Clacton-on-Sea, UK: Living in Post Brexit Society

Somehow I don’t think Clacton was a thriving cosmopolitan hub before brexit. Decline in the UK started long before anyone knew that word.

The barber is treating her customers in an extraordinary way. It’s really the very way to keep your business alive. 👍

Man I thought my life was depressing but after watching this I’ve got it pretty good tbh

Even the dog looks depressed

I lived in Greece for 3yrs and the first thing I noticed when I returned was how horribly unhealthy everyone looked in England. Greeks are poor, many far poorer than us, surviving on 500 euros a month, but they have the sun and they eat good basic nutritional food and they look so much better for it. The people in this video look like they are waiting to die. It's depressing. And I think when you live in a depressing place surrounded by depressing people you want someone to blame for your unhappy condition - and the Mail, The Express and the Sun blame foreigners.

Conviction that someone has nothing to do when he cannot drink and smoke is a tragedy.

I still live in the family home here in the east end of London. My family had market stalls along Hoxton/Dalston markets and I had 2 butchers shops. We were at the forefront of multicultural changes in our area and having our way of life changed forever. It's been happening here for over 80yrs. You cannot harp after what is gone forever. Just count yourself blessed you were a part of it and remember the good times , but that doesn't mean the won't be more. Everything changes. Adapt to anything thrown at you, no matter how alien the culture is and just live life the best you can.

A London banker, a Brit and a Turk are sitting peacefully at a table. On this table stands a delicious marzipan cake, divided into twenty pieces. After a short time, the banker stands up, takes nineteen twentieths of the cake for himself and at the same time whispers to the Brit: hey, that Turk over there is intending to steal your rightful part of the cake!

This is what happens when the working class fail to educate and inform themselves in order to act in their interests. They fall into ignorance and empty headed prejudice. Its embarrassing the depths to which my countrry has fallen

I absolutely love how she says that immigrants do nothing for the country and that they send money to their homelands, then goes on enumerating the number of businesses owned and operated by those same immigrants in HER street. Really? They opened most of the shops in the area and she still thinks they don't contribute anything to the local economy?

The way the barber is with her customers is wonderful! An asset to the community

A fascinating documentary, well done and thanks. I have the utmost sympathy for some of the people here and zero for some of the others.

Now what I can't understand is so many people voted for Brexit, and these same people are now saying that they didn't expect it to be as bad as this. I live in Germany, and I knew exactly what would happen, because the German government and media told the truth.

On a family holiday from Glasgow we visited Clacton.I must admit as a youngster in 1965 clacton was a great holiday resort.We listened to Manfred man .There were rockers on their bikes.I loved Britain.

What a fascinating social commentary. I really enjoyed watching this.

Such an original and well put together documentary. Loved the music and images used between 18:00 - 19:00 There is an air of hopelessness and desperation in many towns in the UK and the solutions to solving them are not easy. Although I was appalled with the views I'm not surprised. I still found myself sympathising with most of them, though. Not their views, but their unhappiness and ignorance. The barber was clearly not a bad person, she shows compassion. We don't know her life story and what influences she had on her life. We shouldn't berate people like her, we should listen and then challenge her views in a compassionate way that will make people like her reconsider. We can't berate everyone who thinks like this, I believe a lot of them are reasonable and can come round to a different way.

The level of ignorance is astounding. The British media has a lot to answer for.

I'm Essex born and bred, this is a very familiar world to me, albeit Clacton is particularly isolated and forgotten. The thing that gets me is that these people are decent human beings really - most are just struggling through life, day after day, in the way that millions of people have done so for centuries. It is just so tragic that the bloody Tory establishment and the bloody right wing rags just ruthlessly manipulate them in every way they can. When you think about the REAL reason we had Brexit foisted on us, it breaks my heart - because these people are the last to profit from it in any way whatsoever. Meanwhile the super rich are spiriting way billions into their own wealthy pockets and very little of that benefits the UK. We need to do something about the Tory toilet tabloids. Somehow they have to be brought down.

For international viewers, according to figures from the Ministry of Housing, the Clacton neighbourhood of Jaywick was confirmed as the most deprived neighbourhood in England as recently as 2019.

From 12:06 What a sweetheart. Offering to be there for isolated men without friends. It makes me weep to see how the bottom quartile of UK society are struggling without enough money to survive, and in Peter’s case, any meaningful connections.