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@Aezur206 ай бұрын
I was born in Dunstable but moved to Ireland when I was 8. It was very weird for me to hear your voice shout out "Queensway Hall" as I haven't heard these words in this order since I was a literal child.
@ommanipadmehung30146 ай бұрын
Squarespace have absolutely terrible customer support. They ghost you as soon as you sign up
@yourmainful6 ай бұрын
Many Brits, old and young, man and woman give off a very eerie, pedo, dont trust me i am a serial killer, and proud of it type of vibe. Very eerie.
@derycktrahair81086 ай бұрын
Great video. We're all experiencing this life together. The greedy ones just don't understand that.
@canavar14356 ай бұрын
13:30 Your pound changes hand 13 times with VAT deducted and you have a Penny left.
@achimney296 ай бұрын
This should be common knowledge, locally spent money stays local, giving all of your pay to a company based in an off shore tax haven will always end badly.
@bigfootwalker53996 ай бұрын
Local businesses no longer invest in their customers, so why should customers invest in local businesses!
@endmaker21516 ай бұрын
How can we incentives local spending. I know some villages in Wales stop super stores from coming to the area. When superstores are permitted they are not allowed to have bakers/butchers in the store.
@EgoChip6 ай бұрын
It's a lot easier said than done when you are counting your pennies.If you have a family to feed and clothe, bills to pay, and the rest, shopping local is unaffordable. Why would you shop at Sidhu's Supermarket at the end of the street, when Tesco's have a wider range of cheaper products? That's if there even is a Sidhu's Supermarket on your street any more, and it's not now a Spar or a Londis?
@AlexanderTheGoodEnough6 ай бұрын
Eh, local businesses buy products and services from outside the community. So money leaves. What is kept in the community is the gross margin of a local business.
@TomLatchford-dc2em6 ай бұрын
It is common knowledge
@PWMoze6 ай бұрын
At last, a KZbinr who can explain it, rather than just wandering around filming it and expressing shock and shame. Great content.
@longshotkdb6 ай бұрын
And of course, prompting everyone they talk to to blame it all on immigration and homeless folk ... *I think I'm just going to lie down and die if I have to watch another of those, morons.
@mikeburke35766 ай бұрын
Exactly this
@theaccountant58466 ай бұрын
This is a great comment. I'm so tired of seeing so called youtube "journalists" who just walk around exaggerating gloom and doom, stoking fear in order to get views. At least this guy explains the actual situation.
@Luke-yh6nm6 ай бұрын
He's a man of the people. He doesn't dress like Piers Morgan. I'd buy him a beer.
@Money4NothingUK4 ай бұрын
@@longshotkdb all big businesses are owned by immgrants though adsa being the main one
@Thedarkknight22446 ай бұрын
It’s crazy how after the crash, the attitude was the keep calm and carry on. The government just thought (or prayed) things would get better by itself. 14 years later we are still feeling the effects of it
@Hashterix6 ай бұрын
The government didn't just allow this to happen, though, they've overseen policies that caused this decline in the first place. It's all by design.
@alfyryan69496 ай бұрын
they misunderstood the carry on bit; it’s carry on to do smth, not do nothing.
@RaverOperator6 ай бұрын
@@Hashterixand the Bank of England control the government...
@falconeshield6 ай бұрын
Don't let foreign money dicate your country it's that simple
@lendipuppa87416 ай бұрын
@@HashterixRight!! It was the general public that carried on and hoped that things would get back to normal! They were happy working from home and shopping online; what did they think was going to happen to the high street!! All by design!!
@reanukeeves2k776 ай бұрын
My hometown has really declined over the past 10 years. Only one bank left, all clothes shops gone, most independent shops gone, nowhere to buy video games or electronics anymore, several pubs boarded up. Just Turkish barbers, charity shops, bookies and fast food.
@ONYX-3656 ай бұрын
& vape shops 😂
@yarly31806 ай бұрын
Barbers have a function at least. There need to be cash friendly 'front stores' to launder (drug) money mainly nail salons, kebab / chips shops, bakeries etc.
@reanukeeves2k776 ай бұрын
@@ONYX-365 lol even one of those closed down recently. Can’t say I’m too upset though about that one
@Amberxxbbunni6 ай бұрын
Sounds like my town tbh
@eliwilliams31696 ай бұрын
Same
@MrLense6 ай бұрын
Again one of the most common frustrations is that why are local businesses, especially high street businesses and garages are always only open when everyone else is working. If you're business is only open 9-5 and I'm working, I'm literally never going to be able to spend money there. If restaurants want to survive, be online, garages need to be able to offer mobile, pick up or call outs to customers.
@latristessdurera87636 ай бұрын
I always had this problem with banks. Working a 9-5 always meant that I had a limited window of Saturdays.
@FuntClaps1016 ай бұрын
I get ya, I know the struggle, having to book annual leave to just take your car for an MOT is frustrating af. But on the other hand. Who wants to live in a world where we’re all working unsociable hours, I know I don’t want to work shite shift times.
@Hashterix6 ай бұрын
Indeed, it's bonkers. The high street still operates around a societal structure (where stay at home wives went out to do the shopping during the day) that's been gone for at least 30-40 years.
@MrLense6 ай бұрын
@@FuntClaps101 I know but a garage should be able to take "After hours" drop off then deliver the car back to you as an example. I don't expect mechanics to work at night but the business should be able to at least take bookings over weekends and evenings.
@vivdoolan68466 ай бұрын
Very good point
@likatalikata38236 ай бұрын
The death of high street to malls and supermarkets is not just the UK alone but its a global phenomenon. I'm an African and the most classical examples of this phenomenon are seen in South African cities and other major cities around the continent like Harare and Nairobi. The Mall and Megastore phenomenon hit the continent in the the 90s and the early 2000s to the detriment of downtowns and with it multiple high streets. Today, especially in SA, downtowns are really hollowed out or are a pale shadow of what they once were.
@fiqhonomics6 ай бұрын
Malls are a blight and enrich only property developers, commercial landlords and big retail chains. The government in Cape Town is promoting the provision of public market areas to provide opportunities for individual businesses. The "market" should be truly "free'.
@TheWizardGamez2 ай бұрын
Malls aren’t bad. Africa still prefers density so it should be minimal over the long term. All malls really do is centralize luxury goods as far as I’ve seen.
@edaleman27582 ай бұрын
There's malls here in Morocco but small shops and local markets are alive and well
@kmdreacts6 ай бұрын
It breaks my heart, bro.. Memories as a kid watching Toys'r'us ads "there's a magical place..", shopping for my school set and pens at Woolworths, working at BHS early 2000s and Debenhams Oxford Street from 2013 until it's closure (best night job ever), going cinemas with school friends then a Pizza Hut restaurant, yes, a frickin restaurant people. Going to HMV and buying cds, tshirts and games. Just the fact that CEX is the Only game store alive today makes me cry to sleep. Hell, even Leyton Lagoon swimming pool in East London got rid of the famous pool slide and I didn't even notice. Banks are closing down left, right and centre and reopened as chain coffee shops like Costa. Not to mention the Mandela Effect on products we purchased back in the day which are different today: Blue Ribbon chocolate bars are now Blue Riband, Snickers that were 25p back in the day was Actually bigger than it's 89p counterpart today. 20p bus journeys that now cost 1.75 and still barely any AC for the sweatbox summers.
