This is the Unluckiest Constituency in the Country | Moya goes to Ashfield

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  • @colinluker4737
    @colinluker4737 6 місяців тому +751

    Fairly depressing. When someone says that Enoch Powell had the right idea and suggesting you are not British then our country definitely needs help!

    • @theoblincko18
      @theoblincko18 6 місяців тому +112

      And to her face as well! There's a real ugilyness to the way some people think

    • @philiphall8325
      @philiphall8325 6 місяців тому +57

      I don’t think the Enoch Powell fan girl realised how offensive she was being!

    • @NickHalley-g7e
      @NickHalley-g7e 6 місяців тому +22

      She speaks the truth so dis Enoch

    • @keldsleepnot7961
      @keldsleepnot7961 6 місяців тому +77

      ​@@philiphall8325I thought the opposite. I thought she looked quite smug and proud of herself being so blatantly racist.

    • @_Tp___
      @_Tp___ 6 місяців тому +28

      @@NickHalley-g7e dis he really? is yous shore abot that? Classic online troll

  • @BUFUmic
    @BUFUmic 6 місяців тому +652

    Respect to Moya for dealing with such blatant racism, shocking to see in this day and age. Age is no excuse imho.

    • @scabsareus
      @scabsareus 6 місяців тому +58

      @DonaldDonaldson-ug9lp Do the values include telling someone of colour that they aren't british even though they were born and raised here? Interesting values indeed

    • @scabsareus
      @scabsareus 6 місяців тому +31

      @DonaldDonaldson-ug9lp Public decency and respect were some of the cornerstones of old school society. That much is universal, though I would also point out that the battle of britain would not have been won had the polish volunteers not gotten involved.
      Yes, things have changed but you can't explain that sort of rhetoric away by saying that what she said was based on nostalgia.

    • @ShieldToad-mk2rp
      @ShieldToad-mk2rp 6 місяців тому +6

      @DonaldDonaldson-ug9lp It isn't really feminism. Before I say more, out of the gate, it is great that no longer are half of the population dissuaded from working and the other expected to be the breadwinner. Now I would say although for a three generation household to work yeah one of the children of the elderly needs to be at home, but it could also work in an feminist society i.e. where man and woman are treated equally. What makes the bigger difference from my view is that alongside feminism we now place more importance on the pursuing individual ambitions than serving the family

    • @smartypants7284
      @smartypants7284 6 місяців тому +40

      I know 80 year olds with more progressive views. It's not all about age, and alot to do with family, the papers you read and ideas you want to engage with

    • @archie7218
      @archie7218 6 місяців тому +4

      @@smartypants7284Not making assumptions about your case specifically, but its easy to be ‘progressive’ when you don’t live somewhere like Ashfield.

  • @johnmackenreillytag
    @johnmackenreillytag 6 місяців тому +538

    Saw this live and the bare-faced racism towards Moya from that one lady was genuinely breathtaking. Imagine actually saying Enoch Powell had the right idea, mind-blowing ignorance.

    • @allegory6393
      @allegory6393 6 місяців тому +41

      Indeed, thoughtless and sick and against all historical reality and facticity.

    • @charlotte1369
      @charlotte1369 6 місяців тому +15

      Well, she was honest and can’t change if that’s how she feels and thinks

    • @FRU.No.1
      @FRU.No.1 6 місяців тому +27

      She said she won't vote but she will for reform. Because she's a terrible person.

    • @johnmackenreillytag
      @johnmackenreillytag 6 місяців тому +53

      @@charlotte1369 I appreciate when people with these kinds of views are upfront with their bigotry, it makes them easier to challenge. But she 100% needs to change how she thinks and feels if that involves telling non-white British people TO THEIR FACE that they need to go back to their own country. Insane behaviour.

    • @csharpe5787
      @csharpe5787 6 місяців тому +13

      @@charlotte1369 still ignorant though!

  • @joeybarlowfilms
    @joeybarlowfilms 6 місяців тому +89

    “After this interview I will be returning to Herefordshire.”
    Brilliant.

    • @ShakirahIbaad
      @ShakirahIbaad 6 місяців тому +11

      Best response Moyà could have given 😂

    • @robintveit3619
      @robintveit3619 6 місяців тому +2

      Did anyone ask the residents of Herefordshire whether they want her?

    • @johnmckiernan2176
      @johnmckiernan2176 6 місяців тому +14

      @@robintveit3619 Did anyone ask her if she wants her neighbours in Herefordshire? She is English, after all.

    • @RankinMsP
      @RankinMsP 6 місяців тому +11

      ​@@robintveit3619did your parents want you?

    • @stuartbailey9287
      @stuartbailey9287 6 місяців тому +5

      @@johnmckiernan2176 Well the neighbours of Herefordshire are the Welsh, think the answer circa 6th century onwards as to if they wanted all of these Germanic English as neighbours was "NO" and the answer has still not changed much in 1500 years.

  • @davidbuchan2909
    @davidbuchan2909 6 місяців тому +302

    Wow! Well done for not reacting to the "Your not English". You should win an award for that level of journalistic professionalism. Wow. Just wow!

    • @scooby1992
      @scooby1992 6 місяців тому +12

      I dont know what shocked me more , the actual statement or having the lack of self awareness ( or some would say balls ) to say it to another human beings face.

    • @CPDCT
      @CPDCT 6 місяців тому +15

      The woman clearly think she's too old to give a f......maybe there should be an upper age limit for voting too...

    • @davidbuchan2909
      @davidbuchan2909 6 місяців тому +9

      @@CPDCT Defo, voting for a future you won't be a part of should be questioned at least.

    • @tapdancer421
      @tapdancer421 6 місяців тому +5

      OMG. I can‘t believe she said that.

    • @jonmould2946
      @jonmould2946 6 місяців тому +4

      The replacement is racist.

  • @patriciaholmes2659
    @patriciaholmes2659 6 місяців тому +739

    I'm 70 and cringe at the ignorance of my generation.😱

    • @Midland_Wolf_71
      @Midland_Wolf_71 6 місяців тому +67

      I’m Irish and recoil at the political illiteracy of the British, by which I mean the ENGLISH….. Self-Harm doesnt get close to it.

    • @CPDCT
      @CPDCT 6 місяців тому +64

      lots of retired people voting for less immigration...where are the tax going to come from with a smaller workforce? Literal turkeys voting for Christmas again....

    • @lwo7736
      @lwo7736 6 місяців тому +16

      You're a rockstar Pat!

    • @alexharrison9340
      @alexharrison9340 6 місяців тому +35

      I'm a silverback, five years away from my state pension, i'd sincerely like more immigration from all over the world and easier legal routes for working immigrant families to get to the UK and join the woad and warm beer tribe. The politician class has spaffed all the money we paid in national insurance on rewarding faux capitalists. We need immigration now to keep our next pension payments arriving and to have any hope of our public services ever improving, now and for future generations.

    • @marshlanderdumarais264
      @marshlanderdumarais264 6 місяців тому +29

      I’m the same age and find the ignorance shocking. In our teens we anticipated a cultural revolution to bring about a better and more caring world. Is this really what we’ve come to? 😢

  • @Touchlineteaser
    @Touchlineteaser 6 місяців тому +274

    The guy wearing the Cross Hatch hoodie talked more sense in two minutes than Lee Anderthal did in his political career.

