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🇬🇧 Britain; the world’s sixth biggest economy. But what is life like for the average Brit outside of the capital city? Well, I went to investigate and what I found wasn’t too promising. Join me on a journey into the provinces of this once great country for what might be my most brutal adventure yet…

Thanks to @BackpackerBen for driving me around and please check his channel for his version of the trip.

Behind me is Plymouth sound from where in 1620 a group of pilgrims set off across the Atlantic in search of a new life well some 30 years ago I did the same thing heading abroad in search of my own Adventures but now I’m back in my homeland to see how the nation has

Changed in my absence join me as together we explore a very foggy albian in the mid 1990s my pack my bags and set off on my travels around the world leaving behind a United Kingdom that under a newly elected young leader seemed to be swaggering confidently into the Future Tony Blair promised the

People prosperity and jobs after years of Tory stagnation however what happened to the hopes and dreams everyone had for their Nation back then what happened to new Labor’s promise that things could only get better I returned to the country of my birth to see for myself well it really does deserve its name

Foggy albian in this miserable damp weather that this nation is famed for but let’s see how life is progressing for people who don’t live in the Roman city of londinium judging by what I’ve seen here in Plymouth things ain’t going too well getting better it’s getting better

Yeah you sound very positive about your city yes okay I mean cuz without offending you but when I look around I imagine Plymouth was much nicer in the past than it is now I don’t think it was actually but I mean I see shops boarded up I see people sleeping homeless I

Imagine in the ‘ 70s maybe in the ‘ 80s that kind of thing didn’t exist or maybe I’m wrong I think you’re wrong I think it existed but it was uh hidden now not tomorrow but now because my friend one day one day my friend one day your breath will leave your body

I’m I’m a little bit old so what is this called like what you’re doing cosplay cosplay got you and who are you with the horns I’m just an original character okay so I I came up with it last night so you’re the most unique one here yeah

And why have you got a packet of flipping neuren what were you doing last night what is up with you I don’t know I just got given these cuz my door hurts well look at what’s become of Britain this is Union Street pretty much in the center of Plymouth look at it

Pound shop mini market the shops that they have here just tell you everything about the state of the economy Furniture reuse project yes how you doing mate you’re right you hey nicely M look after yourself thank you love you very much thank you mate and then here look at

This established in 1863 this lovely old building and now totally derel you can’t help there’s even homeless people here look center of a British City a major British City homeless people just sleeping rough you can’t help but think when you see things like this that Britain’s Glory

Days Britain’s best days are so long gone and so far behind us and the truth is I can’t see how we ever get them back look at the state of this place and look at this the Great Western Hotel a beautiful old building built probably in Victorian

Times look at it we used to build things like this magnificent buildings and look at the squalor and what it’s been reduced to look it’s even got up here a mosaic the Spanish Armada leaving Spain to come and be defeated by the British look at it this

Place the amount of money spent on it and now just destroyed and well probably full of homeless people and drug users what a sad sad State of Affairs for this once great nation why are you here in Plymouth um oh I came here like over 10 years ago

Why I wanted to go oh I just ended up in Plymouth so is it getting better or wor I never wanted to stay here no I’m not going to stay here I came out the bus you’ve been here 10 years you are staying here you’re never going anywhere

No I go where are you going to go to Germany is it you go the country it’s Dawn I mean you can’t see a doctor you can’t see a dentist you can’t get flat that’s interesting you know what I mean like the basic stuff I’m not talking

About like so are you saying plymouth’s getting worse or Britain’s getting worse or what’s your opinion yeah yeah the whole UK I mean unless you got like lots of money and the big Pockets I think you can compensate somehow like but um lots of things like lots of things have changed I mean

It wasn’t that bad 10 years ago so people struggling a lot so well look at this just one more example of what’s happened to with this town and probably what we’re going to see in many towns as we take our tour across the country at the old Phoenix

Pub which was probably at one stage bit of an institution Brits used to love coming to the pub after work working down the docks or here in Plymouth maybe on the naval ships come meet the lads have a pint before going home for their dinner but now this part of the

