LOl, I met Irvine once and he told us he was just about to go and read for the audiobook of "Trainspotting" ooft, sharp intake of breath from the pub table! We managed to convince him to get our pal Tam to do it!
"No avenues left for social mobility". Sadly in 2023 that is a horrific reality and a dreadful legacy for all governments over the last 25 years, from all sides of the political spectrum.
Extremely intelligent man. Bang on about the dopamine hits to take away pain for a while. Westminster isn't letting the Scottish government do what they want when it comes to treating addicts when the status quo clearly isn't working.
Some people don't realise this problem is so bad in Scotland. Irvine Welsh speaks the truth and also about the transition from alcohol which is all substance abuse. I have never liked the poetry of Rabbie Burns.
I read Trainspotting, reading Porno, and recently bought Skagboys and Dead Men's Trousers. Strange coincidence to be shown this video. Happy to support such an author.
@@mikefraser5181 like a Scot Hunter S. Thompson, eh? Infinitely quotable. And I love your username, Hunter Biden's Laptop. I heard a funny joke about that the other night: "I'm like Hunter Biden, only with less resources. More of a Gatherer Biden."
I personally believe the weather and the darker evenings have a huge effect, especially for alcohol consumption and then eventually onto drug use. Dark and wet nights in the cities when the outdoors of Scotland are absolutely stunning.
It's probably a rubbish idea but what about National Service? Young people would be taken out of their communities, have some structure, get fit and be given training. Activities like mountaineering offer challenges and a sense of working as a team. It might be more exciting than being depressed, feeling hopeless and just lazing around.
Yeah that would be a great idea… also having a spiritual practice / discipline that discourages intoxication and promotes community orientated thinking… Sikhism is a good example
What's the difference between drinking a bottle of wine at home after a days work than taking drugs every day? Absolutely none. The government needs to legalise drugs
No community in Scotland anymore. Dark dreary weather for 9 months of the year. No industries with decent paid jobs. People just stay indoors in their own misery these days.
Feel free to blame everything on the government, as people are never responsible for their own poor choices or the harm they inflict on themselves and the community.
i scrolled through the comments to find one about personal responsibility and finally, after some time, i found one. No avenues to social mobility?? he must be joking. Its not like there is a wall around their suburb or their city. And bus tickets arent that expensive. The lack of innitiative is mindnumbing.
I think it is unfair to label Scotland the only place in the U.K. that has big drug habit than England & Wales.But the figures are not great as well,Like Irvine Welsh says it use to be why has Scotland got the most Alcohol death at one time.All I got to say is say No too drugs there is nothing fun about being junkie it’s waste & I blame their parents for let run free with E.
Yeah, sure, that 'no' u r suggesting is ofc good, but also what plays a massive role is a horrible lack of opportunities and deprivation, ppl are just ppl, at some point they just buckle under the strain.
No need to fret, just replace the local population. I highly rate Irvine's books but he's unbelievably dour to listen to. Government never usually provide the solutions, they simply fund institutions.
capitalism and Westminster, no surprises here yet any boy from the scheme can finish College for free and being paid and become a tradesman who earns enough to move out from the scheme
@@SharonMcwilliams78 what's so funny about that, I have plenty examples of guys who went that way and with proper focus they earn more than the lecturers in the college
Scotland isn't run by Westminster, it's the SNP. They get more money per head than England and Wales, yet get far worse results. It's a cope to blame Westminster on this when devolution put the SNP in charge of Education, Health, Police, and Social Services. the SNP could fix this , they can't be bothered because they don't care 1 bit about Scotland or it's people
Nature abhors a vacuum. Pull down the monasteries and churches where people genuinely tasted Transcendence and the false alternatives move in. I dont buy this guy's despondency. There is always a way out. Ask, seek, knock...be no ones slave and slave to nothing. I grew up in Scotland- surrounded by all this. Life is a battle: heaven or hell, til the end and no Government is going to call a genuine truce on it.
Scotland has a major class divide, I'm from Dundee and went to Edinburgh a few weeks ago and felt like a foreigner in my own country. Everything is different from the way people look, dress, act, and think. Social mobility is non-existent in many parts of the country. Your postcode and class dictates your entire life.
