Ghost Town: Coventry fears a return to the '80s
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Coventry was a city hit hard by the recession of the 1980s.
An energy crisis and rising inflation sent unemployment soaring - the mood was captured by Coventry band The Specials in their song Ghost Town.
Becky Johnson visits the city and talks to residents about their fears.
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@quokkapirquish6825 Жыл бұрын
As a business owner, if our electricity bills go up from 20,000 a year to 70,000 a year, as it looks at the moment, we will shut down. We don’t make enough to cover it.
@dubiouscaesar3709 Жыл бұрын
Stand your ground.
@howardbowen-RC-Pilot Жыл бұрын
So to buy a big diesel generator and run it for a year.. far less than 70 grand.
@luishsteuer1660 Жыл бұрын
That’s the consequences of designing your cities around cars, not people. I remember visiting a few weeks ago and it was miserable to navigate the city on foot or bike. I felt like I was surrounded by motorways; even in the heart of the town.
@brettharter143 Жыл бұрын
I would say it the cities are actually designed to stop cars entering.
@moonnightbricks3948 Жыл бұрын
Coventry city centre is pedestrianised. And I might add looks fantastic with all the new projects finished and with more to come.
@Vbomavboma55 Жыл бұрын
Lol not really come to london there are roadwork signs everywhere
@warwickshiremidlandsweathe9067 Жыл бұрын
Who would wanna go to shithole Coventry it's horrible
@apathyintheuk265 Жыл бұрын
This comment must have been started before the poster fell into a 40 year long coma before hitting 'send'.
@L117music Жыл бұрын
The government need to reavaluate the fifty year plans for this country, because the plan simply isn't working. it's not inflation it's the result of thirty years of greed for more profits and cut backs. at some point the system has to collapse causing a ressession or worse.
@Tazza81 Жыл бұрын
Exactly. Inflation is not been caused by increased demand or capital flight but instead by previously unheard of shortages in essential commodities and corporate greed.
@owainwilliams7993 Жыл бұрын
Recession is the nice word for it civil unrest rioting looting and massive crime are the real words for what’s coming
@marmaduke9844 Жыл бұрын
They could solve the problem by stopping the continuous building of student accommodation we have a whole area being knocked down just for more of it when we dont need it
@antoinettex95 Жыл бұрын
Really??
@marmaduke9844 Жыл бұрын
@@antoinettex95 yes our city centre is mainly built up of student accommodation when we have other areas we could use
@nothereandthereanywhere Жыл бұрын
@@marmaduke9844 What is the point of having an accomodation for students(often foreigner), if the locals can't afford a house/flat?
@drownedcactus5618 Жыл бұрын
What other income does the city have though?
@moonnightbricks3948 Жыл бұрын
Brings a huge income into the city though.
@davidgray2653 Жыл бұрын
Nothing has changed since the eighties remember the specials song living in a ghost town history repeating its self and inn
@DaveJenvey Жыл бұрын
haha that is exactly the song that I thought of.
@jadegblueparrot8606 Жыл бұрын
crime , addiction and riots will happen more and more something has to change
@jaywalkercrew4446 Жыл бұрын
😄😄😄😄😄😄😃😃😃😃
@cliffsofmoher4220 Жыл бұрын
The only solution to this problem is that to invest in solar panels and wind turbine more using tax payers money then something will be done
@somethinglikeanonymous1773 Жыл бұрын
@@jaywalkercrew4446 😂
@arsenalfan1653 Жыл бұрын
Not really British people love to complan but dont do anything to change it
@howardbowen-RC-Pilot Жыл бұрын
Hey if nothing else the 80's generated some great music 🎶
@peterbergman2131 Жыл бұрын
I would give everything i own to return to the 80's. The 70's would be better but i would settle for the 80's
@derrenlambert2279 Жыл бұрын
I'm from Coventry, but I moved..✌❤🇬🇧
@leevancleef451 Жыл бұрын
Isn't Britain already in a recession..
@inside1283 Жыл бұрын
Getting there, although technically not just yet. Worst is yet to come
@1984sebb Жыл бұрын
England without the Empire was always going end up grim...
