There's no jobs, the shops are all shut, the place is falling apart, but I'm still gonna vote for the same guy that's sat by & watched it all happen. There's something wrong with people.
The guy who can't get a job, saying "I think it's my age, the age I am, and quite a lot of people my age" then goes on to say that he hopes Bob Seely doesn't lose his seat, saying "I'm hoping he's gonna stay in and er, we can er, get everything sorted out with jobs and whatever his policies are". A real critical thinker there, can't put two and two together and will vote for more of the same without even knowing what he is voting for! Crazy
The fact that he’s applying for places like McDonald’s at his age means he hasn’t used the last 30-40 years of adulthood to build any sort of skill set or career, which is just wild to me.
Anyone from Ventnor/the Isle of Wight will famously know that Graham Perks was once put on pubwatch (banning him from every pub in the town except the one he owns) for biting a woman. He is not a sane man.
@@Ibluntlysaywhatithink The gentleman in the video claimed he'd applied for multiple jobs and heard almost nothing back. What more is he meant to do?! Although having said that, considering he says he's still planning to vote Tory it's difficult to have much sympathy.
Next time you ordered something online you need to remember YOU as a consumer are the cause for the local retail shops closing, which also has a flow on effect. You may not want to hear this but governments do not create new wealth they never have, they tax and spend.
It is hard proof of how easy simpletons can be persuaded to believe all the lies of the Tories and now will get fooled (taken for a nasty ride) by Reform UK. Fascism is lurking in the background. Putin finances the people behind Trump and I would not be surprised if he is behind Farage as well.
With the cost of the ferry going up 80% or more over the last decade this has had a significant impact. Why are there no guard rails to prevent private companies like wightlink and red funnel working together to drive up prices on the ‘road’ between the mainland and the island. They’ve created a duopoly and are sucking life out of the island.
imagine being so clueless that you want to keep a Tory MP to help fix the island, not knowing the policies they offer and not realising they are in this shit show because of the Tories... the UK is forever screwed
Yeah "I hope he'll get everything sorted out whatever his policies are" also really stood out to me. People put about as much thought into who they vote for as they do choosing a football team to support.
Imagine being so clueless you think that your situation in life is because of the government .. so clueless you can't work out why other people are thriving but not you
People don't like the Tories; even tory voters don't like the Tories; they vote for then because Labour were so bad. Now, people are voting Labour, not because they like "Sir" Keir Starmer; or Labour, but because they are seen as be not as bad as the Tories.
@@yelmak with the major parties afraid to commit to any policies, I suppose that's the kind of mindset they're targeting. "Well, he seems alright. Hopefully he'll do something that helps."
Back in the 80’s I lived on the Isle of Wight in Ryde. My ex-husband was the manager of The Star bingo hall. It was such a bustling town full of a variety of shops and a thriving community. It breaks my heart to see how decimated areas of the island have become. Then again it just mirrors what is happening up and down the whole of England! Help out by voting the tories out for good! Don’t leave them with any options to rise ever again!
What do you think this country has had for the last 14 year? Labour policies under a Tory government 😂 and judging by Starmers cabinet it’s gonna get a whole lot worse…David Lammy who believes a man can grow a cervix if they try really hard and Yvette Cooper who wants more immigrants 😂😂😂
@@MB10-66Labour policies in a Tory government? What like when a fat chunk of labour mps who were liked locally were kicked out for being too left leaning for the left wing party lol? When lib Dems are now more left leaning labour? Tories ruled heavy austerity through their policies and it's obvious that it's directly linked to the Uks decline. Labour is closest to tories than they have been in decades anyway.
I lived on the IOW during Covid before managing to escape. The job propects are terrrible and its basically an island retirement home trapped in the 1960s. I feel really aweful for people born on the island in this day and age as its so expensive to stay, but also really hard to afford to leave the island due to the boat costs etc. I think most 18 year olds attempt to escape the island when they go to Uni and never look back.
I only left the island because of university, it's a beautiful place and being a little stuck in the past can be a good thing, it gave me an incredible idyllic childhood and upbringing. The only reason I didn't return was because of how expensive it is to live and work there.
@@PhageTheFinalCure I grew up on the Island too, in the fifties/sixties, went to Whippingham primary school and Sandown grammar school. My childhood too was without a doubt authentically idyllic. The Island is still "the country of my heart" (apologies to D H Lawrence), and where I most often find myself when I'm dreaming.
Can confirm, I left for uni at 18, I'm now 28 and have never even considered moving back, it's a pretty old folks' home with no prospects for the young
I live and work here and most people I work with think that voting Labour is akin to voting for a Marxist revolution. I’ll be amazed if Quigley unseats Seely but fingers crossed.
Interesting sidebit, Quigley mentions breaking lockdown rules, the barbecue Seely attended was in Seaview, hosted by his good friends Richard Tice and his partner Isabel Oakshott.
If it helps, where I live is so right wing that Reform are up to 19% and so Labour are just ahead of the Tories, if it happens it will be the first ever time they will be.
I would bloody love it tho if Harrow educated Brexit loving Bob seely MBE of the landed Gentry seely family lost his seat to a guy who owns a fish and chip shop in Cowes 😃🙏🇬🇧♥️
My sympathies to the guy saying he can’t get a job. Same boat for me, seems once you get to late 50’s employers disregard you. I’ve gone past desperation now, just resigned to it.
@@michealridgway7607 I’ve got news for you, I am not ‘that guy’, I’m am an entirely different person. However he votes, he still has my sympathy even if his political choices may be misplaced he is still a person just like you and me.
One of the main issues is the cost of ferries …. Wightlink charge £140 return for two days….. this will lead to less tourists coming over and therefore less of the money spent in shops on the island - this has a knock on and the islands suffer ….. but some say they don’t want a bridge to be built/ don’t want tourists… hurting their own economy
It is a shame that there is no fixed link bridge or tunnel between the island and the mainland of Hampshire really. If this was France not britain there may have been one. Of course cost would be an issue too. But meanwhile the ferries will remain so too.
@@MikePhillips-pl6ov Every so often, Red Funnel send out a book of discounts, which are 10/15/20% off. Wightlink offer a Multilink pass which you pay up front for. I have just bought 10 returns for £660 which is a good price per crossing, but not everyone can afford to lay out that sort of money to begin with. WL only have a certain amount of spaces for ML pass holders, and they don’t guarantee a booking… at the moment both RF and WL have multiple cancellations per week due to lack of “essential crew members”, mechanical breakdowns, etc etc. They are killing our tourism, making life difficult for those who need medical treatment on the mainland, people who book holidays away have to book a hotel on the mainland the night before to guarantee they’ll get to the airport on time, etc etc. The Government (DoT) need to do something and urgently. The Solent should be classed the same as an arterial road.
I stayed, and thrived without poverty, but as they said, it is a dividing line with people with jobs on the island and people from London, like me who still have jobs there.😊
Bob Seely MP voted against a Labour amendment to outlaw the dumping of sewerage. He represents a small island and is an open water swimmer. If he can’t vote in his own personal, physical and political interests, what hope islanders? Let’s find out on the fourth.
“They’re a good bunch” Looking forward to seeing that on a campaign poster under a pic of the candidate goose-stepping her way across the island. As for Mr I-can’t-get-a-job-so-I’ll-vote-conservative, there is no hope. He’s like that couple the bbc filmed on their way to a food bank in Gosport, I think it was, “Rishi, bless’im” ffs 🙄
Lack of jobs, especially for young people. Ferries which are our only method of leaving charge an arm and leg. Which also hits our tourism industry. Everything is more expensive because of the 8 mile stretch of water. Education for those with learning difficulties is awful. Mental health support is almost non existent. House prices & rent are through the roof (as they are countrywide), but wages are pitiful. Beautiful place. Some really nice people. But the split between the rich and poor is shocking and we also have a lot of disabled people who don’t get the support they need. I’m voting Quigley. Wouldn’t ever vote for a Tory and definitely not Seeley. He’s obviously worried about the election because I have had a load of his mail promising the earth. Funny how he hasn’t done any of those things while he has been in government. I live on Pan and the poverty and deprivation here is sad. We need a change. We deserve better and a more equal society. We won’t get that with a Tory or RefUk Ltd. I am not really happy with the Labour manifesto. But having lived through Thatcher’s years, the Labour years and now this past 14 years of horrors. Labour did a better job by miles. The Tories as usual are just a bunch of public school morons lining their and their cronies pockets.