Pish ! We were homeless when I was a year old and I grew up in the scheme. I now have a 4 bed house on acreage near Loch lomond and a take home pay well into 6 figures and a happy young family.
The ppl dying are overwhelmingly older, in their 40s and 50s. These ppl got addicted a generation ago. We had the most addicts now we have the most deaths. Kinda got to wait it out.
Prejudice and contempt are one of the biggest issues in UK…this has been successfully reinforced by the continued ignorance of politicians and law and order red meat to voters
Why does Scotland not have the resources? The SNP get plenty of cash but they under-spend by billions and the also have all the powers they need to govern. Sick of people like him blaming West Minster, how about some responsibility. Why on earth is he talking about Rishi and Starmer? Scotland's issues are the responsibility of our FM.
Trainspotting film didnt do nothing for scotland everyone elses fault, it only advertised a way out for some people who are not well off, and with low income, drug dealing was a way to make money, I doubt a drug user as access to gaming he would of took it cash converters
He’ll not be asked on to the legacy media platform again any time soon. Far too articulate, and intellectually superior. Would like to see him on as a guest on channel 4 news and let them do a pre mediated hit job in a Jordon Peterson stylie ……. That would be amusing.
The real problem is simple. Council estates become a breeding ground for drug dealers and drug users. I would say that atleast 60% of people living in council estates take some sort of drug. If the government used there brains and scattered the people living in council estates. I personally think that would work, because if most drug users/drug dealers are scattered. I beleive there is much less temptation and most people start taking drugs because their friends/fsmily take some kind if drug and people end up taking deugs out of curiosity and bevause their mates are taking what ever. Britains drug problem is real and it doesnt seem to be getting any better
The new bit is police Scotland have given up. The once tough police as they needed to be tough policing Scotland has evaporated. Add in a flickering of dumb housing policies. Boom!
@exebit9366 I don't think it's a cause for celebration. The idea, I think, is to not have drug-related deaths; rehabilitation, opportunities, activities.
in England with 10x the population, there where around 3.7k drugs deaths in 2022, in Scotland there where around 1k. Scotland has effectively 3x the drug death rate of England. Is that to be celebrated
It's the diazipan epidemic, everyone in Scotland smokes Bobby and takes blues with it as it's the normal up there, yes I know what I'm speaking about as I was on streets Glasgow for months and seen it for myself, everyone was on them and they are blags dangerous tablets. I ended up in hospital stopped breathing of them up Scotland and while I was dying ppl was rifle through my pocket robbed 250 quid and my phone and left me for dead.
“Techno serfs, tied into cloud fiefdoms” - what a line !
He’s not the most charismatic of speakers but the words are worth paying attention to and I always do.
LOl, I met Irvine once and he told us he was just about to go and read for the audiobook of "Trainspotting" ooft, sharp intake of breath from the pub table! We managed to convince him to get our pal Tam to do it!
"No avenues left for social mobility". Sadly in 2023 that is a horrific reality and a dreadful legacy for all governments over the last 25 years, from all sides of the political spectrum.
Extremely intelligent man. Bang on about the dopamine hits to take away pain for a while. Westminster isn't letting the Scottish government do what they want when it comes to treating addicts when the status quo clearly isn't working.
Some people don't realise this problem is so bad in Scotland. Irvine Welsh speaks the truth and also about the transition from alcohol which is all substance abuse. I have never liked the poetry of Rabbie Burns.
met irvine when i went to rehab in Leith, the guy couldnt of been more sound and took time to ask about me n wished me well!
I have always loved Welsh's writing and social commentary, dude is so tuned in, clinical and compelling, the polar opposite to our Political midgets.
I read Trainspotting, reading Porno, and recently bought Skagboys and Dead Men's Trousers. Strange coincidence to be shown this video. Happy to support such an author.
His mind is truly warped, love him😂
@@mikefraser5181 like a Scot Hunter S. Thompson, eh? Infinitely quotable. And I love your username, Hunter Biden's Laptop. I heard a funny joke about that the other night: "I'm like Hunter Biden, only with less resources. More of a Gatherer Biden."
