World in Action Heartbreak Hotels (1988)

Documentary about the poor living conditions in bed and breakfast hotels which are being used by local councils to accomodate homeless families.

[@dominewimbury2039]

36 years ago and we are still in this position! Disgusting!

[@jimmanycricket3756]

2024 and nothing has changed for the better

[@MrDirkles]

It's more hidden now imo

the government has let in 38,000 more illegals this year and it's October, what do you expect when they are getting all the benefits and services..!

@@MrDirkles Dinghy divers are in 4star hotels that's not hidden.!

[@MrDirkles]

I was referring to the treatment of the native population . The rest is just a psy op that is being used to demoralise the natives and allow further government control.

[@s.m975]

No, they're not. Stop spreading misinformation. It's a very small minority of asylum seekers that are coming in, and they're not staying in 4 star hotel's...they're no longer operating as 4 star hotels but have been converted to asylum seekers accommodation. And no longer offer the facilities/amenities a 4 star hotel would offer...they get very basic meals and are closely monitored...and their stay in such accommodation is limited until they're moved on.

[@VICTOR-pf9eg]

History always repeated itself and you've always said to yourself I've seen this before

[@sandrafinbar]

Shocked to see this and that it is not a recent problem. Such a big waste of money that could have been used to build more homes. Very sad for the people.

[@kencook7580]

Nothing has changed, apart from the FACT that immigrants have been put to the front of the queue. Anyone who has the means to can get out of this country needs to do so now !

[@emilymccartney1593]

shut up melt 😂

[@s.m975]

No immigrants have not been put to the front of the queue. If anyone's to blame, it's the central government that is not providing local councils with enough funding to build affordable housing and who has decided housing is not a priority. So what you're saying is not a fact... you're simply regurgitating Reform UK and tory anti-immigrant rhetoric. Scape goat the immigrants instead of taking responsibility for a problem that is created by your own government

[@_Meng_Lan]

Ken you're wrong .

[@bladerubber]

Look here's the xenophobe. NOT everything is about immigrants ffs.! Have u watched the film? Or just too keen to spout your bile? Just leave the country then if its so bad. Bye

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

You are joking. They certainly are being put to the front of the queue. They rock up and get everything, whilst if you are here and become homeless you get nothing! ​@@s.m975

[@Podgey25]

The couple with 2 kids. It would have been cheaper to keep them in their housing association and come up with some aid plan.

[@bladerubber]

£560 for a shit room for A WEEK IN 1986??? HOW is that possible?? HOW DID THE COUNCIL & HOTELS GET AWAY WITH THIS? COS aint no way they weren't in cohoots in this.

[@sgrfpprmnt]

They still are. Temporary accommodation is a money maker for both council and hotels paid by tax payers. Sustainable easy solutions do not make money, bureaucratic hell does.

[@StewSpaull]

Thanks so much for sharing this invaluable archive of documentaries. Do you have the World in Action episode from 1983 that featured a young Harold Shipman talking about mental health care?

[@Melanie_T2023]

I watched that one last night, it’s uploaded on this channel 👍🏻

[@lizichell2]

Mr nawah.. tells you all you need to know

[@mAiSiEbOOOO]

If people had listened to Oswald Moseley, there would be no affluent, greedy immigrant-descended 'rentiers' making a profit on the misery of the poor. Bikhu and Vijay Patel are two billionaires whose monopoly on the pharmaceutical industry allows them to sell medications to the NHS at an extreme profit.

[@juliehubbard9752]

Nothing has changed ….. landlords are still getting rich on the backs of poverty & need.

[@bladerubber]

Take it you've never owned property. That's a shame.

[@Mickball123]

Yes now its the shared supported housing scam..Charging 300 per week for below standard housing and providing no support whatsoever..Cramming 5 people in a terrace house and using the living rooms as bedrooms..These companies need shutting down..Suprised I haven’t seen a documentary about these companies but I suppose no one cares..

[@juliehubbard9752]

@@bladerubber You’re wrong…. I do own property, but it’s not a shithole that I charge premium rent for cockroaches included in the price.

