The Most Dangerous Place In Britain: “You Can Get Stabbed Walking Anywhere”

[@BlueSkyCountry]

This is one of the reasons why UK military losing recruits. Nobody is going put their lives on the line to defend THIS back home.

[@sh.4409]

For foreign men to sit in hotels and not fight for their own country!

[@BlueSkyCountry]

@@sh.4409 If I lived under a system that told me that I cannot own a gun, and that if I carry a knife for my own safety, I am a coward, I will no longer contribute to that society. No taxes, no potential talent, and no new generation to be preyed upon.

[@PaulSullivan-u4u]

I served my time I'm done after seeing gaza and what our wepons do I'm not fighting no more

[@zoltan-zq3xe]

Exactly it's a living nightmare since New Labour got in, the Tories have done nothing to protect us either, it feels hopeless.

[@PaulSullivan-u4u]

@@zoltan-zq3xe well the last labour government left 56 billion for schools only Micheal gove spent the money not on schools but elsewhere

[@myopinionsmayoffendyou]

"I used to carry a knife to protect myself" proceeds to tell a story about trying rob someone and stabbing them for not cooperating.

[@Goady1000]

Haha a joke right

[@FarObserver]

Should be living in a basic cell, with basic food, breaking rocks 4 hours a day, combined with basic education for the other 4. Repeat for 10 years.

[@jimmyfaulkner5746]

​@FarObserver it's really not rocket science

[@Daz759]

He's talking shite....never stabbed anyone

[@BillClinton228]

Same logic as Hamas

[@genoajames1866]

Who wants to fight for this Britain? British Soldiers who fought bravely in WW2 would probably roll in their graves if they saw what the UK has become.

[@jlfc9024]

The fact the army only pay mediocre wage of 18k a year also has something to do with it

[@bingbong2205]

Ww2 wasn't what your lead to believe ,hitler rose to power in American occupied Germany with American money

[@lasakau272]

Yeah because peaky blinders didn’t exist back then taking peoples eye sight for fun

[@genoajames1866]

@@lasakau272 The Peaky Blinders stabbings probably pale in comparison to the amount that occur in Britain daily nowadays.

[@Rhyfelwr_Cymreig]

@@lasakau272 Except they didn't take peoples eyes for fun, They took other gangs eyes. The old gangsters ran things like a business, and did a better job than the Police do these days.

[@jorgejuantorresquiroga5441]

"Put the weapons down and and I'll fight ya's all" - Gary Gill, knife attack victim and local badass

[@yokiryuchan7655]

Unfortunately, It didn't end well for him. It was a street fight, not a boxing match, and those thugs reminded him of that. In a street fight, there are no rules.

[@arthur2morgan921]

​@@yokiryuchan7655 but you have to give it to him🤣👍🏻

[@Goldenfish-o5p]

Still, he lost.. ​@@arthur2morgan921

[@BT37GU]

I’m suspicious of that guy, why were 3 armed men coming to call him out specifically? Pretty clear he was in that world and just got made the better of

[@Parkerlee1000]

​@BT37GU not always, there's always mistaken identity killings going on.

[@GaryBooth-j5b]

"He came round and stabbed me, stabbed me, stabbed me, and I thought, oh no" Most British response ever!

[@A._.A._.]

🤣

[@AntoHooper]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@wvvwwvwvv]

🤣 I came to say this bahahaha

[@hannahrice3860]

😂😂😂😂

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

💀

[@splodge57]

What a terrible country this has turned into. Full of horrible people😞

[@PaulSullivan-u4u]

Charming I come from a worse place than that I still have manners and respect

[@hectichazerdus]

The empire has fallen. Its inevitable no1 stays top place forever

[@zoltan-zq3xe]

Tony Blair's Labour started it in 97 with all this globalist rubbish, now our country is a shell of its former self.

[@whaupdawg]

it's the grill music

[@TheSuperPsychoKiller]

King Charles = King of horrible people

[@Ronzo777]

"I asked him for all his money"...."unfortunately he got stabbed up 11 times". No sense of personal responsibility or remorse, after 14 years in jail.

[@jakebarnes3054]

It simply happened

[@stelladavis7832]

A psychopath and a narcacist

[@markdawson4625]

What he meant to say was, ‘I was a knife carrying robber, my victim fought back and I stabbed him 11 times. I was totally at fault and I am a reformed character’. I don’t believe a word of his BS version of events, and not properly challenged by the reporter!

[@DutyDynamo]

Y is he out after 14 years tho? These ppl shouldn’t be let out of a jail cell ever…or should live with an ankle bracelet thing to monitor their every move… no way u stabbed some1 11 times then get out after 14 years … he could do it again and do another 14 years like wats the point

[@danofficial117]

Still didn’t get the money so what was the point

[@jorgeclarkson8286]

lmao the phone shop guy is a real one, great attitude, stands up for himself, protects his kids, respectful of brasses too even through it all. Legend.

[@TheCutiePatrol]

you can't claim to carry a knife for protection and then go around mugging people and stabbing them because you didn't get a cigarette. this here is the issue, you let them all claim its for protection but its really because you're weak and want to just stab someone. he clearly doesn't feel that bad because the knife wasn't used in self defence and he knows it was never for self defence.

[@DaemonZodiac]

Well said

[@infinnite4938]

honestly u cant just assume that. really.

[@TheCutiePatrol]

@@infinnite4938 its literally what he said he done, its not an assumption. if he was carrying it for self defence, he would be using against those attacking him, not the other way around. or if im missing something, please elaborate because you've came with nothing lol.

[@infinnite4938]

i was watching with captions@@TheCutiePatrol

[@northwestcoast]

‘Trying to give me smoke’ has nothing to do with cigarettes

[@hogganknowsbest]

Guy is more likely to stab himself carrying around a knife like that

[@sheringbernhardsgruetter8276]

Yeah thats so dangerous

[@Sportingchance100]

Only COWARDS carry knives

[@marinekong235]

and slides into his pants pointing where is cockerel is - can't get any smarter than that hahaha

[@ShawniaMarie]

​@Sportingchance100, they can't carry anything else. Granted, I think he needs to be under the jail for his crimes!!

[@darkness5702]

@@Sportingchance100Real man use a machete.

[@AshAsh-y8e]

The law is a joke in England, bums are not afraid of a couple of years in prison, when will England ever learn. I’m just saddened by the state the UK is in, shame on us all.

[@kevinengland7444]

Bums? Do you think you're in Chicago or something?

[@goodyeoman4534]

It won't learn. It will keep putting up with everything the government forces on them. And when it gets too much, the government will pretend they are going to finally do something, spin a bit of propaganda, and we'll lost a few more of our rights and descent that little bit closer into tyranny. Freedom has to be fought for, and no one in Britain has any fight in them - we saw that through COVID. And don't expect the army to do anything - they'll obey the Eton toffs.

[@micaeloliveira2727]

Jails are a joke 🤣🤣 they eat , smoke drugs , drink alcohol, have mobile phones , gym,their friends around and get street respect 😅😅 I can't understand the prison system. Where's labor to pay the bills ??? Who's in jail me or them ???

[@murphycreationsvideos]

True, yet the police are wasting time on arresting auditors who are filming around police stations on public land which is totally legal instead of arresting these drug dealers.

[@joelc9439]

If you send them to jails in Singapore and then they will be worried.

[@brynstarkiller7419]

My Dad’s from Middlesbrough. The Gov have abandoned the North East. Such a shame as it was a bustling steel works and ship building area on the River. I still have family there. How awful . Bless Boro and her people.