@sun-sea-solar Жыл бұрын
Won't just be Coventry. A lot of people will rely on overtime and extra part time jobs. The 20% and 40% tax need to lowered and the 45% need to be higher.
@48billy0 Жыл бұрын
Nearby Nuneaton is the same. Many shops closed months ago. The market, which used to fill the centre isn't a patch on what it was. I don't know if it is true, but someone once told me that the Nuneaton business rates were among the highest in the country. I can't imagine what the future holds for the thousands of such towns all over the country.
@kevinmassey7675 Жыл бұрын
That was true , the Labour Council there also made the taxi cabs charge as much as central London ..Car parking too .....Luckily , the council has changed and there are now some incentives to get the wheels of commerce turning again , and a complete regeneration of the town centre
@eddiebirch2067 Жыл бұрын
@@kevinmassey7675 The council may have changed, but the town centre definitely hasn't, literally every other shop is closed
@kevinmassey7675 Жыл бұрын
@@eddiebirch2067 quite a few of those town centre businesses have been relocated to places like Bermuda by the council so they can crack on with the regeneration project ....It's a long term programme which fingers crossed will be worth the upheaval , investment and wait .
@eddiebirch2067 Жыл бұрын
@@kevinmassey7675 which ones have relocated to Bermuda ? I don't want to be negative but the town centre is horrible , I went there for the first time in a long time yesterday and it was worse than ever . ,and don't say this is nationwide , because I visit Atherstone, Hincley and Tamworth etc . and they look much better , generally, maintained better and more shops , the council need to stop talking about cracking on and actually start doing it.
@kevinmassey7675 Жыл бұрын
@@eddiebirch2067 I agree , Nuneaton is currently , and has been for sometime , so a disgrace as a result of years of neglect ...but there are ambitious plans in place to modernise it and create a business hub , college , and entertainment venues....I'm not sure which businesses moved to make way for the construction to go ahead ....I only know from stuff I've read on Cov live etc. ....What is reassuring is , I would assume Hilton hotels would not be investing millions building a hotel on the old CO-OP car park if they didn't think they were going to make money from the regeneration
@D1Snr Жыл бұрын
People in my peer group were calling Coventry a ghost town back in 2010. It seems like the recession hit Coventy years ago
@kevinmassey7675 Жыл бұрын
2010 was the middle of the worst recession in memory.....brought on by the banking crisis ... At the end of the last Labour government that same year , , .they themselves left a note in Downing Street for the Tory coalition when they lost the election saying "there is no money left"
@rorylyons1091 Жыл бұрын
2010 ? The Specials, a Coventry band, made a song about it in 1981, check out Ghost Town.
@chamonix4658 Жыл бұрын
@@kevinmassey767510+ years of tory incompetence and yet some people are still talking about 'the last labour government' like its relevant
@kevinmassey7675 Жыл бұрын
@chamonix4658 just some FACTS that were relevant to the top comment .., ..The top comment was relevant to the video ...Isn't that how this works ? If anything , the only irrelevant thing mentioned was the current Tory government??? Which yes , are a shower of sh1t
@amfearliathmor9747 Жыл бұрын
My friend used to live in Coventry after moving from Dundee. He said his first day there was seeing an Asian fellow getting thrown through a shop front window by half a dozen NF skinheads in DMs during a riot like My Beautiful Laundrette. Said he had a good time back in the early 80s compared to the awful days we have today.
@a4paper754 Жыл бұрын
I used to work in Coventry and had a friend I would sometimes go to gigs with in the mid 2000s and I encountered a gang of skinheads in one of the underpasses. Still had the same style from the 80s. They didn't give me no trouble. I thought Coventry was pretty cool. Lots of good music venues there. My friend even showed me the street where 'The Specials' shot the 'Ghost Town' video.
@Paul-eb4jp Жыл бұрын
This isn't really about Coventry, it's any town or City in the UK.
@bt3743 Жыл бұрын
Now I dont know your friend but that sounds like an implication that he is fine with NF thugs
@eddiebirch2067 Жыл бұрын
@@a4paper754 He was bullshitting then because it was filmed in east London
@findAplaceToCallHome Жыл бұрын
I lived in Coventry for 10 years. Moved away in 2020. The city was a dump then, at its “peak”. It’s a dump now
@sydnorth5868 Жыл бұрын
I lived in Coventry for 8 years from 1985 to 1993. Back then it had a reputation as the city that had been bombed during WW2 and then badly rebuilt in the 60's. I last visited in 2015 and was pleasantly surprised as to how well it had regenerated over the 22 years that I hadn't been there. That's not to say that it might have become a complete shambles under the current government!
