitely needs a lot more trees and recreation, to get people out of their cynical mindsets.

[@British_Cocoa]

Arab , Russian and Asian money investment are major in the UK from the Shard, property market and information technology ....... but no immigrant involvement welcome right 😆

[@tonyclifton265]

2min58s "we have to wear wellatons" LOL

[@MrDavidlfields]

Six years on. Has much changed?

[@Andressa19-92]

I would love to live there!

[@irlgriff]

They to go back and speak to them again!

[@misfit2022]

Still preferable to Slough but council letting the residents down.

[@tonyhill4218]

Lovely peaceful place, planes flying over people driving morgans deprived my arse go to places like grimsby and hull and places like that

[@callumcallaghan8175]

everyone should look up the statistics or learn about it properly before they come to a conclusion on the things they feel rather than know

[@WoxIsShite]

CeeDibby. callaghan thank you this channel doesn’t cover much about these places except for what nearby residents say

[@abaha9898]

Not getting involved in politics

[@kingbibihabibi]

4:41 Ahhh, so it's *that* kind of town. We have those in America, too. A whole state, really. (Looking at you, West Virginia.)

[@kingbibihabibi]

The Confederate flag isn't a symbol of some "glamorous" American culture. It's the symbol of a rebel movement that fought *against* the United States to preserve their racist society...and *lost.* The actual American flag might be a better representation of, you know, America.

[@casey7171]

The thing is they only show the horrible parts of jaywick, I live here and there are far nicer places in jawick plus they have done up all them roads that looked dodgy they like showing the horrible places which is bullshit because the beach is beautiful here and many people love visiting here and stay visiting so don't judge until you visit here. My flats for one are very modern and many of my neighbours are retired couples or families who wanted to be somewhere far more relaxing

[@fedup8347]

56% live in poverty so you sound kind of selfish that you overlook that and go "oh my house is in good condition so poverty doesn't exist here!"

[@fedup8347]

Theres many who don't live in good conditions there and there's mass unemployment, like just coz your house is good doesn't erase the many people living in poverty

[@casey7171]

@@fedup8347 no, youve got that wrong. the programmes who show the lives of people living in jaywick choose them people specifically to make fun of them. they only show the bad parts of jaywick to humour viewers and for shock value. i dont think they care at all about the people actually living in jaywick they just want something to peak viewers interest. i mean people come on holiday here just to see how bad it really is and i see people laughing on buses all the time. what help are these programmes actually doing? i did write the comment years ago and yeah the modern housing comment was a bit self-absorbant but improvements have been made, theres a whole side of jaywick they never actually show and i wonder why?

[@StennMathis]

@@casey7171 And THAT is the way the media works, more about Ratings and Shock value than the authentic picture...That's why i threw out my TV 20 years ago and only occasionally have a look at uploads like this on the net

[@fegman]

I actually really feel for the people of Jaywick, but this is not an isolated example in the UK, and has been going on in the North for decades. This is not an issue about immigrants living in Jaywick, nor people moving out of London to live in Jaywick because London is 'full' of immigrants. This is a lack of business and employment, and the slide of what once was a pleasant area into a slum. Additionally, the 'low cost' housing is being bought up by investors to let out to people on benefits as they receive a set income from the DWP on their behalf. Stop thinking about your bank balance and profit. and think about the bigger picture

[@indiana146]

It could be great once again but it should be for the residents as well Not revamping it and shoving the residents out

[@denisesaunders3067]

I remember moving to crook in 1974 and a young boy calling us tramps and to go back to where we came from. We had only moved a half hour car ride away.my brother later became friends with the lad and my mother lived in that house we moved to for 34 years.

[@oscar6487]

Higher prices too

[@stuCameraman1]

At 3min 30sec... How the joke is now a reality😮

[@cafsixtieslover]

It has a lovely beach.

[@auralegend7946]

This looks like Russia coming from a Russian in the uk