    • @jenniferfarmer3618
      @jenniferfarmer3618 6 місяців тому +28

      LOL Lee Anderthal 😝

    • @aries6776
      @aries6776 6 місяців тому +24

      I admit I prejudged him and wasn't expecting much but by the end of his speech, I was cheering for him. Good man with his head screwed on.

    • @ShakirahIbaad
      @ShakirahIbaad 6 місяців тому +17

      Novara literally found the only lefty in the village 😂 he was great!

    • @robertphillips2467
      @robertphillips2467 6 місяців тому +3

      @@jenniferfarmer3618 a Private Eye joke I believe.

    • @Billy-hm9zm
      @Billy-hm9zm 6 місяців тому

      Also goes by 30p leenoch

  • @victoriavelvet3689
    @victoriavelvet3689 6 місяців тому +106

    Thank you Moyà. Sorry you had to endure that.

    • @babylonsburning1
      @babylonsburning1 6 місяців тому

      Micro-aggression abound.

    • @ShakirahIbaad
      @ShakirahIbaad 6 місяців тому

      @@babylonsburning1 Macro aggressions about as well. Curious how much more racist people would have been with a white journalist interviewing them.

  • @MartinJames389
    @MartinJames389 6 місяців тому +111

    "I'm not racist but ....."
    How are all these small boats getting to Ashfield? Are they sneaking along the Erewash Canal?

    • @mychannel3774
      @mychannel3774 6 місяців тому +5

      _..good question…_ 🤷‍♂️😬

    • @TheLampini
      @TheLampini 5 місяців тому +4

      😂😂 I've boated along the erewash canal and let me tell you -it ain't easy! Shallow, feral gangs of (all white) kids, feral late night drunks (all white) and caught someone trying to break into our boat (also white-and drunk). Prolly not relevant but your comment made me nearly spit my coffee 😂😂

    • @glynscothern5569
      @glynscothern5569 4 місяці тому

      On the Bus / Taxi..have you noticed more are here.

  • @alst4817
    @alst4817 6 місяців тому +270

    It’s always the places with the least immigrants that are most concerned with them.

    • @celestesmith6060
      @celestesmith6060 6 місяців тому +14

      But, but but but...there's hardly room to move in those bustling streets and can't hear yourself think for all the vibrant foreign voices and the beating of the drums...Friday morning in Ashfield! Now this has been shown everyone will want to go and live there.

    • @Alanturner-c5x
      @Alanturner-c5x 6 місяців тому +2

      Good point mate. Fear of difference maybe or not having watched Invasion of the Body Snattc

    • @Alanturner-c5x
      @Alanturner-c5x 6 місяців тому

      Snatchers, sorry.

    • @ftftyffghfvghfcht6701
      @ftftyffghfvghfcht6701 6 місяців тому +9

      no it isnt? sweden, germany, france, denmark, finland, netherlands and austria have all done a complete 180 of refugee and immigration policy.

    • @IshtarNike
      @IshtarNike 6 місяців тому

      Spot on. It's so interesting isn't it. The places with the immigrants don't care. But the places not "affected" are quaking in their boots.

  • @dangumbo4835
    @dangumbo4835 6 місяців тому +234

    Oh Moya. I hate that you took that racism in your stride like that. It just shows how much you've experienced. We need more people like you in the world and less people like her. That's for damn sure.

    • @ehowie
      @ehowie 6 місяців тому +3

      Simp

    • @KelculesIII
      @KelculesIII 6 місяців тому +2

      Hey Moya. You should hold that Labour candidate to account for saying White Man's Tears are his fave drink. Blatant racism.

    • @TheCam920
      @TheCam920 6 місяців тому

      @@KelculesIIII think tears of impotent rage are tastier but I'll take white men's tears as a substitute

  • @wezzmusic
    @wezzmusic 6 місяців тому +446

    The classic racist line....I'm not racist, but...

    • @MysteryFaceX
      @MysteryFaceX 6 місяців тому +11

      They're more worried about getting their feelings hurt than self-evaluation.

    • @alexharrison9340
      @alexharrison9340 6 місяців тому +16

      Strange how that phrase only applies to one topic too. You never hear ''i'm not a particle physicist, but...

    • @forestsunset9617
      @forestsunset9617 6 місяців тому +11

      @@alexharrison9340 ''i'm not a particle physicist, but immigrants should physically depart"

    • @alexharrison9340
      @alexharrison9340 6 місяців тому +11

      @@forestsunset9617 Which ones? Picts, Germans, Romans, Vikings, French, Welsh?

    • @marshlanderdumarais264
      @marshlanderdumarais264 6 місяців тому +9

      @@alexharrison9340 - as a gay man I have heard this turn of phrase used in other contexts many times … :-(

  • @rgeo2024
    @rgeo2024 6 місяців тому +95

    I’m totally shocked how that 80 year old woman could say that to your face. What a disgusting despicable racist. We all love the work you do so so much and actually you are my favourite presenter and journalist on Novara (also love the rest of you!).

  • @andyknowles772
    @andyknowles772 6 місяців тому +26

    "after this interview I WILL be returning to Herefordshire"
    😂😂

  • @Martin-ro2ns
    @Martin-ro2ns 6 місяців тому +129

    I'm 66 and sitting here shaking my head in disbelief at these ignorant takes. These people need to get out of their communities and see a bit of the real world

    • @Martin-ro2ns
      @Martin-ro2ns 6 місяців тому +6

      ...with one or two notable exceptions!

    • @TribalFusion
      @TribalFusion 6 місяців тому +3

      @jonahwhale9047 Exactly this.

    • @jeongbun2386
      @jeongbun2386 6 місяців тому

      Thanks Martin

    • @russelloliver3040
      @russelloliver3040 6 місяців тому +3

      I've worked and travelled all over Africa and the Middle East. I can tell you something for nothing I've yet to have been anywhere where the indigenous people would celebrate becoming minorities in their own towns and cities buddy.

    • @jeongbun2386
      @jeongbun2386 6 місяців тому +6

      @@russelloliver3040 Been to the gulf states lmao? They’re more than fine

  • @Trebornudd69
    @Trebornudd69 6 місяців тому +27

    Holy shit. Now I can see how Anderson became elected here.

  • @ashaqhussain6902
    @ashaqhussain6902 6 місяців тому +126

    So now we know where GB News gets most of it's audience from.

    • @adrianglamorgan2571
      @adrianglamorgan2571 6 місяців тому +9

      But it also generates its audience, cultivating fear and resentment of those most vulnerable, rather than those most benefiting, from the concentration of wealth..

  • @HS-mz1lh
    @HS-mz1lh 6 місяців тому +107

    Blame the immigrants for their problems and not 14 years of tory policies

    • @johnmckiernan2176
      @johnmckiernan2176 6 місяців тому +6

      45 years of Tory policies, really. The last crowd were just the most incompetent of a series of poor governments.

    • @marymungleandmidge4080
      @marymungleandmidge4080 6 місяців тому +5

      Labour won’t be any better, if you think they will be, you are an utter fool. Would agree the Tories are terrible but Labour are a different side of the same coin.