[@davidmarchant9386]

They did it in our mining towns also take jobs away from the small isolated towns what will happen 20-30 years later due to extreme poverty

[@NoName-vy8vu]

These towns cant compete with Chinese shipbuilding or mining… it’s not the governments fault. People have access to the internet… you can learn anything… no excuses

[@robbo8074]

Its not even about labour or torrie any more they are both at fault

[@boredwithusernames]

My mum was from Middlesborough and her sister has lately left and moved elsewhere to get away from all of this. A sad decline for a once popular and industrious town that worked hard for the economy of what used to be a proud country!

[@WhiteRoseYorkshire]

The government has abandoned all of us in the North.

[@ashleywilson2072]

Sadly every UK city now has an area like this. It's years of poverty, deprivation, poor mental health and addiction. It's almost impossible to escape.

[@spencer2721]

It is possible to escape, stop taking drugs and put your mind to something productive, no excuses! We can’t keep making excuses the takers are as bad as the dealers! If they didn’t buy we wouldn’t have the problem. The stuff is awful and ruins lives!

[@bawsack69]

No it's not, it's Anarcho-tyranny, the government is deliberately allowing these people to roam free so they can justify the 100% surveillance agenda they are pushing.

[@anthonyelwick3600]

Not an excuse

[@SagaciousFrank]

​​@@anthonyelwick3600, yes it is, it's the excuse industry. These people are never ever responsible for their own actions.

[@SagaciousFrank]

Poverty my backside, these criminals don't know the meaning of the word.

[@IFAMILYIH]

“Unfortunately he got stabbed 11 times” what a complete joke lad avoiding responsibility

[@001jozef]

Exactly..He is not even regretting,look at his eyes ,he is laying !

[@DJ_POOP_IT_OUT_FEAT_LIL_WiiWii]

Still better than Cleveland.

[@straighttalking2090]

@@001jozef I reckon he does regret it - he's just too ashamed to say the right words. That's another kind of courage.

[@Jason.King.at.your.service]

I think he is ashamed and can't bring himself to say what he did. I'de be more ashamed of that tracksuit he was wearing.

[@LeDiamondDog]

This is really unfortunate What a coincidence 😂😂😂

[@mattshipley570]

My partner spent 3 years living in Hartlepool for university, and I used to visit regularly. I can confirm there is absolutely no hope left in Teeside. A truly neglected part of the country, a pit of depression. However the best people of Teeside are some of the most true and honest you will find in the UK, and they deserve a much brighter future

[@cyanidecapsule6275]

It’s in the roughest areas you’ll find a small portion of the most down to earth people. It’s because they’ve seen the horrors and bullshit, yet they still try to get about their day.

[@sonnytopboy4975]

Met some great guys from Hartlepool and Redcar but that was a few years ago working on sites

[@Leonidas-f7o]

Try Swindon 😢😢😢

[@Lee-z8l6m]

It's Teesside not Teeside

[@glennoc8585]

​@@Leonidas-f7o is Swindon still an dump? I lived out of Swindon in the late 90s and it was a bit dodgy back then. I had a guy wanting to fight me for no reason in the mall and another in the bus station.

[@lightanddark9736]

I emigrated from Teesside some years ago - wow - was it a good decision. I live in peaceful countryside, go to the shops, park the car outside the shop, go in they are friendly and speak English, come out the shop, the car is still there, drive home, no traffic, oh its a bit rough on Saturday night, two teenagers talking outside the shop, I go over and they open the door for me!

[@Mossyz.]

My Grandad would not recognize this country if he were to be alive today, God rest his soul.🙏.

[@mjh5437]

My father died only 15 years ago and he wouldn`t recognise it either...That`s how quickly the country is going to the dogs thanks to mass immigration and hiphop knife and gun "culture".

[@intello8953]

He would if he lived pre 1950s 😂. Don’t act like Britain was some sort utopia pre 1970s or something 😂

[@zoltan-zq3xe]

​​​​@@intello8953It was compared to this globalist dump miles of pretty villages and towns and amazing cities the left ruined it, I remember it and I'm only late 50s what have you people done? never pretend you care about the working class your liars.

[@veronicacrabtreehill6608]

@intello8953 W​ell MY Grandfather was born in 1893. So answer about that then. It was a lovely world back when I was born in 1937 as well. Just before the war and, after it it was great.

[@intello8953]

@@veronicacrabtreehill6608 well if he grew in a small town then that’s nice but this was definitely near the end of the Victorian era which was mired with extreme poverty and extreme wealth at the same time

[@kennyroach3136]

I’m from Birmingham and moved to County Durham, (ferry hill) and it rough , rubbish everywhere, burnt out cars and like all the windows in houses are smashed none of the kids go school just ride round on stolen motorbikes , druggies everywhere, I moved back to Birmingham and that’s says something

[@neptunevibe]

Lol .. man I’m from East Europe and we never seen such a degradation.

[@mmmbbop9351]

I grew up in Tyseley. Brum was bad then but places like Liverpool, Grimsby and Scotland are shocking in comparison

[@infinity_sh4816]

damn

[@bob-on9055]

Christ...it must be bad.

[@restojon1]

Well, this is probably the most shocking thing I'm going to read on the Internet... damn...

[@diggattimodeste]

UK is quickly becoming one of the worst places in Europe to live,

[@libertypltd4198]

You haven't been to the council estates in and around Paris. Teenages with soviet machine guns.

[@bennyboy2079]

Not really

[@christelleakobo4288]

In Paris?? Dont lie

[@ianpeacock9240]

I wonder why

[@Iforgotmyname898]

@@christelleakobo4288I grew up there I swear look it up

[@chrishayes9507]

I’m from Middlesbrough, thank you for telling the story about what it’s like to live here. Crime, drugs, violence and anti social behaviour has gotten to a point that I’d say it’s close to a lost cause. It will take more than our local police.

[@curlew-3592]

People won’t like to hear it but I’m afraid the breakdown of the family, lack of good parenting, absent fathers. The list could go on, but there is no getting away from it these are causes. I can remember when our country wasn’t like This because these young men had jobs to walk into when they left school. As the saying goes, Idle hands make mischief.

[@ldn876]

💯🎯

[@Alex-rv1mj]

100 percent absent fathers and no discipline, no good father role models. A kid isn't gonna listen to it's mother if all their mates are from broken families and doing what they want

[@MichaelWillby]

Parenting has been taken away from parents

[@I.M2008]

What do you think is causing the absent fatherhood? Are the fathers not living with their kids/out of their lives all together or are they there but just unable to control their kids?

[@michaelpaget6288]

It's the drug culture that causes kids to carry knives, control of drugs in a certain area are the cause of post code wars and teens are carrying knives because of this. Drug dealing is a high risk, high reward business. And teens would rather risk getting stabbed or stabbing someone else to make money, because the cost of living is at an extortionate rate.

[@thebiggestarena]

This is so disturbing and depressing that I feel physically unwell

[@johnadams1976]

The state of the country, I'd not have children now.

[@Blue24Osprey]

It is sickening.

[@KatharinaK117]

​@Blue24Osprey say thks to yr governments 👎🏼🐍

[@ValTwineDeaner]

I'm 64 and incredibly glad I never had children.

[@DanniiBundy]

Man up, we're British.

[@droxi1059]

I’m an English man in his early 20’s, north-western. Someone got shot down the road from where I am. I’ve been chased by lads with knives, hammers and swords. This is my present, I can’t begin to imagine my children’s future.

[@xgtwb6473]

Where were their ancestors from

[@SPFboy86]

​@averagecheeseenjoyer9323Possibly that the attackers weren't white...