Community is just well destroyed look at it look at the Phoenix now this one definitely isn’t going to rise from the Flames the famous Phenix Pub yes what happened to it I don’t know it’s I think it’s been derel for quite a few years have you ever had a drink in the Phoenix

No I haven’t I I had the impression it was quite rough it looks there’s so much boarded up and destroyed around it’s Such a Pity youve got these beautiful buildings in Plymouth and so many of them are destroyed well that was Plymouth let now go to the railway

Station buy a ticket and see what the rest of the country has to offer hopefully a little bit more than this place but look at all the places we can go to here from Plymouth we can go to gunis Lake sounds lovely penants London Paddington but no

We’re going to a place called Western supermare let’s go and buy a ticket Western supermare one Way Ticket is50 10 and that’s off peak is it 50 10 flipping EG what’s an on Peak I’m not spending 50 Quid to get to Western superm there a flipping ripoff

If only I knew someone here in the city that could give me a lift flipping egg get in there I’m coming backpack of Ben in his home city of Plymouth let’s start the journey hey welcome to pmer cheers mate [ __ ] let’s get out of here oh my God Ben where have you

Brought me welcome to Western Superman flipping neck oh hello hello that’s okay hello a friendly welcome to your city reiky let’s let’s hope everyone’s as friendly as that little yorksh area we’re here in Western super mayare Benjamin why have we come here I don’t [Applause] know well welcome to Western super

Mayare which was developed in the Victorian era as a holiday Resort for workers to come from the nearby City of Bristol to come come and enjoy their weekends or their summer holidays it was once one of Britain’s Premier Resorts however like some other places we’ve seen I think it’s gone a little bit

Downhill right mate how you doing are you a local I am indeed what from old western super Superman yeah how can help youday nice to meet you mate what’ you reckon to your town well it’s it’s um it’s certainly gone downhill over the last 10 years that’s for sure absolutely

Did you want me to show you a little spot it’s just just here oh yeah let’s have a look at little spot with our new Western friend right you with a snazzy top on oh my God I don’t think you’d be going there for your um your baby back ribs and your

Burgers yeah I don’t know if I would trust any food from this place dirty fries yeah I bet they’re bloody filthy so it’s the second largest Resort on the west coast only second to Blackpool wow so have you heard that second only to Blackpool and just like

Blackpool it’s got lots of little guest houses with funny names here you’ve got the corer that must mean horse or something in some language over there you got the Bell Vista which means nice view I mean yeah I suppose it’s kind of a nice view

Oh my God look at it though it does look run down I mean you can see that once this would have been a nice Cresent and now it’s just all guest houses and I doubt the people staying in these guest houses are British tourists I imagine they’re a different section of

Society why is it called Western super okay so it’s a bit of a mix of old Saxon and Latin so Weston would have been pronounced Weston which means place to the West place to the West super was from the Latin for above or superimpose oh genius as in Mar would have been by

The Sea place above the sea Joe is the most intelligent knowledgeable person we’ve ever bumped into in our travels look he’s even quoting Saxon and Latin words let’s go into the Senter and see what it’s like in Western Super mar what’s it like think you hello sir

Are you a local yes how long have you lived here all your life yes have you ever been tempted to move away or no no what do you like about Western Superman I don’t like anything about it there we go oh okay fair enough he doesn’t like anything about it

Well what can you say nothing like Brits for given it the real the real Lowdown on their town what’s happened to this town oh it’s it’s a [ __ ] [ __ ] fair play um well it’s hard to disagree on this street I mean it’s not the nicest Street

Look at it you can see the know that before there was money invested here look at these old buildings but now it’s just I don’t know what’s happened it’s it’s falling into a right state of disrepair can you see the uh the door being used to block the window

Up there yeah there a door there’s two doors to block windows it’s boled up but you can see the little architectural details up there say Somerset house that’s because we’re down by Somerset and the in the west coast but um ah there was money here before people built things in Britain in