@RendererEP6 ай бұрын
No way Leyton Lagoon got rid of the yellow slide?! 😥
@kmdreacts6 ай бұрын
@@RendererEP indeed, they did.. I was in shock passing by that way a few weeks back. Apparently it's been gone for years. Clissold park paddling pool and it's ice cream shack by the tennis courts, gone. So many childhood memories 😔
@RendererEP6 ай бұрын
@@kmdreacts My nan lived in Leyton until she died, haven't really been back since 2017. When I was little, in summer we used to go to Plaistow park where they had a paddling pool. I think its still there but they haven't filled it in years. I was just typing "at least Brooks farm is still around" only to check it and realise that closed recently too
@valley_robot6 ай бұрын
There are plenty of game shops, "game" for one, you can buy records from HMV in most towns, nothings changed just the names of the shops, Smyths toys has replaced toys r us, pizza hut is still a restaurant, literally nothing has changed except maybe the name
@kmdreacts6 ай бұрын
@@valley_robot there are no "Game" stores where I live anymore. There were 2 that used to be in Stratford, gone. Oxford Street, Gone. Angel Islington, Gone. And yeah, pizza hut is still around but only delivery stores. Not restaurants you can sit and eat with all you can salad buffet like a Harvester.
@deborahgriffith74762 ай бұрын
Last time I went to Oxford Street I was SHOCKED! It’s horrid. It’s filled with tacky over priced sweet shops that are a front for money laundering. The UK is a MESS.
@ED-209-8KАй бұрын
I’ll be living near London again soon and I’ll never go into the city again I’ll stay outside it 100%
@robertbensch77486 ай бұрын
That last part really got me. "It´s a week from christmas, look at this." ... I myself own a small town store , and especially last years christmas was dead in the water. We manufacture our own stuff, and usually december is a double average month. We can only produce so much at a time, and we prepare for christmas season throughout the whole year. Last year december was the third best month of the year. My employee got sick for a week, which usually spells doom and chaos in december when we´re down to 2/3 people. But when she recovered and came back she had nothing to do. A week before christmas. Sadly, I had to let her go afterwards and gave her a good recommendation for a store in a larger city. The death creeps in from the small towns towards the cities, then the metropolis. If the good streets in the metropolitan areas can´t hold their shops, something is going very sideways.
@sweetla47506 ай бұрын
Do u have an online shop,being from the US I’d probably never make it to ur shop in person but would luv to give u business ❤
@JoolsUK3 ай бұрын
Hard times, hope spreading awareness of your shop helps. Word of mouth doesn't happen so much with less visitors but people do want to support local business
@EKsUrbanTracks5 ай бұрын
@25:30 Hello, French bookseller in Paris here! About France: Amazon charges €0.01 for book deliveries, the ABSOLUTE MINIMUM. This was such a joke. Regular French bookshops cannot afford to send books for free, so we were fucked here too. 🤷🏿 But we have an army of dedicated customers who tells us they don't want to give money to Amazon, and would gladly pay an extra €4-7 to get their books delivered home. They also have a not-so-good reputation for deliveries, so people get fed up and go back to the shops if they can afford it. Also book prices are the same everywhere by law, in order to give a chance to small bookshops who would never be able to compete with Amazon. We were also lucky that bookshops were deemed essential during the pandemic and we were able to stay open under strict safety conditions.
@leehumphries76965 ай бұрын
Yep, here in the UK book chains campaigned to end the Net Book Agreement (NBA) where all books were sold for the same price a paperback being e.g.£8.99 - they could not be reduced for sale unless damaged. When that was abolished by the chain stores successful campaign in 1997, all the independent book stores could not compete and lots wnet out of business. Then came Amazon..
@vikos784 ай бұрын
It is €0.01 for books that retail over €35 €. Otherwise Amazon whill charge you €3. Same problem occured with all business that have to compete with Amazon Prime : Free shipping at Amazon while you have to charge you customer the right post prices. Believe me, I am envious of the protection offered to the booksellers in France.
@deborahgriffith74762 ай бұрын
I love going to bookshops!!!
@tomcormack70566 ай бұрын
The biggest problem is the reduction in people walking by, passing trade was destroyed by supermarkets, online banking (branches closed down), and cheap processed food being the preferred option. Most people don't have to walk outside for any service these days. Combine that with covid and lack of independent business has destroyed it for good. You may think this is a good thing that we are more efficient with shopping now however it has destroyed the middle class in the country. Without social classes you can never climb out of poverty. You either work for a corporation on the high street or own it, no in between. Its incredibly dystopian and quality of life is reduced in every metric.
@AlexanderTheGoodEnough6 ай бұрын
Sadly, I firmly believe the west (america in particular) has become an oligarchy. So an insurmountable wealth discrepancy is the goal to achieve and maintain into perpetuity.
@PWMoze6 ай бұрын
Excellent point, if you make it impossible for the small guy to get ahead we all end up working for the international corporations owned by the oligarchs.
@reheyesd86666 ай бұрын
Even managers get a terrible pay and have to do many unpaid hours effectively making them work for min or less than min wage
@oldershikari8286 ай бұрын
A very well written comment. Wholeheartedly agree..
@daveanderson38056 ай бұрын
I get your point, but I don't think managers are quite as badly off as all that.@reheyesd8666
@SutekhTheDestroyer6 ай бұрын
It’s like a vicious cycle; the more we shop online, the more stores close, so when we _do_ take the time to try and source things locally, the less likely we’ll be able to find what we want, which takes us right back to online shopping. People always choose convenience, but it can come with a heavy cost.
@wolfgangkranek3766 ай бұрын
The problem is also on the side of the sellers. Sometimes I want to buy a product online, directly at a shop or from a company. But then they only sell it via amazon.
@yeahyeah30136 ай бұрын
this makes me glad that i do spend my money locally bc i dont like shopping online
@julieemery89636 ай бұрын
😩😩 i would prefer to shop local
@julieemery89636 ай бұрын
@@yeahyeah3013I agree with you, dont buy online at all
@firebyrd4376 ай бұрын
Out of 3 butchers, we had only one now remains opens part time. I was talking with him and he said that he decided to include many items that most people pick up daily or every few days. It's helped him stay afloat. Our town was beautiful, it had a town square and many different shops. The first death knell was it being turned into a parking area, removing 2 thirds of the square. Since then all the grocery shops, green grocers, butchers, clothes and shoe shop have gone bust. We're left with hair dressers, bookies, pubs and a Coop that charges exuberant prices
@brutal_ben6 ай бұрын
I've always been a big fan of your content since the parkour days but I've particularly been enjoying your more recent style. Keep going sir, great work!