    • @johnmckiernan2176
      @johnmckiernan2176 6 місяців тому +4

      @@marymungleandmidge4080 Why do you think I said the last 45 years? Blairite Labour = Red Tories. The problem is Toryism. Expunge it from Labour and from the Lib Dumbs and you might have a working democracy. Oh, and give first past the post the boot, too.

  • @ac4486
    @ac4486 6 місяців тому +121

    Gawd I did NOT expect that Enoch Powell stuff. Kinell! Voted Labour her whole life too. Batty old lady.

    • @Beeady
      @Beeady 6 місяців тому +22

      From campaigning in my rural town in 2019, the "voted labour all my life, but" line means they've never voted labour but feel guilty about admitting it

    • @csharpe5787
      @csharpe5787 6 місяців тому +15

      Well, she is more suited to reform. With the bigotry and hate,whilst desperately pretending not to be.

    • @scooby1992
      @scooby1992 6 місяців тому +6

      @@Beeady No I can quite believe her , this was a safe Labour area with a proud industrial heritage . What started the decline in the Labour vote was when the party started going on about identity politics ( Equality and Diversity to you and me ) and becoming pro EU didnt help .

    • @Chungussy
      @Chungussy 6 місяців тому +6

      ​@scooby1992 Seems like the area needed to be educated on diversity if they see people with darker skin than them and think they're not from England. Also maths wouldn't hurt if they think 1.2% non-white population is making the 98.8% white population feel unwelcome!

    • @ShakirahIbaad
      @ShakirahIbaad 6 місяців тому

      @@Beeady 💯

  • @Ballistic23
    @Ballistic23 6 місяців тому +145

    So they voted for a compulsive liar but can't understand why they were lied to.

    • @LambsyLamb
      @LambsyLamb 6 місяців тому

      noxious fumes in Ashfield must be depleting brain cells?

  • @oliver556
    @oliver556 6 місяців тому +124

    This is where I grew up and I can't put into words how glad I am not to be there anymore.

    • @forestsunset9617
      @forestsunset9617 6 місяців тому +15

      Good for you but people shouldn't be left to rot like this in the ex-mining areas. The solution isn't that everyone leaves, the solution is that the country is run better so people have hope and a decent standard of living. Then we will have less racism too, because they won't be looking for someone to blame for their misery.

    • @oliver556
      @oliver556 6 місяців тому +20

      @@forestsunset9617 I went to university and then got a job in the city, so I kind of had to leave even if I didn't want to. Yes the country needs to be run better, that's why I've never voted Tory 😂

    • @ricardosharry8944
      @ricardosharry8944 6 місяців тому +4

      ​@forestsunset9617 your assessment is right it winds me up that for all the political education these mps have they couldn't anticipate people left behind would become disillusioned 😢😢

    • @Matthew-bu7fg
      @Matthew-bu7fg 6 місяців тому +2

      you and me both pal! it's sad to see what's happening there

    • @patcampton7163
      @patcampton7163 6 місяців тому +1

      The population look quite old. Maybe it's a pity so many young people have left but I suppose there is no opportunity. Sounds like education has failed them as well. This is down to people voting Tory for decades.

  • @donttrip8282
    @donttrip8282 6 місяців тому +156

    Is this the most depressing place in the UK? I just feel kind of sorry for them, they have been screwed over, then duped into scapegoating the wrong people, no excuse for the racism though.

    • @kiriakoz
      @kiriakoz 6 місяців тому +13

      no. the entire place is a turd hole, that's why I left.

    • @sarahkellett4926
      @sarahkellett4926 6 місяців тому +11

      It's got some nice countryside 😬. Some of us are unfortunately stuck here.

    • @csharpe5787
      @csharpe5787 6 місяців тому

      @@sarahkellett4926 where is that nice countryside?

    • @forestsunset9617
      @forestsunset9617 6 місяців тому +6

      @@csharpe5787 Hardwick, Edwinstowe, Sherwood Pines, Clumber Park, Thorsby, Welbeck Estate.

    • @nogingerfool1
      @nogingerfool1 6 місяців тому +2

      Scab town

  • @Regororbeen
    @Regororbeen 6 місяців тому +182

    The Xenophobia and frankly racism is off the scale. Life is too short and even shorter for most of the people spouting this crap.

    • @Nedchilvs
      @Nedchilvs 6 місяців тому +7

      have a wander into an east London mosque

    • @ftftyffghfvghfcht6701
      @ftftyffghfvghfcht6701 6 місяців тому +2

      its interesting that you wouldnt object if a japanese person or a nigerian person said that though

    • @jeongbun2386
      @jeongbun2386 6 місяців тому +11

      These replies are so brain dead that one can’t even say anything.

    • @RB71073
      @RB71073 6 місяців тому +7

      ​@@NedchilvsTypical racist.

    • @RB71073
      @RB71073 6 місяців тому

      ​@@NedchilvsTypical r........t

  • @Mark-Catz
    @Mark-Catz 6 місяців тому +107

    Complaining about Poles and voting for a guy called Zadrozny...

    • @lillustpotion
      @lillustpotion 6 місяців тому +11

      I noticed that 😂

    • @empressdoinalot
      @empressdoinalot 6 місяців тому +5

      😂😂😂 the irony

    • @janiceturton7756
      @janiceturton7756 6 місяців тому +3

      He is of Polish descent probably grandfather. We have a lot in Ashfield with Polish and ukranian surnames. Came and settled here after ww2 as displaced persons worked in the pits married local women. Not unusual. He was born in Ashfield. Cant stand him myself but not because he is Polish thats for sure

    • @BossySwan
      @BossySwan 6 місяців тому +1

      Zadroznious behaviour

    • @Gay_Bradbury
      @Gay_Bradbury 5 місяців тому +1

      Same with Farage too lol that's no Bri'ish name

  • @jamsward1966
    @jamsward1966 6 місяців тому +71

    The Tory lady talking about how immigration is having an effect on Dr appointments - the area has over 90% white British 😅

    • @s..a893
      @s..a893 6 місяців тому +1

      @jonahwhale9047 i agree with your statement entirely. And it's mostly true as well, especially with recent visits to hospitals, where a lot of the nurses in particular were from south Asia and eastern Europe. However, a lot of health workers, in particular pharmacists, are British-Asian/African. I don't see this as a bad thing, because they're British. Others do though, and to that I always say: no one's stopping English people from undertaking medical degrees. But for some reason, which I still can't work out, they don't seem to be interested in it. I am British with Pakistani heritage, and I'm halfway through my pharmacy degree. I can confidently say that less than 10% of my peers are English, which is baffling. Surely creative arts isn't that enthralling?!

    • @scooby1992
      @scooby1992 6 місяців тому +2

      No mention of the number of foreign GPs we have propping up a failing and struggling service . She is totally delusional .

    • @oldishandwoke-ish1181
      @oldishandwoke-ish1181 6 місяців тому +1

      I noticed that, too! Interesting how she moved seamlesslessly from GP appointments to Rwanda.

    • @robintveit3619
      @robintveit3619 6 місяців тому

      Easy to solve. Stop non-British accessing the NHS.

  • @fplrichie4973
    @fplrichie4973 6 місяців тому +57

    'CrossHatch' guy I feel sorry for. Lone voice of reason here.

    • @forestsunset9617
      @forestsunset9617 6 місяців тому +10

      I live near here and most people I know would agree with him, but a lot won't see the truth. easier to blame immigrants.