People still delude themselves into thinking the government and the MPs are actually working in the interests of the people. I'm sure many people who go into politics do honestly want to do what's best for country and people, then realise that it's a lot harder than it seems and for some it's just easier to fall in line and do as they are told by those above them. Politics has become more about making a name for themselves and ensuring their futures are secure than about doing what's right or best for people.
Well done for going to the Island - I left 20 years ago but go back fairly regularly. A lot of issues that impact poorer areas of the mainland are worse on the Island - partially it’s the costs of transport, the Solent is very expensive to cross, partially the conservatism (in many people’s cases against their own best interests) is very ingrained. The island isn’t an especially diverse community, it doesn’t have a higher education sector, it has a lot of retirees. There is a lot of generational poverty - if you want to move on with your life chances are you are going to have to leave, it sort of evaporates away the people who want to develop beyond the opportunities there. I think there is a bit of a feedback loop between the lack of opportunity and hoping that someone will fix things (in common with a lot of deprived areas) - the same dynamic the drove Brexit with the same lack of viable outcomes. In its defence it is very beautiful, has some lovely architecture it has some amazing SMEs in the engineering business. There are pockets which are quite wealthy, plenty of people doing their best to get along and suffering from the usual UK lack of infrastructure. I’ve watched quite a few Vox Pops over this election. I’m still not sure the people wandering around the streets in the middle of the day are necessarily representative. I live in a pretty wealthy small city but most people are at work in the middle of the day.
Hi i am Amarjit kumar from Mumbai India and i always use to think that in UK people are so much happy and they earn plenty of money but after watching your video and from few months i am following UK election videos and i am watching many videos like this and now i think like as India in UK also have poverty and people is also suffering with jobs issue and finance issue .
Getting a job here is next to impossible and watching people have to use foodbanks is concerning, we've had people that have ended their lives so this needs to be taken seriously. There's more to touch on but this is a major issue.
It’s not one parties fault. Things change, things happen covid etc. people expecting things to always remain as they once where are part of the problem
It’s always the folk in the bleakest conditions that grab onto saviour types, only to be let down again and again when they fail to deliver or spin lies about other people stopping them. iow can’t be a fun place to do this kind of story, but it’s one the media will not show.
Bob Seely is a smug, self satisfied git; a nodding dog, who toes the Party Line, regardless. The guy doesn't have an original thought in his head! But then, that goes for so _many_ of them these days, in all Parties.
When I lived on the Island, I gave Seldom Seen a very uncomfortable 28 minutes on the phone. At the time the real PM had dashed off to Durham and the supposed PM was too frightened of and too dependent on the real one to sack him. Also, I debunked Hancock's massaging of figures for testing and he (Half s Sausage) wasn't happy when I pointed out that statistics don't suddenly go up to 124k only on the target day, having been around 80k daily the week before and going back to 80k daily the week after it.. He tried weasel wording his way out of it, but he most certainly didn't succeed, ending the call quickly as he had a meeting with the supposed PM. Yeah, right!
Summer time the hotel owners make buckets of cash driving around in Aston matins , whilst paying minimum wages to seasonal workers then sack them in October then expecting them to return the following march , really they should pay better wages or give retainers
Well I've worked in hotels as an entertainer and I've never seen a rich owner. Nearly all the hotels I've worked in are now closed simply because the older generation in the past holidayed here, but the current older generation go abroad for the sun and cheap deals and no politician can ever change that.
@@AndrewVanDay well i have seen first hand here on the Isle of Wight with one in particular going from an old BMW to a 90k Aston Martin and from living in a flat adjoined to the hotel to a one million six hundred pound mansion after just 7 years of taking over the hotel and there are others that have done similar around here
The Tory party didn’t want Brexit. Cameron held the referendum, not imagining the people would vote to leave. Brexit is a rare example of democracy working.
@@polmcsuibhne7657 name 1 lie, I can list the lies you were told and you believed, £4300 cost to each household, empty shelves no medicines complete blockages at the ports nobody would invest here anymore conMorons world war three, osbournes 80,000 job losses overnight just on the vote to leave, how daft were you lot taking that as gospel, oh and don't forget cleggs ``dangerous fantasy eu army``.
Thanks for shining a light on the Island! I know you mostly focused West Side, but in East side we've organised the East Wight Primary as there was no clear tactical choice to beat the Tories. Last week nearly 1000 local voters decided green was the best tactical choice East Side, and we are spreading the word. This is the first election primaries are happening, and in South Devon and here they could make a massive difference. Locally organised tactical voting.. Vote Green East, Labour West and lets be a Conservative MP free Island! Please help us spread the word.
Scary how people look at what labour did to the economy from 1997 to 2011, and the millions of deaths caused by their war crimes, see ww3 around the corner and think, yeah I'll vote for the financially inept war Party. Lol labour voters should be first for conscription.
Much of the decline is the outlandish ferry costs in summer. In my youth the IOW was a flourishing tourist island, but faced with the same accommodation prices as Devon and Cornwall but with gigantic ferry cost. The islanders get concessions but the tourist money is reduced by transport costs.
More like how deluded can you be to think that any of the main three parties - the same three that have always governed this country - can provide "change".
"Gypsies & Vagabonds, r*pe & pillage" I thought he was about to break into song...Seriously, language & views like that! Who is going to vote for that reform guy???
A year or so ago I lived a few doors down from an old bloke (this was in Brading) who used to regularly wail about "gypsies sending their kids into your shed to steal your garden tools", but less coherent. He also used to scream that BLM are a terrorist organisation, and that Asian people were stealthily replacing white people on the Island. It's depressingly common to encounter that level of madness here 😪
a lot of people are just going to vote Reform simply because they want someone thats never been in the job Labour will win, but tbh I don't think they'll make much of a difference
I like him because he speaks truth about immigrants, and immigration is the problem. We get no immigration here. If anything, we consider mainlanders immigrant. Actually, I'm a mainlander myself. ffs...
It's a vicious cycle, but let's be honest - it starts with commercial rents (well, all rents and the property market in general). They're just completely unregulated, and the overhead of starting any small business in the UK is immediately out of hand. High streets are empty because it doesn't make financial sense to take on stupid insecure leases. That means people are put off trading, they're put off manufacturing - the idea of enterprise is so prohibitive in this country. We need more regulation in this country, not less.
True, but high streets are also empty because most people (like me) shop online. I can't remember the last time I walked into a high street shop. Why would I? I can find everything I want online (I avoid Amazon in principle though), it is cheaper, easier, and it turns up at my door! Most small to medium French towns have no shops at all (apart from a bakery, estate agent and hairdressers) but they accept it, that is life now. You want to buy something you go to the Hypermerché or get it on-line.
@@AndrewVanDay this isn’t about the generic junk we are buying online. Well, I suppose it might be if you don’t have any imagination? It’s not about just buying stuff at all, it’s about repair shops, it’s about manufacturing locally made goods, clothes and tailoring, it’s about coffee shops and bars and restaurants. Second hand shops. There are lots of businesses that are useful in our lives aside from purchasing new items made in the far east. I’m surprised at your apathy and unashamed love of cheap convenience to be honest, but it’s symptomatic of the problem. There is so much talk of a lack of enterprise, personally I’m interested in solutions, I’m interested in the future for local businesses
It's scarey to see the growth for the green party for those with inherited wealth. Compared to the rise of reform for people and areas of poverty. As the country slips into service jobs and nothing for the many areas built on factorys, making and labour. Theres no way to help these places as we don't have the industry to offer them anymore. Even if we brought back manufacturing we couldn't pay people enough to compare with China etc. Or if we did the products would be too expensive for people to buy. I would like to see a 1 precent one off wealth tax taken over 5 years on people worth 1 million or more. But the rich would never go for that.