@WeAreNotExperts20076 ай бұрын
100 years ago, Bradford was way ahead of Leeds in terms of prosperity. It was widely known as the richest city in the UK aside from London. In recent times, it has become a hub for poverty and the city centre has gone completely downhill.
@mothgames94666 ай бұрын
I grew up in Bradford, I rly miss how nice it was when I was little. By the time I hit my teens the city centre stopped being a competitor for Leeds, such a shame. The most beautiful Waterstones they had
@G36C-5566 ай бұрын
*Bradfordistan
@WeAreNotExperts20076 ай бұрын
@@G36C-556 *Bradistan
@Guppin096 ай бұрын
Totally agree - I’m from Bradford as well, and moved away 4 years ago. It makes me so sad to see how much it’s gone downhill every time I visit.
@Andygb786 ай бұрын
A prosperous Bradford, surely not.
@Notapizzathief6 ай бұрын
I live in Exeter (I saw the short you made here the other day), and it's interesting to see the contrast between the independent shops and upmarket student hippy types, and the number of homeless people here. Having been both a student at the uni and homeless in the past, it's always stood out to me how expensive it is to be poor. You end up with no choice but to buy the cheap stuff from chains.
@RosemaryH-c7eАй бұрын
Oh diddums have you heard of cooking you buy healthy cheap food greens tomatoes etc and you actually here's a new thing cook it it's also very easy to press the buttons to cook even in a microwave LOL
@dogbog996 ай бұрын
This was a great video. You really have a good style for making these little documentaries about interesting topics. Enjoying all your content.
@latristessdurera87636 ай бұрын
I’d like to add a couple of small things. First the cost of public transportation is too expensive and to get a bus into the town centre and back often negates the purchase. Leading to more online purchases. Also most commercial landlords are now pension funds or conglomerates who you can’t negotiate over with rent. I believe this was a major issue for both small retailers and large companies like Debenhams. I’ve watched quite a lot of film and tv companies leave soho because of this. The old building are now just Starbucks and we works.
@jennessacard47966 ай бұрын
How much is the bus over there
@fiqhonomics6 ай бұрын
Is public transport run by private companies?
@Yatezylad6 ай бұрын
I really appreciate the eggort Jimmy puts into explaining complex topics in a simple way for us. It's pretty mental
@rejjie6 ай бұрын
i remember christmas shopping in london as a child and it used to be such a magical experience, shame thats gone
@3DHDcat6 ай бұрын
there is nothing British left in London ,only hollow corpse of English history or concentrated to landlords who found themselves with immense wealth post 70s that don't know what to do with.
@HUYI16 ай бұрын
I remember! Hamleys! Looking at awe at all the toys each year when my parents took me there! And toys R us too! Good times 😊😊
@poddy65304 ай бұрын
Hamleys is still there. And you could still go christmas shopping in camden. Vibrant and full of independent traders
@quantig6 ай бұрын
I live around Cambridge, it's always been pretty tough as far as I remember in terms of small businesses because of the amount of influence the colleges have around the city (determining rents, closing times of pubs and clubs, location of the train station to the centre, etc.) We have two shopping centres, two retail parks (one is redeveloped into housing and communal spaces in the not too far future) but it's just bleak here in terms of smaller shops, and as far back as I remember, it always has been.
@googlygoink6 ай бұрын
I would add a few other points. 1. Because of increased housing prices we have much, much, much less disposable income, Japan is often a case study of a country with no gdp growth, but head out there and you'll see a culture with a lot of shopping, in fact the domestic expenditure in real terms - excluding housing - has been steadily rising, even as gdp as a whole stays flat. In the uk gdp is up, but so are housing costs, which are included in gdp, so us paying more for that is masking the reality of domestic expenditure. (rent, and imputed rent, make up 15% of our gdp) 2. What we do build is shit. You mentioned the blocks of flats being bad, but what if they had shops on the lower two floors? this is super common in a lot of parts of Europe etc, and then you have a consumer base literally on top of a potential cafe, or restaurant, or grocer etc. Often what is being built is detatched housing in the middle of nowhere, we don't build to even medium density, so the number of people in walking distance to a shop just never gets that high. 3. We utilize only one transport method for shopping - cars. Retail parks, supermarkets with big car parks, even in the middle of our cities the shopping centers are fuelled by a car park tacked onto the side. Look at Reading station, it cost £900,000,000. It contains about a dozen small shops, most of them coffee shops, one WHsmiths, and a hotel chocolat. Now go look up Matsudo station in Japan, it has a multiple floor shopping center built on top of it, it has a walkway above road level to 3 more shopping centers. Reading station is great looking, but why wasn't a transit hub set up to also be a shopping hub? (and it's right in the town center) That is the case for nearly every big train station in Japan, they either are a shopping center as well as a train station, or you can stumble out 10 feet and get to a shopping center. And I would say, if people are getting in their car to drive somewhere to shop, they WILL NOT go to a small town, a small town high street MUST GET FOOT TRAFFIC, because car traffic is a fantasy when they could just go like 5 mins up the road to the nearest retail park or supermarket.
@JimmyTheGiant6 ай бұрын
Making a note of this common, great info there mate thanks!
@manonvernon86466 ай бұрын
I noticed this in Finland as well, notably Tikkurila station appears to be inside a giant mall.
@f.g.94666 ай бұрын
@@JimmyTheGiant look at the concept of Transit Oriented Development. It's not exclusive to Japan at all, but they have definitely mastered it. Also zoning laws in Japan allowing for mixed use make a huge difference in the composition of the urban fabric: every neighbourhood is a functional mix of housing, retail, services and restaurants, there's local employment and shopping within walking distance. And more importantly, streets are walkable being designed for pedestrians rather than cars. The KZbinr "Not Just Bikes" made a video about the Secret to Japanese Cities just a few days ago where he briefly covers a lot of these aspects.
@johnwright93726 ай бұрын
Point taken, but do you want to live in a miniscule flat above the shopping mall such as in Japan and Hong Kong?
@googlygoink6 ай бұрын
@@johnwright9372 that's not what most places on Japan are like. The videos you see of tiny apartments are generally the very very inner city areas. Around Tokyo station, Shibuya station, Akihabara etc. Even 20-30 mins subway away from the stations like Shibuya and you'll be finding apartments at 1/3 the price of equivalents in the UK. Even when accounting for different wages they pay much less in rent than we do in the UK. Japan does not have a housing crisis. Looking at apartments in Shibuya and thinking that's representative is like thinking all cities in the UK are like Islington in London.
@dozerjohn6 ай бұрын
From parkour to best resource about UK culture, this channel is always full of surprises
@burningpentagram6666 ай бұрын
Please , refrain from using `UK` and `culture`in the same sentence.
@theopinionatedcharles27956 ай бұрын
My Highstreet has been pretty decrepit all my life and that's how I've always seen it. It's almost like a jumpscare for me to look in a history book and see my highstreet was once clean and the buildings weren't rotting away. It feels like the whole of the North East has just been like this my whole life tbh. It has its own charm to it I won't lie, but I do wish it didn't look so depressing sometimes.