[@juliehubbard9752]

@@bladerubber Actually I do…. But I wouldn’t charge an extortionate rent for an absolute shit hole. There always has been and alway will be people who have no conscience what so ever. For them, it’s money every step of the way.

[@Mickball123]

The supported shared housing company scam is now the problem..Cram 5 people in a terrace house, use the living room as a bedroom…Charge £300 pound per week per person that’s £6000 a month..Give no support and bully the people living there..

[@alisonlaing5626]

NOTHING has changed if anything its got "Worse".............this could of been filmed yesterday etc...................

[@bartonbank2531]

The amount of money being spent putting up illegal immigrants in hotels would solve many problems immediately. As a country we should be ashamed of how we treat our citizens against how we treat the people that invade us from elsewhere

[@nevillerobert318]

A three bedroomed house which won't accept families ??? Really?

[@booth2710]

she only said that when she said she wasn't working !

[@donnakirk8504]

So what’s changed in 2024 ? Nothing that’s what

[@Podgey25]

500 pounds A WEEK!?!😮 IN 1986😮😮😮

[@shaunxthexmod777]

I Was paying 25 pound a week for a two bed flat in Birmingham..1989

[@museonfilm8919]

It just goes to show how good local authorities are at wasting taxpayers money.

[@Melanie_T2023]

Honestly, it’s insane! That was a small fortune in 1986! My parent’s mortgage was under £100 per month at this time. I know it’s London but still!

[@shaunxthexmod777]

@@Melanie_T2023 I smell a scam! did a mp own the hotel?

[@emmaseager1006]

I hope the family found a house in the end

[@booth2710]

That's what I am wondering .. I would love to hear that things got better for this family - surely ... I can't stand the heart break of things getting worse for them .. and those children were so delightful ..

[@boilerroombob]

I would love to have been a fly on the wall in the meetings back then my goodness

[@Post-Beak-Break_Ortega]

❤

[@sgrfpprmnt]

UK had a chance to break free from the systematic abuse within its culture, in the mid 1990s and the EU seemed to have a curative influence. But the old boy's network would not have it. They even got their own serfs to vote for Brexit so that they felt comforted in their usual chains again. It's a sado maso society which unfortunately laid the groundwork for the US system too.

[@LawrenceBishton]

I have been clocked at key and shited adips test 6 month and british summer time shift and now i have the 2coned batterry from 3 batteries( a go 3 ! ) kelly brassing

[@kingkong81icloud]

It’s crazy to think people gets cockroaches in England an I have never ever seen one ?

[@booth2710]

lucky you they can live anywhere ...

[@lisabudd5979]

Interesting, so this would explain the British hitels that are in this state these days ,they where probably hotels for the homeless . There corrupt in Australia these days doing the same scheme. But only ment to stay from 1 day to a week max.

[@Kaye-v2p]

Thatcherism

why didn't that stupid couple claims benefits when the dad lost his job? he would have had the rent and rates paid..! it's like some people ask to be homeless and destitute. And those kids should have been taken in care..!

[@sandrafinbar]

That's harsh. I don't believe the kids should go into care. They should have been able to sort out the situation with the council. People make mistakes.

[@jimlaunder5061]

You’re saying the children should’ve been taken into care knowing what we now know about the care system in the 80s? Basically out of the frying pan into the fire

[@HannahMyers-u8n]

If you can’t afford kids don’t have them

[@LawrenceBishton]

Kid a4dead is money well spent (sorry miss Jackson) my mu sic keeps going out thats why harolds ship man skips a1 beat because im bi polar buy polers carry polers pay for polers power polers and dice rollers so to your para im dice covering at jackson

[@animal79thecat]

@@LawrenceBishton In English this time please

[@LawrenceBishton]

Im jealous of a bloke thats fit in socks an knickers whoamya notts worth a rub bish im green with e nv elones mask me merc van a4 b 3 :

[@lukebrel7969]

Lay off the drugs.