The past and now we just let these old buildings in other countries you think in Czech Republic in Prague they’d let it get like this no they wouldn’t they’d keep it restored but here in Britain we don’t give a [ __ ] about our architectural history and so that’s why

Beautiful old buildings like this that we once built by Craftsman with their hands stonemasons nowadays looks like this absolute [ __ ] [ __ ] Ben West super nightmare it is indeed wow C it’s um it’s a little bit run down this is Britain this is the first world country

We are I think the sixth biggest economy in the world or fifth or seventh something like that but when you look around here where is the trickle down effect where is that money generated in London in a city coming down and being spread to towns like this it’s hard to

See what’s happening hello mate I just went and chatted to um one of the homeless fellas here I used to time okay where you living on the street at the on the street bloody hell what’s that like in the winter I can’t imagine what it’s like in the summer not this is the

Second time I’ve done it where did you literally like sleep at night then uh excuse my ignorance was underneath there right um and then [ __ ] uh I got up at some point and went round to the back of the Sovereign Center so in this cold nasty weather you’re literally

Outside are you looking for a place to live I’m trying to yeah and what do the government say what does like the local Social Services say they’re still looking no one comes to these British holiday Resorts anymore it’s so bloody expensive I can go to Spain if I want to get guaranteed

Sunshine For What 100 quid sometimes go down to Benidorm why would you spend hundred hundreds of pounds coming to places like Western supermare and hence families don’t come anymore and hence these places these old hotels built in the 1800s are now just derelict look even the entrances have been concreted

Over there’s no hope that anyone’s ever going to come here in the future my God what a place look at this Britain is such a seaf fairing Nation John Cabo is actually a slave trader so I’m surprised that his name adorns this hotel because well many

People on the left don’t like John Cabo although he invested much of his money in cities like Bristol built up the City of Bristol in fact John cabau and yeah still you can see his name here and a picture of a ship and a picture of old John Cabo an Explorer and slave

Trader interesting history down here on the West Coast of Britain Joe yes Che is mate absolute pleasure my pleasure so glad that we bumped inide a an audite man is that the word rudite I think so Ben what do you reckon to our Western as we leave I mean

I’ve never heard of the word rudite I’m guessing it’s Ace I’ve been referred to usse is that a nice word cuz Western super May is definitely not Rudy it’s a [ __ ] Ben keeping it real as always um right then we’re going to go on to another town now summer in the Midlands

Some cheeky Blinder country should we get out of here let’s go let’s Goos look after yourself mate nice to meet you bless you we’re out of here nice now I know what you’re thinking you’re thinking why am I just showing people around the world the worst of Britain and you’re right we’ve chosen

Some places that don’t have the best reputation but hey don’t shoot the messenger if you don’t like it do something about it speak to your local counselor get your towns tidied up I mean look at this place flipping it look at Psycho Tattoo oh my God would you have a tattoo

At a place called Psycho Tattoo I know I wouldn’t my God a spat on to St Michael’s Road we’re lost in Birmingham which looks bloody dodgy flipping out look at it don’t they collect rubbish in this city original smof okay well they’ve got good taste anyway but I don’t know where

This hotel is I think it’s in this building behind us the [ __ ] where are we mate any hotels around here huh any hotels around here I don’t understand what you mean are there any hotels around here I don’t know new I’m new where you from F you now welcome to

Birmingham Jesus Christ what a place he’s new here he doesn’t know if there’s any hotels around here Ben you booked it where’s the hotel trying to find it um let have a look for it you lock the car [ __ ] why I have mate there’s an abandoned car oh my

God I mean let’s be honest we obviously didn’t book an expensive place but I didn’t expect that outside the hotel Sal Alum sir hell how are you nice to see everything here yes everything you will get ni and you will find a nice view at the back as well can I have a

Look yeah yeah oh it’s all yours thank you oh he said there’s a lovely View at the back of the hotel well this is the view at the back of the hotel that Ben’s booked us into he said a lovely View and look it’s a view of um a rubbish dump and some