" It's scarey to see the growth for the green party for those with inherited wealth." why is that "scary" Also, just interested, whats your opinion on DeformUK™?
@@TFx2TV i think its scary cos the wealthy want to get rid of any hope of producing anything in this country while relying on globalisation to get goods, and the poor want to isolate from the world. Complete opposite wants, from far left and far right parties.
@@TFx2TV Because it shows who the Green party really stand for: wealthy white liberals (just stop oil types etc). As evidenced by their even more extreme ULEZ policy than Labour. Ideologically, I take a left wing fiscal position and a populist right social position. While I agree with Reform on immigration and culture war topics, I won't be voting for them because in all other aspects they are just Truss lite. The social democratic party led by William Clouston is who I'd ideally vote for but they're a small party and so aren't standing in my constituency. Politics is broken in this country, and FPTP is a significant reason why.
@@andrewcooper103 It's good for wealthy white liberals, people with shares in EV's, just stop oil, uh, Islamists? None of whom work. Please do explain.
So sad, we went on a school trip to the Isle of Wight in 1986. I believe that we watched a film there - Flight of the Navigator. Was there a cinema there in those days?
Its worth noting that the I.O.W had a primary process to oust the tories after it became 2 seats, and the Green party won the primary. So theres SOME kind of hope.
I love the island ❤ BUT I work online - it does seem that the number of local jobs (except seasonal work) is low, and only getting worse with shops closing down etc. Cost of living is also high (as they are nationwide tbh), particularly if you need to take the ferries often.
former UKIP guy - so he's been gone a long time. Even after Labour purged most of its Corbyn left flank candidates for this election, he still thinks they are raging socialists. Yes, utterly clueless.
I just had to rewatch that part and I don't get why he fills you with terror? If you are worried about someone talking about current issues and wanting change. then you are supporting the status quo, being mass immigration with a great deal being illegal, corruption on a grand scale and a government bereft of any ideas of how to fix the economy or what to aim for. In a democracy everyone has their own views and wishes, but surely you want change in the country now, surely you believe enough is enough and we need to stem the poverty and decline of what was once a leading nation. And please to god say you don't believe this will be done by Labour who right now have not mentioned anything credible about how they would do this.
Good luck to anyone trying to help the IoW. I visit from Pompey regularly and it has really declined over last 30 years. To get to/from the Island you will pay for the most expensive crossing in the World. The tourist industry has died and you can sit on a near deserted lovely sandy beach in the middle of summer. On the car ferry it is generally full of those with money (second homes?). Drive around the place and it's difficult not to notice the number of elderly who have retired there. The seaside towns are falling apart, shops shut and therefore fewer opportunities for young people to work. The place definitely doesn't need Reform, in fact it is quite desperate for young people to build something there.
I would imagine that in addition to years of bad governance (local and in Westminster) the island has suffered over time from cheaper airfare. Seems like it is still a haunt for wealthy property owners but a lot less normal vacationers than say 30-40 years ago who can - if they have the cash - head south a bit cheaper? The Isle of Man have a similar problem but have used their weird offshore haven status to offset a decline in tourism. What is up with the ferry? Privatised price gouging I assume?
Loving the Green Day Soundtrack! If you go back to IoW, maybe we could hear from 'Wet Leg' as residents. Great video Laura, really lovely presenting and interviewing style
Fun fact about IoW politics - in 1984 election Virginia Bottomley lost to the Liberal candidate, making it the only constituency in which the Tory vote share was reduced from the previous election. The Island has a history of being a bit odd politically.
I went to the Isle of Wight in February and was sad to see the amount of shops closed down,I hadn’t been there for 10yrs and it’s really changed since then it looks quite run down,hope things improve for everyone there.
Cost of living could be fixed if the supermarkets and power companies lowered there prices. They all have seen record profits since they rose their prices and caused the crises. 1+1=2. So now they will have two MPs that will double the cost of MP's and solve none of their issues.
Sad. People clearly have no idea what is happening. They think they will vote some other party and jobs will suddenly emerge out of thin air. Politicians are clueless as well. They think they tax rich more or drive away immigrants and things will magically improve. No party will solve this. Very very sad.
Will these people, that you interviewed, ever take a step back and understand that politicians promises of prosperity are akin to free beer -- only served tomorrow. Our problems aren't caused by migration, stopping (economic) migration will have quite the opposite of the advertised effect, it will have a detrimental effect on economic growth and activity. We are witnessing the rise of authoritarianism, paid for by capital/wealthy interest, and it won't end well.
@@jamessparrow8836 and we know what happened by 1945 as the Germans struggled to live amongst the ruins or flee westward away from the ill-disciplined Russian Army, looting and raping their way through Eastern Europe.
Politicians of now are akin to those from the darkest times of any European democracy. Purely self-serving, organisationally unwilling to solve any issue, happy to use any human tragedy as another power token to use against their personal rivals. Let me underline the most important bit: the whole system is unwilling to fix any issue BY DESIGN. Fixing an issue is costly and people will forget it quickly. Talking about an issue for decades and blaming it on everyone else gives you votes election after election after election.
Will it have an effect on gross domestic product or gross domestic product per capita? And there was me thinking you were a clever, kind-hearted, dirty little leftist rat :)
That guy at the start. Did he say he had not been there long?? Did he move to a place with no job, a place that is more expensive than the mainland?? How did he do it….
I have spent lots of time on the IOW between 2008 -2017. I have been back in 2023 and planning to do so again. Shanklin, Sandown, Newport, Shallbetter, Freshwater, The Red Funnel Ventnor. Yes one of my favourite place in Chale Green was shutdown. Very disappointed. Sad to hear
Sorry but they returned two Tory MP’s that are not even from there since 2001. In that election and every election since almost 30,000 people not bothering to vote. Even the council election results are shocking. Vote and don’t vote against your self interests.
Probably because a tunnel is as likely to be built as Seely is to deliver his vaunted Island Deal or Bozo stopping lying. Apart from anything else, the infrastructure on either side to handle the traffic doesn't exist, and the tolls would most likely still be to expensive.
@@sfactory8253 Anyone willing to work should be given the opportunity to do so. I know capable people who are lazy and don’t work hard yet earn above average wages.
I was really fascinated by this interesting trip to the Isle of Wight. To be honest, though, I did think the place was wealthy, like Kent or Essex. I am sad to find that it is not.
I think one of the issues not addressed, or not properly addressed, this election cycle is the dying high street. It’s brought up in basically every one of these videos put out so it matters a lot to local people, and the blame seems to shift to taxes and small businesses and internet shopping. Which, yeah, are part of the issue, but the simplest solution and the problem I see objectively is that people don’t have enough disposable income or time to shop in these places. Increasing wages in the working and middle class would allow people to spend more in small businesses, increasing their profits. It’d mean people don’t have to work 2-3 jobs to get by and wind up with no time to shop. Walk through a shopping centre, you’ll see how empty it is of people, even a lot of the shops that are open aren’t seeing foot traffic because nobody has the time to browse or money to spend.
I think there was just too many Junk shops on the high street. Argos always seemed to adapt through the years. John Lewis has had its problems. In reality, for everything I might want or did buy over the last 15 years, Ive bought it from a max of 10 shops.
