The man is telling untruths. Southend was the constituency of Sir David Amess, who was sadly stabbed to death by a rabid immigrant in 2021. So I suggest the local police are failing in their remit to protect and serve the public.
This is why the country is a mess. Councillors are dweebs that have never been in a fight because they haven't mixed with the everyday man and just lived in a bubble. We need councillors that grew up in the street, because they know what goes on in tgs streets.
I live in Burnley, Lancs and we had 2 Bulgarian men fighting and 1 had a Machete and the police were called. Half the street was watching and the police denied that there was a machete. They are absolutely complicit in the lies the GOV are pushing. The are at this stage aiding and abetting certain communities in their crimes.
Well the msm will defend Keir and Labour until they decide to report on them then we swap to the tories and round and round we go…democracy sucks 🤷🏽♂️🤦🏾♂️
So this new law no machete ,are the police going to attend houses and places of worship to forcibly remove these from their owners from 100 percent of the population ? House to house searches and destroy them ?
This guy sounds like the MP for Huddersfield. When the public complained about violence. He told everyone he would prove it was safe and went out on Saturday afternoon with the police and a radio crew. Didn't have the balls to go out on his own 1 am Sunday morning on cross church street.
"Individuals coming down from London." What's changed about London? None of you have the spine to name the diverse enrichment which is making EVERYWHERE worse.
Not me!! Southend has Also been deluged by Immigrants.....I say it how I see it!! I live in Southend it's a nightmare.....ive moved from East London in 1988....now I'm sodding off to Suffolk.....we're just being pushed further afield....because of this Crap coming here!!
@@PaganPunkduh... what do you think they just blow a whisle and everyone stops fighting and goes home. How many cops do you think are on duty in Southend at any one time, I bet its far fewer than 20 and I bet they woukd all be out and about working. It takes time to get more officers form other towns..
Please don't lie Matt dent .I was there Monday never again .police everywhere drunk teenagers families ppl on beach leaving rubbish everywhere ..the smell of weed was bad .full of teenagers like in video .a lot came from Stratford I was in train with them coming back...I've been going there since a child it's my local seaside..a woman was smacked in face on train we could not leave them the behaviour on train was shocking..never going back again ever stop lying
Just look at it! Welcome to our future under Stasi Starmer's regime. The Tories aren't any better either. Him fobbing it off and saying that Southend isn't any worse than anywhere else in the country, does not fill me with a lot of confidence.
I agree, and the fact that this councillor implied that these Knife Arches are being employed all over the country tells you what a catastrophic state the UK is in.
I have lived in southend for all 39 years of my life. How it is now, is far from what it was when I grew up. The councillor has lived here 10 years & had only experienced southend at its worst, so his comment about it not being any worse, is because he has never seen it at its best. With weekly stabbings, I don't think the place is safe any longer
this councillor said it wasn't happening and it was just like anywhere else, then later when he was shown the video he said they were coming by train from London, he cant accept that most are locals, the drug dealers arrive in BMWs & Audi's with the Boom-Boom music blasting, it's the teenage girls and boys who follow the drug dealers around who arrive on the trains, this councillor is in denial of the facts, I bet he has never been out the house form Friday tea time until Monday morning for the last 10 years unless he had a police escort, he will sit in his house door bolted shut drinking his Chateau Mouton-Rothschild and eating his Camembert du Bocage, he said everywhere is the same Not true, Fort William in Scotland hasn't had an arrest for social disorder for 8 years, there are hotels there but they only use them for tourists, and there are no asylum centres or halfway houses, it is like stepping back in time to 1960s, people wander around aimlessly eating icecreams passing the time of day and casually talk about the weather. . .
The question you should be asking is why. Why do you think the police officers feel they have to police one group difrently to another? Id bet its not the officers Id bet its not the leaders Its peopel just like you. too willing to let thr press and poititions hang officers out to dry. did you ever speak out in support of officers when they got into trouble after the press jumped on the instatuaonaly racist bandwagon Id bet you didnt Id bet you just said racist cops £@£% em
I have lived in Southend for 30 years and it has got so much worse in recent years. I will probably be arrested if I say why but its not safe anymore. Even as a man my GF worries about me going home late as drug users and a specific type of people will try to rob you. Also even in the day time I have seen people doing Heroine on the street ffs! Full of crack heads and alcoholics and always some horrible fights or stabbings going on. In one week a few weeks ago every time I came across crime scenes on the way home 3 times in 7 days.. Everybody I know who is educated and has the opportunity is looking to move away as they have changed the place for the worse!