@@Valhalla-vk7hfWtf ru talking about?
“It’s sh!te being Scottish!“ 🏴😀
Its actually not.
😂😂😂
The great outdoors.
@@andys2856it's nay natural man!
Trauma is the root cause of addiction, Scotland is a traumatised nation.
Little brother syndrome.
@@lovelybitofbugle219 It's more like battered wife syndrome.
@@lovelybitofbugle219lol we are the little brother but we are the stronger and better sibling
@@adamb9046 Anyway, Robbie reckons Scotland is a battered wife lol
@@robbiemontgomery581 bingo
I personally believe the weather and the darker evenings have a huge effect, especially for alcohol consumption and then eventually onto drug use. Dark and wet nights in the cities when the outdoors of Scotland are absolutely stunning.
Then Norway Iceland Greenland northern Canada alaska siberia would top the lists......gee yer self a shake ffs
Myriad of reasons, but yeah, the weather would be a factor !
@@3imaginaryboys1972they're drug rules are far less harmful though 🤣🤣 can only compare to countries that have archaic drug laws.
its more the habit. There are a lot of activities to do, and they livr more outdoors than in Southern countries
Very good, unflinchingly honest interview👏👍✌️
Magnificently enhanced by three soulless emojis
@@stephenwalker850 Why soulless?
@@stephenwalker850 😢
@@elizabethwinsor-strumpetqueen
Please don't cry Elisabeth. 💗
Irvine just tells it straight. Need more like him.
Switched over to drugs because they raised alcohol prices
It's probably a rubbish idea but what about National Service? Young people would be taken out of their communities, have some structure, get fit and be given training. Activities like mountaineering offer challenges and a sense of working as a team. It might be more exciting than being depressed, feeling hopeless and just lazing around.
That would create men and the government doesn't want free thinking hard working men.
Yeah that would be a great idea… also having a spiritual practice / discipline that discourages intoxication and promotes community orientated thinking… Sikhism is a good example
Good luck with that 🤣🤣 76 thousand rejected from the British army because of medical reasons. National service that recruits 5 healthy people.
What's the difference between drinking a bottle of wine at home after a days work than taking drugs every day? Absolutely none.
The government needs to legalise drugs
Spoke more truth in 3 minutes than the Scottish assembly has in thirty years
I can't understand the Welsh language but he seems very honest
@@user-ws1cl2eq5w he's Scottish
@@3imaginaryboys1972 they say Irvine is Welsh on the report, I'm not stupid
lol very good. @@user-ws1cl2eq5w
@@user-ws1cl2eq5wWelsh is his second name lol he’s from Scotland
I think the aspiration for each generation is that things would better for them than it was for their parents. Sadly this is not true anymore.
How many were cannabis deaths?
Probably 0 as cannabis doesn't kill anyone but the UK likes to act like it's a demonic drug 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Also 76% of ODs are from street benzos yet the NHS likes people addicted to them.
Choose art and creativity, youth of Britain: we need it now more than ever!
Trainspotting 3 incoming…”We’re back, and this time it’s CRACK!”
😂😂
Wow he’s incredibly well-spoken and intelligent.
Choose life!
If I had to watch Scottish football, I’d turn to drugs
Drug deaths are falling? We need to do something before we lose our position as European champions!!!
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No community in Scotland anymore. Dark dreary weather for 9 months of the year. No industries with decent paid jobs. People just stay indoors in their own misery these days.
Feel free to blame everything on the government, as people are never responsible for their own poor choices or the harm they inflict on themselves and the community.
If treatment was streamlined to address trauma you’d be right.
One of the main reasons of drug death and the biggest cause of damage to society from drugs is prohibition, which is entirely the governments fault.
I agree it’s only the weak willed that heaps all the blame for their failures onto someone else.
i scrolled through the comments to find one about personal responsibility and finally, after some time, i found one. No avenues to social mobility?? he must be joking. Its not like there is a wall around their suburb or their city. And bus tickets arent that expensive. The lack of innitiative is mindnumbing.