@warwickshiremidlandsweathe9067 Жыл бұрын
Yeppp I hate the place
@paulbroderick8438 Жыл бұрын
Alfred Herbert and William Lyons must be spinning in their graves. Back when, Coventry was a powerhouse of industrialization and productivity. Now? I suppose everyone has a useless PhD in something or other and 'works from home'. Greetings from a former Coventry engineering apprentice in the USA.
@jimmorrison2657 Жыл бұрын
Why the quotes around 'works from home' ??
@mjjveritas Жыл бұрын
@@jimmorrison2657 They probably mean that people who work from home, are at home, but don't actually DO any work, even though they are supposed to. It's an opportunity to slack off, because guess what, the boss is not in your spare bedroom.
@Mike_5 Жыл бұрын
This is Rishi Sunak's fault for diverting money from deprived areas
@frankupton5821 Жыл бұрын
Somebody in Coventry ought to protest against ever-higher taxes.
@TheBigJenks Жыл бұрын
Heaven forbid money needs to be correctly budgeted...
@felix_five Жыл бұрын
Living in a Box, by Living in a Box from the album Living in a Box. Is that 80s enough?
@mikehanlon530 Жыл бұрын
My dad told me the 70s and 80s was brilliant it wasn't like they're saying on the news ups he had a scrap metal business was booming it was making making about 3 days pay every day,
@UNAI.EMERY. Жыл бұрын
Rich get richer poor get poorer
@49cchris Жыл бұрын
Ture point as petrol & energy goes up, no one wants to spend!
@millerforester6237 Жыл бұрын
A little plastic cup of something with Oreos in it is one reason there isn't enough money to buy food. People waste what money they have on junk
@jackbeswick4662 Жыл бұрын
I mean inflation, energy prices and the general cost of living is going through the roof - but obviously buying one cup of oreos is the problem.
@jadegblueparrot8606 Жыл бұрын
@@jackbeswick4662 🤣🤣
@10NVXII Жыл бұрын
Me who lives in Coventry and near the cathedral
@dorothyorr1537 Жыл бұрын
tragic PRAYERS for the people ......
@owainwilliams7993 Жыл бұрын
And your government are on holiday partying or worrying about who’s going to shaft the country next they work for the energy companies not us
@nigellacey559 Жыл бұрын
Did it ever leave the 80s ?
@zach1252 Жыл бұрын
what a lovely day
@legendkhanproductions5263 Жыл бұрын
So sad for these families im struggling but what can I do.there nights where I can't eat as short of cash.
@888ssss Жыл бұрын
nobody is going to work to own nothing.
@DrumToTheBassWoop Жыл бұрын
It's a bit of a state when I I visited it, so no change I guess.
@badmawededu6078 Жыл бұрын
Your Car, TV, Computer, cloth, bicycle and every human made thing loses its value when it is in use. It has also an age limit. The only thing it has an age limit but its values are getting higher and higher every time is a house. How come? Is it because of the capitalists can easily speculate and cheat the citizens by changing the narrative when it come to the house? Increasing the house price or rent in the west particularly in UK, US and the likes is really the worst criminal activities the capitalists are doing against the society working together with the so called politicians elected by the victim citizens.
@clam4597 Жыл бұрын
It's the location not the house. Some locations houses are losing value.
@rahuldahoob4513 Жыл бұрын
Well this is cheerful!!
@silaswild6233 Жыл бұрын
It's not meant to be cheerful, it's meant to be informative
@warwickshiremidlandsweathe9067 Жыл бұрын
Well Coventry is a shithole after all
@TheSlinq Жыл бұрын
We're going back to t he 70s before we go back to the 80s.
@user-we6vc7lg4u Жыл бұрын
Least the music was better in the 80's
@mriad6705 Жыл бұрын
Going back 2 the s80
@richardanthonygilbey Жыл бұрын
⭐️They haven’t left Amsterdam 100’000 b.c yet
@oysteroid4030 Жыл бұрын
Ghost Town suits Suella Braverman and Pritti Patel to stay . The ghost town comes with Topless bar.