[@xgtwb6473]

@averagecheeseenjoyer9323 pretty obvious isn't it 😂😂😂

[@JazzyFunkaHolic]

​@@xgtwb6473doesnt matter. Im living in Cologne with lots of cultures and WE dont have THESE problems. So maybe its a UK problem.

[@alexloayza1618]

Leave, europe is soon to follow, need to go to asia or middle east

[@horkie]

As someone who's moved to the North East from Leeds, it's the exact same. It's the same everywhere in the UK. It's what happens when you put the prices of essentials through the roof and wages stay the same.

[@MikelJackson-d8r]

It's what happens when people are lazy and ungrateful. Anywhere in UK is better than 90% of Europe, let alone to compare it with other continents

[@AM-bm9rs]

@@MikelJackson-d8r your comment is the truth but noone wants to hear it, let these guys spend one week in bangladesh or columbia and they will be crying to come back

[@njones420]

@@AM-bm9rs I spent months in India, I'd take that over the north-east anyday !!

[@AM-bm9rs]

@@njones420 I'd rather live in Luton then south Asia

[@mathewgurney2033]

Poor guy who tried to fight honourably, still thought he was living in the old England.

[@dorothyhunter9311]

Well said.

[@silverbullet2008bb]

Exactly. His way is the exact type of English way of dealing with a fight that my elders told me about.

[@peterjanssen.4149]

It s yes a shithol there .PS all of West Europa .Stay safe there.

[@missladyanonymity]

Victorian times have entered the chat.

[@VTh-f5x]

Why would he go out of his house when there's 4 guys with knives waiting for him? 😂😂

[@silviafreitas5184]

I feel sorry for the shop guy, the way he needs to protect him self from this criminals. Horrible. England is done

[@Bruno0690]

Tbm sou Freitas

[@Animal-Reaction-Clips]

England is finished long ago

[@demonia2848]

Bowing down to rampant liberalis and WOKEism ie the new Nazism is what is destroying this country. People simply cry racism without knowing what it means or discrim and do gooders fall over themselves to bend the knee to them.

[@demonia2848]

*liberalism *discrimination

[@irene-jb7jc]

Yes I agree with you England is done.

[@dannycampbell7294]

Africa will soon be doing a band aid song for uk 😅

[@leftturnclyde3398]

😂

[@keithmason5584]

😂

[@nifralo2752]

​@nocap8223what drugs did they have in rhe 40s? Who during World war 2 new what narcotics were?

[@thacrypt223]

The british empire. They were selling opium and fighting opium wars for some time by that point.@@nifralo2752

[@pablogats4627]

They'll all be here by that time 😂

[@scoonboon]

I lived in Middlesbrough from 2015-2018. We were burgled and had our car stolen. Had gangs of kids banging on our door nightly and threatened at local shops. I truly believe I’d of been stabbed or worse had we stayed there. All because I wasn’t from Middlesbrough.

[@hazelhart2354]

It's not like that in all places in Teesside, sorry you had that experience 😔

[@nellynelly8203]

i lived in Cleveland for 5 years. The nicest most hard working humble people I've ever met. The place as been forgotten it's like a huge experiment on how to destroy a community. My partner still lives and works there.

[@DarkAngel2512]

What year was that?

[@AFPerssoN]

Not even from UK but i get so angry that the government does absolutely nothing to help all these innocent people

[@mchannel1365]

Cause there are strict human rights laws All labour advocates and judges run parallel gouv

[@snorttroll4379]

Government stands in the way of improving

[@gafak47]

what race was shown in this video lmaooooo...help your own ffs!@@Toonarmydee

[@TitB1199]

The UK is safe... You guys are just watching some crap on KZbin. Check out murder rates: The UK is not even in the top 100

[@brendanm6921]

​@@Zxcvbueisn444except countries like Norway and Sweden have prisons built around rehabilitation rather than punishment and also just so happen to have the single lowest reoffending rates in the entire world and some of the lowest crime rates generally. Meanwhile places like Indonesia and Papua New Guinea have ridiculously brutal prisons and seriously high crime rates soooo...

[@adriansolomon6805]

I forecasted this 30 years ago when we were told not to smack our kids! The kids are running wild and feral ! This has gone beyond sense now so we need specially trained forces to deal with the the problem. We should start with the schools and Social media.😢

[@magnus9701]

take mobile phones off kids , simples

[@Mylostsock11]

This is very true!

[@matthewbacon5734]

My teachers at Primary School would have us all cross legged on the floor for country dancing, if we boys played up they would pick us up by our seventies hair and shake us!

[@mixKid12]

Chavs blame the parents

[@chrisspencer6502]

Ohh yea the kids back the 80 were so well behaved. They weren’t going to football games and shanking other Same in the sixties they just pootled about on their scooters and motorcycles. Not fighting with each other

[@justastulpe3265]

what else to expect in a country with no law! robber brakes into your house and you can`t even touch him, cause you`ll go to jail yourself 🤣🤣

[@spotoncam3640]

Why BBC is roaming around the world and reporting nonsense of other countries, while their own backyard is rotting 😂

[@martinhayes2273]

🤣

[@JessieAllen-r6m]

These people have been colonizing the world to make it "more civilized." 🙂

[@Mcfc2Rich]

BBC isn't the worst part. Our government sending 100 millions in foreign aid/supporting wars when their own citizens can't afford homes

[@HellSpawn88]

Because the world is bigger than britian

[@jubernardi23]

@@HellSpawn88🤡

[@themishmish101]

I've never seen a person carrying a knife, close to his jewels with out a sheath.

[@m4hs33r5]

Just highlights the level of stupidity we're dealing with here...B-)

[@Youtube-Censorship-Police]

i thought the same, that guy pretty much begs for an "accident". well i doubt it's very tragic if his bloodline ends there😂

[@mrright8794]

Yeah but it's easy to miss such a small target 😅

[@themishmish101]

@@mrright8794 perhaps the target was missing already.

[@cecilchance5843]

​@@mrright8794 goat comment 😂

[@stephenskinner3851]

So how is the De-Industrialisation and conversion to a service industry economy going? Add in mass immigration and the open borders allowing drug and people traffickers to do as they please with this country.

[@matthewbacon5734]

It's horrific, Vote Reform my friend. If they don't get in at least you tried and tell your friends to do it too.

[@Ole-sf4ps]

Dont you realise this is all orchestrated

[@smallfeet4581]

The fact the young don't realise they are being targeted , how crazy are they being treated like that and letting it happen to them , have they no balls or gumption to stand up to those who want to see their demise , 🤷 , thick as mince

[@33Crazydude]

Indeed, we can thank thatcher and Reagan for Neoliberalism - the ideology at the root of all our problems

[@Justin-yt8zv]

I wouldn't necessarily blame what's happening there just on immigration but I was just thinking what if we spend those billions being used hotels was just used here instead. I can't see anyone in the uk having a problem with them seeing the absolute state of that place.

[@ranasalem4075]

When people say the problem in the UK is immigration, I show them this video. The immigrant in the video is the one working hard and getting robbed.

[@TaZ101SAGA]

Immigrants are involved in a lot of crime. One does not cancel the other out. They can both be true.

[@Drumisen]

Getting robbed by other immigrants 🤗

[@Zigga.kepler]

​@@TaZ101SAGAOfc immigrants also commit crime. However not even foreigner that you see is an criminal as some people think. Most people just want to live Thier life.

[@I-am-Ranb0]

As a Middlesbrough man I’m disgusted with how rundown and bad our area has got

[@boxtershaitan]

Same with Peterborough, in last 6 years got so bad with everything. And its going down

[@masudahmed6029]

​@@boxtershaitanI used to go boro all the time. I am from. Cambridge

[@Will-it1px]

Why aye pet

[@christopherjones4789]

Live in Norwich. No way I'm ever going up to that shite hole.