@Bykxng6 ай бұрын
thats the uk for u mate
@randomnobody87706 ай бұрын
................HIGHSTREET!
@longiusaescius25376 ай бұрын
1945 and its consequences
@ashtodd37526 ай бұрын
Which high street?
@ClitIsWhatWeAimFor6 ай бұрын
It saddens me to hear you talking about not having a high street vibe for your whole life dude. Perhaps it's a kindness in a way, cannot miss something you never experienced.
@josephinefay93462 ай бұрын
I live between Kingston in London and Bedford. I have been street homeless and currently live in insecure private rental when I can but hardly anyone wants to rent to poor people on benefits. 21 years ago when my son was born my husband and I got on the property ladder 6 times. Each time having to sell up after about a year because we couldnt afford the mortgage and we would have to then go back to renting. There is alot of corruption in the UK. This is because lots of businesses on the high street now are used for money laundering and people trafficking. There is a rise of coffee shops, barber shops, hairdressers, nail salons, corner shops and charity shops. The vast majority of the shops excluding the charity shops are owned by dubious business people from overseas and the UK government and its councils simply turn a blind eye to them. Then the growing population mainly caused by high immigration with not enough affordable housing is fuelling homelessness and a black market in council properties. I am black and know many African people who were helped by African housing officers to acquire council houses, the same for many Asian and Somalian and now Turkish, Afghan, Romanians who are recent arrivals in the UK. Leaving those of us who have been in the UK for a life time unable to have housing and priced out of the cities to poor areas which have declined, where lots of people drive to out of town shopping cities and those of us that dont drive being left in towns with lots of migrants, refugees, street homeless people and drug addicts. My son is 21 and would love to move to London where he grew up but he cannot afford to even rent a room. If he rented a room and for some reason was unable to work the council would not house him and he would end up on the streets of London. Even though I am black I feel that priority for council housing should go to peoplen born in the UK and that you should not be able to buy property in the UK if you were not born here. Lastly shared ownership and the new generation of high rise flats that have been built are not affordable they are for millionaires or though who work in the city. THe average shared ownership repayment in London including rent, service charge and mortgage is about 2000 pounds per month and the rents and service charge will keep going up and you'll have to pay even when you have paid your mortgage.
@AdamsWorlds6 ай бұрын
I know our local town struggles mainly due to a combination of lack of parking (and what we have being expensive and not convenient), high rents (landlords wont lower them as it lowers paper value of the asset), and the council not wanting to approve shops that are in demand (hell bent on trying to make the town some upmarket place selling designer lamps or something). The result here is money laundering business's, food places, coffee shops and charity shops only. Sad really, but this is what happens when dinosaurs are in charge of councils and people won't take a hit on finances and lower rent.
@shadowsift6 ай бұрын
i used to rent my flat in london, it was high. But I made very little money after all my taxes and mortgage
@LordGreavous6 ай бұрын
same wher ei am, 6 barber son the same street, always empty yet can afford rent, theyre jsut money laundering for drugs
@stellviahohenheim6 ай бұрын
Now that you can't colonize anyone you've turned on to your own people. The Royals probably still have a lot of influence on the goverment
@TheSpeedOfVideo6 ай бұрын
That sounds eerily similar to the Cotswold town I live in, like to a tee.
@tlamiczka6 ай бұрын
Not dinosaurs but banksters are in charge. All this doom and gloom is intentional...
@uzi74626 ай бұрын
Ive followed your channel for a long time Jimmy and to see how far you've come as a creator is incredible. The current video format is perfect. Im from the UK and the topics hit close to home. Really good stuff, no one else is talking about it!
@michaelhowell23266 ай бұрын
"My oven doesn't have hands." was far funnier to me than it had any business being.
@rossclark45896 ай бұрын
And if they did, they would surely be warm anyway.
@Ash-lz5kg6 ай бұрын
this content is actually so good, entertaining and informative
@olliestudio456 ай бұрын
This is a situation that can't be allowed to go on, where exactly are the Uk's third spaces other than the pub or the park? People need more community not less, it's time for policymakers, business people and civil society to fix this together.
@stellviahohenheim6 ай бұрын
From an outsider looking in, your government is probably too corrupt to change anything plus the old moneys still have a lot of influence to keep it corrupt
@billhicks86 ай бұрын
Also a lot of people don't want to drink and may not want to be around it, but would like to socialise. Where do they go? We have a real failure of imagination for things like this.
@ami45116 ай бұрын
Even calling parks a third place is a stretch now, due to lack of funding and budget cuts many of the parks in England have also been on the decline for years. Not sure if anyone has put out a good video about that, but that would be interesting. I just googled quickly but in the last 10 years, they've lost £690 million-worth of funding. The number of parks closed also seems to be in the hundreds. On a similar note the closure of youth centres has also been devastating for children in vulnerable areas.
@sweetla47506 ай бұрын
Unfortunately y’all have let the third world in & they mos DEF will not assimilate…quite the opposite sadly
@calexico666 ай бұрын
I remember before 2008, probably between 2004 to 2006, seeing an interview with a retail executive and... One of the things I found alarming was that many retailers had sold their real estate assets to give money to shareholders and were now leasing them back. So their cash flow equations were completely different, and they needed much more money to operate. And that meant that many of these retailers didn't invest on online sales channels, or even on improving their stores.
@cloudycolacorp4 ай бұрын
Its insane how many of our problems stem from mass schemes devised to just take a ton of money out of otherwise healthy businesses. We can't do anything about it because those people have so much to donate to the governments of the world. What a grim reality
@musicilike696 ай бұрын
Never bought anything from Amazon and never will but our councils don't help support local businesses, not like they should when the town centres we all use are under VIRTUAL assault by someone who's wish is to have barren windswept town centres with an Amazon delivery vehicle passing through. Greed from greedy town halls led to the out of town shopping experience at shop/industrial estate malls and how has that helped. Town Halls with short sightedness have effectively ended the shopping experience in most cities that are not major metropolitan areas for parking charges and high rent on shops so they have more cash to empire build. My town centre is that, has this glittering new building with no expense spared at which the council are ensconced and empty streets and bargain shops.
@firebyrd4376 ай бұрын
The working mems club also have been closing. In 1990 I was secretary in a club in my town and the business rate at that time was £1,200 a month. Business rates are very expensive and led to the closure of our club
@william_marshal6 ай бұрын
Blame the Tories, they reduced the money central government gave to councils forcing them to find others means of paying for social services. It ended up with shops being closed and business going to Amazon, who pay almost no tax ... you reap what you sow !!!
@johnners9116 ай бұрын
It makes me really sad to think that many of your viewers will never have experienced a "proper" High Street, full of quirky and interesting shops, cafes, greasy spoons, where pubs and clubs were banging all night, every night. People crowded everywhere, having fun and socialising, finding bargains and meeting friends. I don't know if it will ever return. I think this is your best video yet, you're getting very close to "the answer".
@McCloudious6 ай бұрын
ALWAYS shop local if you can. Screw big business.