@jayreyndogz1791 Жыл бұрын
This is pathetic they are talking like coventry is the only place in UK
@rahuldahoob4513 Жыл бұрын
Isn't it??
@tigerstripey4885 Жыл бұрын
Get over yourself, they are just spotlighting one area, sorry your little area didn't get a mention little baby boo boo need his rattle?
@silondon9010 Жыл бұрын
Always good news from sky 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@aytw661 Жыл бұрын
Yeah let’s pretend everything is great 🙄
@TomNook. Жыл бұрын
"it was very dfficult for BIG families to make ends meeet" Er, yes?
@A5H_01 Жыл бұрын
Says Tom Nook, the guy profiting off my back and taking my gold coins 🤣
@ywiggan Жыл бұрын
I cannot see it being this bad I remember the 70s and 80s
@melaniemoon4463 Жыл бұрын
It's now worse
@Andygb78 Жыл бұрын
We need to go out eating and drinking otherwise we're all going to suffer.
@Paul-eb4jp Жыл бұрын
There are 4 major reasons for the crisis heading our way, the first is Ukraine, the second is the pandemic and neither of these could have been avoided, however reasons 3 and 4 are of our making, Brexit has hit our economy twice as hard as the pandemic and the 4th reason is Johnson, he's responsible for putting together a shambolic cabinet which made any challenge to his leadership unlikely, he then oversaw the pandemic which made many Tory donors even wealthier. I really don't see a way back from this.
@coventrypunx1014 Жыл бұрын
Your forgot 5 … uncontrolled Cultral enrichment
@ianhirst1148 Жыл бұрын
So blame David Cameron then. He shouldn't have called an election but his arrogance meant he believed he would win.
@Ordinary_Peasant Жыл бұрын
@@coventrypunx1014 ah yes, blame everything on immigration they've always been a scapegoat throughout history
@tonyubr Жыл бұрын
Couldn't agree more. They are talking of a recession looming. I would call it a depression more like
@looselipssinkships333 Жыл бұрын
But all of them were planned and are a stage to enslave us right
@carlosfixon5077 4 ай бұрын
Yeah but back then, neighbours watched out for each other
@RS-jb1lf Жыл бұрын
Grim! The government needs to support business and the self employed.
@DavidGetling Жыл бұрын
How does the old saying go? "Come gentle bombs and fall on Coventry"
@atwc21 Жыл бұрын
i wish everything related to Internet and phone will vanish one day and people go back to 1998, where people more connected and less sensitive ( over thinking)
@HShango Жыл бұрын
I was 4 years old back then (I'm 28 now), literally had no clue about how things were, it's a a blur to me now (my childhood).
@jaywalkercrew4446 Жыл бұрын
There was mobile phone in 98
@atwc21 Жыл бұрын
@@jaywalkercrew4446 i mean before Smart phone...........hehe
@jaywalkercrew4446 Жыл бұрын
@@atwc21 yeah it was the basic stuff then, texting was a big thing
@atwc21 Жыл бұрын
@@jaywalkercrew4446 simple texting back in 1998 or before is fine, People nowadays became over sensitive and offensive easily problably because of information explore too fast from the digital devices........
@strikeeaglemodels1588 Жыл бұрын
We already have ghost towns no thanks to internet shopping 🤔
@yerhan1572 Жыл бұрын
Long time in the past there were shops that specialised in different things all gone now . Things i need to buy for my hobby's i can only source online
@strikeeaglemodels1588 Жыл бұрын
@@yerhan1572 Exactly mate,Once upon a time the internet was cheaper now it’s more expensive.Nothing like buying something from a shop.
@TheOnly1JLDN Жыл бұрын
There was a recession after the eighties as well why don't they speak about that
@marybailey7881 Жыл бұрын
she doesn't look like she is necessarily starving
@zexal4217 Жыл бұрын
She works 2 jobs but yeah, let's mock her weight. Jesus some of these comments lack any form of empathy whatsoever.