Southend Born and Bred mate. There are certain areas in the City -especially near the Bus Station where the Alcoholics and druggies go that are the worse. As usual the councillors in their ''Ivory Towers'' are not bothered.they still get a wage and expenses regardless of whether they do action anything...most are full of wind .. But I must admit I think in this case it was a few Londoners from different postcodes having a ruck - what is more worrying is the reason behind it... Drugs or disrespect or something else. The knife Arch at Southend Central in my opinion will fail as all they will do is send someone ahead to see the arch and they will get off at Southend East, Victoria or Westcliff instead
Mate, I can tell you're legit telling the truth as an ex-Southender for 10 years myself (2000 - 2010). It was hardly a Eutopia back then, but nowadays? I went for a weekend to visit friends on my birthday last year and I thought I was in a sequel to 'I Am Legend'. And Westcliff might as well be the new Luton FFS.....
Moved out of the Southend area 2 years ago into the Suffolk countryside and it was a vast difference in peoples attitudes. Was in the Leigh On Sea area and it was aweful for crime and violent crimes. We had 3 stabbings down the road in old leigh, stabbings on the broadway and one guy was beaten to death in shop entrance area late one night and not to mention the MP David Amess being murdered at his surgery. And so glad to be away from the area as it is a far cry from what it was when i grew up there.
I moved from Westcliff on sea 5 years ago to Wales as I could see the changes happening ...I have no regrets as I live in beautiful countryside and a peaceful village ... I'm so sad what's happening to Southend and the surrounding areas and to most of the Uk 😢
Sad really my old auntie used to live in westcliffe at the time it was a lovely place my brother lives in Leigh also was a lovely place but last time I was there it was already getting not so nice old Leigh was lovely
I grew up in Southend, in Southechurch. It was a nice area. A school friend of mine told me about the issues with dealers hanging around areas we used to play in as kids. Guess what? They are not white Brits.
These used to be great seaside towns back in the 60s and the 70s and 80s even the early 90s and then Blair came in and took all the good times away. These places are like African and American ghettos know sorry 😢 to say. 🫵🏽🏴🏴🏴🇮🇪🇬🇧🇬🇧👍🏽
It is the same in every major town and city throughout this country and all due to excessive immigration which is mostly illegal and unchecked. These immigrants are bringing their 3rd world issues with them and the authorities are indifferent and complacent if not also complicit in regards to how these issues should be dealt with!!
I lived in Laindon in the 80's when David Amess was my local MP. When I moved to Southend David Amess was my MP there too, how did it go for him???? I moved out 17 years ago and I don't miss Southend at all. Now it's happening where I moved to, where do I go now?? It seems to be everywhere these days
You must remember the Evening echo, colloquially known as “ The glue sniffer” as it would alternate each evening with a photo of David Amess on one night and the next night it would have a picture of a white youth with his head hovering above a plastic bag full of glue, this seemed to carry on for a couple of years.
Snap I'm thinking of moving again, this time out of UK if lucky. If not I'm really unsure where to go, for normal people good areas are way to expensive, shame I used to love laindon Basildon Southend canvey o the bootsales the gypsy horses land, the football grounds, shooting range now all gone house's, visited my old street it's mini Romainia it's funny how they house them but not keep the natives who paid into the system local
Tbh the damage is done,our villages are swamped,given citizenship because of m nim countries they come from.When something is gone it doesn’t come back so it’s over.Those with money will leave the rest of us will live in the twilight zone.
the Tories were responsible for closing great swathes of industry from 1979 to 1997, notably coal mines, engineering, etc from which the North has never recovered from. Labour from 1997 to 2010 wasn’t any great shakes and had their deficiencies Don’t look to such public school boys like Farage who was a city trader and skanked money from the EU as an MEP without going to meetings and pals up to Trump.
Sorry to disappoint the Councillor but not all towns in England have this issue. I live in a Seaside Town in the North, this has never been a problem, but then we don’t live close to certain communities.
@@SAS-vx1jk Yes these are the only two media channels that remotely challenge the establishment narrative. Guess that makes them "Far Right" so expect an Ofcom crackdown probably.
The clown says Southend is no worse than anywhere else then says he regularly gets complaints about anti social behaviour and drug crime,so everywhere in the country has lawless behaviour regularly,great that makes me feel very reassured 😒
moved to rural scotland many years ago. no regrets... It's like watching a very slow train crash. interestingly the foreign language speakers wearing head scarfs have started appearing in the nearest town. it will come here eventually.. my advice is have at least 3 children... if you are not then YOU are part of the problem
Notice he says that word, "unacceptable", a few times. This is the same language used by Common Purpose graduate, Cressida Dick, when BLM were rioting in London, in March 2020.
I'm 76...!!! Lived in southend all my life ,.it has,in the sixties , seventies, eighties, always had a violent edge to the town.....and southend council are very good at trying to portray as a cosmopolitan attraction .....which it isn't !!!!
Same here. 25 years ago Blair was already filling up B&Bs in seaside towns with 'asylum seekers' from Afghanistan and Kosovo. We began to see a drastic change back then. People have conveniently forgotten his role in all of this. I moved out in 2003.
