CHICAGO DUDES REACTION TO The Poorest Town In Britain: “We Live On Nothing And We’re Just Surviving”

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CHICAGO DUDES REACTION TO The Poorest Town In Britain: “We Live On Nothing And We’re Just Surviving”

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Of fair use no copy right infringement intended All rights belong to their respective owners you get me let’s Go it’s a weekday morning on grimsby’s East Marsh estate where residents are beginning their day in the poorest part of the nation date where residents are beginning their day in the poorest part of the nation of course that’s not to say everyone here is living on the poverty line but the data is

Striking the average annual income for an entire household here sits at just 2,000 a year that’s over 10 grand less than the UK national average and almost a staggering 86,000 below London’s affluent clap area which has the highest in the at just above £18,000 so I’m trying to move to clap

Him knowing I can’t afford it but I’m going it’s in East Marsh where we meet Natalie who lives in the center of the estate with her partner and four children she receives around 2,000 a month in benefit but as she begins her shopping with Christmas on the way she’s

Struggling to make ends meet she receives $24,000 a year from from uh Aid that’s higher than the national average in that area and she’s still struggling she do got four kids and a probably I don’t want to say it too early but we’ll see how her husband Acts or her

Partner I get tight well especially this time of year I get tight on my budget I’ll make sure my bills and my big shop and then what ever left I get a little bits obviously my Christmas presents and my son’s birthday presents birthday stuff at the moment I’m not one of these

Where loads and loads of money like where you can just spend it every day and just go do big shoppings I get quite a few benefits at the moment cuz I’m class that’s one of the boys Caris cuz one of them’s disabled so um I start to get my

Christmas presents and I done my shopping online which is a lot cheaper than in shops and natal isn’t alone up and down the country the cost of living has hit homes and families hard with with the price of energy Rising by up to 60% in the last 2 years and those and is

It true like if you go if if Natalie was to go get a real job she would lose some of her benefits right because it’s on condition that she’s can’t work or something like that right Rises are felt acutely here single mom Cheryl lives in a property that’s covered in Black molds

And infested with mice but turning up the heating means less money for her and the kids it is very difficult I’ve got like I said four kids and then I’m trying to keep on top of mold mice and condensation Windows cuz I’ve got that one and my bathroom Windows the

Same as well so when you got mold uh you got condensation everywhere it helps to keep your AC on like in Florida mold is common in a lot of places man where the where the windows aren’t properly sealed correctly in in Florida in general though like in Florida in general just

Not if the windows are not sealed correctly mold will grow in your closets because of the humidity and things of that nature but in Florida they say as long as you keep the AC running then you good but who the wants to do that though what kind of energy bill are you going

To be having at the end of the year especially in the UK Florida energy is like a little bit different because like when you run AC all day it doesn’t hit the same as if you run AC all day and say like Chicago like it’s going to be a different number of

M it it is difficult I’ve got my heating on all day every day because obviously with the condensation it means the Heat’s escaping so my house is colder than what it should be so I’m paying more on my gas and electric than I should be per week just

To keep the house while to keep my kids one this is grimby it is very tight yeah I mean make sure always got what they need but yeah he definitely it can be a struggle it feels awful you know I’ve got the kids coming

Up to me you know we need to sort the mold out in the room again mommy or we’ve just seen a mouse run across the floor mommy you know it’s it’s not pleasant stories like this are sadly nothing new for Grimsby and especially the East Marsh the area is the most

Deprived across the whole of Northeast Lincolnshire and nearly every street think about mold though you can clean it as much as you want it’s going to always come back once there’s mold you just got to stay on top of it until they tear out the wall and fix the actual problem is

In the top 1% of deprivation across the country it’s become associated with higher levels of crime antisocial behavior and homelessness or if you can if you can afford a dehumidifier takes moisture out the air and and then get a air purifier that that’ll help too some with higher levels of crime

Antisocial behavior and homelessness something visible all over grimby I I want somewhere to live I want somewhere to go I want to work but I’m just finding it hard how long have you been living on the streets for now and what’s that I in hell that’s just about it really res

Here are aware of the problems and sometimes help from within the community can come from the unlikeliest of sources oh with the lowest incomes in the country it’s perhap lar has perhaps no surprise that the nation’s cheapest chippy is right here in know it’s crazy I was about to say