[@masudahmed6029]

@@christopherjones4789 Norwich and Yarmouth nice area I used to raving on prince of Wales road and atalntis arena

[@MyScotty7]

I live in Middlesbrough, that crime commissioner is 100% full of shite!! The area needs special help from the government,its horrendous for violence.

[@nickfba]

Torries hate the working class

[@Simon-50gtf]

Just send in the The Tax Man ...Brian Cockerell 😂 didn't he run for Mayor of Middlesborough once ...That Macintyre Doco ! Cockerell going door to door off his beak in chest high trackie trousers handing out his campaign leaflets telling one Voter as he's going out the gate " I'll see you at the Voting Thingy ! " had me dying 😂😂😂😂😂

[@TayWoode]

I live in Yarm and can see the difference when I go to Boro, it’s funny on a night out coz people think you’re posh if you say you’re from Yarm so I just say stockton or thornaby now

[@TayWoode]

@@nickfbaweird thing is more people in Hartlepool voted Tory coz Labour was doing nothing to help

[@nickfba]

@@TayWoode incredible, people don't even know what they're voting g for

[@funkubus421]

I lived in Middlesbrough for just under a year, when I was in my early 20s, now in my 40s. Having lived most of my life in Cornwall prior to the move, it was an absolutely horrific culture shock for me. Within the first week of being there, we were burgled and a friend of my then boyfriend was stabbed on the way back from uni. I saw teens robbing jewellery shops, I was assaulted by kids on bikes on the way back from work, we heard prostitutes heckling all night, police helicopters overheard most nights. I was happy to move back to Cornwall after 8 months.

[@funkubus421]

@@ShadzGG Not sure what part of Cornwall you’re referring to. I know some parts are rather rough, as with all counties. But I’d have to disagree and say that it’s not turning anywhere near the same as Middlesbrough. However maybe I’m too far away from the crime to know about it.

[@benjaminhagen2362]

Sounds like Birmingham 😂😅

[@SB-he1cn]

​@@funkubus421Nah. You are right. Cornwall isn't anything like Middlesbrough. I live South Coast now. Grew up North East. And it's a different kind of rough up north. Oddly though, the people are friendlier that aren't in gangs. I always explained the first 20 odd years of my life in the North like this. You get both extremes. You got people that are rougher than rough. Glass you, stab you for nothing just coz they in a mood. But at the same time. Strangers are also overly sound when they want to be. I used to go out drinking. And lads would get you to drink with them at their table if you are just on your ones or with a mate etc. People in shops and strangers on busses just chatting to each other. When I moved down South in my early 20s. I had my Mrs looking at me all strange for talking to strangers in the supermarket or at the bar in a pub. You don't get that down South. Sadly I've loves here nearly as long as I lived up North now and I'm one of those Southerners now and I barely talk to strangers. Ppl just think ya after something like you can't genuinely just be saying hello. So yh. North - friendliest and roughest part of England in my experience. I don't think London knife crime is rough. That's gang, culture, music related often. North is more northern monkeys/ druggies / and depravity behind the violence.

[@LeonardoSummers]

Plenty of racism from the locals in Cornwall

[@Dan-Clark]

I moved up to Stockton in Middlesbrough from London when I was 19 in the mid to late 90s I'm 44 now so know what your saying I only stayed a year and moved on mental times

[@OliverCoverdale]

This is the things that happen in England it’s so chavvy

[@djmastergroove946]

What a cesspit. This country is beyond repair! Our great grandfather's fought for this once beautiful Britain and now look it. Absolute disgrace!

[@nogs1656]

Not to spoil your idea of the past but it’s never been beautiful mate. Maybe if you’re rich and white. Poor areas end up like this because the conditions they are placed under based on mostly societal disadvantages. Our government is mostly to blame. Our county has always been bad and areas like this have always been here

[@steveo4991]

The country our great grandparents fought for was much more crime ridden and stabby. It took until 2019 for London to beat WWII levels of knife crime… And guess who raised the current generations? That’s right, the very same boomers you’re talking about. Give it a rest.

[@nastykash9557]

@@steveo4991stabbings was not high during world war 2 that’s a load of bull. Crime rate didn’t hit hard until 1980s-1990s during to stats. Then again stabbings wasn’t even high during those times either since guns was more attainable apparently during those times so it was either fist fights or Shootouts. There was a lot of physical crime but it was more of group fights and fist fights or weapons such as bats.

[@steveo4991]

@@nastykash9557 Yeah the 2019 stat of “knife crime in the UK hit its highest levels since WWII” was just part of muh conspiracehhhhhh. Flap your gums somewhere else, nobody’s buying.

[@khadijahbegum3546]

​@@steveo4991exactly these big boomers have the audacity😂🤦‍♀️

[@Riotwebs]

15, live in Boro, never done drugs, never will carry a knife about. Disgusting

[@Nameless_TF]

17 same thing every time i go to college i look around and just wish i was never born into this place

[@Riotwebs]

@@Nameless_TF Broo dw we'll get out, college is a great start

[@swag12344]

@@Nameless_TF You should be glad you were born and turned out better. It'll do you some good to have a more positive outlook.

[@zachdods]

Proud of you mate

[@Agman.P]

Lovely to read lads, keep up the top work

[@Dan-jg7zl]

Modern day Britain resembling Columbia. I do not have children and never will. The state of the UK is one of the reasons.

[@johnc3525]

Right on, if you truly love your kids, don't have them. Funny how they call people who don't want to have kids selfish.

[@Alex-rv1mj]

Yeh i worry about my 3 year old everyday now. This country is going down the pan...why do people wanna come here?! Started locking my car doors when i get in with my son....it never used to cross my mind, only the last couple of years

[@Englishsea24]

Unfortunately it's only the wrong types of people that want to keep having kids

[@stretfordender11]

Over population due to immigration. Newer immigrants have took jobs the native and older immigrants could have been trained in. That’s why the black Londoners have been left behind too.

[@lunesdeambiente10]

Colombia is nicer than the uk ...and no benefit system !!!stop talking bs

[@grantmckendry3323]

Sections of the UK need to fenced off from other parts of society.

[@TaiJowers]

Just Boro lad

[@noooname2568]

Sound, you’d have the country the size of Suffolk then 👍

[@zubrhero5270]

If you did that... We'd have like 6 unfenced villages.

[@charlesc.9012]

That's what prisons are for, but it isn't going to work if crime goes unpunished anyway.

[@joyridesham]

Breakdown of families, religion,parenting, manners, no aspirations, no goals, all the evil of society widespread, drugs, alcohol ., prostitution. What a sad state the working class white and poor are in .

[@BRUTAL199]

Working class 😂

[@nobodyanderson4353]

I was talking to an 18 year old and asked her what she wanted to do with her life. Her answer was I'm hoping to get PIP because I've got autism.

[@BRUTAL199]

@nobodyanderson4353 We had to take my sister out of secondary school in London 15 years ago because the students were constantly bullying her for wanting to get an education. Their mentality was "get your parents to kick you out when you're 16). You will stay in a hostal doing what you like until you get a council flat and benefits, more money if you get pregnant. You will never have to work. Only mugs are slaves to the system. The lack of respect they had for teachers was diabolical. Most stunk of weed and came from benefit families. 15 years later, you see these ex students online. Half a dozen kids from different fathers, looking 20 years older than they are moaning about benefit cuts,and the everything they don't get for free anymore, especially their overcrowded flats 🤷‍♀️

[@greni7472]

​@@BRUTAL199The cuts to benefits was mostly a good thing. The criminal or drug dependent lifestyles of many are subsidized by the taxpayer.