@joannalewis5279 Жыл бұрын
A hole comment
@MrStevieb00 Жыл бұрын
Ignorance is alive and well
@robertallen591 Жыл бұрын
that was nothing to whats coming, but we have mad lizzy what could go wrong
@melaniemoon4463 Жыл бұрын
As Zara sultana says, 'This is not a recession. It is a hoarding of wealth'. The Tory way 😢
@diannegoode9010 Жыл бұрын
2 Tim 3: 1 - 5
@royharpershat8059 Жыл бұрын
Tory britain....welcomes Maggie Thatcher cosplayer liz truss...it'll be just like the 80's...
@jasbindersingh2441 Жыл бұрын
This is great. Interest rates are going up , throw away mortgage cash is disappearing and house prices are finally starting to drop. As Mrs T used to say.... rejoice !
@billkingston4402 Жыл бұрын
More Ghost's in the town
@Islamicones1 Жыл бұрын
People should vote for labour
@jorgevieira4489 Жыл бұрын
Lucky Boris and farage made all uk millionaires thanks to brexit so no need to worry Brexit Victory
@moneymanifestation9505 Жыл бұрын
She owns her own store but still complaining 🙄
@finanzferdinand9874 Жыл бұрын
People not going out and wasting money on recreation isn't a bad thing
@anthonyclegg1511 Жыл бұрын
What, the 1680s.?.
@manulemos219 Жыл бұрын
Well well well... Coventry DID vote for Brexit Britain afterall...
@moonnightbricks3948 Жыл бұрын
Of course we did, we're not stupid.
@mamalives6938 Жыл бұрын
Oh no a broken down Cathedral heaven has fallen
@kylewestrip531 Жыл бұрын
Imagine actually watching the video.
@somethinglikeanonymous1773 Жыл бұрын
I blame the immigrants.
@marajesty311 Жыл бұрын
what? immigrants aren't causing inflation. use your brain.
@davey2363 Жыл бұрын
I see no poverty at all. I see a tumble dryer and all the white goods. Go to India to see poverty and grow up.
@mcfrosty8739 Жыл бұрын
Ah the classic 'someone else has it worse so your issues are null and void' pathetic argument
@davey2363 Жыл бұрын
@@mcfrosty8739 true though. We British are weak and second rate.
@spellbound4383 Жыл бұрын
Exactly
@angelsackson Жыл бұрын
@@davey2363 speak for yourself ya peasant.
@jacksoncrate Жыл бұрын
Women had a smile on the whole time must be really bad
@andrewsweeney1869 Жыл бұрын
All thanks to the Green Agenda!
@teamblitz1990 Жыл бұрын
Ghost town
@elizabethhurtado2829 Жыл бұрын
🥚
@peterstewart8758 Жыл бұрын
Tories again?
@dinaworkman306 Жыл бұрын
Foreigners
@bt3743 Жыл бұрын
@@dinaworkman306 wasn't brexit supposed to get rid of the foreigners? Does that mean its failed then
@lose8447 Жыл бұрын
@@bt3743 it got rid of the foreigners and that's partly why crops are rotting in our fields while families go hungry!
@maiy1187 Жыл бұрын
God bless ukraine amen
@GeorgeAusters Жыл бұрын
Use a recession to your advantage.. It's a time to get very wealthy so get rid of debt and start investing!
@gamingtonight1526 Жыл бұрын
... And all because the world is still addicted to fossil fuels...
@darwinsfish Жыл бұрын
Don’t worry the tattooed rhino women will have enough blubber reserves to get through both the food crisis and winter cold.
@tombartram7384 Жыл бұрын
BANDS!!!! don't play no more
@lumpi806 Жыл бұрын
No worry, zelensky will help us all !
@chamonix4658 Жыл бұрын
we can atleast help them out, rather inflation than bombs
@thomaslynch4776 Жыл бұрын
Dumb dumb sky news !
@samcarena4702 Жыл бұрын
This is going to get slot worse especially with Brexshit
@tigerstripey4885 Жыл бұрын
Brexit is a divide and conquer tactic, it never meant a thing. Nothings changed.
@chilliboy8448 Жыл бұрын
Hillfields is always fool of life ....
@thomaslynch4776 Жыл бұрын
Let’s me like Fox News 🤡