That probably that chippy behind him or n’s chippy is that what it was Matthew what did I get Lenard but Matthews chippy probably fire anytime you in the hood and you see one of these especially especially when it’s the corner apartment like it’s dead on the corner

Is always good it’s perhaps no surprise that the nation’s cheapest chippy is right here in East Marsh where a portion of fish and chips with a side of peas will set you back only £3 UK fish and chip prices have soared in recent years with the classic take

Away Now setting customers back £9 on average but at Matthews chippy on East Marsh’s fish and chips at a restaurant here $18 Stanley Street owner Stan Matthews explains how he keeps his prices at Rock Bottom because I’m down on the docks we buy our own fish uh we smoke we’ve got

Our own Smoke House um so it all comes in line where we can get that product a bit cheaper saying that they they have gone up we we used to be 250 but because like gas has gone up Electric’s gone up um the like every all the raw materials

Are gone up so we have to up it by 50 so so 3 they still getting a good meal for 3 and it’s fresh like this and with a community in need he serves plenty of punes every day who queue outside the door even before it opens some eter

Every night of the week and the product is well received including by me 3 fish and chips I mean that’s a steal isn’t it it’s great for us pensioners every every penny counts don’t it 3 quid you can’t knock it can you I come here um oh every every time for uh fishing

Ships the portion you get it’s brilliant absolutely amazing it’s quality good meal you can’t be people this is $3 meal he’s doing something for the community people still come in here and disrespect him and give him fake notes that’s crazy it’s brilliant absolutely amazing it’s quality good meal you can’t be buy

A burger for3 thank you there’s not a lot of money in it we we earn enough just to pay like the mortgage um the gas electric that’s about it but we’re feeding people that’s that’s the way I look at it people are coming in getting War he doing it out

The love that’s tough Chief takeaways alone aren’t going to solv the issues facing Grimsby while the cost of living crisis has exacerbated things the challenges for the town are deep rooted are the needs here yeah greater than anywhere else in the country when it comes to Citizen advice they they Echo them

They I think that’s spice isn’t it yeah got to be yeah bro over there tweaking off the drugs Tony man gasin runs citizens advice for Northeast lincolshire and says more people are using his service than ever before the last three years we’ve seen something like a 300% increase in

Emergency uh charitable support such as food bank applications Fuel and energy vouchers uh people needing help with homelessness so around about 300% is is a massive figure but it’s and it’s really worrying we’ve seen an even bigger percentage increase for personal Independence payment and an an around

About a 200% increase in council tax areas and worryingly about another 220% on on uh energy debts what is it that drives places like East Marsh West Marsh to be so poor compared to other parts of the country I think we’re looking at a number of factors we’re looking at but people have

U uh are in part-time employment people in long-term uh unemploy employment people with high high percentages in EAS and West Marsh with people with long-term disabilities have struggle to get to find work whether doine work then they’re limited by the number of hours that they work uh people have got

Struggling with with fuel costs because uh 19 pre1 1919 properties that are difficult to heat difficult to insulate so there’s a raft of problems but there’s also a really engaged um infrastructure trying to bring people out of poverty in Northeast linshire and particularly in these two Wards and the

Work that’s going on is remarkable uh but the the challenges that individuals face is is huge so what’s the best solution well it depends who you are all of these people that always look for a solution man let me and some members of the public have different ideas to The

Experts about what’s causing these issues I was talking to two young Lads the other day and they was on about the cost of living I said you should have lived through the 0s then you would have known what the cost of living was but it’s a different Generation Now isn’t it

They won’t tolerate low wages and bad work anybody could walk into a job and now because of um how can I say this family tax credit people realize they don’t have to work anymore so they don’t they take advantage of it a lot of people won’t work because the work and

The we often and and working so I know people are say well that’s a load of rubbish but I spoke to people and said well I’m not working the time I paid me rent pay me council tax there’s no pay me gas electric no no extra to get food

In if you look at the the figures there has been no inflationary increase to benefits for 10 years other than the one last year and in real terms people on benefits now with about 25% worse off than there were in 2010 with a cost of living increase as it hits then that

Just exacerbates that problem and makes it looking for an easier way to like you stuck in a cycle that’s not getting better for you you it’s getting worse and worse by a year go by makes it more difficult increase as it hits then that just exacerbates that problem and