[@Lolife86]

The famous white privilege.

[@XenophobicAirport]

Anyone else notice that all the people carrying the knives to "Protect themselves" end up being the ones you need to protect yourself from? "I carried a knife to protect myself" turned into "He turned me down for a cigarette so I demanded all his things then stabbed him to death". "I needed it to protect myself" turned into "I had to use it it show them I wasn't to be messed with". They're just looking for an excuse to carry the knives in the first place in my opinion, it's rationalization.

[@johnnycbad]

Toxic masculinity and fragile egos. They can't walk away after feeling like they've been wronged and have to retaliate. The knife is to protect themselves during the retaliation.

[@JoshuaKhosa]

Would you really walk around unarmed though?

[@boranbkk4270]

This is fruit of Tony Blair’s 1997 dystopian view for the future.

[@joshmc832]

His mate looking thinking u sosage

[@PaulSullivan-u4u]

Why bring Blair into it if anything he transformed our town center from a dump into a modern town I remember the first year labour got In Huyton got a new library a new McDonald's a new bus terminal and completely transformed so he was good from 97 to 2001

[@diorocks5858]

Margaret Thatcher privatization of housing! If you want to get out you cant, there's no where to go, you cant take the job you will never be able to afford the rent. Its going to get worse the Country is gone. People do drugs there stuck as rents to high and pay is to low there's no future for many.

[@SausageRoll4u]

​@user-tx1rr3rb1q Oh wow a new McDonalds! What a treat! Definitely makes up for the rest of the sh!t he did whilst in power.

[@TheCutiePatrol]

you think it was all roses before that? throughout the 80s and 90s, gun violence spiralled out of control, one because many guns were legal and two, cocaine business exploded across the globe. wouldn't conservatives be to blame for all that? privatising housing, shutting down all the mining towns? surely that amount of pressure and poverty put onto someones life would have a bigger impact lol.

[@HarrisMurray-g3b]

It’s strange cause this is talk tv, but this is cracking good journalism.

[@boldertash]

Young lads can no longer speak English anymore.

[@veronicacrabtreehill6608]

When these bastards are arrested WHY cover their faces up ? Let people see who they are and be aware of them.

[@JTB-THFC]

They never could speak English in Middlesbrough

[@patricksmith4424]

​@@JTB-THFCyeh, this comment asked for that reply!

[@abstraqtphilosophy7357]

​@@JTB-THFCa predominantly White City in the UK can't speak English? Ain't that just hilarious? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@benedictearlson9044]

They wouldn't do the interview other than anonymously, get a grip. ​@@veronicacrabtreehill6608

[@Adam-sd2ow]

The guy who murdered someone seems scarily nonechalant.

[@G4RY1159]

That's the world we now live in, such people hold more value towards a mobile phone than another human life

[@Anonymous56657]

He needs to be deported.

[@LilyGazou]

Three teenagers stole a car from a grandmother- she was trapped by her seatbelt and was dragged to her death- her arm was torn off. New Orleans, in daylight.

[@c3pno]

​@@LilyGazou lucky, could of been both arms

[@jjr1728]

​@@LilyGazoushe won't do that again

[@alanjax7685]

in case anyones forgotten it was just the same in the 80s, i saw someone i know with a knife in his armpit and his dad bleeding to death on the floor on the local shopping parade 1986, saw a bloke slashed across his back with a stanley knife he had 180 stitches, 1983 nothings changed

[@LDCA9999]

Before moving away, I lived in Middlesbrough for 36 years (my whole life). I’m glad I got out when I did. Wouldn’t like to think I’d be bringing my daughter up around there now. Funnily enough, I lived next door to the person who murdered Barbara Dunne’s son with an ornamental samurai sword for a brief period when he was released from prison for his murder. He threatened me with a kitchen knife on my front door step, but I had no idea who he was at the time. Not until the police told me anyway. Clearly a reformed character.

[@rahuldahoob]

Which country do you live in now? Roy chubby brown also left Middlesbrough

[@Riotwebs]

i'm 15 being raised here, not a roadman never touched drugs, but its absolutely full of smackheads

[@LDCA9999]

@@rahuldahoobAmerica.

[@thebesttheworst2277]

Why did he threaten you? Was he just that unhinged type and quick to anger. Glad you got yourself out and raising your Daughter somewhere better, good man. 👏👌

[@thebesttheworst2277]

​@@RiotwebsGood lad, stay on the right path and keep yourself safe young'n, when you're a little older you'll be able to choose where you live ... hang in there for now. 👍

[@jordanplumb5941]

Knife crime is literally the norm here. But can agree that the guy saying “stabbed me stabbed me and I thought, oh no” was very British

[@Jason.King.at.your.service]

I lived in Middlesbrough for 9 months. I can confirm it is an absolute cesspit of a place.

[@GinoTrickz]

worst place i have ever been to i only go there because my girlfriends family somehow lives there to visit them

[@stephenllewellyn5014]

Lived here 58 years , it's young people who spoil the area.

[@BoltonTesla]

And people say national service would be a bad thing. To teach the next gen discipline, respect and trades.

[@dutchgilmore3567]

Being from the trenches in Toronto and dealing with addicts my whole life, I can tell the issue isn’t gang culture in Cleveland, but the use of drugs at an early age is causing these people to be violent. Addicts are some of the most spontaneous people, untrustworthy people that’ll do anything for a quick come up.

[@junkybabes]

Its not drugs, it prohibition... pretty much sponsor's organised crime.

[@KBWRER]

I lived on the estates shown in Middlesbrough, there’s no simple one reason as to why these places are like this. We need to work as a country to make it easier for people to escape this way of life

[@kyberite]

yup, keeps prices high and the competition on edge, literally @@junkybabes

[@artemiseritu]

​@junkybabes they tried "safe injection sites" in Vancouver. All that happened was the existing druggies took more drugs, and the number of users increased dramatically. It's not just the law that's the problem. It's that the government I'd taxing people to the point where one person can't stay home. The number one cause of divorce is money issues. If the government would just f' off, people would be happier, wealthier, and less likely to do drugs.

[@CheshireCat6639]

Well said👏👏..true imho too💯😞

[@RadioDadJokes]

Poor parenting and a lack of responsibility are a big cause of this.

[@nogs1656]

And the government

[@TheJono1987]

I'd blame the government taking police off the streets... I used to get pulled for stop and search all the time walking around Boro.. you don't see that anymore at all... Police are scared of the youth today as they've let them get too confident

[@mickclarke5741]

Absolutely

[@jameshenderson5385]

Brought up by parents who couldn't give a toss!!

[@ChsM-jk4oy]

When there is no hope for the future it makes the parents think what's the point it's much much deeper than that

[@tudorDaDefender]

Uk law literally says if u get caught with a knife on the street you’re gonna do 4 to 10 years in prison. I’ve literally seen police stop people, find knives on them, and told them “if i catch you again with something like this on ya, you’re going to jail”

[@imhotepheru436]

Criminal name Khyre stabbed victim in tomach in Soton, luckily victim survived, Khyre got only two years sentence. After serving Kyre moved to Birmingham, within a year he stabbed another victim to death over £50 dispute, Khyre serving 22 years sentence, I think he'll serve 11 years because it's day and night 🤔

[@carlavanda1585]

Jails are bursting

[@tsimpson318]

@@carlavanda1585we don’t deter criminals because of lax sentencing and maybe because for some disaffected youths they are better placed to be than the streets anyway

[@tudorDaDefender]

@@carlavanda1585 so what’s your solution?