If you fancy a life on the dole, and plenty of people do, it's a good idea to move to somewhere where the weather's a bit better, with a nice beach, and plenty of seasonal cash-in-hand no-questions-asked odd jobs to do to top up the old benefit payments. The Island's full of characters like that, and they're pretty harmless by and large.
If they made the ferry a reasonable price they'd get a decent income from tourism. Last time i checked it was over £200 return for family with an average car.
I've just checked and there are 5 jobs going in Yarmouth for Norton Grange on the far west of the island... by the ferry from Lymington. Including my old job of Bar Team Manager... live in and 27K a year.... I worked that job for 3 years 03, 04 and 05... before emigrating to Scandinavia.
Funny you should mention that, at COP27 in November 2022 former B.O.E. advisor and G20 co-chairman Michael Sheren announced next on the WEF Agenda is the tokenization of water, trees, oxygen and just about everything else in nature.... Be careful what you wish for.🤞
@@amcgowan1970 Has England thought about privatizing its rail services to encourage competition and improve its infrastructure and help lower the cost of rail travel? Another good idea?
I live on the Island, done so for 40 years and yet so pleased and relived that my son moved off with his family. Yes we miss them but the work life/ Quality of life is so much better for them in Belfast. All there is here is Care, Cleaning and Retail. That's IT !!
Imagine what you get voting for Labour. A load of thick people running things like Angela Rayner. So thick she couldn't even take the pill and not get pregnant as a teenager.
A nice segment, thank you. Effective interview manner, direct without being pushy. Just one thing: Microphone a bit too intrusive. Could get a more retiring one , perhaps with strong pickup so it doesn't need to be thrust so at the speakers.
There's no jobs, the shops are all shut, the place is falling apart, but I'm still gonna vote for the same guy that's sat by & watched it all happen. There's something wrong with people.
Both Left and Right have embraced open borders Globalisation and have no solutions.
There are plenty of jobs
@@teelo523really? On the isle of white - where and what
@@liveontheverandah look on indeed, iow jobs and other websites. Plenty around
@liveontheverandah look on indeed or isle of wight jobs. Plenty around and new jobs open up nearly everyday
The guy who can't get a job, saying "I think it's my age, the age I am, and quite a lot of people my age" then goes on to say that he hopes Bob Seely doesn't lose his seat, saying "I'm hoping he's gonna stay in and er, we can er, get everything sorted out with jobs and whatever his policies are". A real critical thinker there, can't put two and two together and will vote for more of the same without even knowing what he is voting for! Crazy
That’s why he can’t get a job.
Be kind
The fact that he’s applying for places like McDonald’s at his age means he hasn’t used the last 30-40 years of adulthood to build any sort of skill set or career, which is just wild to me.
@@JD-ny9qj king kong Bundy just moved to the isle, why? it seems so mad
@@JD-ny9qjMost people are NPCs who don't bother doing anything with their lives mate
Not voting conservative because the bingo had to be cancelled is legendary
Any reason will do!
I didn’t have it on my bingo card either, although I get the point she was trying to make about cancelling being down to typical Tory arrogance.
Eyes down
@@BossySwan bottoms up! woof woof
It's becoming clearer why the UK voting to tell the EU, their biggest trading partner, to sod off in 2016 was a bad idea
respect to the interviewer, it's refreshing to see someone letting people speak, asking pertinent questions and not injecting their own views.
agreed, shes great, lets people talk and her questions are generally good and get people talking earnestly again
Anyone from Ventnor/the Isle of Wight will famously know that Graham Perks was once put on pubwatch (banning him from every pub in the town except the one he owns) for biting a woman. He is not a sane man.
He looks like he stinks of stale beer and old cigarettes
Farage attracts nutters
I see Graham Perks was in UKIP too and now reform
... as evidenced by his irrational and idiotic reasoning for voting Reform.
@@oaponanmtb2917 It says he's a former UKIP councillor, so that tells you why
@@oaponanmtb2917reform want to increase inheritance tax and to cancel the TV licence. They have my vote!
No wonder he can't get a job.... I can't get a job, there are no jobs, I'll vote for the people who created that situation.
There are jobs just not ones you want
Then try harder to get a job!
@@Ibluntlysaywhatithink The gentleman in the video claimed he'd applied for multiple jobs and heard almost nothing back. What more is he meant to do?! Although having said that, considering he says he's still planning to vote Tory it's difficult to have much sympathy.
Next time you ordered something online you need to remember YOU as a consumer are the cause for the local retail shops closing, which also has a flow on effect. You may not want to hear this but governments do not create new wealth they never have, they tax and spend.
It is hard proof of how easy simpletons can be persuaded to believe all the lies of the Tories and now will get fooled (taken for a nasty ride) by Reform UK. Fascism is lurking in the background. Putin finances the people behind Trump and I would not be surprised if he is behind Farage as well.
With the cost of the ferry going up 80% or more over the last decade this has had a significant impact. Why are there no guard rails to prevent private companies like wightlink and red funnel working together to drive up prices on the ‘road’ between the mainland and the island. They’ve created a duopoly and are sucking life out of the island.
Would love to work on the mainland but the ferry will be half of my paycheque… not worth it. It’s a prison
imagine being so clueless that you want to keep a Tory MP to help fix the island, not knowing the policies they offer and not realising they are in this shit show because of the Tories... the UK is forever screwed
Yeah "I hope he'll get everything sorted out whatever his policies are" also really stood out to me. People put about as much thought into who they vote for as they do choosing a football team to support.
Imagine being so clueless you think that your situation in life is because of the government .. so clueless you can't work out why other people are thriving but not you
People don't like the Tories; even tory voters don't like the Tories; they vote for then because Labour were so bad.
Now, people are voting Labour, not because they like "Sir" Keir Starmer; or Labour, but because they are seen as be not as bad as the Tories.
@@yelmak with the major parties afraid to commit to any policies, I suppose that's the kind of mindset they're targeting. "Well, he seems alright. Hopefully he'll do something that helps."
Back in the 80’s I lived on the Isle of Wight in Ryde. My ex-husband was the manager of The Star bingo hall.
It was such a bustling town full of a variety of shops and a thriving community. It breaks my heart to see how decimated areas of the island have become. Then again it just mirrors what is happening up and down the whole of England!
Help out by voting the tories out for good! Don’t leave them with any options to rise ever again!
What do you think this country has had for the last 14 year? Labour policies under a Tory government 😂 and judging by Starmers cabinet it’s gonna get a whole lot worse…David Lammy who believes a man can grow a cervix if they try really hard and Yvette Cooper who wants more immigrants 😂😂😂
@@MB10-66Labour policies in a Tory government? What like when a fat chunk of labour mps who were liked locally were kicked out for being too left leaning for the left wing party lol? When lib Dems are now more left leaning labour? Tories ruled heavy austerity through their policies and it's obvious that it's directly linked to the Uks decline. Labour is closest to tories than they have been in decades anyway.
The Tories are one of the oldest and continuously elected parties in the world. They will never go into political oblivion.
I lived on the IOW during Covid before managing to escape. The job propects are terrrible and its basically an island retirement home trapped in the 1960s. I feel really aweful for people born on the island in this day and age as its so expensive to stay, but also really hard to afford to leave the island due to the boat costs etc. I think most 18 year olds attempt to escape the island when they go to Uni and never look back.
I only left the island because of university, it's a beautiful place and being a little stuck in the past can be a good thing, it gave me an incredible idyllic childhood and upbringing. The only reason I didn't return was because of how expensive it is to live and work there.
@@PhageTheFinalCure I grew up on the Island too, in the fifties/sixties, went to Whippingham primary school and Sandown grammar school. My childhood too was without a doubt authentically idyllic. The Island is still "the country of my heart" (apologies to D H Lawrence), and where I most often find myself when I'm dreaming.
@@nickmiller76 Did you stay in the UK?