Makes it more severe and makes it more difficult to manage and in the interim in the short term increasing benefits by the rate of inflation is the right thing to do but with a quarter of people in the area economically inactive as of March 2023 how did this once prosperous Town

Find itself in this situation grimsby’s fishing increased benefits at the same price at the same speed as inflation come on now who you fooling right now it stretches back over a thousand years and by the mid 20th century it had reached its peak when over 500 trollers a day would leave

These Shores in search of a catch then the Cod wars happened it seems that the countries that are baringers from the fishing grounds which have traditionally been ours are standing back now and taking a market and laughing at us between 1950 and 1976 the Cod wars were

A series of disputes between Britain and Iceland which changed grimby and British fishing forever UK vessels had been fishing in Icelandic Waters since the 14th century but after the tiny country gained independence from Denmark things changed Iceland expanded the area other countries could fish from its Coastline

From four nautical miles to an area eventually 50 times that size while the industry was already in Retreat these moves along with a decline in COD population decimated British fishing and the eu’s common Fisheries policy in 198 Nixon lb resubbed appreciate the resub there it is I couldn’t see it

Before E3 which additional restrictions and quote as became the final nail in the coffin thousands of British fishermen lost their jobs as a result but had to wait until the year 2000 before the government paid out without any compensation for the pain caused why so long WBY fishing Heritage Center

Retired trollman still get together once a week to share stories about how they risk their lives to put fish on British plates young ones of today are struggling because there isn’t the work for them anymore 85 because there isn’t the work for a many what a glasses look like

That are those the ones that adjust to the sunlight got to be cuz that’s crazy more 85 to 90% of people in Grimsby had something to do with the fishing industry and it it’s everybody hard and I think that’s why we’re like that now in Grimsby we

Were over fishing if you saw a f yeah man all of these Fisher town all of these fisherman towns or industry like big plant towns they’re all doing bad I don’t like is there a case where one of them are doing good that we just haven’t

Seen go around sh his cattle when they been young say what’s happened this bloody lunatic and we were catching fish with a rose and uh Rose and it’s breing my heart in the sping season because the show fish came on the shs and I thought why don’t we

Stop and the end was fish less fish less fish less fish it used to be great Grimsby when fishing was going I had two families I had a family at Sea and I had a family at own Grimsby to me has gone downhill these days there’s barely any homegrown trollers left in grimsby’s

Iconic Docks but that doesn’t mean the industry is dead prod these iconic dogs but that that’s how fish be looking that why look like it’s like rotten or something it looks slimy that doesn’t mean the industry is dead produced from Scotland Iceland the Pharaoh and Norway is sold and processed

Here instead before being Shi around the UK and at the crack of dawn we get a glimpse of what grimsby’s fishing Heritage looks like in the 21st century I kind of want to do this like what he’s doing like go check it out and be a part

Of it for a day but like I’m just like you know what I’m saying I’m too I’m too City I would do it but I wouldn’t like it morning the straight in then jents again then 270 5 80 270 a kilo 270 here at the gr is this like auctions be Fish Market

Traders say they used to shift about 7,000 boxes a day now they’re lucky if they hit 7,000 a week despite the change in fishing fortunes the market CEO Martin Boz takes a more philosophical View and is far more upbeat the most when it comes to grimsby’s Future the

Industry is is quite complex and what we’ve managed to do in Grimsby is to be able to diversify so as you’ve seen today with some of these vessels we’re not just a fishing port anymore we’re also an offshore Wind Farm Port so what’s called an operations and maintenance port and that

Diversification has allowed us to continue with the Grimsby Fish Market even at that smaller level as you rightly point out but like a lot of things it’s it’s not like it used to be yeah cuz everything else is subsidized and taking care of all the bills that

Fishing Market ain’t going to do it no more but it’s still here we’re still busy people still eat fish it’s a good protein uh and there’s still a good demand for it what does the future look like are you hopeful that things will get better for Grimsby I think it’s a

Great opportunity and what we’ve got to do is actually get that message over to the young people in particularly in a place like Grimsby that there’s a lot of jobs available in fish processing it’s not about going to Sea people just think you know if you didn’t do any good at