[@carlavanda1585]

@@tudorDaDefenderthe data suggests that imprisonment increased not because crime rates have increased significantly over the past couple of years, but because sentencing has toughened up over 2023 to meet electoral goals. Meaning lower turnover rates, when budget wasn't proportionally allocated resulting with prisons overflowing, lacking resources and staff (hardly a ground for social reintegration.) Actually, with our budget deficit increasing from a comfortable +1% in the early noughties to be well under -10% currently, we now deal with the domino effect of progressive cuts on education, health, housing, etc over the past 2 decades. Meaning that gen Z has been harshly affected, especially in deprived areas. IMO, this contributes for the UK now having the highest imprisoning rates of West Europe. Increasing sentencing is like pruning the weed instead of treating the root causes. It's a measure that, by itself, is unsustainable. But nobody really cares.

[@JT-km6th]

The myth was only London had stabbings. In fact it's tame compared to northern towns and cities, these areas are far more rough than London.

[@YouNeedToKnowAbout]

The "small" town and cities in the North are some of the scariest places in the country. The big cities are generally safer. How times change.

[@mileschurch67]

The most dangerous place in Britain: The Houses of Parliament

[@Jkk55]

We all now live in a lawless society 😥

[@vonbeedle554]

wrong. if anything laws are ramping up, and not in a good way.

[@splitter7376]

​@@vonbeedle554 Yes you and the one person who agrees with you 😆

[@vonbeedle554]

@@splitter7376 millions of people oppose authoritarianism bro what are you on? 😂

[@smiler3767]

⁠@@splitter7376 You say that in all seriousness and spite while having a goofy ass pic of pikachu as your profile. wake tf up 🤦‍♂️

[@youngayrr1326]

🤮🤮🤮🤮touching civilians is digusting, if you choose to live that life fair enough but don’t force a innocent person into a situation they never ever imagined dealing with

[@smithanastasia2172]

This country, the same as the entire western WORld has degraded, 25 years ago U.K. used to be safe, it is no more. All of those single mothers on benefits brought this ‘generation of degradation’, children with no values no principles no believes no

[@joanannewallace]

Absolutely horrendous. Why have governments not done anything to help these places?

[@markstarmer3677]

Anyone without a bona fide reason for carrying such a weapon should get a mandatory jail sentence.

[@mssdn8976]

Get caught carrying a knife should equal 5 years in prison, no plea deal, no mental health excuse by their solicitors, do not pass go, straight to prison

[@lizziestevenson9345]

Jail's are full. Young people need role models, guidance and a future which is difficult to imagine for too many. Back to Thatcher days when I left school I'm afraid - no hope no future. I was lucky but not so too many I left school with. Never worked, drug addicts, jail or dead. Terrifying to see it all happening again on steroids. Just thankful I've no kids 😢

[@markstarmer3677]

​@lizziestevenson9345 I left school in the Thatcher years. I and many of my mates got real jobs, apprentice electricians, plumbers, mechanics etc. You had a few interviews, done your homework etc. There was more of a discipline to succeed then I think. These days, most kids think work will come to them with little effort, or do useless degrees at uni. There is a sence of entitlement these young people seem to believe in, because parents don't seem to put the imput into their kids, and never say no to them. There is plenty of work about, it's a case of getting off your arses I'm afraid.

[@BlueSkyCountry]

@@mssdn8976 We should have mandatory indoor CCTV in every home wired directly to the police station. Everything will be monitored. If you are getting dressed about to leave the house and you try to sneak a weapon under your clothes, the police will see it before you even leave your door. Only those with dishonest intent care about things like "privacy". If you have nothing to hide, there is nothing to be afraid of. The State can do no wrong. Everything they do is for our own good and we should learn to grovel and be grateful.

[@alexdawson1203]

You do realise that you're advocating for anyone who wants to defend themselves to be thrown straight in prison right? Maybe people wouldn't carry if the streets were safe to walk, not to mention how much power you'd be giving to the government.

[@KingRooney89]

This is what happens when a government neglects a whole area of the country. This isn’t just 5 or 10 years of neglect this is DECADES. These people have been failed

[@iluvmusicqwe]

Gov needs to invest more in yoov centres and social workers innit. That will surely do the trick.

[@alexk9295]

Have been failed? These people need a goverment to make a life for them? What a bunch of horseshit.

[@nikos208]

So they are the true victims? Haha laughable

[@eggwaffle]

You think it’s the government’s job to solve everyone’s issues? You’re part of the problem then.

[@riccardoc1711]

Yes they have been failed by their own brain…

[@matthewsims4146]

North Yorkshire, which the next door to Teesside, has the lowest rate of crime in the country. The difference is stark between the two areas. The major difference is North Yorkshire has extremely high levels of employment. People need jobs and a chance.

[@SnakePliskin762]

Different demographics. NY police has a massive area compared to Cleveland's so the stats are different. Hence why this vids jumped on the bandwagon as it shows Cleveland to be really bad compared to say London when the reality is far different.

[@ObjectiveMedia]

It’s the reduction in poverty employment brings not the act of doing a job/wage slavery itself (capitalist propaganda)

[@leslieperkins759]

As Inspector Nick Glynn, vice president of the National Black Police Association, notes: “If you aren’t well off - if you’re young, from an urban area, black, or Asian - your chances of getting stopped by the police for drugs are much higher.” Police rarely bothered anyone where I grew up unless they were called to investigate a specific complaint. Even when caught committing a criminal offence, people are treated differently depending on their background. Researchers at the LSE found that, in London, people from the highest socioeconomic class - doctors, lawyers, journalists - were three times more likely to be let off with a caution for drug offences than people who were unemployed. Evidence suggests that experimenting with illegal drugs is roughly equal across the socioeconomic spectrum, and regular drug use more common among young people, but the vast majority of those in prison for drug offences are not from middle-class backgrounds.

[@SnakePliskin762]

@@leslieperkins759 that's London

[@Deleted11100]

Some of the hardest lads come out of the boro. Home of the parmo and some of the most down to earth genuine people on the planet, the north east was wasted by Thatcher and has been notoriously and statistically the most dangerous place to live in the country, ironically with some of the most beautiful picturesque scenery in the country surrounding it.

[@jackodriscoll3817]

The measures that phone shop owner has to take is just insane,hopefully he gets some sort of justice.

[@truthsearcher596]

Hilarious when "reporters/journalists" report on this and seem shocked, goes to show how out of touch and distant some people are.

[@johnc3525]

Maybe they're not from that area?

[@Andygb78]

@@johnc3525 I think on a Talk TV salary that's highly likely to be the case.

[@krob2327]

@@Andygb78yeah this all seems a bit exploitative and sneering

[@mariemccann5895]

No, it called journalism, you are the one out of touch if you can't see that. Nobody is interested in a report couched in the terms of there is nothing unusual to see here.

[@MBM1260]

No, they're not out of touch. Do you see this sort of thing in Linthorpe, Acklam or Yarm? Not really, so unless someone is from the area and goes out at night, they won't see this and the same goes for every major town and city.

[@Dehema00]

So where are the people who said immigrants are the problem?

[@Modhuchosha]

Why are their faces covered up?

[@xcryosonx]

Because regardless of who you are when you do a crime, you're trying to avoid being IDed by CCTV.@@Modhuchosha

[@hassis6206]

Right!!

[@oliverattwell8013]

Here👍🏿

[@dunno637]

@@oliverattwell8013you say immigrants are the problem?