And I. Had a flat in Westciff and regularly walked down the seafront at Wescliff and Southend. Back in the 90s before the town suffered from "cultural enrichment" and the obvious blessing of multiculturalism.
@@ChristineRead-ck1uq I come from Southend and remember when the Kosovans started moving into the town around that time. One mugged my dad’s elderly mate. We were really shocked at the time. Now look at it! I loved living there. Glad I moved away years ago
@@run2cat4run I wonder why that is? Are you aware of what's been going on in Yemen? Nigeria? Egypt? Russia? China? And a host of other places. Your own country? Not Islamophobia, IslamoFACT.
I lived in Southend from 2008 to 2013 and never saw anything like this. I must also say that there seems to be a lot more people whose “culture” is to act like this than there was 15 years ago
This guy is talking about how peaceful Southend is during the day, you need to see what its like of a night mate once the youths are out having been drinking all day its like the purge. We never had knife arches when i used to go out clubbing/drinking in Southend back in the 90s/00s into the 10's its all down to culture change and music although no-one wants to admit it
@@timgstar3585 exactly this. If they can 'get tough' with those who are concerned over mass immigration, why can't they do it with this? Zero tolerance is what has been needed
20 years and labour would let them out after 6 weeks to make room for others , if you get a sentence you should serve the full term and not be let out earlier
The rules on carrying knives have become more & more strict over the years, but it isn't the carrying of knives that's the real issue. The real issue is a cultural one, where many people believe that wielding machetes in the streets is acceptable... Unfortunately, this view now appears to have spread to our two-tier police.
If that happened in my country heads would roll ! Disgusting behaviour, our govt takes its citizens safety very seriously, all this lot would be locked up.
How can the police reject something people are saying they feel? I have friends in Southend because I grew up there and I've seen so many of them posting to avoid places tonight, tomorrow etc. People reporting the seafront is empty on a sunny day because no one goes like they used to. I wasn't allowed down the seafront as a teenager 20 years ago because it wasn't safe then. Southend is where I waa nearly abducted in a van by 2 Turkish men. On the road that runs parrallel to the seafront. That has been a very well known danger zone for DECADES! The fact that they are refusing to even acknowledge that is INSANE.
I feel sorry for our decent young people who can't go out without being afraid.Yes like somebody said long prison sentence for carrying knifes and for drug pushers.
Scroll back a few decades ago when people.used to take their families on holiday to Southend to stroll along the prom eating fish and chips with their children happily playing on the beach .
There are loads of vids on here, of Southend from the 50s and 60s and 70s. Families enjoying the seaside and the attractions. And not a single Brown face to be seen!
Speaking as a person who has lived near and spent my youth in Southend I am horrified that this phrase Southend is no worse than anywhere else. The behaviour shown in this video would have been unthinkable in Southend at one time. Have we become so numb to accept this as a common occurrence and resign ourselves to saying don't worry Essex Police are doing their best ?
So he disagree with locals and reports but in next breath I do get a lot of complaints about drugs and anti social behaviour which the police do a great job controlling Is he for real
As if he is going to say any different 🤣 His job is to bring people into Southend. Hardly going to say there is regular trouble! Get people on who actually see it everyday.
It's been happening in Lakeside shopping centre for the past year or so. Gangs of London teenagers chasing each other with knives and machetes, some running terrified into shops, asking for help to stop being stabbed. This is first hand from friends who work there, not a rumour. A lot of families have moved to Essex and Kent, to get their kids away from the violence and gangs, unfortunately it's an hour or two on the train, and the gangs can re-ignite the violence away from their own areas, where the police aren't prepared for this kind of disorder. Now Southend and other areas will have to adjust their policing before this gets out of hand.
So the people that actually live there are wrong are they? I cannot stand people who know absolutely nothing about these situations but preach a narrative and an agenda all of their own.
Thirtieth of July was only a few weeks ago which is very recent. That Councillor sounds like he's trying to save his job. Make the last train back to London 9pm or earlier.
If you think it’s bad now 😮what do you think it will be like in a real bad recession, which will happen under this government’s time and it would of happened no matter who won the election 😢
I live near Southend. It isn’t safe anymore. And saying it isn’t less safe than anywhere else in the country isn’t really a good thing. Few places in the UK are as safe as they used to be.
Matt Dent must be walking around with blinkers on, Southend is out of control and none of the honest hardworking people who live there ventures outdoors from Friday tea time until Monday morning, during that time the streets are full of drug dealers from hackney Brixton and the likes, they're selling drugs to the throngs of girls and boys who follow them round town, the drug dealers arrive in their BMWs & Audi's and the teenagers by train, Matt Dent should have a walk around the pier head and the High Street at 10pm Friday or Saturday night without his police escort or his bodyguards, if it is so safe why did he need 20 cops with him when he did go to have a look, N/B Anti-social behaviour is a drunk bloke walking home from the pub singing football songs to his neighbours, 1000s of rampaging drunk and drugged people fighting, looting, jumping on top of police cars and damaging everything in sight is something completely different, that is civil unrest and borders on riot, I suggest Matt Dent face up to reality and stop sweeping things under the mat, sorry carpet.