I think it is unfair to label Scotland the only place in the U.K. that has big drug habit than England & Wales.But the figures are not great as well,Like Irvine Welsh says it use to be why has Scotland got the most Alcohol death at one time.All I got to say is say No too drugs there is nothing fun about being junkie it’s waste & I blame their parents for let run free with E.
Sit doon mate
They want to stop the bloody dealing by foreigners pretending to be students to stay
Yeah, sure, that 'no' u r suggesting is ofc good, but also what plays a massive role is a horrible lack of opportunities and deprivation, ppl are just ppl, at some point they just buckle under the strain.
your first point is wrong.
Well said
No need to fret, just replace the local population.
I highly rate Irvine's books but he's unbelievably dour to listen to.
Government never usually provide the solutions, they simply fund institutions.
i like to watch his eye expressions,when hes communicating
Very tuned in. 'Techno serfs' well put.
Scotland’s History is about drink & alcohol. Fighting too.
capitalism and Westminster, no surprises here yet any boy from the scheme can finish College for free and being paid and become a tradesman who earns enough to move out from the scheme
😂😂😂😂 that’s funny …. That’s really funny 😂😂😂😂
@@SharonMcwilliams78 what's so funny about that, I have plenty examples of guys who went that way and with proper focus they earn more than the lecturers in the college
@@stewiezjonder3924you’re trying to reason with an idiot…it’ll never work
Scotland isn't run by Westminster, it's the SNP.
They get more money per head than England and Wales, yet get far worse results.
It's a cope to blame Westminster on this when devolution put the SNP in charge of Education, Health, Police, and Social Services.
the SNP could fix this , they can't be bothered because they don't care 1 bit about Scotland or it's people
And many many do!
Very true this man tells it as it really is ? The fact is the people with power know this and like to keep it this way???
Nature abhors a vacuum. Pull down the monasteries and churches where people genuinely tasted Transcendence and the false alternatives move in. I dont buy this guy's despondency. There is always a way out. Ask, seek, knock...be no ones slave and slave to nothing. I grew up in Scotland- surrounded by all this. Life is a battle: heaven or hell, til the end and no Government is going to call a genuine truce on it.
Scotland has a major class divide, I'm from Dundee and went to Edinburgh a few weeks ago and felt like a foreigner in my own country. Everything is different from the way people look, dress, act, and think. Social mobility is non-existent in many parts of the country. Your postcode and class dictates your entire life.
"It's an English enclave" - Brian Limond.
It's not Scotland
Pish !
We were homeless when I was a year old and I grew up in the scheme.
I now have a 4 bed house on acreage near Loch lomond and a take home pay well into 6 figures and a happy young family.
A great speaker
The ppl dying are overwhelmingly older, in their 40s and 50s. These ppl got addicted a generation ago. We had the most addicts now we have the most deaths. Kinda got to wait it out.
I'm 34 and know at least 15 people from my school that's died from drugs so far. A girl just last week. This will be going on for generations
Prejudice and contempt are one of the biggest issues in UK…this has been successfully reinforced by the continued ignorance of politicians and law and order red meat to voters
It's because the weather is so foul
vitamin D ...
Wow, that was a bit too much tuth for the news
I remember back in the day Scotland used to produce men like grounds keeper willy gone are those days
Feel that one mate.
William Wallace, Grounds keeper Willy, Ally McCoist.
Now we have a city of Sick Boys and Spuds! 🤦
@@sausagejockey4298 nothing wrong with spuds 🇮🇪 😆
@@Johnboy14z fair point 👍😂
"Scotland takes drugs in self defence"
Why does Scotland not have the resources? The SNP get plenty of cash but they under-spend by billions and the also have all the powers they need to govern. Sick of people like him blaming West Minster, how about some responsibility. Why on earth is he talking about Rishi and Starmer? Scotland's issues are the responsibility of our FM.
Trainspotting film didnt do nothing for scotland everyone elses fault, it only advertised a way out for some people who are not well off, and with low income, drug dealing was a way to make money, I doubt a drug user as access to gaming he would of took it cash converters
A very wise man
is it a lack of hope
'I felt a lot better when I gave up hope"
- Bob Dylan
@@juskahusk2247he meant dope but he never meant it
It's our sky that is the cause. Depression > drugs.