  • @domenicodevivo5318
    @domenicodevivo5318 6 місяців тому +8

    Perfect example of how older people think. That 80 year old woman is doing the country a favour by not voting. I'm sure if she needed a doctor she wouldn't refuse treatment from a non-british doctor.

  • @AidenWhitty-p6k
    @AidenWhitty-p6k 6 місяців тому +114

    Moya is a beautiful and intelligent woman ,any country would be lucky to have her.

    • @raymondcooke-g9i
      @raymondcooke-g9i 6 місяців тому +6

      100% +100%...........AND ON AND ON AND ON............

  • @AndyWarpol
    @AndyWarpol 6 місяців тому +346

    So many racists. Wow. And these are just the ones willing to say it on camera.

    • @marksimons8861
      @marksimons8861 6 місяців тому +32

      I thought the interviewer handled it with dignity, but it is very close to my experience. While the emphasis is on English I say I am British and part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. I have no need for and English identity. My Dad was Welsh, and they don't behave in the same manner as the English nationalists.

    • @khadijahbegum3546
      @khadijahbegum3546 6 місяців тому +9

      ​@@marksimons8861That's true. Irish or Scottish people are not as prone to anger as English people. I don't even think Americans behave like them; I believe they are more composed or well-mannered.

    • @alexharrison9340
      @alexharrison9340 6 місяців тому +12

      Tip of the gammon berg.

    • @Jake_5693
      @Jake_5693 6 місяців тому +7

      @@khadijahbegum3546Because it’s cool to be Welsh/Scottish. You’re allowed to be proud if you’re either of them. If you say you’re proud to be English chances are there’ll be people asking why or casting aspersions.
      Englishness is also the sacrificial lamb on the alter for this union and Britishness as a whole. The only nation that doesn’t have its own devolved parliament.

    • @keirmitchell5560
      @keirmitchell5560 6 місяців тому +2

      Have you been to a Hamas march

  • @longshank59
    @longshank59 6 місяців тому +112

    As someone from across the pond sound's just like White Nationalists from Kentucky and Alabama

    • @chrysalis4126
      @chrysalis4126 6 місяців тому +15

      I was just thinking that. The backward ill educated populace of old mining towns.

    • @babylonsburning1
      @babylonsburning1 6 місяців тому +1

      But the states is an enormous country with space to put people. The UK is not.

    • @ShakirahIbaad
      @ShakirahIbaad 6 місяців тому +2

      @@babylonsburning1 😂

    • @DerekBailey-jc7rk
      @DerekBailey-jc7rk 6 місяців тому +5

      @@babylonsburning1 What our racism is better than American racism. PHEWW beam me up Scottie.

    • @ballshippin3809
      @ballshippin3809 6 місяців тому +1

      Americanism is the only way forward. We Europeans need to abandon our history and culture and embrace the McWorld where no one is from anywhere.

  • @Dr_MKUltra
    @Dr_MKUltra 6 місяців тому +119

    😂 everyone’s white in that town and they complain about “too many people coming in” lol 😂

    • @aries6776
      @aries6776 6 місяців тому +12

      But the car boot sales!

    • @greek9244
      @greek9244 6 місяців тому +25

      Literally the Census for Ashfield says that 1.2% are non-white 😂

    • @Skygrey2943
      @Skygrey2943 6 місяців тому

      It holds true for most places.

    • @LAMF24
      @LAMF24 6 місяців тому

      Clearly, they are talking about the 750k net migration figure, but you cannot see that.

    • @greek9244
      @greek9244 6 місяців тому +1

      @@LAMF24 they were asked about immigration in their town specifically and yet they said that it’s quite high 😂
      Yes across the country like London, Manchester etc is high, but certainly not here.

  • @kevinmckernan1949
    @kevinmckernan1949 6 місяців тому +26

    My mouth hung open with that old lady’s comments, at 9 o clock this morning, to Moya. Still can’t shut it

  • @condal32
    @condal32 6 місяців тому +116

    Wow! You should have asked that woman to pay your fare, to Hereford! ffs. Cannot believe people have this mindset and, sad to see just how emboldened Brexit and farage have enabled these attitudes.

    • @csharpe5787
      @csharpe5787 6 місяців тому +32

      They’re looking for scapegoats, the area is dreadfully in declined. It’s heartbreaking to listen to so much racism being spoken. My dad was a minor from not far away, he didn’t have a racist bone in his body. It’s so sad that it’s come to this. They given a mantra and don’t even think about what they’re saying.

    • @sixlegged
      @sixlegged 6 місяців тому +14

      This attitude is prevalent in some of the elderly, it's a symptom of poor education, insularity and lack of engagement with the real world outside their local bubble.

    • @user-cp7gh8zj6b
      @user-cp7gh8zj6b 6 місяців тому +3

      And channels like GBeebies and Talk trash TV

  • @RebelRebelious
    @RebelRebelious 6 місяців тому +66

    Fair play to the interviewer for remaining calm throughout that vile bigotry.

  • @Alex-cw3rz
    @Alex-cw3rz 6 місяців тому +28

    It's always baffling how people blame immigrants for the state of the high street.

  • @hicky62
    @hicky62 6 місяців тому +30

    Wow. Well done, Moya, for not rising to that vile womans comment. Ashfield is a prime example of tory destruction of communities and Labours apathy towards its core voters. The towns problems are due to no investment and little work since the pits closed. You'd think they would all be reform voters given their attitudes, but surprisingly, very few were.

    • @csharpe5787
      @csharpe5787 6 місяців тому +3

      Only because they haven’t heard of reform.

    • @Elcore
      @Elcore 5 місяців тому

      17,062 people in Ashfield voted Reform, winning them one of their few seats in the country. Woops!

  • @leedowner2249
    @leedowner2249 6 місяців тому +54

    Ashfield born and raised here for 18 years, then again from 23 until 34
    As a marxist I believe in materialism
    These people are products of their environment, take them at birth and switch them with babies in the home counties and you have entirely different people, so don't think too badly of them
    These former industrial areas were once proud working class communities with thriving high streets and well paid jobs, it isn't their fault that was taken away and now they're rightly angry about it, they just don't know where to direct that anger because they aren't informed of the class struggle despite being on the receiving end of it
    It's easier for them to punch down on minorities than to punch up at the people responsible for their situation
    With some awareness and building of class consciousness these people might be turned around

    • @jamobodntomski
      @jamobodntomski 6 місяців тому +8

      Completely agree. I live five miles away and see and hear this sort of thing everyday. It’s crazy to think people can’t see that government’s over the years have taken away all the things that made towns like Sutton a good place to live, whilst pointing at “foreigners “ saying they’ve done this to you. Really sad actually.
      People will probably vote for Zadrozny though. Definitely got issues but spoke quite well about the issues in the area.

    • @TomJoad-ld8xt
      @TomJoad-ld8xt 6 місяців тому +3

      The Nottinghamshire miners were scabs . So there is precedent.

    • @call_in_sick
      @call_in_sick 6 місяців тому

      I do not share your optimism. These people are a lost cause. Incapable of individual thinking. They parrot the script of their friends, relatives and the tyrants they vote for 🤮

    • @robertphillips2467
      @robertphillips2467 6 місяців тому +2

      You're bang on. Most of the comments expressing discust at these people are from people that have no idea how idea the lives of people in these post industrial wastelands are. Looking down on them for their misplaced understanding of issues just like Sunak would look down on the commenters.