[@tonylyons7711]

Our politicians seem to be oblivious to the real problems that these addictive drugs bring and they must face that they are failing to even scratch the surface of the dealers who are getting away with it.😢

[@maureendaly7936]

I was born and raised in Middlesbrough I could walk home from a friend’s house-or youth club alone at midnight .There were no drugs and very little violence . The punch ups at chucking out time didn’t count ! The people were hard and so were their lives .The people helped each other through the hardships . I am seventy five and haven’t been back in many years . Cleveland is only one of the degraded depressed areas in the U .K . It’s heartbreaking to see what is happening to Britain .😢

[@HellSpawn88]

Bet you still pissed off to Australia tho right

[@leong2002]

@@HellSpawn88who wouldn’t at this point?

[@BNDAGUK]

Middlesbrough was safe when i was younger only 10 years ago.... until these smug thugs on the street might have to sort them all out eh haha

[@JT-km6th]

All of them, you just wouldn't get caught 50-70 years ago, technology was too shitty to catch most stuff. It's why all the super serial killers don't exist anymore, they get caught early on more often. ​@@gb8628

[@AlanBoddy-fl2qp]

​@@HellSpawn88Jealous?🙏🥰

[@MrMarkhall1]

Broken Britain 🇬🇧 💔 😢

[@sonnytopboy4975]

Mu slim Britain more like

[@Cookieman524]

​@@sonnytopboy4975What's Islam got to do with this?

[@richard00langdon]

✝️

[@HellSpawn88]

I'm moving to Iraq, less likely to be a victim of crime

[@aaykay4060]

@@sonnytopboy4975yeah that champ with the unsheathed knife was as English as they get. But your xenophobia is clearly showing.

[@michaelscarlino1590]

I’ve been in over 9 young offenders, a few adult prisons, regarding knives, the saying I always heard was, “ My mom would prefer a son inside, than in a grave “.

[@nealwillis4361]

I live on the outskirts in a quiet area I was brought up in the town. It’s heartbreaking seeing it now I go in to the Boro on match days and have a few beers with mates. When it gets to around 8 or 9 o’clock we get out of there. There’s no hope for the town now few quality jobs no steel works no chemical industry or ship building. It’s been forgotten.

[@genigee]

Broken families broken communities

[@m.haslam8495]

That's the core reason.

[@duffy_115]

my brother lost his best friend a year ago. all over a girl. they stabbed him in the neck instantly paralysing him then ran his lifeless body over, dragging it 100m down the road...it leaves a horrible stain on friends and family, he had a little girl man. rip paddy

[@HibeeMcbee]

Was this the one out slide the pub? Pat Howard and Adam Fanelli?

[@MagicalChart]

Whre did that happen?which city?

[@duffy_115]

correct @@HibeeMcbee

[@Darthmgtow]

Was that in Houghton Regis? I read the headline. The guy who towed my car told me that they were all mates...

[@duffy_115]

biggest *were* ever sadly@@Darthmgtow

[@kylieb5213]

Apparently almost all of them carry knives because they don't want to be attacked and be the only one without a knife. When did this start? Who started it? Where did it spread from? Can we even stop it now? And should be examine self defense laws if this is how we're expected to live?

[@Bond2025]

It started in the 1990s with people of limited intelligence thinking the real World was an extension of their games console, drugs turned them paranoid and to speak in strange ways using odd words. Maybe the mental health problems are worse than we thought in the UK. The NHS has a lot to answer for.

[@The_Chicken_Noodle]

Self Defence Laws defo need to be revamped.

[@edmundblackaddercoc8522]

When we started importing half the world is when I started. Pre 1990's knife crime was extremely low.

[@SeRiUsOrThOdOx]

​@edmundblackaddercoc8522 there's always one.

[@suckyamumbro]

In the UK years ago you could have a pistol duel or a fair fight without an arrest, If disputes needed settling they could be solved and only the 2 involved would get hurt. In the modern generation as I see it half the country carrys something for self-defence but the other half aren't allowed. If your robbed or assaulted you can wait hours for police to turn up with a tazer, baton and pepper spray (all illegal in the UK for the public to possess) that you could have needed an hour ago to defend yourself 🎉 I think self defense laws need changing tbh with you as well as the vulnerable or elderly being allowed to carry pepper spray.

[@TheAwallach]

Last week, I was riding my 125cc motorbike in North Shields, near the infamous Meadow Well metro, when three British lads, all under 15, came at me. It was surreal and a bit frightening-I never expected something like that while just trying to get from A to B. Makes you think twice about where and when you ride..

[@netsurfer007]

As a Londoner this is not what I was expecting. Damn you mainstream media, you fooled me again!

[@chayfebruary9252]

They always say London is worse than everywhere else because it has the most diversity!

[@tonyadams8812]

💯

[@davess61]

I moved from the North east to London ten years ago and I feel a lot safer here. The Middlesbrough area was always as rough as hell but it looks like it's getting worse

[@HibeeMcbee]

@@chayfebruary9252 it is.

[@ph8077]

@@chayfebruary9252 South London is much worse.

[@alexandergemmell664]

The government and police need to take the gloves off now before it’s too late.

[@tomdavies6443]

"An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind" Regards from a Tom :)

[@TGLANESRA]

They are the ones who created the problem, the useless government and police.😅

[@torstimyle1355]

The government can't correct what it created by design.

[@SoaronhighlikeEagle]

Good to see one good piece of proper journalism! Thanks 🙏🏻

[@KolussuslifeKB]

We pray for all the family and friends of those who have lost a loved one through knife crime. We pray that we can all learn to talk things out rather than fighting and killing each other. We need peace and love in every estate, every village, town, city and our communities across this beautiful country.

[@bmeister88]

🙏

[@thecoopjaxthedog4227]

In my day getting a job was a good idea but in today's society everyone what's to be a cardboard cut out gangster.

[@joblogos2367]

In your day getting a job meant you could have a decent enough life. Now getting a job means struggling nonstop. People will choose easy money.

[@callumward7503]

Cardboard cut out gangster = The result of a cultural and societal "Filter" problem.

[@terencemullins1422]

Blame the education system,woke teachers don't teach respect for your country and people

[@odownton1322]

When you watch this , it makes you so greatful we have clean air zones and pay clean air charges , as the air is clearly the biggest issue in the UK ......

[@HannahJones-kf1kt]

Lmao 😏

[@joshblass9946]

😂😂😂😂

[@smiler3767]

Clean air zones?

[@kathleeneltis3550]

I do hope you are joking?

[@Nameless_TF]

yeah idk if you couldn't grasp his sarcasm@@kathleeneltis3550

[@Reality_Dystopia]

Asked for a cigarette - told no. Then robbed and stabbed multiple times. Seems like a standup guy. Defo turned his life around 😂

[@TravelAbventuresUnbound]

Yet to meet a British EXPAT in Japan who has anything good to say about the U.K. The grass is greener on the other side. Move out of your comfort zone and leave . It will be the best thing you ever do.

[@dion789]

So you're talking to some people who decided to leave, as opposed to the millions of people who remain in the UK. Somehow it feels like you're basing your opinion on a very small, specific group of people who might not represent the UK as a whole.

[@TravelAbventuresUnbound]

@@dion789 Maybe so but I do not have to worry about getting stabbed, punched, robbed or my phone stolen anymore.

[@TravelAbventuresUnbound]

@@dion789 I had the misfortune of living in Aberdeen, Scotland for 24 years, voted the most miserable city in Europe. Yet to meet a Scot who has anything positive to say about dour, cynical depressive Scotland, so no my opinion is not a minority.

[@kennethhewish2455]

I'm a Geordie and really like the people from these areas and have plenty good friends from there. It's true that it is one hell of a rough place but everywhere is the same. I live in a very nice area and I can tell you that you will see or be affected by crime every single day I'm guaranteeing it. The police forces and woke left wing approach is the issue. No deterrent at all.

