Comments by "Niall O\x27Neill" (@nialloneill5097) on "Once "Booming" UK Town now a "Crime Ridden Ghost Town" - I investigate UK's Worst Towns" video.

  1. Forests and wood...water...I agree
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  2. Busy spending their profits they make from the corporate machine they helped build...that all but destroyed vast tracts of industrial sites and communities...even in the most beautiful settings. Without work...man is lost.
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  3. I worked at a pit in the Deane Valley...living in Wombwell (worth a visit, although Brampton may be better...to study an isolated sml village that grew around the collliery called Cortonwood that caused the Strike in 84...I studied in Ponypridd too, stayin up the Rhonnda. The Dearne, Don and Rhonnda Valleys drove the engine of the Commonwealth...coal, steel, steam...engineering goods...ships and so on. S Yorks is around the same size too, the Welsh lads took to rugby, and Yorkies did footie and cricket... real communities...strong, resolute...it's very difficult in the modern world without outside investment though. This place looks as though it could easily have some things going for it...an eco village...small crafts and trades...a few windmills.
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  4. The comments about coal and industry fading away being some kind of natural process were rubbish...there were many yrs left, and some good methods of burning it cleaner were on their way. This was about the neoliberalism entering the right wing politics of the time...creating a power base from whence Mrs T and Reagan could cause carnage like this....destroying communities, industries and unions alike...to asset strip the nation, and allow the super rich to swallow up all the country's wealth...an d remove its voice. It's not surprising many from these places became ill...and claim certain benefits...now the neolibs are coming for those monies too...and will leave nothing to the man at the bottom, despite them having extraordinary wealth. I agree it's very very sad...and people need to see how the system works, and fight by whatever means possible...but most of all...this is darkness through greed and lust for power through the selfishness of a few...whose interests were placed over and above the masses. Then, you have to sink or swim...and if you swim, do you coerce with their system and climb your way up the few ladders there are out there for a few with big talents and greedy eyes...or do you look for a different way of life. Soon, capitalism will collapse...it is tottering now, so I think to start anew with sustainable initiatives would be a good idea for places like this. You may have to be innovative...but they seem to still have the old community spirit of the past ghosting around the town.
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  5.  @julian987r4  There has been no real Labour party for many yrs...and they are one of the main reasons that the Miners lost their Strike...they ostracised us...and sold us down the swanny river...now the sick and disabled are about to follow them...up the creek without a paddle, a job, or reasonable benefits.
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  6. The govt destroyed these players by jumping in bed with the neolib bandwagon...then fleecing its own people, and desecrating their cultures...this is what consecutive heartless leaders do...out for themselves!
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  7. Yes...played football against a team there in the early 70's I think it was...if it was the same place
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