Squalled houses Cy all right let’s get checked in see what the room is like oh wait wait then what the [ __ ] have you done I gave you one job very one job this is a [ __ ] [ __ ] hole it’s fil look at the door oh

Mate is it wor it looks like um when you spent time that prison in Russia it does it reminds me of boban prison just B roban prison is slightly cleaner um we got a view oh yeah look at it look it’s in the window look oh yeah

They’ve cleaned this recently I can see look at that anyway that’s the hotel I’m sure the area however is lovely just cuz the hotel’s a bit rundown doesn’t mean the area is not nice let’s go have a look on the road around here see what it’s like should we the famous Soho road

Which is why we came here apparently it’s nice let’s go oh lovely what a sight to be greeted by ripping neck things can only get better as the new labor slogan said well I mean I said it might get better the area but what are we greeted by abandoned shops abandoned whatever that

Is abandoned whatever that [Applause] was come to Birmingham Benjamin said you’ll love it well what do you to Old Soho Road it’s um how to put it delicately it doesn’t feel very British let’s put it that way I mean you’ve got your music blaring over here from I don’t know maybe some

Hello you’ve got some Indian music playing here you’ve got Bank of India over there Bank of Baroda you’ve got ganes bloody sh ganish exclusives where’s your families from originally of Romania Romania all right flipping neck okay which part B okay I’ve been down in Bucharest I was in

Brash off and places like that what do you think of it here on this road do you like it this area it’s nice but sometimes I night it’s dangerous dangerous in what way like with the this drunk people and stuff okay have you ever been hassled yourself

You got yourself a little gang going on you say oh no we don’t have a gang but we know how to keep us safe you all right why we got a black eye hello huh a man punched me a man punch you yeah what man ah some guy I

Know he’s an idiot your boyfriend no I would say that I’m definitely not you’re right not really love you but you don’t have no change any cup do you love I might have let me have a look in my pocket pretty pleas what’s it like living around here oh beautiful oh I can

Imagine you don’t do business do you do the business do I want business n but I’ll give you a tenna to go and do whatever you want to do with it but no business today what do you mean business what’s that even mean Jiggy Jiggy oh

Jiggy Jiggy no I’m okay for Jiggy Jiggy today but thank you for the offer thank you sir you look after yourself yeah good man take care stay safe yeah well there you go I was just asked if I want chiggy chiggy on Soho Road you know what Ben Ben conference

Call I just been off the Jiggy Jiggy on the road um I think yes I think’s I think Ben’s gone to get some Jiggy Jiggy but I want to get out of here I’m going to go back to the hotel pack my bags and get out this has been a

Little bit too much for me it’s intimidated old and bankrupt the town the street that intimidated me let’s go back to the hotel get out of here this is um it’s a bit [ __ ] hello hello nut hello mate hello are you blabber or something am I a what a blabber a

Blabber what’s a blabber I say a vogg a v a vlogger I’m a how many of you are in here hello everybody why are you all living in this one room oh my God you’re going to be famous now on YouTube how are you where you from

Locals leads leads what are you doing down here you know how it goes fair enough oh my God what a play hello you got to meet the girls they’re from Leeds leads oh hello Budd yeah there’s loads of people in there how’s it going you know how it goes

Jesus right let’s get out of here I’m M place oh [ __ ] what I thought he chasing after us this place is nuts mate get me out of here well that was um our short fory into Birmingham unexpectedly interesting let’s get out of here and um head somewhere

Else [ __ ] me what a [ __ ] out is there one way don’t know just go mate go go go go go go go good morning from Sunderland now nowhere is Britain’s industrial decline more evident than here in the northeast of our nation a region which once built the

Nation’s iron ships on which our wealth and might depended we’re now going to get on a train and head down the coast a little bit to the town of Horden and we’re going to see what life is progressing like in post industrial collap cpse Britain join me and thank

God we’re not in Birmingham what the devil are you handing out sir you are a Christian man and I respect that there’s not enough Christians in the world I’m off to hen today so I hope that God is protecting me have you heard of hon uh what’s it like pretty rough pretty rough