Goodness me, a cabinet member for culture and tourism saying that something that might affect tourism isn't happening. Should we believe him? I don't think so.
London hasn't been safe for over two decades. Two members of my family were mugged 7 times between them. My son averted an attack using win chun that he learned as a result of this.
@@Simon-py4qy He did. He was walking a way behind my other son, who had someone jump on his back and try to stick his fingers/thumbs whatever in his eyes. My younger son did a flying kick. I assume it was his win chun but nevertheless my eldest said he didn't know what he would have done if he hadn't. If you don't believe it that is your problem.
On that July evening there were numerous social media posts inviting people to a 'Beach Party'. A youngster told me that was teenager talk meaning a 'punch up' so it seemed it was pre-arranged !. It seems the teenagers have their own language...apparently 'allow it' means 'don't do it ' and all sorts of codes they use. Just glad I am in my 70's.
Southend doesn't have a massive ethnic minority population of its own so I doubt the hundreds of not hu-white teens running up and down the streets are locals. Troublemaking tourists all on a jolly up from London, you can be there in 90 minutes and the last train home is at 11pm. If you want to see similar scenes in London you only have to wait another few days, Notting Hill Carnival is just around the corner.
Hi .l fear for the carnival in London .l am Begging who pepole thinking of going .Don't. .its gonna be chuka block .no ambulance will be able to drive threw even thou st charled hospital is just a few yards away many of my friends and family who live there are going away .. on return there homes will be filled with food and human waste in there front gardens... l am not going and told my circle about what is going to happen 💯. I just feel it in my bones ..no one listening to me just hope it's not a friend or family member gets in the way ...take care Don't fear be smart look sharp...
'Largely peaceful' machete gangs..
And zero proof on the identity of the youths
@@run2cat4run Have a guess.
you funny sod
@@SJG-nr8uj100% correct.👏👏👍
😂😂 indeed
Stop lieing I live here it's disgusting and knife crime is through the roof
Is this council man English
What roof ?
Legalised lawlessness 😮
“It’s not knife crime it’s Enriching”🤡🇬🇧
Lying~
The guest is kidding himself like most of the people in the UK who are in complete denial
When will those who are still pretending collectively decide not to? I worry by then it will all be too late to change
@@DilbertWhiteheadsame brother. Sad times
Agreed as I'm surrounded by those in denial
@@DilbertWhitehead Too late.
🐑🐑🐑 ▶️ 🥩 🍽
The man is telling untruths. Southend was the constituency of Sir David Amess, who was sadly stabbed to death by a rabid immigrant in 2021. So I suggest the local police are failing in their remit to protect and serve the public.
He was useless absolutely useless.
Another arrogant out of touch councilman
Totally I was there Monday .never again
I don't think they are out of touch. I think they are lying. Blatantly lying.
This is why the country is a mess. Councillors are dweebs that have never been in a fight because they haven't mixed with the everyday man and just lived in a bubble. We need councillors that grew up in the street, because they know what goes on in tgs streets.
@@pippo-1073 And the mps are even worse.
Living in the countryside far away from the trouble.
I live in Burnley, Lancs and we had 2 Bulgarian men fighting and 1 had a Machete and the police were called. Half the street was watching and the police denied that there was a machete. They are absolutely complicit in the lies the GOV are pushing. The are at this stage aiding and abetting certain communities in their crimes.
very sorry to hear that.
😢@@TheOwlsarewatching606
Police drink too much😂😂😂
What happened to protect the innocent, keep the peace.
@@Him_He_Mewho does that? The police work for the government not the people
'This is no different to anywhere else in the country' is a strange way of saying this has been normalised nation wide.
Thats quite some cope.
Not in my Essex seaside town ......nor Clacton come to think of it .
Not in Minehead.
Well the msm will defend Keir and Labour until they decide to report on them then we swap to the tories and round and round we go…democracy sucks 🤷🏽♂️🤦🏾♂️
So this new law no machete ,are the police going to attend houses and places of worship to forcibly remove these from their owners from 100 percent of the population ? House to house searches and destroy them ?
North Devon is nothing like this.
This guy sounds like the MP for Huddersfield. When the public complained about violence. He told everyone he would prove it was safe and went out on Saturday afternoon with the police and a radio crew. Didn't have the balls to go out on his own 1 am Sunday morning on cross church street.
The 4% causing 100% of the trouble
i think theyre lying to us about that percentage, we just have to look around us
@@MarieKayaliI live in midlands and defo think the same.
And allowed to do so by the government
Definately. Nothing they say is true. It's easier to blame far right (me) than deal with what is a national threat.
@@alanchilds1456 It has become or perhaps always was a hostile occupier.