@robertbensch77486 ай бұрын
Buy less, but better. The avalanche of crap products is part of the problem, as small shops usually curate their producs a bit better than large franchises.
@andrewhines93076 ай бұрын
But Amazon's cheaper😢
@william_marshal6 ай бұрын
The only person being screwed is you. Small shops charge much more than big shops for the same item ... That's why they're going bust. In todays world price matters !!!
@jaycartwright11705 ай бұрын
@@william_marshalthere is a reason for that but at the same time, in this economy, you can’t justify spending more on a higher quality product when it’s about finding the cheapest option
@ivanovichtheruler11723 ай бұрын
terrible take if local shops are inefficient they shouldn't be In business simple capitalism. why should I pay more for the same item with worse quality control
@hamsatd6 ай бұрын
Big up Squarespace for sponsoring this guy's quality channel. 👌
@brucejamiesn38023 ай бұрын
I'm American and our High Streets (Main Streets) were decimated by Walmart and now again by Amazon. It's difficult to find a sporting goods store or office supply store. Shopping malls may have been invented in the American suburbs, but the UK isn't unique to that dreaded idea. I have seen plenty on the European Continent as well.
@leerolfe53324 ай бұрын
I'm addicted to KZbin almost but this is the best vid I've watched in months! Taught my nerd brain a lot. Thank you.
@mattfrain65266 ай бұрын
The decline of the British high street didn't start with online shopping, it just escalated the situation. Big supermarkets like Tesco and Asda is where I believe it may have started, when bigger stores started opening up in small towns they had it all under one roof, from greengrocers to butchers and electronics to clothes. Why travel up and down the street when you can get it all under the same roof. Supermarkets became a hub for them all. Then came the giants like Amazon that just went that one step further and now you don't have to leave the house. It's all for convenience, this is the price you pay unfortunately.
@nor08456 ай бұрын
🙂 I have just posted the exact same thing 🙂. You are indeed correct, Amazon was just the last nail in the coffin. (I will take down my own post)
@mattfrain65266 ай бұрын
@@nor0845 leave it up if you haven't taken it down already mate, the more people that see similar posts is a good thing.
@craiggreen43886 ай бұрын
I've been saying for years, when the big banks & traders leave each of our towns, the end will be quick. In every town the big grand buildings in the town centres are occupied by banks & usually the big established firms like Boots & WH Smith's. When these decide to shut up shop, who will take on these big old buildings? No one. In my town, we have 2 banks left from about a dozen. WH Smiths are having their closing down sale. Other nearby towns have lost Debenhams & other dept stores leaving huge retail buildings empty & up for rent with no sign of being Let any time soon. Away from the town centres the feeling is of a scramble by the big international giants like Amazon etc to quash & dominate their marketplaces. Pretty soon there will be such a small choice left for the consumer & all our earnings will have to be funneled into these god-awful corporations.
@RextheRebel6 ай бұрын
Instead of no one taking up these old buildings why not everyone? Make it communally controlled?
@Fannyschmeller20026 ай бұрын
Massive debanems by me in merryhill shopping centre has been gone for a few years
@Fannyschmeller20026 ай бұрын
@@RextheRebela lot of those buildings are listed buildings meaning they are expensive as hell to repair hence why nobody buys them and they just rot there . The current owner is meant to keep the building in good condition
@Electrodoc19686 ай бұрын
Absolutely correct on all points. It also fuels conspiracy theories. It needs to be sorted out quickly too as it's making everything a doom scroll which doesn't help.
@JimmyTheGiant6 ай бұрын
Working on a conspiracy theory video as we speak
@Electrodoc19686 ай бұрын
@@JimmyTheGiant Great stuff I'd recommend extremely well padded gloves just incase a face palm manoeuvre gets out of control and hurts. I was absolutely fine but I'm trying to help my mate out and he's proper burrowed in. Alex Jones, Plandemic, Trump.. You name it I'm trying to rationalise his mindset.
@JimmyTheGiant6 ай бұрын
@@Electrodoc1968 mate! Trust me its insane the lengths they go to to believe it.
@alexander777-n3s6 ай бұрын
@@Electrodoc1968keep taking your boosters mate I’ll stay strong and healthy 😂😂
@JamescwMansfield6 ай бұрын
Oven gloves, my oven doesn’t have hands 😂 That earned you a new subscriber 👍🏼
@grahamdrummond24122 ай бұрын
I've not heard that gag before either, I'm sure I'll be using it 😊
@X0MT0X6 ай бұрын
The refusal to modernise is the bigger issue. Build transport hubs near high streets, and change opening hours to 12 am to 10 pm so you can use them after work. Remove the barriers forcing people to shop online. Focus on the experience. I'd love to be able to finish work, grab a shower, maybe have a light meal and then grab a coffee in town, perhaps a light snack, pick up some clothing, browse the stores, maybe catch a film, but nah all that stuff is closed by 6 pm other than the cinema and a bunch of over priced low-quality restaurants/pubs.
@JimmyTheGiant6 ай бұрын
Agreed an evolution is needed - but a bigger middle class is needed to create that experience economy. Which I would love to see.
@3DHDcat6 ай бұрын
@@JimmyTheGiantin China ,shops close late around 9pm. Future is here
@ciaranReal6 ай бұрын
@@3DHDcatthats still 3 to 4 hours open later
@WGK906 ай бұрын
hahaha, there's so many issues with what you just said, I don't know where to start. also by this point it really doesn't matter whether we do since nearly every shop, including waterstones, boots (partially out to kill the NHS), the large supermarkets, costa coffee, GREGGS is literally mostly owned by US private equity! - these companies are not paying tax in the UK, which is exactly why our infrastructure is crumbling, because the government is busy funnelling money into their own and mates pockets, the big companies aren't paying any tax. So who do you think ends up paying for everything? WE DO.
@palmtree-e2l5 ай бұрын
@@WGK90I work in a government owned organisation. We have to use a particular travel agency for flights accommodation etc. Travel agency is owned by private equity and charges much higher prices than you could get by booking direct with eg British airways. So taxpayers money being wasted and going straight into the pockets of private equity and offshore.
@darkerarts6 ай бұрын
I don't live in the UK nowadays, but every time I visit home, the state of the high streets is shocking, and it just gets worse. Sadly, most people just bury their heads in mindless reality tv, or whatever new brain numbing fad is going on, and fail to see how society is going backwards in the name of convenience
@vinceorchiston98236 ай бұрын
Yep ! Give them "Bread and Circuses" as in the old Roman Empire days ...keep the plebs fed , entertained and distracted while the rich carry on their plundering ways ...somethings never change.
@o0julek0o6 ай бұрын
They bury their heads because nothing can be done. And nothing can be done because there’s zero sense of community and therefore agreement.
@LabradorsAreGoodDogs6 ай бұрын
It would really help if they hugely reduced business rates and increased VAT. It would force giants like Amazon to pay tax here and give local shops a level footing with online retailers. More people need to know about this concept so we can vote in someone who might do it one day. (i.e. the idea is to lower local prices and increase Amazon and Temu prices)
@j605476 ай бұрын
Isn't VAT paid by the consumer?