School you can always go to Sea that was all right in the 1960s but that’s gone but it wasn’t supposed to be like this there’s no way I don’t give a I don’t care how much money is on the line you’re not getting me to go on up to see

I’m never going to do it I don’t think I would ever do it if you be like man you got to be on this this for 3 months but we’ll give you a million dollars I don’t think I’m going do it cuz the chances of me losing my life

Are like 60% and that’s too much of a chance for me I’m good 7% of people in Grimsby voted to leave the EU in 2016 and it was hoped that brexit would help change the future of Britain’s fishermen it’s an opportunity here to look at one

Of the ways in which this country will be able to take back control of a massive industry out to waterers out 200 mil and there’s a potential to do really well for for UK fishing Martin says it hasn’t quite worked out that way but he doesn’t regret his vote better designs

Make a lot of the a lot of people’s decision to separate from the EU and the brickton situation like I’m not educated enough to speak on it like crazy but just from me watching a lot of these videos I see a lot of people are not happy with that decision lowkey but they

Just too prideful to admit that they was wrong hey hey hasn’t quite worked out that way but he doesn’t regret his vote to leave the EU yeah yes he do it was never as simple uh towards in the industry certainly to me as it was portrayed to the Great British public

And one of the things you find about the fish industry is that when it’s when it’s the election is that economically in terms of GDP it’s very very small but in terms of emotion it’s very very high so I just thought it was a bit of a

Bandwagon and bit of a cheap trick actually back in London we caught up with the conservative MP for great Grimsby Leon Nichi she’s positive the town is far better off outside the EU than that any damage had already been done well let’s be clear 70% of people in Grimsby wanted brexit you know

Undoubtedly we’re a brexit town and people wanted to be free of the EU but people didn’t make that decision based on business they BAS that are wanting to be sovereign country you know when I talk to people about that that’s undoubtedly they say yes we know that

There are going to be pros and cons with being part of the EU or not being part of the EU so somebody in the comments like explain like like the whole or should I watch a video here now this is Miss I think I did watch a video before so I kind of

Got an understanding on it but like I want to know like the wide R effect of it all you know what I’m saying people who don’t come from Grimsby that think that we’ve got some amazing fishing industry and that brexit has been terrible for us well let me tell you the fishing

Industry died the day that we joined the common market what do you do to try to stem the losses that we hear about from Business Leaders in Grim I just be feeling anybody in these positions of power they just be chatting just to make themselves and the decisions that they

Made sound better or less impact who said before the vote before Britain left the European Union it was so much easier to do business and actually it was easier to generate profits for Grimsby I’ve worked hard to make sure that people can see a different kind of

MP I’ve been out there I’ve been working with people on practical projects helping to them to to succeed in areas you know East Marsh has been one of the poorest areas in the UK for five decades or more um it’s not something that’s going to be fixed quick ly all I can say

Is I’m working hard making sure I can do the best that I can really be noisy for Grimsby and I have been I’ve been at the center of government making sure Grimsby being uh represented build a school and build a hospital once you do that everything’s on to up and up man

Once you build that hospital brand new I’m talking about if they can AF if the city can afford it build a hospital everything around that hospital is going to thrive everything going up great Grimsby had been a labor seat in every election since 1945 making up part of the

So-called red wall that crumbled to the Tories in 2019 those we spoke to weren’t completely sold on their relatively new MP but with a general election just around the corner there wasn’t much appetite for labor either the uh local area MP have you seen much of her never see her

Can’t remember what her name is what’s her name now Leah oh yeah Leah nicker never ever see her have you ever seen your Like Larry MP no so she just came on here and just did all that cap and I’m out here with the people I’m doing this I’m doing that my

Face is like come on now a Nobody seen you do you think of your local area mp uh I can’t give an opinion for somebody I don’t know I won’t be voting because it to me it don’t matter who you vote for the all is bad

The Unseen I’m sorry I try not to be political but I call her the Unseen MP um never see her how long does an MP’s run in office like how long do there when they’re voted in how long is their term is it the same as a president US

President four years and then it’s another Vote or what Jane hilden King was once mayor of Northeast Lincolnshire and now works for the fisherman’s Mission giving support to retired workers and their families she was born in the East Marsh and has a much better understanding than many