    • @robertphillips2467
      @robertphillips2467 6 місяців тому +3

      @@TomJoad-ld8xt there was no ballot so no strike pay so not scabs.

  • @straitJacketFashion
    @straitJacketFashion 6 місяців тому +53

    If Moyà is sent back to the counties, we would be honoured to have you.

  • @peteroconnell3635
    @peteroconnell3635 5 місяців тому +4

    "I will be returning to Herefordshire" - this reminds me of the Lenny Henry line "Enoch Powell has offered me £1000 to go home, which is really generous because it only cost 50p to get the bus to Dudley."

  • @RebelRebelious
    @RebelRebelious 6 місяців тому +32

    Gordon Brown was hung out to dry with the Rochdale incident in 2010. He was right though.

    • @babylonsburning1
      @babylonsburning1 6 місяців тому +1

      Rubbish. He dissed a voters opinion. You may not like what she said but you can't blame her experience.

    • @johnmckiernan2176
      @johnmckiernan2176 6 місяців тому +3

      @@babylonsburning1 Voters' opinions are sometimes wrong. A leader sometimes has to lead the conversation based on the expertise he or she is given. Just following the herd when they are wrong is not leadership. It's cowardice.

    • @babylonsburning1
      @babylonsburning1 6 місяців тому

      @@johnmckiernan2176 So a leader should listen to what a so called expert tells them but not what Joe public says? That tell me all I need to know about the politics from new labour.
      The first job of government is to serve the interests of the people and country not anything else.

    • @Owen-hg3cu
      @Owen-hg3cu 6 місяців тому +7

      ​@babylonsburning1 wrong. She was a bigot and he was right to say it.

    • @Elcore
      @Elcore 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@@babylonsburning1 It was as much his right to call her a bigot as it was her right to say the racist gibberish she came out with.

  • @Touchlineteaser
    @Touchlineteaser 6 місяців тому +28

    The lady with the single cream cake was magnificent.

  • @SharmanSomerset
    @SharmanSomerset 6 місяців тому +49

    Has anything good ever been said after “I’m not racist but…”? Well done Moya x

    • @Chungussy
      @Chungussy 6 місяців тому +3

      I love the phrase - it basically just means 'I'm about to say something racist but please don't criticise me for it'

  • @biscuit4259
    @biscuit4259 6 місяців тому +19

    Oh my god that poor guy in the cross hatch top is like totally alone in the worst community in Britain! For God’s sake - Save him!!!

  • @justanotherfaceinthecrowd
    @justanotherfaceinthecrowd 6 місяців тому +109

    “I’m not racist but… [something racist]”

    • @robintveit3619
      @robintveit3619 6 місяців тому

      And your point it. It is not "racist" to not like or want immigrants to go home.

    • @ReapermanUK
      @ReapermanUK 6 місяців тому

      ​@@robintveit3619 nope, it really is racist

    • @johnmckiernan2176
      @johnmckiernan2176 6 місяців тому +8

      @@robintveit3619 It is very racist to tell someone like Moya, a native not of Jamaica or Nigeria, but of Herefordshire, to go back where she came from. Full stop.

    • @ballshippin3809
      @ballshippin3809 6 місяців тому

      Based

    • @ballshippin3809
      @ballshippin3809 6 місяців тому

      ​@@johnmckiernan2176The settlers in the West Bank are natives to that area if they were born there. How dare those Palestinians tell them to leave their native lands

  • @juffjaff
    @juffjaff 6 місяців тому +38

    I'm really sensing a general feeling of apathy among the electorate this election. Trust in political systems and politicians themselves is lower than normal it seems.

  • @kaleemkhwaja7624
    @kaleemkhwaja7624 6 місяців тому +43

    Education really is very important, lack of it is so visible here!!

  • @JulieLevinge
    @JulieLevinge 6 місяців тому +50

    As an old person am so fed up with selfish old people! We’re on our way out & should be voting for a future for our children & grandchildren!

    • @keithpanton7486
      @keithpanton7486 6 місяців тому

      Instead they'll vote for more cuts, no social housing, destroying the planet, and national service!

    • @mindless-pedant
      @mindless-pedant 6 місяців тому +1

      I'm knocking on too. I agree entirely with you. Us babyboomers have so much to answer for. What a mess we've allowed things to become.

  • @greenmurphy
    @greenmurphy 6 місяців тому +17

    What a representative slice of the British electorate. Depressing beyond words (except for the guy at the end).

  • @madICrescent
    @madICrescent 6 місяців тому +6

    Amazing work as always Moya, you give me so much hope for the future of journalism in this country

  • @adrianjacobs5444
    @adrianjacobs5444 6 місяців тому +15

    I live there and once again I'm embarrassed. I have lived in Kirkby nearly 17 years and this areas problems are poor education, lack of opportunity and a Tory government. I'm sorry for the experience you had while here that Enoch Powell lady dose not respesent me or my family. In fact were exactly what he wanted to prevent mixing.

  • @Darkwasthenightcold
    @Darkwasthenightcold 6 місяців тому +21

    Wow WTAF 05:24 ! Not that she should have had to but so much respect to Moya for handling the racist Grandma like that (bet she couldn't even point to Herefordshire on the fuggin map)!

  • @abdisaleh71
    @abdisaleh71 6 місяців тому +20

    There must be a huge influx of immigrants landing in Dover and heading straight to Ashfield. These people seemed to be very concerned about immigration. Wonder why?

    • @scooby1992
      @scooby1992 6 місяців тому

      They have successfully been persuaded that ALL of their problems are caused by immigrants .

  • @faye396
    @faye396 6 місяців тому +120

    I really don’t want to live in England anymore. Soooooo many racists. Really disappointing and just depressing.

    • @popgoesaweasle920
      @popgoesaweasle920 6 місяців тому +28

      Please go and if it's OK then let me know and I might see you there. This country is plain shite and it ain't the foreigners fault.

    • @Alanturner-c5x
      @Alanturner-c5x 6 місяців тому +3

      Ain't that weird!!! While listening to Sunak and Starmer the other night I watched Mars Attack. Swear to God.

    • @GlennLeinster
      @GlennLeinster 6 місяців тому +8

      Move to Spain;-) I did we have PR a coilition of socialists in power;-) the right wing will never get into power here, even the PP wouldn't get in bed with the Vox party and their vote went down;-) the UK needs change, needs PR, needs better MP's,,,,vote Green Independent or The workers party and you may get better results

    • @scooby1992
      @scooby1992 6 місяців тому +3

      @cantin8697 True , but the Martian Nationalist Party probably wouldnt like loads of folk arriving from space on rubber space rockets .

    • @scooby1992
      @scooby1992 6 місяців тому

      @@GlennLeinster Well said , but in the meantime I have to vote Labour to get rid of the tories . I just wish Labour would agree to bring bin PR , like most of the party members want .My worry is the power drug of a large majority is too powerful to resist abolishing FPTP. Labour thought that in 1997 and they ended up in opposition for at least 14 years and possibly more .