Can confirm, I left for uni at 18, I'm now 28 and have never even considered moving back, it's a pretty old folks' home with no prospects for the young
is there lots of nightlife ?
I live and work here and most people I work with think that voting Labour is akin to voting for a Marxist revolution. I’ll be amazed if Quigley unseats Seely but fingers crossed.
Interesting sidebit, Quigley mentions breaking lockdown rules, the barbecue Seely attended was in Seaview, hosted by his good friends Richard Tice and his partner Isabel Oakshott.
If it helps, where I live is so right wing that Reform are up to 19% and so Labour are just ahead of the Tories, if it happens it will be the first ever time they will be.
I would bloody love it tho if Harrow educated Brexit loving Bob seely MBE of the landed Gentry seely family lost his seat to a guy who owns a fish and chip shop in Cowes 😃🙏🇬🇧♥️
Come on, Labour 🙏🙏🙏
@@adampeckham8541🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Props to producer Laura on this report, give her, her own show or at least spot pls Oli!
My sympathies to the guy saying he can’t get a job. Same boat for me, seems once you get to late 50’s employers disregard you. I’ve gone past desperation now, just resigned to it.
So you going to vote Torry?
@@michealridgway7607 Nope, nothing I said indicated I would, very odd reply.
@@chrisd5964 but that guy was
@@michealridgway7607 I’ve got news for you, I am not ‘that guy’, I’m am an entirely different person. However he votes, he still has my sympathy even if his political choices may be misplaced he is still a person just like you and me.
That’s why it’s vital to have a trade to fall back on as you get older.
One of the main issues is the cost of ferries …. Wightlink charge £140 return for two days….. this will lead to less tourists coming over and therefore less of the money spent in shops on the island - this has a knock on and the islands suffer ….. but some say they don’t want a bridge to be built/ don’t want tourists… hurting their own economy
It is a shame that there is no fixed link bridge or tunnel between the island and the mainland of Hampshire really. If this was France not britain there may have been one. Of course cost would be an issue too. But meanwhile the ferries will remain so too.
I usually get a discount on the ferries when I book accommodation
Do residents not get a reduction? I thought they used to.
@@MikePhillips-pl6ov Every so often, Red Funnel send out a book of discounts, which are 10/15/20% off. Wightlink offer a Multilink pass which you pay up front for. I have just bought 10 returns for £660 which is a good price per crossing, but not everyone can afford to lay out that sort of money to begin with. WL only have a certain amount of spaces for ML pass holders, and they don’t guarantee a booking… at the moment both RF and WL have multiple cancellations per week due to lack of “essential crew members”, mechanical breakdowns, etc etc. They are killing our tourism, making life difficult for those who need medical treatment on the mainland, people who book holidays away have to book a hotel on the mainland the night before to guarantee they’ll get to the airport on time, etc etc.
The Government (DoT) need to do something and urgently. The Solent should be classed the same as an arterial road.
Interviewer did a good job.
As a Indian I have sympathy for british people.politicians are bastard everywhere.
Sorry to say, that politicians are just 'people' and in many ways merely reflect human avarice on a grand scale.
You are Uncle Shadi and I claim my 5000 rupees
Thank you buddy, my friend is an Indian international student, and I've learnt that your politicians in India are awful too 😢
well put...
@@SashedPotato These shit Indian politicians are worse than UK..
The I.O.W. probably represents a lot of places in the UK today.
A place you may well like to visit, but definitely not want to stay.
I went there on boxing day once and it was literally all closed. Finally found a macdonaleds open in Newport. Haven't been back.
@@sfactory8253I went there three weeks ago and half the stuff was closed or working weird hours.
Would go back but they need to get more stuff setup.
@@pjl8119 Checkout Turdtowns .😉
I stayed, and thrived without poverty, but as they said, it is a dividing line with people with jobs on the island and people from London, like me who still have jobs there.😊
@@sfactory8253Do NOT go on Boxing Day as there is a tradition here that everyone goes for a swim.
That pub landlord had his fly down the entire time. Take from that what you will
Naturally Just makes sense
I mean that's gross from him, but why are you looking there mate?
It's amazing he's not wearing his trousers on his head.
I hope anybody watching this on the Isle of Wight or anyone visiting the Isle of Wight AVOIDS THAT PUB & PUB LANDLORD like the Plague.
Oh a lot of us already do, just from walking past the place you can smell the ignorance wafting out, like a Subway but even more sickening!
Or just go there for a pint and enjoy it....I can entertain ideas that I disagree with and still have my own ideas.
@@Johnmountainstone If I ever go to IOW (Doubtful) I'll give my business to another Pub.
Can you believe that these people are the most intelligent people on earth ?????😂😂😂
@@TheKosstImogenHe got banned from a shedload of pubs for biting a woman lol
Bob Seely MP voted against a Labour amendment to outlaw the dumping of sewerage. He represents a small island and is an open water swimmer. If he can’t vote in his own personal, physical and political interests, what hope islanders? Let’s find out on the fourth.
The woman at 1:30 is an example of someone that could be fooled for 20 years before realise they've been voting against their own interests.
Look at all the trumpers over here! (I used to live in Kent, my heart is still there, not here!!) Daft voters hurt everyone.
“They’re a good bunch” Looking forward to seeing that on a campaign poster under a pic of the candidate goose-stepping her way across the island.
As for Mr I-can’t-get-a-job-so-I’ll-vote-conservative, there is no hope. He’s like that couple the bbc filmed on their way to a food bank in Gosport, I think it was, “Rishi, bless’im” ffs 🙄
Lack of jobs, especially for young people. Ferries which are our only method of leaving charge an arm and leg. Which also hits our tourism industry. Everything is more expensive because of the 8 mile stretch of water. Education for those with learning difficulties is awful. Mental health support is almost non existent. House prices & rent are through the roof (as they are countrywide), but wages are pitiful. Beautiful place. Some really nice people. But the split between the rich and poor is shocking and we also have a lot of disabled people who don’t get the support they need.
I’m voting Quigley. Wouldn’t ever vote for a Tory and definitely not Seeley. He’s obviously worried about the election because I have had a load of his mail promising the earth. Funny how he hasn’t done any of those things while he has been in government. I live on Pan and the poverty and deprivation here is sad. We need a change. We deserve better and a more equal society. We won’t get that with a Tory or RefUk Ltd. I am not really happy with the Labour manifesto. But having lived through Thatcher’s years, the Labour years and now this past 14 years of horrors. Labour did a better job by miles. The Tories as usual are just a bunch of public school morons lining their and their cronies pockets.
Well said i agree.
I would like to congratulate the local community for helping desperate families in need. Politicians are no where to be seen
People still delude themselves into thinking the government and the MPs are actually working in the interests of the people. I'm sure many people who go into politics do honestly want to do what's best for country and people, then realise that it's a lot harder than it seems and for some it's just easier to fall in line and do as they are told by those above them. Politics has become more about making a name for themselves and ensuring their futures are secure than about doing what's right or best for people.
Well done for going to the Island - I left 20 years ago but go back fairly regularly. A lot of issues that impact poorer areas of the mainland are worse on the Island - partially it’s the costs of transport, the Solent is very expensive to cross, partially the conservatism (in many people’s cases against their own best interests) is very ingrained. The island isn’t an especially diverse community, it doesn’t have a higher education sector, it has a lot of retirees. There is a lot of generational poverty - if you want to move on with your life chances are you are going to have to leave, it sort of evaporates away the people who want to develop beyond the opportunities there. I think there is a bit of a feedback loop between the lack of opportunity and hoping that someone will fix things (in common with a lot of deprived areas) - the same dynamic the drove Brexit with the same lack of viable outcomes.
In its defence it is very beautiful, has some lovely architecture it has some amazing SMEs in the engineering business. There are pockets which are quite wealthy, plenty of people doing their best to get along and suffering from the usual UK lack of infrastructure.