About how grimby found itself in this situation we had thriving docks we had numerous companies from fish fingers bird ey Rosses a fers we had the Humber bank with all this employment look around today no F factories or very few if they are the very small uh we’ve lost

Basic all the oil Industries and the big industries from the Humber bank and I think generally the did y’all see them PE man this is off subject she just mentioned oil but I know y’all might have seen this this is world news or something somebody was digging in some

Ice and they found oil I don’t know the whole story or where like I know they was probably actually searching for it but they found it instant billionaires is crazy don’t let me find no oil listen up no jobs in The Big Industry bank and I think generally the poverty

Is because no jobs and we are suffering in this area through lack of employment so therefore because of employment what jobs are around are very low paid and of course our people are suffering really badly and I don’t think people grasp it I don’t think government grasp it we put

The comments of people in the town to leichi who told us it is impossible for me to meet all 88,000 residents who live in the constituency I live in Grimsby I have spent most of my life working in and around grimby I meet constituents in the town every week and work hard to

Represent them and will continue to do so it’s fair to say that towns like Grimsby sometimes SC I don’t believe you come with an unwanted the people have spoken reputation post industrial decline is a story heard up and down the country and walking around the town it’s

Hard not to notice the deprivation on display but but there’s more to a place than just its High Street and Grimsby has a proud Community for 18 years Entertainer Andy Carr had a unique insight into his hometown and what makes its people tick he was the original Mighty Mariner Grimsby toown football

Club’s official Mascot every week he saw thousands of fans make their way here to cheer on their team and their town and these pass Jorge has always trying to see why is that the mascot though like what’s the what’s the in his love for grimby and doesn’t understand why it comes with such a

Reputation it noise me because I wouldn’t you know I’m I’m I’m a homie I I love living in the area in Grimsby CLE my family are the same there’s a lot of areas there’s more areas than bad areas for me in grimby and clops but it’s just

A shame that once again grimby C thought is being tired with the negative brush when actually there’s a lot more positive to come out the area and and the people the people in grimby and clops you know there’s a lot of good people yeah we’ve got some bad you know

There’s you know some undesirables as you get a g instantly when he started talking about the bad people he couldn’t even get this statement out he was yeah we got some bad some some undesir you know but uh that mean it’s more undesirables than he really want to lead

On in all towns and cities I just uh I just wish that um I just wish that the positives for the area outweigh the negativ which I actually think they do how do you feel then when you hear about those statistics from the on it’s one area we’re talking about one area of

Grimsby cops I haven’t to be fair seen the statistics of what the other areas are but what about all the other areas in Grimsby cops um you know that are probably nowhere near the bottom you know they’ve obviously singled it out it’s good in one sense that it’s been

Singled out because maybe you can do something about that area but I personally would never move away from Grimsby cops I love living it you know love living down here and uh the fact that I’m a big Grimsby Town fan I couldn’t I couldn’t move away and not come to the

Games but as crowds leave this Stadium sometimes you got to move to grow and if you satisfied being stagnant then hope for sure stay where you at or you got a family and you just you like that life stay but if you trying to go reach the sky you can’t reach it from

Your hometown I don’t care how great of a HomeTown you live in people will only see you as that person who you are in that town they’ll never see you as more every other weekend and head home what sort of situation are they returning to in some ways it feels like grimby has

Been left behind depending on who you ask it could be in for a bright future One Thing feel feel certain though that the last couple of years have not helped the situation and if UK living standards don’t improve fast it could be the difference between grimsby’s Resurgence or further decline they they not

Bothered about us down here and that’s been like it for years but you can see it’s just rough it’s rubbish everywhere there’s a lot being done uh and whether or not it’s enough that’s debatable whether or not it’s too late I doubt it I think that that that we’ve got time to

Try and turn things around a lot more could be done in this area cuz I know I’m not the only house with Mal mold or mice either so a lot more could be done to to help there’s always a lot more that could be done man it’s just is

There money that can be allocated to the to helping where are we taking this money from and is it worth get reloca to where it’s being relocated or acts to be relocated and that’s nine nine out of 10 times the problem every time like yeah we not going to take this money from

Over D to put it here sorry figure it out man tillow leave a like comment subscribe turnning your post notification Bells I hope it all gets better but I’m not ignorant