He’ll not be asked on to the legacy media platform again any time soon. Far too articulate, and intellectually superior. Would like to see him on as a guest on channel 4 news and let them do a pre mediated hit job in a Jordon Peterson stylie ……. That would be amusing.
Irvine I'm surprised they didnae cut yeh aff ,,,telling to many truths there pal.....
As a Scot.. we like a good party. And we don’t like it to stop 💪🎉
He makes it sound like there is no other choice.. of course there is!
Haven't a clue where in Edinburgh he's standing here.
Outside ya donut lol he’s got a umbrella up 😂
@@yabbadabbadoo199Ok, that narrows it down to anywhere on the planet then. Thanks
Looks like Constitution St Leith
Neither, he’s in front of the Parliament
Eh, he's making the most of it isn't he - it's an ill wind!
Just about to stick two fentenl lollipops in my ears 👂👂 who's with me?
Goodness me Irvine that was bleak. Awful one sided. There's a lot of positives, hope and belief here too. Honestly there's lot of good ahead too xx
The real problem is simple. Council estates become a breeding ground for drug dealers and drug users. I would say that atleast 60% of people living in council estates take some sort of drug. If the government used there brains and scattered the people living in council estates. I personally think that would work, because if most drug users/drug dealers are scattered. I beleive there is much less temptation and most people start taking drugs because their friends/fsmily take some kind if drug and people end up taking deugs out of curiosity and bevause their mates are taking what ever. Britains drug problem is real and it doesnt seem to be getting any better
Smart man
Face it, its the weather mate.
The new bit is police Scotland have given up. The once tough police as they needed to be tough policing Scotland has evaporated. Add in a flickering of dumb housing policies. Boom!
Makes me proud to be Scottish no1 at dying at least were top of the league somewhere
Pish patter
What aboot the JQ IQ of Scotland?
Krankie’s legacy of failure….while she was obsessed with independence these important issues just got forgotten.
We have had a problem with drug and alcohol addiction for many decades long before the SNP got control of Scotland.
@@robertreape Yup. Can't blame the Sturgeon for this.
Sorry but this has been going on long before the SNP came to power. This has been going on for decades.
Victor not Victim
Especially if your a Hibs supporter,might as well end it😆
Why interview someone from Wales about Scotland?
tumbleweed rolled past a long time ago bro
GGTTH
A lot of excuses.
Nothing else but drugs? 1k drug deaths is an extremely low figure, and must be celebrated.
@exebit9366 I don't think it's a cause for celebration. The idea, I think, is to not have drug-related deaths; rehabilitation, opportunities, activities.
in England with 10x the population, there where around 3.7k drugs deaths in 2022, in Scotland there where around 1k.
Scotland has effectively 3x the drug death rate of England. Is that to be celebrated
With drugs?
@@davidrentonIt's absolutely tragic mate
It's the diazipan epidemic, everyone in Scotland smokes Bobby and takes blues with it as it's the normal up there, yes I know what I'm speaking about as I was on streets Glasgow for months and seen it for myself, everyone was on them and they are blags dangerous tablets. I ended up in hospital stopped breathing of them up Scotland and while I was dying ppl was rifle through my pocket robbed 250 quid and my phone and left me for dead.
Aye and who's in charge up here irvine. Man is an absolute weapon.
Been an issue in Scotland since the 80s nearly 2 decades before devolution. And drug legislation isn't a devolved matter anyway.
It’s the torries fault 😂😂😂😂😂
It is indeed😊
I SUPPOSE IT'S NOTHING TO DO WITH SNP IRVINE
Even though the blame should go to the people in charge, i.e the SNP , they cannot make that logical connection
@@davidrentonThe SNP weren't even created when this problem started. It goes back over 100 years.
More to do with the Tory / orange party , years of wage stagnation n slopland being the only oil rich cvntry that was always skint
@@Valhalla-vk7hf What billions is that?
Hilarious, what a troll!