He sounds like the mayor of Amity Island, “everything’s okay, the beaches are safe, there are no sharks in the water”!
"We need a bigger boat!"
It's like a weather man telling you it's not raining and you look out the window and there's a hurricane
Reminds me of Mr Fish
Technically not raining.
Very fishy.
Hurricane is wind, doesn't mean its raining.
@@stone4173 Wind or rain I think most people get the point I was making
"Individuals coming down from London." What's changed about London? None of you have the spine to name the diverse enrichment which is making EVERYWHERE worse.
incomers from overseas to London.
Not me!! Southend has Also been deluged by Immigrants.....I say it how I see it!! I live in Southend it's a nightmare.....ive moved from East London in 1988....now I'm sodding off to Suffolk.....we're just being pushed further afield....because of this Crap coming here!!
Malis and Sudanese.
Whoever'voted Liebour Kier Stalin!...shame on you!
Be careful, if this comment is seen you'll end up in jail for a year or 2... or 3 God I wish I was being sarcastic with this reply
@@BruceBlack0291 being coward is more shameful
@BruceBlack0291 It'll never happen!!!! They don't have the capacity to hold every other countries opinionated citizen
What does Kier have to do with this?
@@JK-sz1xynothing that's the problem he can't do anything
Everytime he’s been down there enjoying the beaches enjoying the sunshine. It’s night time in the footage you absolute melt
That Started a 2pm.....Took the Police till way past 10pm to sort it out!
@@PaganPunkduh... what do you think they just blow a whisle and everyone stops fighting and goes home. How many cops do you think are on duty in Southend at any one time, I bet its far fewer than 20 and I bet they woukd all be out and about working.
It takes time to get more officers form other towns..
DELUSION or DENIAL at its finest.
Please don't lie Matt dent .I was there Monday never again .police everywhere drunk teenagers families ppl on beach leaving rubbish everywhere ..the smell of weed was bad .full of teenagers like in video .a lot came from Stratford I was in train with them coming back...I've been going there since a child it's my local seaside..a woman was smacked in face on train we could not leave them the behaviour on train was shocking..never going back again ever stop lying
Just look at it! Welcome to our future under Stasi Starmer's regime. The Tories aren't any better either. Him fobbing it off and saying that Southend isn't any worse than anywhere else in the country, does not fill me with a lot of confidence.
The Tories were co conspritators.
What a stupid thing to say. Is that his bench mark. As long as we’re no worse. Oh that’s all right then
I agree, and the fact that this councillor implied that these Knife Arches are being employed all over the country tells you what a catastrophic state the UK is in.
"It's shitty everywhere", sounds like a Trudeau defense.
At least we had a freedom of speech then😂😂@@jonstersmall2716
I have lived in southend for all 39 years of my life. How it is now, is far from what it was when I grew up. The councillor has lived here 10 years & had only experienced southend at its worst, so his comment about it not being any worse, is because he has never seen it at its best. With weekly stabbings, I don't think the place is safe any longer
this councillor said it wasn't happening and it was just like anywhere else, then later when he was shown the video he said they were coming by train from London, he cant accept that most are locals, the drug dealers arrive in BMWs & Audi's with the Boom-Boom music blasting, it's the teenage girls and boys who follow the drug dealers around who arrive on the trains, this councillor is in denial of the facts, I bet he has never been out the house form Friday tea time until Monday morning for the last 10 years unless he had a police escort, he will sit in his house door bolted shut drinking his Chateau Mouton-Rothschild and eating his Camembert du Bocage, he said everywhere is the same Not true, Fort William in Scotland hasn't had an arrest for social disorder for 8 years, there are hotels there but they only use them for tourists, and there are no asylum centres or halfway houses, it is like stepping back in time to 1960s, people wander around aimlessly eating icecreams passing the time of day and casually talk about the weather. . .
Councilman "PLEASE COME AND SPEND MONEY HERE, THERES A RELATIVELY LOW CHANCE YOU WILL BE ATTACKED BY A MACHETE"
as though these "gangs" will comply with the zombie knife amnesty
@@stevenhull5025they’ve handed in their knives got their tenners and upgraded
between Monday and Friday, but weekends are a different kettle of fish. . .
@@sicks6sixeven Mon-Fri the place is a dump and has been for decades.
Whenever he says I think means he doesn’t know….
The cabinet member says there’s absolutely nothing wrong, normally, but the locals say that the area is beset by terrifying gangs.
Who’s lying? 🤷🏻♂️
Cabinet minister
The trained parliamentarian
It’s not the locals.
You think the gangs are terrifying, look what the police do to those who protect themselves from the gangs.
@@tenniskinsella7768 Yes Minister, great show
Southend used to be an escape from London, Not any more.
Snake Plissken style ”escape”…
That is the reason Properly is so cheap by the Sea 😂👆 Nobody wanna live there !
This dude sounds like the mayor in Jaws. Everything’s fine, don’t disrupt the tourist trade.