  • @gavleopardi70
    @gavleopardi70 6 місяців тому +15

    One of the most depressing videos I’ve ever seen…. The ignorance and resentment is off the charts… this is how fascism takes root…

    • @babylonsburning1
      @babylonsburning1 6 місяців тому

      Fascism starts with an excuse. 1.6 million immigrants in two years is the excuse.

  • @emilybradley5332
    @emilybradley5332 6 місяців тому +19

    I’m from Mansfield which neighbours Ashfield, you’re unfortunately likely to find many people with similar views here - even amongst young people. Hard to watch but I’ve unfortunately grown up in this environment my whole life. Excited to leave for London to go to uni in September. I hate where I’m from but part of me always feels sorry for them because I’ve seen how easy views like this can cultivate in deprived towns like Ashfield and Mansfield.

    • @forestsunset9617
      @forestsunset9617 6 місяців тому +1

      I live in Mansfield and I don't think like this. These people are just angry and afraid of change. Instead of blaming the rich for the dump they live in, they blame immigration. Just brainwashed people, but we aren't all like that.

    • @Alanturner-c5x
      @Alanturner-c5x 6 місяців тому +3

      It's encouraging to see these comments. I'm into my seventies now and without sounding patronising hopefully, I wish you both all the best

    • @fattypark
      @fattypark 6 місяців тому

      I'm from Ashfield and went to Exeter uni. Don't hate where you're from or feel ashamed of it. Best of luck at uni.

  • @forestsunset9617
    @forestsunset9617 6 місяців тому +39

    I live near here. When the pits closed people got very angry, the area was neglected, education and jobs suffered. It was also an area without too many minorities, so people weren't exposed to different people. A lot of people became very poor and upset, wanting to blame something. Along came characters like Anderson or Bradley. They blamed the immigrants and it worked a charm because it was easy to blame them. A lot of people saw immigrants as taking their jobs, and because they don't know people like that it made them fearful and hateful. It's sad really. Try not to judge them, they don't know any better.

    • @celestesmith6060
      @celestesmith6060 6 місяців тому +6

      I was at school in Alfreton in the 1960s and half the kids were kids of immigrants from eastern Europe come to work in the mines after WW2...Poles, Czechs, Yugoslavs, Hungarian...half of my friends' dads didn't speak English but then they were underground most of the time.

    • @forestsunset9617
      @forestsunset9617 6 місяців тому +6

      @@celestesmith6060 This area also had an influx of eastern European back then, but in small numbers. Ashfield/Mansfield is/was mainly white working class. Hardly any Asians and black people. Even in the 90s my school in Mansfield had about 5-10 minority kids across the entire school. It's no excuse for racism as I don't behave like some people in this video, but I'm just explaining why they see immigrants as outsiders the way they do. They aren't used to anything but "their own", particularly the older ones.

    • @aries6776
      @aries6776 6 місяців тому +1

      You are absolutely right. I wonder what the right would find as the next convenient scape goat if by magic we got rid of all the immigrants. We did Brexit, surely they learned something by now about how this game works?

    • @scooby1992
      @scooby1992 6 місяців тому

      @@aries6776 Take your pick , ' lefties , ' LGBTQ , trade unionists , Muslims , Jews , the disabled , the unemployed . Eventually you wouldnt have many people left .

    • @ReapermanUK
      @ReapermanUK 6 місяців тому +2

      I'll judge em how I like, they don't try to improve their understanding, they should know better instead they revel in their ignorance, no excuse for that level of racist twaddle

  • @JulieLevinge
    @JulieLevinge 6 місяців тому +17

    “Stop where yer are” where on earth is that then? Maybe if UK had “stopped where it were” ?

  • @garyweir8587
    @garyweir8587 6 місяців тому +9

    Moya, after all these years watching Novara I am deeply alarmed to hear from an octogenarian middle-Englander that you aren't English!! 😮
    How is that? 🤔
    She wouldn't even dare say that to me because simply because I'm white yet speak with a non-English accent even though you are 100% English, we both live in London.
    That woman is a blatent xenophobic racist. Well done on your professionalism! This is why I support Novara!

  • @dave9614
    @dave9614 6 місяців тому +15

    Mr Cross Hatch has his head screwed on. Top bloke.

  • @biscuit4259
    @biscuit4259 6 місяців тому +17

    “I’m not racist”- is always without exception a prelude to racism.

  • @JimDalyComedy
    @JimDalyComedy 6 місяців тому +10

    "I'm not being personal..." goes on to say something incredibly personal.

  • @sarastarkey2365
    @sarastarkey2365 6 місяців тому +26

    The man wearing the Cross Hatch ......good man. But then I agreed with every word he said. He is at 21.10 mins. 💜

    • @TheIdlesurfer
      @TheIdlesurfer 6 місяців тому +2

      I'm glad I stopped long enough to watch him. Mind you, Moya's piece was compelling. She can keep her cool.

  • @Chancer02
    @Chancer02 5 місяців тому +3

    If you score a last minute goal for England and mixed race then you are English. If you interview a person in the street and are mixed race then you are a foreigner.

  • @kathrinedavey8772
    @kathrinedavey8772 6 місяців тому +9

    Just shared the video on our local Ashfield group and found it had already been shared there loads of times. The amount of embarrassment among the people of Ashfield that it could be seen as a town of bigots was so obvious. Some of us are quite nice really...

    • @scooby1992
      @scooby1992 6 місяців тому +1

      Yes I expect you are Kathrine and so are many others , but Ashfield does have more than it's fair share of people like this .

    • @kathrinedavey8772
      @kathrinedavey8772 6 місяців тому +2

      @@scooby1992 yes, but it's not at all unique. There are so many little enclave towns like this around Britain. What I still find it hard to get my head around is that people only have to travel a few miles to find such different attitudes and yet they don't bother. Perhaps instead of national service, we should have compulsory travel for pensioners (and make sure they don't just find like-minded people and stay with them)

  • @lorenzm7412
    @lorenzm7412 6 місяців тому +53

    that last guy really gave me hope

    • @sarastarkey2365
      @sarastarkey2365 6 місяців тому +14

      I agree...thought him kind. caring and on the right side of history.

    • @sarahkellett4926
      @sarahkellett4926 6 місяців тому +11

      Me too. There are people like that in the area thankfully, we're probably a minority though 😔

    • @forestsunset9617
      @forestsunset9617 6 місяців тому +13

      @@sarahkellett4926 I'm in Mansfield and I agree with everything the dude said and will be voting Green.

    • @sarahkellett4926
      @sarahkellett4926 6 місяців тому +9

      @@forestsunset9617 outskirts of Mansfield here. We've changed to the Ashfield constituency. Greens will get my vote too

    • @scooby1992
      @scooby1992 6 місяців тому

      Sadly a voice in the wilderness . !

  • @lja8187
    @lja8187 6 місяців тому +37

    What a depressing place to live.
    You'd move away surely.

    • @sarahkellett4926
      @sarahkellett4926 6 місяців тому +7

      Not if you have no money to move away 🙄

    • @csharpe5787
      @csharpe5787 6 місяців тому +6

      No, they’re trapped in poverty!

    • @celestesmith6060
      @celestesmith6060 6 місяців тому +9

      @@csharpe5787 No they are not. They are trapped in bigotry.