May God protect me for pray for me thank you brother J Benjamin Benjamin I’ll for you thank you brother I appre appreciate that there we go got a Christian man who’s so worried about me going to hen that he’s going to pray for me they hope

It all turns out all right where’s the railway station have you ever been to hen mate you ever been to hen hen hen yeah no oh okay what have you heard about with it not much not much all right fair enough I’ll find out for myself TR you doesn’t seem that

Harden is a place that people will have much to say about single to Holden please £57 £570 I love it have you ever been to Holden no do you ever want to no well we’ve got our train ticket down to hen we’re on the 1 minute past 12

Let’s go and speak to a an old friend of ours M Paca Ben yes Ma how you doing s my phone I sat your phone I that was up my bum cheeks what’s up um are you ready to go to hen I am indeed got one ticket

You got your ticket already I just spoke to the lady behind the counter I said youever been toen she went no I said do you ever want to go she went no then where are we going then’s got an interesting fact about where where are we going we going

To hen going to Holden tell me an interesting fact Harden is Anglo Saxon a dirty farm uh Farm that’s true actually we were looking on wikkipedia earlier where Ben gets all his knowledge from and it said that Holden the town we’re going to actually means in Anglo-Saxon

Language dirty farm just going to see how dirty it is hopefully filthy in every sense of the word come on the bridge the car Che B thank you that is a man with a Newcastle accent in this area you have a lot of different accents Newcastle sundland Middlesboro I

Can’t tell the difference between them but if you’re a local you can see E from that place Eastern that place anyway let’s have a little look around hen see what it’s like around it what is it like around here I’m not doing awful oh really is that bad back on the

Train oh don’t say that to me I’ve come all the way from the south to see your lovely Village you’re an idiot is it that can’t be that bad I’m carrying me boat M we in your shoe no look at this do there this is how they live in hen look at

This the poor people of hen there you go we’ll start a shity campaign for him thank right it all right then is it safe at least no no well you see Terrace houses like this built in 1800s all over the north of England they were built for the miners

And the workers that came to these little pit towns to work here unfortunately many of them now are in conditions like this look when the mines were closed down by Margaret thatch in the 1980s after they crushed the unions people left little towns like this and so some of the

Houses ended up like that but um yeah there’s a typical Little Village little mining Village in the north of England hello M aen are you good taking it down kind of yeah just sort of structurally making it a bit safer F has probably been there for 200 years isn’t

It too is it your house renting is that right yeah but you’re not local or your accent doesn’t sound very local no no um down south um Guilford near far I’m from the south myself but what made you move to horon if I can ask you don’t ask I

Have no idea one of Life Mysteries yeah do you regret it cost it’s so much cheaper here isn’t it I mean down south you’re not getting a house for less than 250 probably and here I don’t know how much the houses are but 4 a month 400

400 yeah pretty is there no work here in the area at all no what do people do do they go to the other big cities like they go to sundland for work or probably unemployed right is it like that is it bloody hell okay like I’m signed off for

Mental health so okay as you can tell I must be [ __ ] say you must be mad to be tried this project oh that was a man who’s moved up here from the south because it’s cheaper to ol here he’s renting his place much much cheaper than he would do if he was

Down south and so um yeah some people move up to these little Villages I’m tempting myself buy a house here for 10 grand one these ones BR new kind few got loads of different ones got the B got pink ones as well on as well do chief what’s up is the Town

Center up this way my love yeah thank you anything up there no no nothing flipping neck nothing here everything’s closed down and we just met a shoplifter who was trying to sell some headphones on the streets people are trying to make a way or trying to survive on the streets

Of haen including going to the local Big City nicking some stuff from a shop coming down here to their Village and selling it on the street he was literally going door to door knocking on doors trying to sell his headphones well look the streets here don’t seem to

Have very romantic sounding names no CL Army Alit are here but Seventh Street below it Sixth Street Fifth Street and so on and it seems the higher up we go the worse the houses get look everything’s abandoned but imagine living in this house say it’s all tense purpose a normal