Far right thugs is it?
Nope...
No such thing
no way not brits
Most of them appear to be white...
No will be arrested up in court the next day and sentenced.
They're not machete fights, they are displays of cultural martial arts and are enriching the environment.
😂
Anyone spot the elephant in the room
Yep!
Sure do, but I might be jailed if I said it.
foreigners?
No, but I can spot a few other jungle residents
Yes. Majority, not native Brits.
This happens every week in London it’s called Hamas marches
This guy mat is a liar! The only reason policing is difficult is because its a two tier system!
The question you should be asking is why. Why do you think the police officers feel they have to police one group difrently to another?
Id bet its not the officers Id bet its not the leaders
Its peopel just like you. too willing to let thr press and poititions hang officers out to dry. did you ever speak out in support of officers when they got into trouble after the press jumped on the instatuaonaly racist bandwagon Id bet you didnt Id bet you just said racist cops £@£% em
Saying that Southend is no worse than anywhere else in the country is a very damning indictment of the state of modern Britain .
I have lived in Southend for 30 years and it has got so much worse in recent years. I will probably be arrested if I say why but its not safe anymore. Even as a man my GF worries about me going home late as drug users and a specific type of people will try to rob you. Also even in the day time I have seen people doing Heroine on the street ffs! Full of crack heads and alcoholics and always some horrible fights or stabbings going on. In one week a few weeks ago every time I came across crime scenes on the way home 3 times in 7 days.. Everybody I know who is educated and has the opportunity is looking to move away as they have changed the place for the worse!
Southend Born and Bred mate. There are certain areas in the City -especially near the Bus Station where the Alcoholics and druggies go that are the worse. As usual the councillors in their ''Ivory Towers'' are not bothered.they still get a wage and expenses regardless of whether they do action anything...most are full of wind .. But I must admit I think in this case it was a few Londoners from different postcodes having a ruck - what is more worrying is the reason behind it... Drugs or disrespect or something else. The knife Arch at Southend Central in my opinion will fail as all they will do is send someone ahead to see the arch and they will get off at Southend East, Victoria or Westcliff instead
Mate, I can tell you're legit telling the truth as an ex-Southender for 10 years myself (2000 - 2010). It was hardly a Eutopia back then, but nowadays? I went for a weekend to visit friends on my birthday last year and I thought I was in a sequel to 'I Am Legend'. And Westcliff might as well be the new Luton FFS.....
So according to the guest, this is not normal, yet he regularly get complaints for anti-social behaviour and drug crime.
I'm surprised they didn't call them the far right.
More like 'Far Gone"
they can't. only 4% were white so...........
Too many dark faces there, also why they were not called thugs!
Without footage they probably would
Wrong colour my friend, sad times
Moved out of the Southend area 2 years ago into the Suffolk countryside and it was a vast difference in peoples attitudes. Was in the Leigh On Sea area and it was aweful for crime and violent crimes. We had 3 stabbings down the road in old leigh, stabbings on the broadway and one guy was beaten to death in shop entrance area late one night and not to mention the MP David Amess being murdered at his surgery. And so glad to be away from the area as it is a far cry from what it was when i grew up there.
I moved from Westcliff on sea 5 years ago to Wales as I could see the changes happening ...I have no regrets as I live in beautiful countryside and a peaceful village ... I'm so sad what's happening to Southend and the surrounding areas and to most of the Uk 😢
Sad really my old auntie used to live in westcliffe at the time it was a lovely place my brother lives in Leigh also was a lovely place but last time I was there it was already getting not so nice old Leigh was lovely
Lucky you. It is frightening what is happening to his country. And at such a rapid pace now. Saxmundham is much safer than Southend !
I grew up in Southend, in Southechurch. It was a nice area. A school friend of mine told me about the issues with dealers hanging around areas we used to play in as kids. Guess what? They are not white Brits.
Agreed. I too grew up in Southchurch and you are right.
These used to be great seaside towns back in the 60s and the 70s and 80s even the early 90s and then Blair came in and took all the good times away. These places are like African and American ghettos know sorry 😢 to say. 🫵🏽🏴🏴🏴🇮🇪🇬🇧🇬🇧👍🏽
Churches being defaced too
Even Drug Dealers have to make a living
@@devonstable9913 I lived there as a child too. It breaks my heart to see what it has become 😢
As far as the Police are concerned you'll get a much harsher sentence for using harsh words than sharp blades.
Well said! .......... And sadly, true.
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It is the same in every major town and city throughout this country and all due to excessive immigration which is mostly illegal and unchecked. These immigrants are bringing their 3rd world issues with them and the authorities are indifferent and complacent if not also complicit in regards to how these issues should be dealt with!!
there's a thought. Better tell Kier
I lived in Laindon in the 80's when David Amess was my local MP. When I moved to Southend David Amess was my MP there too, how did it go for him???? I moved out 17 years ago and I don't miss Southend at all. Now it's happening where I moved to, where do I go now?? It seems to be everywhere these days
You must remember the Evening echo, colloquially known as “ The glue sniffer” as it would alternate each evening with a photo of David Amess on one night and the next night it would have a picture of a white youth with his head hovering above a plastic bag full of glue, this seemed to carry on for a couple of years.