I’ve watched quite a few Vox Pops over this election. I’m still not sure the people wandering around the streets in the middle of the day are necessarily representative. I live in a pretty wealthy small city but most people are at work in the middle of the day.
Hi i am Amarjit kumar from Mumbai India and i always use to think that in UK people are so much happy and they earn plenty of money but after watching your video and from few months i am following UK election videos and i am watching many videos like this and now i think like as India in UK also have poverty and people is also suffering with jobs issue and finance issue .
To be honest this is now the norm in most Western countries. Wealth and Squalor are side by side.
Yea it’s Capitalism in its final stages
@@jondarbyshire-s7k yeah it's true
@@liveontheverandah yeah bro problem is same everywhere on earth. Not only the UK , us , or india
Yes everything is given in one hand and taken away with another.😅
Getting a job here is next to impossible and watching people have to use foodbanks is concerning, we've had people that have ended their lives so this needs to be taken seriously. There's more to touch on but this is a major issue.
Sad state the Tories have brought to this country.
It’s not one parties fault. Things change, things happen covid etc. people expecting things to always remain as they once where are part of the problem
Labour will fix it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 What a numpty
China will help the little 🇬🇧
It's all so beautiful. 😁
No money left 2010...UK bankrupt....cheers for that Labour.
It’s always the folk in the bleakest conditions that grab onto saviour types, only to be let down again and again when they fail to deliver or spin lies about other people stopping them. iow can’t be a fun place to do this kind of story, but it’s one the media will not show.
Bob Seely is a smug, self satisfied git; a nodding dog, who toes the Party Line, regardless.
The guy doesn't have an original thought in his head!
But then, that goes for so _many_ of them these days, in all Parties.
When I lived on the Island, I gave Seldom Seen a very uncomfortable 28 minutes on the phone. At the time the real PM had dashed off to Durham and the supposed PM was too frightened of and too dependent on the real one to sack him.
Also, I debunked Hancock's massaging of figures for testing and he (Half s Sausage) wasn't happy when I pointed out that statistics don't suddenly go up to 124k only on the target day, having been around 80k daily the week before and going back to 80k daily the week after it..
He tried weasel wording his way out of it, but he most certainly didn't succeed, ending the call quickly as he had a meeting with the supposed PM. Yeah, right!
Seemly deserves to lose his seat…utterly useless
lazy to say goes for so many
The idiots will still vote Tory or heaven help us Reform. All you can do is laugh.
You idiots thinking it will be different with other people in charge it’s funny
Well, maybe you're the one who's an idiot.
@@SeanPittaway-lb9bg I remember a lot of things that were better 14 years ago.
Yes insult them, that'll get them on your side
@@thankstocalebchung1556 The world was a very different place 14 years ago, we're just a little part of it.
Summer time the hotel owners make buckets of cash driving around in Aston matins , whilst paying minimum wages to seasonal workers then sack them in October then expecting them to return the following march , really they should pay better wages or give retainers
They won't if they don't have to. Form a union!
Well I've worked in hotels as an entertainer and I've never seen a rich owner. Nearly all the hotels I've worked in are now closed simply because the older generation in the past holidayed here, but the current older generation go abroad for the sun and cheap deals and no politician can ever change that.
@@AndrewVanDay well i have seen first hand here on the Isle of Wight with one in particular going from an old BMW to a 90k Aston Martin and from living in a flat adjoined to the hotel to a one million six hundred pound mansion after just 7 years of taking over the hotel and there are others that have done similar around here
@@eyesopen7946Wow! Which one? Yarmouth per chance? 😊
and just look what the tory party has done to the place .14 years wasted.............and brexit.
5 million labour voters voted to leave the eu..
@@marksavage1108 yea after they were lied too......ask them again see what they say.........
@@polmcsuibhne7657 name 1 lie. still dealing with IDIOTS 8 years on with the same lost arguments they lost with back then.,,.
The Tory party didn’t want Brexit. Cameron held the referendum, not imagining the people would vote to leave. Brexit is a rare example of democracy working.
@@polmcsuibhne7657 name 1 lie, I can list the lies you were told and you believed, £4300 cost to each household, empty shelves no medicines complete blockages at the ports nobody would invest here anymore conMorons world war three, osbournes 80,000 job losses overnight just on the vote to leave, how daft were you lot taking that as gospel, oh and don't forget cleggs ``dangerous fantasy eu army``.
Shops are shutting cos we buy everything on line now. The real story is the hit the council take of business rates. It's a total mess
You are absolutely correct. Online shopping has ruined every high street in Britain.
Thanks for shining a light on the Island! I know you mostly focused West Side, but in East side we've organised the East Wight Primary as there was no clear tactical choice to beat the Tories. Last week nearly 1000 local voters decided green was the best tactical choice East Side, and we are spreading the word. This is the first election primaries are happening, and in South Devon and here they could make a massive difference. Locally organised tactical voting.. Vote Green East, Labour West and lets be a Conservative MP free Island! Please help us spread the word.
This!!
Imagine looking at the last 14 years and thinking, "Yeah, Tories are bad, but you know who'll help us? Reform."
Scary people actually think this. Love to know how much Russian money has gone into their Facebook bot campaign.
Haha how to ruin your argument @daled4191
@@daled4191 Lots for sure.
Scary how people look at what labour did to the economy from 1997 to 2011, and the millions of deaths caused by their war crimes, see ww3 around the corner and think, yeah I'll vote for the financially inept war Party. Lol labour voters should be first for conscription.
@@daled4191not wanting your youth to die in ww3 is apparently loving putin. Absolutely mentally deranged thought pattern
Much love for Laura’s presenting ❤
Much of the decline is the outlandish ferry costs in summer. In my youth the IOW was a flourishing tourist island, but faced with the same accommodation prices as Devon and Cornwall but with gigantic ferry cost. The islanders get concessions but the tourist money is reduced by transport costs.
"The return to truth, honest and integrity"? Did it ever exist in politics??
You wouldn't believe how many islanders have never been to the mainland.
theres a mainland?
@@TFx2TVyeah it’s called England!
@@tickyricky6478 or the U.K.
and what is the problem with that , ?
Many have to go to the mainland for a dental appointment since the Tories decimated NHS dental services here.
How deluded can you be to think The Reform Party will improve anything.
Agreed
More like how deluded can you be to think that any of the main three parties - the same three that have always governed this country - can provide "change".
17.2 million people were sold a dud once, they going for the same confidence trick again and again.
how deluded can you be to think Labour won't make things worse?
@@maewest68so you’re suggestion is to reward failure with more power. No wonder the country is in the crapper with a mentality like that.
"Gypsies & Vagabonds, r*pe & pillage" I thought he was about to break into song...Seriously, language & views like that! Who is going to vote for that reform guy???
He seemed to think Labour were still in 1920s Russia. He's voting for the reform woman . These are the voters Tories have always taken for granted .
I think he must have just been listening to Cher on the jukebox! I immediately got gypsies tramps and thieves stuck in my head as soon as he said it.
@@tripnick555 Indeed! Now got "Do you believe in life after Gove" going round in my head. My mind is obviously not my friend today!
He's stuck in that Time Warp when Cher & Sonny sang that. Blacklist the pub & avoid. Vote for the Guy that sold them a lie back in the 2010's.
A year or so ago I lived a few doors down from an old bloke (this was in Brading) who used to regularly wail about "gypsies sending their kids into your shed to steal your garden tools", but less coherent. He also used to scream that BLM are a terrorist organisation, and that Asian people were stealthily replacing white people on the Island. It's depressingly common to encounter that level of madness here 😪
Greed is destroying us
The juxtaposition of one of my favourite songs and those intro interviews was on point
Great interviewing. Giving them enough rope. Excellent. Thanks for the content.
Two. Largest party can’t bring employment, how the hell the Reform Party is going to bring employment and prosperity.