@amazanta16056 ай бұрын
@@j60547yeah customers pay vat on all items
@OLI-vx1md6 ай бұрын
@@j60547 yes.. this person doesn't understand lol
@OLI-vx1md6 ай бұрын
Or perhaps, just actually tax these massive multinational, multi billion pound companies that operate on this isle, instead of allowing them to bring a massive income but "they're in the Caribbean".. hell fuckin no.. you're operating in the UK and you'll be taxed accordingly.. that is all that needs be done. Definitely not a reduction of business rates 😅
@OLI-vx1md6 ай бұрын
Increasing VAT does the opposite of what you suggest, it makes shopping more expensive for the consumer
@3dprintinglady6 ай бұрын
Man, these documentaries deserve millions of views.
@nathankay-doney21436 ай бұрын
I was born and raised in a town called Barnsley in South Yorkshire. Up until the late 90’s, there was a huge pub culture as there was in a lot of the small towns in England. My dad has told me plenty of times the downfall of the pubs is down to supermarkets, similar to the high street. There were 15+ thriving pubs in the 90’s in the village I lived in, Darfield. Now, less than 5. Would be great to see a video on that!
@johnwright93726 ай бұрын
And the 5 surviving pubs are struggling because supermarket beer is much cheaper.
@leeklass39076 ай бұрын
Ban on smoking is in part to blame , brewery chains that own the pub tenancies that force tenant to buy their produce from them is another problem
@Anthoneyyyyy24 күн бұрын
Don’t think I’ve ever watched so many consecutive videos from one channel, cheers Jimmy!
@HellenikBoy6 ай бұрын
Having moved from Australia to London a year ago, I find the standard London high street to be so lacklustre. So many franchises, betting stores and Tesco Expresses everywhere. I miss being able to go to my local shopping strip in Aus (even if I had to drive there) and be greeted with cafes, bakeries, dessert shops, resteraunts, coworking spaces. This is what makes the high streets more enjoyable places to be. Thats and also reducing car traffic so they are more quiet
@jIlltomic5 ай бұрын
Amazing video, I learned so much. Please keep going with the great content :)
@PeakeyTheBard6 ай бұрын
I tell this to everyone who complains about online shopping. The supermarket killed the high Street. Delivery was the final nail in the coffin.
@masterknife84236 ай бұрын
Supermarkets have been around like forever
@Nagrom6 ай бұрын
@@masterknife8423 "forever"? 70 years is within a lifetime
@Mounhas6 ай бұрын
I’d like to see a greengrocer back in my town, went from 5 to 0 in a few years. Apples in season, rhubarb greengrocers peas in pods and runner beans etc. Can’t blame the internet.
@yarly31806 ай бұрын
That's because at least half the population (men) doesn't really like shopping so they put it under 1 roof 😉
@brimzs6 ай бұрын
@@Mounhas yeah online delivery
@sachinbangaru7376 ай бұрын
I really like the fact that your content is getting more profound.
@timmystwin6 ай бұрын
Business rates are high because of 3 reasons. The Tories cut local government funding. The Tories saddled local government with more responsibilities like social care. Council tax rises are capped at 5%. So now the councils have less money, more expenditure, and can't raise council tax enough - meaning they need to milk business rates. Plus it's very difficult to get later opening licences because of local complaints, so when everyone finishes at 5, and the shops close at 5... no-one can shop there. And they avoid it on saturday and shop online instead.
@TELBOYO106 ай бұрын
Jesus H tap dancing Christ Show me that you don't pay council tax without telling me that you don't pay council tax.. You are right that council tax cannot go up by more than 5% . If you look at a council tax bill, which you obviously have not, you will see that it has many elements. Local council, police , fire plus town and ward councils, if you look you will see that the council raised the bill by 5 per cent where as the police, fire and local town council have increased their cut by shit tonnes.
@timmystwin6 ай бұрын
@@TELBOYO10 Yes and tell me what part of social care do firemen handle. You know, the one example I explicitly gave of a new/increased responsibility. I also live in Exeter, and if you check online you'll see that none of the components (including DCC) have risen by more than 5%. So no, I haven't seen that.
@johnwright93726 ай бұрын
Good point.
@sicks6six5 ай бұрын
you missed something, the people who used to go shopping on high streets at M&S, BHS, Fenwicks etc and have lunch in a restaurant won't now because they don't feel safe on the high streets, the high streets are full of people who are not shopping in those types of shops, they might shop in a sports shop, a phone shop, and have a McDonalds and the middle-class customers do not want to be anywhere near them, they now the middle class sit in the back garden shopping online as they have a bar-b-que and tend their flower beds, far more civilised, peaceful and safe. the new high street shoppers don't have nearly as much disposable income and this is why these shops have closed, it is all about feeling safe, being with people like you, and not being near people you do not trust or like,
@minniemoe47974 ай бұрын
Middle classers can find millions of excuses not to go to the "common people shops" even if public safety is not an issue. I live in a working class area, 95% native population so it's fairly nice and safe. However, during the last 3 years we have an influx of middle classers moving here who are attracted by nature, higher safety level and relatively cheaper prices for property. Those newcomers contribute 0 to our local businesses, they all shop online and drive to supermarkets once a week. Similar situation is happening in Cornwall with Londoners moving there, shopping online and using supermarkets while ignoring local produce.
@uwu-sb7ek4 ай бұрын
@minniemoe4797 same where I live !
@eleveneleven5724 ай бұрын
Not just middle classes....many working class people don't want to be in city centres,, esp with their kids. Not all "working class" people are chavs, groomers, gangstas or crazy machete killers.
@skatepark022 ай бұрын
What constitutes as middle class? I can name a few millionaires I know that quite happily go shopping at Waitrose.
@MrP1.016 ай бұрын
The problem is twofold - The emergence of the internet and delivery services was not accounted for or a strategy developed to protect against this innovation, also Local Councils have continually increased business rates as shops are considered low hanging fruit, the reality is local authorities are massively incompetent with ridiculous wage bills to executives that deliver little or departments are simply ineffective to shore up their failings the councils increased business rates this killed the family business and now even chain franchise's are pulling out - business rates kill small business and local authorities are severely corrupt and mismanaged
@johnwright93726 ай бұрын
Rents are higher than rates. Banks finance everything.
@RosemaryH-c7eАй бұрын
Most councils are morally bankrupt with town centre shopping There should be a town centre regeneration programme with government but what is labour the champagne socialists with mean and tight kneebender Keir he is doing nothing but concentrating on asylum seekers hotels you reap what you sow
@jackmclane18266 ай бұрын
Not just in Britain. We have exactly the same issue in Germany. In the town that I live in there is a large pedestrian shopping area that used to be thriving 20 years ago. Now every couple of months, a shop closes and is most of the time not filled again. If it is, the quality of the new store is lower than what it was before. To be honest: The city inhabitants shovelled their own graves. They made the city a nightmare for cars. You are stuck in a traffic jam, because they used a car lane for making bike lanes. If you come from a suburb, the extra wide bike lanes don't help you. Parking has become insanely pricy. I say, screw you. I don't visit the city, but order online.