    • @jimmyrecard5056
      @jimmyrecard5056 6 місяців тому

      They have and all thats left is the ignorant old people

    • @sarahkellett4926
      @sarahkellett4926 6 місяців тому +3

      @@jimmyrecard5056 no they haven't all left. Some of us can't afford to move from the area.

  • @progpuss
    @progpuss 6 місяців тому +153

    Honestly, poorer people should educate themselves more about politics, and stop reading the right wing press.

    • @justanotherfaceinthecrowd
      @justanotherfaceinthecrowd 6 місяців тому +18

      There’s a reason they are written with a reading comprehension level of 12 years old

    • @juliestone9371
      @juliestone9371 6 місяців тому +11

      Blame the newspapers.

    • @Intelligence_Failure
      @Intelligence_Failure 6 місяців тому +19

      "I love the poorly educated" - donald trump at one of his rallies

    • @jenniferfarmer3618
      @jenniferfarmer3618 6 місяців тому +16

      How about schools educate people to think critically about what they read and distinguish between facts and emotions? It's too late for many of these people. Unless we curb populist journalism (which is a dangerous thing for society in terms of free speech) poorly-educated people are always going to be vulnerable to dog-whistle rhetoric - whatever side it comes from.

    • @DaFinkingOrk
      @DaFinkingOrk 6 місяців тому

      Over the last few decades the right wing tabloid press has taken 30 IQ points off of so many people. If half the country can't see the real biggest causes of our problems then how are we meant to deal with them?

  • @Orkdrum59
    @Orkdrum59 6 місяців тому +9

    I can’t believe that woman pensioner said that, I actually felt sick! God I hope this country changes soon. Moya and the Novara team have been a very important source of true information and exemplary reporting.

    • @patcampton7163
      @patcampton7163 6 місяців тому

      These peoplecare brainwashed by the media. They always have been. I saw it when I was young in the 60s.

  • @David_Bower
    @David_Bower 6 місяців тому +17

    Despite the UK already having the sixth highest military spending in the world, and either being friendly with, or allied to every country close by, he still prioritises defence over our completely broken services and infrastructure. What went wrong with this person?

    • @CPDCT
      @CPDCT 6 місяців тому

      😆

    • @oldishandwoke-ish1181
      @oldishandwoke-ish1181 6 місяців тому

      Not very well informed, consumes Right wing media, feels that being white makes him superior to "outsiders" ....... take your pick.

    • @Tigerman303
      @Tigerman303 5 місяців тому +1

      He wants his empire back 😂

    • @Elcore
      @Elcore 5 місяців тому

      Too much TV, not enough books. You can tell because he's complaining about something that has no impact on him personally but is a major talking point on pensioner-grabbing media.

  • @chrisd924
    @chrisd924 6 місяців тому +8

    This is honestly a very sad but true reflection of many forgotten parts of England.

  • @haomingong
    @haomingong 6 місяців тому +10

    Excellent interviewing getting frank responses from people stuck in a neglected post-industrial area. The xenophobic views from mostly elderly people are really important to see.

  • @60poland
    @60poland 5 місяців тому +35

    I am deeply, deeply ashamed of the elderly woman telling a black British woman that she's not British. Her age is no excuse at all.

    • @normanchristie4524
      @normanchristie4524 5 місяців тому +4

      @@60poland I agree, I am 80, all I will say is ' not in my name'!

    • @glynscothern5569
      @glynscothern5569 4 місяці тому +1

      She does not look like a ANGLO SACKSION

    • @LMC5690
      @LMC5690 4 місяці тому

      Oh dear how disgusting, needs educating

  • @gertrudert
    @gertrudert 6 місяців тому +8

    I gasped at that Enoch Powell racist! So sorry you had to face that while just doing your job Moya ❤️ and doing it so well

  • @edwardferry8247
    @edwardferry8247 6 місяців тому +20

    Where are all the people? Even the pigeons have left.

    • @azami123
      @azami123 6 місяців тому +5

      😂

    • @shoxx48
      @shoxx48 6 місяців тому +8

      They're barely even people, it's a town of the walking dead

    • @User-s8x2d
      @User-s8x2d 6 місяців тому

      🤣❤

    • @empressdoinalot
      @empressdoinalot 6 місяців тому

      😂😂😂😂

  • @V.42405
    @V.42405 6 місяців тому +12

    I'm Scottish, and for all our sectarianism etc, we've always been an open people. I don't feel British. These poor people. Living in one of the most blessed generations in one of the most blessed country's and to misplace this much hate is just shocking. Power to you the reporter for facing such horrible nasty ignorance and your patience and understanding. England - sort it out, have some self respect.

    • @babylonsburning1
      @babylonsburning1 6 місяців тому

      There you have it, from the horses mouth. I'm Scottish not British.
      An open people? Flower of Scotland, don't you sing, send them home to think again?

    • @jmillar71110
      @jmillar71110 6 місяців тому +2

      As a fellow Scot I 100% agree with you. Absolute bile being spewed by these folks.

    • @V.42405
      @V.42405 6 місяців тому

      @jonahwhale9047 well bloddy said :)

    • @V.42405
      @V.42405 6 місяців тому

      @@babylonsburning1 yeah the english over-rulers... i.e. tyrants. . Why would I be british? Im all for no borders and being unified, but thats not what british is.

    • @jmillar71110
      @jmillar71110 6 місяців тому +1

      @jonahwhale9047 most Scots don't have a problem with English folks, it's Westminster that's the issue. Alot of Scots have English folks as family/friends. I assume you see Scottish people that want an independent Scotland as having a problem with the English?

  • @ChavvyCommunist
    @ChavvyCommunist 6 місяців тому +8

    "You're not English are you"
    I would struggle to not simply walk away in that moment... fuck me

    • @jeongbun2386
      @jeongbun2386 6 місяців тому +3

      Id just ask “why’s that?” and just keep asking until she’s left blabbering unintelligible bullshit

    • @scooby1992
      @scooby1992 6 місяців тому

      @jonahwhale9047 Did the old lady know her name ?

    • @ChavvyCommunist
      @ChavvyCommunist 6 місяців тому +2

      @jonahwhale9047 yes, and i also know she's from herefordshire because she literally said so in the video. she lives in london.

  • @justanotherfaceinthecrowd
    @justanotherfaceinthecrowd 6 місяців тому +12

    Big lad at the end surprised me , book cover and all that 💚

  • @jamsward1966
    @jamsward1966 6 місяців тому +8

    You did an amazing job Moya

  • @berniethekiwidragon4382
    @berniethekiwidragon4382 5 місяців тому +1

    So many people say that they aren't racist, but don't even seem to realise that they are actually being racist.

  • @YorkshireDavid
    @YorkshireDavid 5 місяців тому +3

    I'm ashamed to live in this county at the moment. Really sad.

  • @johnhodgetts2111
    @johnhodgetts2111 6 місяців тому +9

    Really good report. My hometown is Doncaster, and I think you d find similar opinions there, although probably more labour support. The fact is that most of the former mining centres are so abandoned. Shops are closed, people are atomised and they need someone to blame. Labour MPs, e.g., Rosie Winterton, are bloody useless, so people have little hope. I live in Poland now, but when I go back to Doncaster, things always seem to be getting worse-in contrast to the city I live in in Poland.