Angela Rayner says its OK.
Snap I'm thinking of moving again, this time out of UK if lucky. If not I'm really unsure where to go, for normal people good areas are way to expensive, shame I used to love laindon Basildon Southend canvey o the bootsales the gypsy horses land, the football grounds, shooting range now all gone house's, visited my old street it's mini Romainia it's funny how they house them but not keep the natives who paid into the system local
I wonder how many of these armed thugs have been fast-tracked and heavily sentenced ?- no, on second thoughts let me guess...
Nah they will probably be given a council house instead
Doesn’t look that safe to me, councillor.
WELCOME TO LAWLESS BRITAIN
Welcome to BROKEN Britain
Welcom to Bagdaddy Britain
Going to get a lot worse ..
Drug taking is a private health issue till public drug taking becomes criminal activity.
Labour abandoned the working class iin 1997 the tories continued there distruction, our communities are being destroyedl, vote Reform UK ❤
Tbh the damage is done,our villages are swamped,given citizenship because of m nim countries they come from.When something is gone it doesn’t come back so it’s over.Those with money will leave the rest of us will live in the twilight zone.
The tories were great.... 😂
the Tories were responsible for closing great swathes of industry from 1979 to 1997, notably coal mines, engineering, etc from which the North has never recovered from. Labour from 1997 to 2010 wasn’t any great shakes and had their deficiencies Don’t look to such public school boys like Farage who was a city trader and skanked money from the EU as an MEP without going to meetings and pals up to Trump.
This was planned by the Fabians before WW1. Check out "The Anglo American Establishment" for a great introduction and summary by Carrol Quigley.
@@richardbanker3910so who would you recommend the disenfranchised voters look to?
Well that's about the worst Council member you could have talked to, the guy is a total waste of space!!!
Whats the demographic? Say no more
The usual ve rmin
@@GlasgowRossco Only brave in packs. Wahankers
Looks like pissed off pensioners upset due to loosing their winter fuel allowance..... 😂
@@69spook 🤣🤣🤣 love it!!
"People from Stratford" Gnomesane?
The uk was broken now it is unfixable
Sorry to disappoint the Councillor but not all towns in England have this issue. I live in a Seaside Town in the North, this has never been a problem, but then we don’t live close to certain communities.
I live in Paignton in Devon and it's never happened hear
Yet...... Raynor has some quite fun dispersal ideas
Southend-on-sea is actually the worst seaside town in the country.
It use to be a place where people come for the air show and for the night life but not anymore.
They’re heat activated
Don't see those arrested, named and shamed by the media.
My rule of thumb is, if they are public servants...they lie out of their back teeth and can't be trusted. MPs, councils, mayor's, judges, NHS, police
Boris Johnson.
@@garyh1572 Oh do keep up - Bojo is covered under "MPs" - just like Starmer, Rayner, Streeting and Blair!!
@@garyh1572🤦🏼♂️
@@garyh1572He's not a public servant anymore is he? They got rid of him so I'm afraid you will have to find another scapegoat!!
100% with you on that one
Councilors saying there own constituencies are lying is becoming far too common
This channel is certainly reporting on topics not covered by other media. I’m impressed.
As does GBNEWS.
You don't get proper news on BBC, sky sky or channel 4
@@SAS-vx1jk Yes these are the only two media channels that remotely challenge the establishment narrative. Guess that makes them "Far Right" so expect an Ofcom crackdown probably.
When it's too late to do anything? great.
Tousi TV is the best.
@@DaveBeaven-tx2tp I follow Tousi TV too.
The video show us everything we need to know. The evidence can NOT be denied, unless the viewer is blind or blinkered.
Anyone remember the film Jaws?
The local Amity authority originally tried to deny there was a shark problem...
great analogy.. spot on
The film "don't look up" also springs to mind
The fictitious shark was white, the real and dangerous sharks are…
Yeah but Larry signed the papers eventually...
The clown says Southend is no worse than anywhere else then says he regularly gets complaints about anti social behaviour and drug crime,so everywhere in the country has lawless behaviour regularly,great that makes me feel very reassured 😒
It’s a jungle out there!
Good thing the rioters got arrested
I think the jungle is more peaceful that it looks like the animals have swapped the jungle for the towns.
with the participants you are not far wrong
Literally
Do you think it's going to get any better. We all know the answer. Prep protect and survive.
'People coming from London'....might be a bit further than that.
Mike Graham thank you for supporting the truth and the UK. You are very much respected and help us to maintain courage in these difficult times.
moved to rural scotland many years ago. no regrets...