Wait, I know the answer to this...immigration?
a lot of people are just going to vote Reform simply because they want someone thats never been in the job
Labour will win, but tbh I don't think they'll make much of a difference
😂😂😂😂 this is the point the two main parties are run by the same rich elite but still you stupid people still think they care about you haha
I like him because he speaks truth about immigrants, and immigration is the problem.
We get no immigration here.
If anything, we consider mainlanders immigrant.
Actually, I'm a mainlander myself.
ffs...
Hilarious comment, love it, that's made me laugh out loud 😂
It's a vicious cycle, but let's be honest - it starts with commercial rents (well, all rents and the property market in general). They're just completely unregulated, and the overhead of starting any small business in the UK is immediately out of hand. High streets are empty because it doesn't make financial sense to take on stupid insecure leases. That means people are put off trading, they're put off manufacturing - the idea of enterprise is so prohibitive in this country. We need more regulation in this country, not less.
True, but high streets are also empty because most people (like me) shop online. I can't remember the last time I walked into a high street shop. Why would I? I can find everything I want online (I avoid Amazon in principle though), it is cheaper, easier, and it turns up at my door! Most small to medium French towns have no shops at all (apart from a bakery, estate agent and hairdressers) but they accept it, that is life now. You want to buy something you go to the Hypermerché or get it on-line.
@@AndrewVanDay this isn’t about the generic junk we are buying online. Well, I suppose it might be if you don’t have any imagination?
It’s not about just buying stuff at all, it’s about repair shops, it’s about manufacturing locally made goods, clothes and tailoring, it’s about coffee shops and bars and restaurants. Second hand shops. There are lots of businesses that are useful in our lives aside from purchasing new items made in the far east. I’m surprised at your apathy and unashamed love of cheap convenience to be honest, but it’s symptomatic of the problem. There is so much talk of a lack of enterprise, personally I’m interested in solutions, I’m interested in the future for local businesses
Come over to Jersey - we'll show you a disparity between the have and the 'have yachts'
It's scarey to see the growth for the green party for those with inherited wealth.
Compared to the rise of reform for people and areas of poverty. As the country slips into service jobs and nothing for the many areas built on factorys, making and labour.
Theres no way to help these places as we don't have the industry to offer them anymore. Even if we brought back manufacturing we couldn't pay people enough to compare with China etc. Or if we did the products would be too expensive for people to buy.
I would like to see a 1 precent one off wealth tax taken over 5 years on people worth 1 million or more.
But the rich would never go for that.
" It's scarey to see the growth for the green party for those with inherited wealth." why is that "scary"
Also, just interested, whats your opinion on DeformUK™?
@@TFx2TV i think its scary cos the wealthy want to get rid of any hope of producing anything in this country while relying on globalisation to get goods, and the poor want to isolate from the world. Complete opposite wants, from far left and far right parties.
@@TFx2TV Because it shows who the Green party really stand for: wealthy white liberals (just stop oil types etc). As evidenced by their even more extreme ULEZ policy than Labour.
Ideologically, I take a left wing fiscal position and a populist right social position. While I agree with Reform on immigration and culture war topics, I won't be voting for them because in all other aspects they are just Truss lite.
The social democratic party led by William Clouston is who I'd ideally vote for but they're a small party and so aren't standing in my constituency.
Politics is broken in this country, and FPTP is a significant reason why.
A vote form reform is bad a vote for green is good.for all people.inherited,working or on benefits.
@@andrewcooper103 It's good for wealthy white liberals, people with shares in EV's, just stop oil, uh, Islamists? None of whom work. Please do explain.
So sad, we went on a school trip to the Isle of Wight in 1986. I believe that we watched a film there - Flight of the Navigator. Was there a cinema there in those days?
There was a cinema well into the 90s that I can remember. I went to see Men in Black (1997) with my brother and my Dad.
Its worth noting that the I.O.W had a primary process to oust the tories after it became 2 seats, and the Green party won the primary. So theres SOME kind of hope.
I love the island ❤ BUT I work online - it does seem that the number of local jobs (except seasonal work) is low, and only getting worse with shops closing down etc. Cost of living is also high (as they are nationwide tbh), particularly if you need to take the ferries often.
6:11 - "I quite like [the Tory MP]". The mentality that gave us Bozo as PM.
I live in Newport on the island, and i recently applied for a job at asda and they were more interested in my identity than my abilities
They don’t want capable people, they want to tick boxes. It’s pathetic.
That utterly clueless pub landlord is the kind of 'voter' who fills me with sheer terror!
former UKIP guy - so he's been gone a long time. Even after Labour purged most of its Corbyn left flank candidates for this election, he still thinks they are raging socialists. Yes, utterly clueless.
the old boy looks completely bereft of happiness. But then he believes that 'gypsies and vagabonds' are raping and pillaging his island.
The Al Murray pub landlord character was such an accurate parody that some thought he was a real pub landlord. Not a trade that attracts the brightest
+ the blatant racism is a nice touch
I just had to rewatch that part and I don't get why he fills you with terror?
If you are worried about someone talking about current issues and wanting change. then you are supporting the status quo, being mass immigration with a great deal being illegal, corruption on a grand scale and a government bereft of any ideas of how to fix the economy or what to aim for.
In a democracy everyone has their own views and wishes, but surely you want change in the country now, surely you believe enough is enough and we need to stem the poverty and decline of what was once a leading nation. And please to god say you don't believe this will be done by Labour who right now have not mentioned anything credible about how they would do this.
Good luck to anyone trying to help the IoW. I visit from Pompey regularly and it has really declined over last 30 years. To get to/from the Island you will pay for the most expensive crossing in the World. The tourist industry has died and you can sit on a near deserted lovely sandy beach in the middle of summer. On the car ferry it is generally full of those with money (second homes?). Drive around the place and it's difficult not to notice the number of elderly who have retired there. The seaside towns are falling apart, shops shut and therefore fewer opportunities for young people to work. The place definitely doesn't need Reform, in fact it is quite desperate for young people to build something there.
I would imagine that in addition to years of bad governance (local and in Westminster) the island has suffered over time from cheaper airfare. Seems like it is still a haunt for wealthy property owners but a lot less normal vacationers than say 30-40 years ago who can - if they have the cash - head south a bit cheaper? The Isle of Man have a similar problem but have used their weird offshore haven status to offset a decline in tourism. What is up with the ferry? Privatised price gouging I assume?
Doesn't sound like there's much Wight Privilege.
Loving the Green Day Soundtrack! If you go back to IoW, maybe we could hear from 'Wet Leg' as residents.
Great video Laura, really lovely presenting and interviewing style
Fun fact about IoW politics - in 1984 election Virginia Bottomley lost to the Liberal candidate, making it the only constituency in which the Tory vote share was reduced from the previous election. The Island has a history of being a bit odd politically.
When I was a G.P. we had an annotation for patients' records NFIOW, Normal for Isle of White😂😂. Tells you all you need to know.
A GP who can't spell Wight?!?
I sense a lie.
@@ginnypeckham4022Sounds legit. I have seen prescriptions with all kinds of spelling and grammatical mistakes.
the journalist is great!
I went to the Isle of Wight in February and was sad to see the amount of shops closed down,I hadn’t been there for 10yrs and it’s really changed since then it looks quite run down,hope things improve for everyone there.
Things ARE improving, slowly, bit by bit. Apart from the blooming ferries! It’s a beautiful place to live, but I’m biased …..😊
Cost of living could be fixed if the supermarkets and power companies lowered there prices. They all have seen record profits since they rose their prices and caused the crises. 1+1=2. So now they will have two MPs that will double the cost of MP's and solve none of their issues.
Sad. People clearly have no idea what is happening. They think they will vote some other party and jobs will suddenly emerge out of thin air. Politicians are clueless as well. They think they tax rich more or drive away immigrants and things will magically improve. No party will solve this. Very very sad.