House maybe with just regular family working jobs but next to them or surrounding them are all these abandoned houses shuttered and barded this is a dying town of the Northeast honden is never coming back it’s never going to revive its Glory Days there’s no work in the areas the pits will never

Be reopened this is it today is as good as it will ever get from this Village and that’s sad to see look at this what they’ve done here to smarten up the streets of abandoned buildings over there you can see that house obviously abandoned number 66 and here’s abandoned two and I

Thought actually it was some blinds in the window but it’s not it’s a picture of blinds in a window and look at this it’s not a real door it’s a picture of a door I suppose the council want to kind of make the place look a bit better and

More up here look up here this is so freaky the council I suppose to make the place look better have put these fake windows and fake doors on the buildings so it doesn’t look totally Kinder and abandoned look at this that’s not a curtain that’s a picture of a curtain

They stole your bike they stole my bike but literally they they took all the ignition off it so that I couldn’t ride it right and then there four attempts to take that and on the fifth attempt they took it and then I got another one and we’ve got yeah five attempts on that

Bike but I put all sorts of motion senses and little things what about burglary anyone tried burgling you um I’ve had the doors banged a few times girl over there got attacked oh my God it’s really not nice area look at this this old row of shops now a Gregs a phone

Book a boxing club oh that’s interesting a boxing club and obviously a vape shop sorry my love sorry what I’ve noticed on this trip across Britain is or across England is we love to vape I’ve never been anywhere in the world where we love vaping so

Much and check it out the biggest puff disposable 2,400 Puffs what a place and a Greggs of course in Britain everywhere you go there’s a Greggs and that is the horen Gregs check it out you got a sausage roll y good what if I go up here is

There anything up here that’s decent to check out oh the park the park okay Park that yeah there we go you got a park why you running this place down we’ve got a lovely park we’ve got to the beach the beach yeah we’ve got the beach okay I’ll

Be down there later thank you very much watch out for shoplifters I do okay good right they said there’s a nice park here let’s go and see what that’s like check out the park of horen what is it called hon hen I don’t know well we’re in Memorial Park here in

The very center of hen Memorial dedicated to the men of this Village from these little Terrace houses all around us who went off to walk to fight the nation’s battles on the continent many of them didn’t return and they went off thinking that the deal was if they would sacrifice thems that in

Return their kids their grandkids would be guaranteed jobs for life down the mines however that’s not what happened they returned and instead the government closed the mins put their kids out of work and destroyed the village what a way to thank our soldiers well I’ve been told that down

The road is some kind of working man’s club which is a place that people go and have a pint in the afternoon let’s go and see what a working man’s club is like here in the village of hen see if the locals are friendly or not hen Victory

Club this must be it flipping it oh I’ll put I found it Benjamin how have you found this place welcome to Hon’s greatest Hub with my new friends all our new friends in hen who knew it was such a Friendly Village full of lovely people let have a

Drink I mean the lovely people who’ve come out to play some Bingo on a Wednesday and have a drink is it Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday 2 p.m. I’ve had too much to drink obviously anyway let’s play some Bingo which is a traditional English game hi you Mary is that one love I’m

Ready to win some money 7 and N 79 oh I’ve got 79 calm down oh got 79 I’m excited I’m excited four and two 42 I’ve got 42 I’ve got them all three and six 36 one and five ohy oh we got a winner we got a chicken dinner

Three3 33 how close were you you only needed one I was sweating how much would you have won if you got £90 someone’s just won 90 which is a lot of money around it 52 oh oh it’s for you Jimmy Somerville Jimmy somville Jimmy Sui here we Go well we’re back on the railway station platform here in lovely Little Hen and just goes to show you about the Brits you can take away their jobs Futures their prospects you can destroy their Villages but they still know how to have a good old time Benjamin yes

What did you think of the village of Horden Horden great place and a very rudite people that’s his new word I think he means erudite but anyway we’ll go with that um yeah let’s jump on a train get out of here and see if we go somewhere

Else bye-bye from the little village of hon and from backpack of Ben the most arude man in all of England