  • @bobchillis
    @bobchillis 6 місяців тому +17

    63yr old South Yorkshire red wall working class boomer here... and I'm utterly exasperated and sick to the back teeth of hearing crap like this from my contemporaries. Every day I'm in an argument with spmebody about "the boats".
    Just goes to show what a job the establishment has done on the working class psyche. I really don't know what the answer is other than waiting for my generation to snuff it. Youngsters on the whole are much more open minded...so there is hope.

    • @s6edge706
      @s6edge706 6 місяців тому

      Immigrants want immigration "control".
      The left want uncontrolled. The right wants a complete ban. Funny how they can't solve it.

    • @ChavvyCommunist
      @ChavvyCommunist 6 місяців тому

      @@s6edge706 The left want the ruling class of the 'first world' to give back their centuries of stolen wealth to the countries they stole it from so that they don't HAVE TO bloody move to britain in such large numbers, and can have prosperous lives in their own countries that colonialism robbed them of. If we just did that, we wouldn't even be having any of this constant discourse about immigration controls. Then the vast majority of immigration would be fully consensual instead of being coerced by poverty, war, etc.
      Only a small niche of elitist liberals want no border controls but to keep the neo-colonial capitalist world system exactly the same. There's a key distinction there.

  • @JGS123WRPTP
    @JGS123WRPTP 6 місяців тому +13

    These people make me ashamed to be a Brit. I thought we were far more tolerant.

    • @JGS123WRPTP
      @JGS123WRPTP 6 місяців тому +3

      Apart from the green dude. He seems fairly chill, still buys in to the boats distraction a little though. Shows how it gets through to even the most passive.

    • @scooby1992
      @scooby1992 6 місяців тому

      Welcome to Ashfield. There are alot of good people , but there are also alot of people like this .

    • @scooby1992
      @scooby1992 6 місяців тому

      @@JGS123WRPTP I think he was more likely discussing how people are distracted by that narrative , than actually agreeing with it .

    • @vincekerrigan8300
      @vincekerrigan8300 6 місяців тому

      We are too bloody tolerant and that has caused enormous problems.

    • @johnmckiernan2176
      @johnmckiernan2176 6 місяців тому

      @@vincekerrigan8300 Your surname is Kerrigan, an Irish surname, and you are thus a descendant of immigrants. Typical hypocrisy.

  • @JonotJoe66
    @JonotJoe66 6 місяців тому +10

    Well, that was an education. I really hope that they are the exception to the rule as they are nothing like the people from up north that I know. No longer wondering how 30p Lee got elected. Depressing place.

  • @DouglasCarnall
    @DouglasCarnall 6 місяців тому +64

    Enoch Powell! This is the land that time forgot.

    • @babylonsburning1
      @babylonsburning1 6 місяців тому

      No it's that old people have lived a long time, where as young people haven't lived at all.

    • @juliewake4585
      @juliewake4585 6 місяців тому +4

      @@babylonsburning1I don’t know how old she is but I’m 63 and I come from a former mining area and I remember Enoch Powell: a vile divisive man.

  • @kathrinedavey8772
    @kathrinedavey8772 6 місяців тому +6

    What makes it even more demoralizing is that you only have to move a few miles (to Nottingham or even Mansfield) and you find loads of people with varied ethnic backgrounds and a well-integrated society. Ashfield seems to exist in a bubble - like a lot of places in Britain they are quite content not to mix and yet to moan about something that they know so little about. So I can only comfort myself with the thought that Ashfield isn't the only bigoted area in the country! I'm pretty sure I know the Muslim lady you mentioned in the shopping centre, because she stands out in Sutton, whereas she wouldn't in a lot of places, even nearby places.

    • @scooby1992
      @scooby1992 6 місяців тому

      Or even at the very south of the Ashfield District ( but not Ashfield Constituency ) in Hucknall , which is a commuter town now with quite a few people of African origin .

  • @progpuss
    @progpuss 6 місяців тому +14

    The last guy gives me hope

  • @davie-murphy
    @davie-murphy 6 місяців тому +19

    Gotta love how the older folk blame immigration for Britain being 'rubbish' whilst completely ignoring their choses at the ballot box.
    They also show perfectly why experiencing other cultures is important for developing your own world view.
    ...also, don't stay in the same town all your life. You've just seen what happens!

    • @keithpanton7486
      @keithpanton7486 6 місяців тому

      When you don't meet any immigrants, its very easy to swallow the hate in your newspaper, the scapegoating.
      Anti immigrant sentiment tends to be stronger where there's fewer immigrants.

    • @patcampton7163
      @patcampton7163 6 місяців тому +1

      I have lived in my city all my life. I still managed to educate myself politically despite coming from a working class background.

  • @TheIdlesurfer
    @TheIdlesurfer 6 місяців тому +5

    Blimey, Moya, you're brilliant at interacting with people. Your interview skills, and retaining your cool are top notch.

  • @staceysmith967
    @staceysmith967 6 місяців тому +46

    Enoch Powell…Jesus. So depressing. Sorry you had to hear that.

    • @chebghobbi
      @chebghobbi 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@lmbas8501Is empathy really such a difficult concept for you?

  • @nl5828
    @nl5828 5 місяців тому +1

    7:22 - “so after this interview, i shall be returning to herefordshire” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
    moya should audition for the daily show in u.s. 👏👏👏👏👏

  • @marksimons8861
    @marksimons8861 6 місяців тому +9

    Compulsory viewing in my opinion. Well done, Ms Lothian-Mclean.

  • @laurentduval5094
    @laurentduval5094 5 місяців тому +1

    As someone from Nottingham, its so depressing that this is about 10 miles away from me. What a shithole

  • @jackbarton2375
    @jackbarton2375 6 місяців тому +37

    These attitudes are extremely common all over the country.

    • @oldishandwoke-ish1181
      @oldishandwoke-ish1181 6 місяців тому

      Yes. Anywhere the Sun, Mail, Express and GB News are the main sources of information.

    • @LukeofSmeg
      @LukeofSmeg 6 місяців тому

      Nah, they poll at like 20% tops. More in certain areas like Ashfield, but generally they are just extremely loud about their views. Ironic when they say they are the "silent majority" because they could not be further from the truth, hence why they poll at like 20% not 80% as you'd think if you see all the bots and/or propagandists on social media.

  • @taranehahmadi-parker1412
    @taranehahmadi-parker1412 6 місяців тому

    Thanks

  • @bryancunningham5071
    @bryancunningham5071 6 місяців тому +6

    The common phrase I kept hearing from those older 'ladies' is "I'm not racist but".....

  • @attben
    @attben 5 місяців тому +1

    "well I think you can become, eh, like, overrun eh, with eh, small boats entering the country
    in certain parts of the country. not so much round here."

  • @ColchesterPT
    @ColchesterPT 5 місяців тому +3

    Enoch Powell!!!! Christ on a bike!!!! YOU'RE NOT ENGLISH!!! UNBELIEVABLE!!!! The ignorance of that woman!!!

  • @azami123
    @azami123 6 місяців тому +14

    Moya, I hope they are paying extra to do this 😊

  • @F_E_A_Rise
    @F_E_A_Rise 6 місяців тому +5

    This is incredible work! Sorry for dealing with it head on, but incredibly illuminating.