[@Justin-yt8zv]

I visited for work training decade ago, the people up there are gold. The countryside is beautiful, coastline is beautiful. That place should be absolutely thriving. I went around Middlesbrough for a day trip, felt sick around the place not what I am used to at all in the UK. I just can't get out of my head why the government doesn't take the billions they spend on dodgy asylum seekers and just sort the place out, you could build a whole new north east for 1 years hotel bills its an absolute scandal which nobody seems to be talking about.

[@eddybrek5298]

Hartlepool used to be part of Durham County Council and back in my nana and grandas day in the late 70s middlesbrough created teesside and all of Hartlepool tax money sent down to the road 25 mins away to teesside way ... hartleoool hasn't even got its own police station any more or hospital we have to travel 30 mins for a&e sooner we leave 'cleveland' the better towns been down hill since

[@adamalgin4154]

I'm a geordie and I'm pretty sure it's poverty that is the issue Kenneth cheers

[@adamalgin4154]

Cleveland police are also ridiculous

[@steelhelmetstan7305]

Cleveland County was an invented area back in 1974...from parts of North Yorkshire and Durham. It was disbanded in 1996....so 'cleveland' as a place hasn't existed for 28 years!. Yes there is still cleveland police and fire brigade but that's it....people don't really mention 'cleveland ' anymore. Google any of the towns in the area and they are stated to be in either Yorkshire or Durham. There are some very wealthy areas in this part of the world , some very middle of the road areas.....the rough areas have always been that way round here....but it has become worse over the last 20 years....the reasons?....lack of any real investment, manufacturing industries wiped out......more recently the blast furnace....people cheering as it was demolished!!!. If you have a trade/profession/education in this area then it can be an OK place to live, you can live away from this stuff.....but...but ...there is a problem with scum roaming the streets at night, more police patrols maybe?. I wonder what the government's of the day thought what would happen when the jobs were taken away , closing steel plants, shipyards etc etc.....the ones most affected are always the people at the bottom, the unskilled , etc....sometimes maybe people can't retrain....or as Norman Tebbit famously said 'get on your bike'....the sad state of Teesside, the forgotten area of the North, never mind the country ....and as a reminder, definitely not Cleveland 😊😊

[@Xenuu]

I'm from blackpool and it's pretty much the same here. People saying it's all because of imigrants annoy me, most of the lads walking around with knives are the most white British stereotypical lads you will see. The only imigrants I've seen have been working hard in silence and putting our own people to shame

[@anfieldreds_1892]

very very good point. i’ve always wondered too, that stabbings you see on tv often relates to black youths. however, if you dig into non publicised (on the media) stabbings, many people will be surprised how many white youths are stabbing and killing each other. Just round my area a white lad killed another white lad, there was hardly a peep in the local news. everyone should look into stabbing stats and they’d be surprised. Lastly, we need to be careful, as if society breaks down, the easiest targets can be immigrants or non white British. the way things are going, society is on the verge of collapsing. It’s human nature to find someone else to blame. We all do it. Look at the Nazis, Balkans war, Rwanda etc. We need to be careful

[@Xenuu]

@@anfieldreds_1892 Well said, and I agree fully. In the last 3 years I’ve seen 2 people stabbed, both by white youths, my mum was mugged by a group of 3 white teenagers and a shop was robbed by a white teenager with a machete. I just wonder how long we can blame it on immigrants when we can see that isn’t the case. Surely this madness has to end soon, right?

[@Pugilist928]

Exactly well said.

[@Ruairoquai]

If your response to this is to immediately rush to the defence of immigrants, there is something deeply wrong with you. You should look at crime statistics broken down by ethnicity some time.

[@TitB1199]

As someone from London, you have no idea, but you will learn.

[@PaulTanner-pc1nj]

The most shocking thing I heard was the impending bankruptcy of the local council, says alot about what's going on in central government when local government are in such a mess. Disgraceful how our country has been betrayed.

[@iwannadrinkfromyourwideeye2635]

Well they want a police state mate and when citizens are not allowed to arm themselves then the government slowly chips away at all your freedoms to leave you defenceless. The police are useless as they always get to the crime scene to late. Criminals have more rights than the citizens and they're exalted while the citizen is looked down upon.

[@zoesolanki961]

I was thinking the same, there has to be some mismanagement somewhere

[@jacquelinelam3022]

Yes, even the council cannot manage finance.

[@lilyanaharforde3374]

Yeah... you can thank the Labour-run councils for that... They've already apologised in Hartlepool for swindling money only to get voted back in - you can't make it up!

[@buddybleeyes]

Fantastic documentary

[@oldskoolfantasy]

Media need to wake up bigtime, So many estates and areas are like this and have been for years, This is normal life for people living on estates. Govt caused this but conveniently ignore problems of the working class

[@luz9979]

No working working class, I would say.

[@The_oneand_Only1]

Surely this is more the underclass. They are even more forgotten

[@xbluebae]

We've got loads of "industrial estates" in the north east, plenty factories and terraced rows of giant units. Hitachi came and left us too. Used to be renowned for the coal and steel industry... Used to be.

[@teelo523]

This is bad parenting and also single parenting.

[@BikerChris-]

The rich will get richer while the working class get poorer , sad times … but turn up here with no documentation claiming to be fleeing war and you’ll get a place to live and a job with sia or a cscs card … what about our youth having to carry a knife because of other young people with knives . Give them a chance at least in the first place !!!

[@Chelskie-darts]

I’ve lived in Middlesbrough all my life , I’m 38 now … I’ve been stabbed and I’ve had a shotgun put to my head , few stints in prison (when I was younger) I’ve grew up now and got 3 young kids 5yr old and twins 2yr old , I don’t see much of this behaviour in boro and I live in a rough area , I’m well known in boro and know the people who could potentially try n hurt me or steal , burgle my house …. I’ll protect my children and partner with my life ….. respect to Harris for helping the kids in our local area , his a good man Harris and I’m gonna see about volunteering at the centre myself to give him a hand

[@Goatededitz6969]

Wow man you have had a heck of a life props to you for Odin all that and goin through that

[@Chelskie-darts]

@@Goatededitz6969 : respect mate 🫡

[@SucculentSpaz]

Why are you okay with bringing kids up in an environment like that...?

[@Chelskie-darts]

@@SucculentSpaz : that’s council estates across the uk tbf mate , I’ve grown up a lot now and will teach my young children to live the right way , been alot of very successful people come out of Middlesbrough over the years and hopefully my own children don’t fall into the wrong crowd and can learn from my own mistakes and do well in life , there’s still a lot of good people , honest , kind caring folk in Middlesbrough and no1 should have to move away because of a percentage of scumbags

[@chazaofworld]

@@Chelskie-darts hey good for you mate. i lived near a council estate and met some great people from there. cant judge a book by its cover i think the best of england comes from the council estates

[@stuzo666]

Shame for the lady lost her son, heartbreaking

[@Andylishioustunes]

There's such a huge wealth divide in this country. Cost of living crisis and 'inflation' meanwhile big corporations are making record profit. It's not rocket science. Tax these companies, put restrictions on unnecessary price increases and redistribute the wealth to areas like these.

[@cocosheffield79]

“With the local council facing the threat of bankruptcy” that’s probably the root of many of the problems

[@christinabergstrom-pd8ln]

Nice to hear people is trying to do something good for kids!! You make our world to a better place. Thank you!!😊❤❤❤❤😊

[@monicanath4859]

I am so sorry to see this. The community centre staff, the business owner and the mother are phenomenally brave. I pray for them ❤!

[@alisonjones7747]

The UK never needed to import trash. It always had plenty of local 'talent'.

[@Sabrewatch1]

Crime is down because the police don't record it properly or respond to large amounts of it. That's the only reason.