@nuusain9966 ай бұрын
The concept explained at 14:22 is called the local multiplier effect, definetly a concept as many people as possible should get familiar with if we want to start building wealth in local communities again.
@aye36786 ай бұрын
Great video man! Brilliantly put together
@dianesullivan30346 ай бұрын
Wow! Thank you I think! You have just explained my life. I lived through all of that at the age it affected me. Late teens, til now very early 60s. My age not the times. You’ve managed to put into words my living through those times. I do like watching you with all your explaining!! 👍🙏🏻🧐
@joshuaking13446 ай бұрын
your content is so great! also the 26:35 wink while saying 'head down to the butchers' was chef's kiss af.
@Dancsa246 ай бұрын
Great vid. It reminds me of a little rhyme from school. “Let’s all go to Tesco’s where Jimmy buys his best clothes, cheap and nifty only £1.50”.
@maciejlao6 ай бұрын
I'm in love with your content, please keep up the awesome work!!!
@TheAviationChannel6 ай бұрын
2:33 - Looks like we're returning to this sort of living condition with the cost of living crisis now. As a TFL bus driver, I used to work 14hrs shifts, 13 days in a row. Used to put in my 60-70 hours a week, with 70+ hours of driving time per week including commuting time in my car. Some days used to just sleep in the back of my car or the canteen before starting the next shift. It's ok though. Passengers don't care about the driver anyways, so no need to look good for the passengers. Now driving coaches on private tours. Most of these jobs are still 15 hours long though, and some jobs take me 5-10 day tours across the country or Europe. Passengers are caring though and a hotel is provided, as well as starting work right outside of the hotel. Hours are long as hell though. You'll be living your life in the job essentially with no other life outside of work.
@lukemcgibney6 ай бұрын
Incredible video. Thanks so much. I’m wondering where we can donate to your channel? Also, it would be great to see a “day in the life” of Jimmy the giant. The process and time to create these amazing shows. Thanks again
@Reaper_ginger6 ай бұрын
As someone who grew up in the US, every time I got back to the town my dad and his family is from in the UK, the high street is one of my favorite places to explore. They actually recently revamped the shopping center that was in the middle of town and added a bunch of local food stalls in place I believe where the primark was.
@RosemaryH-c7eАй бұрын
My goodness where is this modern utopia most centres are run down and boarded up shops
@wakeupuk38604 ай бұрын
As someone who once taught and lectured Business Studies this YT without any doubt is best I have ever seen on this topic, I expect it will be use greatly in schools and colleges.
@parkoursomebody49066 ай бұрын
Your style of presenting brings many younger people into a thirst for learning. You would make a good school teacher.
@oksanaiavorovska77684 ай бұрын
Very nice and deeply historical story about businesses running... with all pluses to minuses... thank you for flowered taste of money ❤❤❤
@pradlark6 ай бұрын
If only policies were put in places in the 60s to prevent chains getting so big and eating up local stores...
@AntecGreeno834 ай бұрын
Thanks JimmyI love these documentaries.
@ParallelSyntax6 ай бұрын
Like the british car industry, there's no difinative single person that can be blamed for this. But most of it can be pointed to one organization. The government. In short: Utterly rife blaitant money laundering fronts everywhare (EG. "turkish" barbers, phone repair shops, vape shops, (usually fake) amercan sweet shops, dodgy off-licences, etc), insane city rent costs, councils actively making it an urtter pain to drive into cities (blocking previously drivable roads and sky-high parking rates), Brits moving out due to rent rate spikes often being replaced with people with completely different ideology and cuture (who usually have absolutely no interest in our way of life and ultimately only cater for their own kind / don't want to integrate), letting Amazon make a mockery of our tax system (tax dodging basically) and finally the crime rates (this insurance costs also go up). On top of all this, talks of ULEZ schemes being rolled out across all citys in the UK just to hammer that final nail. (Thanks Labour...). It's amazing that there's even a shred of a high street left frankly, The internet is an easy target to blame as is supermarkets but there's still plenty of scope for other legitimate trades/services that places like Amazon can't offer/match. Department stores might struggle but there's no reason why we can't have a good mixture of shops. Instead we let money launderers operate and the out of control inflation ruin legitimate businesses trying to start up. The government knows it but don't care because they pay what money they owe without questions asked either side. Completely ignorant (or pretending to be) of where the money is actually coming from. They couldn't care less about our cities. As long as they get to go home in their 8 bedroom manor and relax in their pool, who gives a stuff about the lower classes? Notice that many other countries doesn't seem to suffer like us? They also have Amazon and plenty of supermarkets to contend with like us but you don't see the same level of high street rot that we have. Britiain and it's government is activly speed-running it's destruction.
@3DHDcat6 ай бұрын
buisness has a way of stabilising itself , the issue is those MNCs like zara nike and other chains that syphon the money away from locals
@ParallelSyntax6 ай бұрын
@@3DHDcat Well most of them seem to take up spots in retail parks more than high streets at least in my part of the UK. All them kinds of shops have run alongside independents for decades without major issue. I don;t think that is the problem.
@thehen1016 ай бұрын
good summary. councils and government don't want to address this issue, and there's many reasons for that.
@wonderwalluk15686 ай бұрын
One of your best ever. Fantastic research. Everybody has their own opinion but you presented yours impeccably. keep up the great work.
@lemsip2076 ай бұрын
I read that there are dark retail spaces where online orders are taken, and they can deliver within an hour. They are either warehouses or production units making sandwiches or pastries. You cannot shop there in person.
@Nick511006 ай бұрын
Where else is it going to produce it self? 😂
@lemsip2076 ай бұрын
@@Nick51100 Sigh
@FisherAthleticFan6 ай бұрын
Yup plenty ghost kitchens
@ClitIsWhatWeAimFor6 ай бұрын
I know deliveroo have one in my city. Warehouse in a central location with the ability to have multiple different types of restaurant. They gather all the info from local businesses that trade on their platform then create their own versions, selling the same foods but either cheaper or on the top of the search lists. Cos they in control.
@galakordi6 ай бұрын
Excellent informative video, well done!
@friddevonfrankenstein6 ай бұрын
Perfect, I just watched the evil decline of Britain's seaside resorts this morning for breakfast. I was looking for something similar for lunch and here we are :D
@FJames6 ай бұрын
Brilliant analysis mate - an important watch for sure
@Templeofthedogs6 ай бұрын
Man, I grew up going to Brent Cross. Absolute hell on earth on a Saturday 😂
@staycasual72036 ай бұрын
Wow, that place is a shopping centre and a dump, I’d have honestly topped myself living there bro
@palmtree-e2l5 ай бұрын
I used to have a Saturday job in Brent cross in the 80s!