We have met the enemy, and he is us.
Favourite story at the moment is Tory fundraiser that cost £30 to rent the venue, raised £15 🤦🏼♂️
Will these people, that you interviewed, ever take a step back and understand that politicians promises of prosperity are akin to free beer -- only served tomorrow. Our problems aren't caused by migration, stopping (economic) migration will have quite the opposite of the advertised effect, it will have a detrimental effect on economic growth and activity. We are witnessing the rise of authoritarianism, paid for by capital/wealthy interest, and it won't end well.
1930’s Germany springs to mind.
@@jamessparrow8836 and we know what happened by 1945 as the Germans struggled to live amongst the ruins or flee westward away from the ill-disciplined Russian Army, looting and raping their way through Eastern Europe.
@jamessparrow8836 ..and MAGA in the states.
Politicians of now are akin to those from the darkest times of any European democracy. Purely self-serving, organisationally unwilling to solve any issue, happy to use any human tragedy as another power token to use against their personal rivals.
Let me underline the most important bit: the whole system is unwilling to fix any issue BY DESIGN. Fixing an issue is costly and people will forget it quickly. Talking about an issue for decades and blaming it on everyone else gives you votes election after election after election.
Will it have an effect on gross domestic product or gross domestic product per capita? And there was me thinking you were a clever, kind-hearted, dirty little leftist rat :)
That was a very good vlog. Thanks.
It's not right at all that such good and responsible people should suffer in such a way. Unfortunately it's happening all over the world.😢
It cost £300+ return to visit with a camper van.
That guy at the start. Did he say he had not been there long?? Did he move to a place with no job, a place that is more expensive than the mainland?? How did he do it….
His story was full of non sequiturs . Got the impression he'd been there a week and was leaving somewhere for a reason ....
Well done Laura, great report. Greetings from Germany
Vote Conservative , means more poverty and more homelessness , no jobs , and a disastrous Brexit
That's why I'm supporting the Conservatives. 😁
I’m voting for Reform UK. We need actual change.
Brexit is great, screw the EU.
@@user-ug8wx5er1wtories with their masks off
Not true at all. Conservative Policies don't create these problems.
I have spent lots of time on the IOW between 2008 -2017. I have been back in 2023 and planning to do so again. Shanklin, Sandown, Newport, Shallbetter, Freshwater, The Red Funnel Ventnor. Yes one of my favourite place in Chale Green was shutdown. Very disappointed. Sad to hear
Sorry but they returned two Tory MP’s that are not even from there since 2001. In that election and every election since almost 30,000 people not bothering to vote. Even the council election results are shocking. Vote and don’t vote against your self interests.
How co incidental. I always see your comments on redmentv talking about the womens team
Everything is more expense on the island because of the ferry but people still don’t want a tunnel
Probably because a tunnel is as likely to be built as Seely is to deliver his vaunted Island Deal or Bozo stopping lying.
Apart from anything else, the infrastructure on either side to handle the traffic doesn't exist, and the tolls would most likely still be to expensive.
Just as well because there is no mobey to build one.
@@edwardbernthal160 there was and the island said no, now there’s no money
@@Anlbe1 well if the island said no then that's the way they like it.
@@edwardbernthal160 yes including that everything is 5% more expensive than in Southampton.
Hope that guy finds a job soon
Would you employ him ?
@@sfactory8253 doesn't that depend on his suitability?
@@scooble He didn't seem suitable for very much to be honest .
@@sfactory8253 do you know him?
@@sfactory8253 Anyone willing to work should be given the opportunity to do so. I know capable people who are lazy and don’t work hard yet earn above average wages.
I was really fascinated by this interesting trip to the Isle of Wight. To be honest, though, I did think the place was wealthy, like Kent or Essex. I am sad to find that it is not.
Typical middle-class metropolitans deriding the working class
I think one of the issues not addressed, or not properly addressed, this election cycle is the dying high street. It’s brought up in basically every one of these videos put out so it matters a lot to local people, and the blame seems to shift to taxes and small businesses and internet shopping. Which, yeah, are part of the issue, but the simplest solution and the problem I see objectively is that people don’t have enough disposable income or time to shop in these places.
Increasing wages in the working and middle class would allow people to spend more in small businesses, increasing their profits. It’d mean people don’t have to work 2-3 jobs to get by and wind up with no time to shop.
Walk through a shopping centre, you’ll see how empty it is of people, even a lot of the shops that are open aren’t seeing foot traffic because nobody has the time to browse or money to spend.
I think there was just too many Junk shops on the high street. Argos always seemed to adapt through the years. John Lewis has had its problems. In reality, for everything I might want or did buy over the last 15 years, Ive bought it from a max of 10 shops.
1:27 Any plans for the tunnel to Isle of Wright?
There really ought to be too.
The guy with no job thought moving from big city across the water to a small island with limited employment opportunities was a great strategic move?
If you fancy a life on the dole, and plenty of people do, it's a good idea to move to somewhere where the weather's a bit better, with a nice beach, and plenty of seasonal cash-in-hand no-questions-asked odd jobs to do to top up the old benefit payments. The Island's full of characters like that, and they're pretty harmless by and large.
If they made the ferry a reasonable price they'd get a decent income from tourism. Last time i checked it was over £200 return for family with an average car.
They don't help themselves. They don't want a bridge built on to the mainland and the ferries are the most expensive stretch of water in Europe.
So I guess taking a holiday there in October is a bad idea as everywhere has shut down. Oh well.. I'm here now for 2 weeks - time to suck it up!
In reference to current MP being ousted; "Oh i hope not..." "well whatever his policies are" guy has no clue
Even tesco wont employ him .
Thanks for posting
Welcome to the Isle of Wight Joe, this island is collapsing
Mostly in Bonchurch lol
I've just checked and there are 5 jobs going in Yarmouth for Norton Grange on the far west of the island... by the ferry from Lymington. Including my old job of Bar Team Manager... live in and 27K a year.... I worked that job for 3 years 03, 04 and 05... before emigrating to Scandinavia.
Has England ever thought of privatizing their water to encourage competition and improve investment in the infrastructure and lower costs?
I take this is joke or didnt you know water in Englandshire is privitised.Go Maggie Thatcher.
Funny you should mention that, at COP27 in November 2022 former B.O.E. advisor and G20 co-chairman Michael Sheren announced next on the WEF Agenda is the tokenization of water, trees, oxygen and just about everything else in nature....
Be careful what you wish for.🤞
Good idea. The country is in a dreadful state it's time to give the Tories a chance.
@@amcgowan1970 Has England thought about privatizing its rail services to encourage competition and improve its infrastructure and help lower the cost of rail travel? Another good idea?
@@Ayeright.your a joker 40 years too late 😂
I live on the Island, done so for 40 years and yet so pleased and relived that my son moved off with his family. Yes we miss them but the work life/ Quality of life is so much better for them in Belfast. All there is here is Care, Cleaning and Retail. That's IT !!
Went to see Bob Dylan there in 1969. Never had the urge to return..
A mate I had got drunk fell asleep and when he woke up he'd missed Jimi Hendrix.
I,d rather not have a job on the island than live here Nottingham with a job
That’s what they get for voting Brexit, now voting for Reform….. they deserve what they get.
Imagine what you get voting for Labour. A load of thick people running things like Angela Rayner. So thick she couldn't even take the pill and not get pregnant as a teenager.
A nice segment, thank you. Effective interview manner, direct without being pushy. Just one thing: Microphone a bit too intrusive. Could get a more retiring one , perhaps with strong pickup so it doesn't need to be thrust so at the speakers.
Going to the isle of wight is like stepping back to the 1970's
Yeah I saw a surprising amount of poverty in Newport when I worked there this year, it's bloody rough.
Perhaps diversity mighy help the isle of wight?
We cant blame diversity there can we?