@marksmithwas122 ай бұрын
So this is why my town was so against Tesco building a supermarket before I was born 🤯 that explains so much!! Even my parents were saying how they used to like all the local businesses that had everything collectively, nearby each other. Now it's cafés, hair salons, nail shops, charity shops and takeaway shops, with the odd business between (as well as a lot of vacant storefronts)
@Chevy-jordan6 ай бұрын
We need a Jimmy the Giant and Adam Something collaboration !! Podcast episode: "How can we re-design our congested cities to be more liveable?"
@sterix_gg6 ай бұрын
By finding a way to remind people they still have 2 legs they could possibly use... I've disliked giga big cities like London precisely because they're too congested and everyone who can afford a car would get one and rather sit 2 hours in traffic then walk for an hour... It doesn't help that lots of cities are anti pedestrian. I'm bulgarian living in Southampton... I've lived in 5 different EU cities throughout my life and I know them all in regards to navigating them because I spend hours walking around from end to end, I like walking... I tried walking once in Southampton and realized lots of main arteries have no sidewalks forcing u to circle which adds a ton of distance making walking not just impractical but also taking the joy out of it... so I never went out by foot again... Something else I notice is how in the UK cities, most would have the central part which would look like a city but the majority of the city would be just houses with very few areas having even just some basic grocery store within them or really anything to see other than houses... it almost feels like some private estate u're trespassing on and feeling awkward in return... which again doesn't help the case because it takes the joy out of walking around... Even in Bulgaria there are shops all around, especially small, non-chain, small owner grocery stores that also work til late at night with some being 24/7 even. Basically here, outside the central area, lots of cities start to look more like a village than a city. I came to the UK at the end of 2020 and I feel like things were much better than, not even 4 years ago and if I'm thinking that as someone who's never been here before 2020 then I guess that says a lot... but how else... today there's a cost of living crisis, high interest rates, struggling nhs and the solution to it all is to apparently dig into disabled people's accounts lmao not that I'm disabled but being a privacy fan, this whole "we're gonna look at your accounts cuz reasons" rly puts me off... The west rly is declining... Rant over
@rogerhudson97326 ай бұрын
Most of the shops in high streets used to be chain stores getting people to buy things they didn't really need. In Thomas Hardy's early 20th century novel 'The woodlanders' someone asks the carter to bring some violin strings and they arrived on the next carts visit, a bit like Amazon. When I lived in Cornwall many things came by van decades before Amazon
@oafhat6 ай бұрын
You're my favourite creator on youtube right now, me and my partner watch your videos all the time and today's came out perfectly timed for us to eat tea n watch!! We love how informative and level headed your explanations of these topics are; i did poorly in school due to not having the focus to wrap my head around difficult topics, among other reasons. The way you break things down and make it consumable and understandable for the average person is really great, as well as also making it entertaining to learn about!!! Making me wish i actually did well in my sociology AS level haha. Love your videos so so much, honestly wish you had more content, keep it up my guy!!! :') xox
@JimmyTheGiant6 ай бұрын
I didn’t do amazing at school, kicked out of college and didn’t go to uni so i get it! I that helped me to explain to similar people. As I have to go through the process of learning these things in a way that makes sense to me 💪
@Kingzephyr452 ай бұрын
That simple break down of money moving around as much as possible, was brilliant.
@elcapitan35305 ай бұрын
This is what happens when you elect near-billionaires as your leaders, who then tell us all to tighten our belts because there's no money.
@tbabbittt6 ай бұрын
We are being told that our overconsumption and disposable life style is going to kill us and we must stop. Simultaneously we are being told that if we stop spending all will collapse and we will die.
@PandoraChaser25 ай бұрын
Excellently researched, argued and presented. Top notch Jimmy :)
@gamewithadam72355 ай бұрын
I remember Woolworths pick n mix.
@geozvision_hiking4views4 ай бұрын
Respect on the hard work put into this film 👍
@jackcollins70616 ай бұрын
Barry's Biscuits!?!?! Like he has never heard of Mcvities...an example of a family biscuit company that is now a corporation.
@goingwalkaboutnow3 ай бұрын
Excellent job explaining a very complex situation. I’m American married to a Brit. We lived in the UK in the 80’s, I fell in love with it and the Brit people. This corporate blood letting , bleeding the country dry, whilst they pay little to no tax will catch up with them, sadly it will mean the demise of what was once an awesome place in the world.
@zombl337og6 ай бұрын
youre literally describing exactly what has happened in the USA as well. GDP goes up, but our wages dont.
@Fannyschmeller20026 ай бұрын
Yeah it’s when the money doesn’t circulate locally . Everyone local suffers
@livin90proof6 ай бұрын
What's bizarre is how this channel doesn't have more subscribers ✌️
@Hiroprotagonist2536 ай бұрын
Everyone hates the death of the high street but nobody wants to miss out on the savings of the supermarket.
@SutekhTheDestroyer6 ай бұрын
I agree with you 100%, but with so many people living hand-to-mouth, can you blame them?
@OLI-vx1md6 ай бұрын
It's not that nobody wants to miss the savings of supermarkets, it's that nobody can afford to miss the savings.. shits stupid expensive nowadays, people are surviving not thriving
@ourfamily84725 ай бұрын
Great content, well done! I absolutely loved the funny parts 😅
@wanderingwilliam50316 ай бұрын
People sold out for convenience, no one forced them to shop at ASDA but they did perhaps being ignorant or indifferent to the long term consequence because it was good in the short term.
@crazybanditt20 күн бұрын
Whenever I’m talking to people about the economy I use one particular example about money. That it’s the lifeblood of the economy. No matter how much there is, if it’s not pumping you will die. If it clots before reaching somewhere, that area will likely suffer and die. If it continuously leaks you will die. If it fails to cover evenly areas will suffer and slowly die. In England, we’re both bleeding money to US private equity and foreign investors, and have an uneven flow of fash which clots at the super wealthy class. The rest is dying, but we celebrate the amount of blood we have. 🤕
@AlCheese-f7f6 ай бұрын
Great vid as always Jimmy😁 wedding looked wicked mate, wishing you all the best to you both for the future
@JimmyTheGiant6 ай бұрын
Thanks a ton!
@chcomes6 ай бұрын
The channel is changing from good to great!
@kidlast41546 ай бұрын
Maybe if those shops weren't being taxed to death they could have survived..🤷♂️
@bobbysbits25756 ай бұрын
Nah, it's a multivariate problem unfortunately. Incentive structures have broken down
@derin1116 ай бұрын
Fascinating and well-produced video.
@Shanghai_Knife_Dude6 ай бұрын
It's a global issue of closure of high street. One thing I'd like to add: once move shopping online, you are trapped! Ur spending habits, mistress, secret sons and his health record, will all be available to the Big Brother for a laugh or harvest you if necessary. Enjoy the future🎉
@ste98906 ай бұрын
Have to agree with the mindset that high streets / town centres need to change from where people shop for things to where people do things. Convenience and cost will always win with consumers so there's no point fighting that losing battle. Cinemas, restaurants, bars, coffee shops, arcades, escape rooms, and there's so much more scope. They will attract custom by being places we socialise and by selling experience, rather than goods.