It's like watching a very slow train crash.
interestingly the foreign language speakers wearing head scarfs have started appearing in the nearest town.
it will come here eventually..
my advice is have at least 3 children...
if you are not then YOU are part of the problem
Notice he says that word, "unacceptable", a few times. This is the same language used by Common Purpose graduate, Cressida Dick, when BLM were rioting in London, in March 2020.
very true. There's a lot of Common Purpose about
I'm 76...!!! Lived in southend all my life ,.it has,in the sixties , seventies, eighties, always had a violent edge to the town.....and southend council are very good at trying to portray as a cosmopolitan attraction .....which it isn't !!!!
Poor old Southend.
I lived in Westcliff for many happy years.
Heartbreaking what it's become.
Yea good old southend
Use to enjoy going there
Same here. 25 years ago Blair was already filling up B&Bs in seaside towns with 'asylum seekers' from Afghanistan and Kosovo. We began to see a drastic change back then. People have conveniently forgotten his role in all of this.
I moved out in 2003.
And I. Had a flat in Westciff and regularly walked down the seafront at Wescliff and Southend. Back in the 90s before the town suffered from "cultural enrichment" and the obvious blessing of multiculturalism.
@@ChristineRead-ck1uq I come from Southend and remember when the Kosovans started moving into the town around that time. One mugged my dad’s elderly mate. We were really shocked at the time. Now look at it! I loved living there. Glad I moved away years ago
there's thousands of tourist cancelling the hols in England down 50 percent
Well machete slashing might be accepted in Africa, but I doubt that people in civilised countries see it as part of normal holiday activities
Would you pay eight quid for a beer in London??
Great…. maybe Comrade Khan will get the message when the tourist dollar decreases….
Shame less coffers for government
I wouldnt want to come here on holiday, you can feel the tension everywhere. Not a nice atmosphere.
If the Country was run in the correct way this would not happen.
Bring in Martial law. Civilian governments are obviously unable to govern.
Best way to understand this news in short time......
3rd world .
3rd generation of immigrant or migrant.
Muslim ...
And still blaming the Muslims
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Wonder why brit media does not tell you anything ,you brits own nothing all car companies foreign owned as are gatwick ,heathrow etc .
@@run2cat4run I wonder why that is? Are you aware of what's been going on in Yemen? Nigeria? Egypt? Russia? China? And a host of other places. Your own country? Not Islamophobia, IslamoFACT.
I lived in Southend from 2008 to 2013 and never saw anything like this. I must also say that there seems to be a lot more people whose “culture” is to act like this than there was 15 years ago
This guy is talking about how peaceful Southend is during the day, you need to see what its like of a night mate once the youths are out having been drinking all day its like the purge. We never had knife arches when i used to go out clubbing/drinking in Southend back in the 90s/00s into the 10's its all down to culture change and music although no-one wants to admit it
These two guys "don't believe you're lying eyes."
Why is knife crime law not been made higher to protect the public ? should be 20 years in prison for carrying one
@@timgstar3585 exactly this. If they can 'get tough' with those who are concerned over mass immigration, why can't they do it with this? Zero tolerance is what has been needed
20 years and labour would let them out after 6 weeks to make room for others , if you get a sentence you should serve the full term and not be let out earlier
Or go the opposite route and allow UK citizens to carry weapons and defend themselves 🤷🏻♂
The rules on carrying knives have become more & more strict over the years, but it isn't the carrying of knives that's the real issue.
The real issue is a cultural one, where many people believe that wielding machetes in the streets is acceptable... Unfortunately, this view now appears to have spread to our two-tier police.
You know this is racist even to suggest such a thing!!
If that happened in my country heads would roll ! Disgusting behaviour, our govt takes its citizens safety very seriously, all this lot would be locked up.
The 'you know who' people again
Jews?
@@Simon-py4qy no, bs
@@Masud_S_Hoghughi bm
I wish the police would police this country properly. That’s all we ask.
Regularly enriched by visitors from London
Khan's foot soldiers
Diversity is a strength... apparently ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Ban 6 weeks school holidays and reduce them to 4 weeks!
Its too long!
How can the police reject something people are saying they feel? I have friends in Southend because I grew up there and I've seen so many of them posting to avoid places tonight, tomorrow etc. People reporting the seafront is empty on a sunny day because no one goes like they used to. I wasn't allowed down the seafront as a teenager 20 years ago because it wasn't safe then. Southend is where I waa nearly abducted in a van by 2 Turkish men. On the road that runs parrallel to the seafront. That has been a very well known danger zone for DECADES! The fact that they are refusing to even acknowledge that is INSANE.
I feel sorry for our decent young people who can't go out without being afraid.Yes like somebody said long prison sentence for carrying knifes and for drug pushers.
Starmer and his cronies never have to live amongst these people.
Seems to be a lot of "diversity" in the footage.
I used to go to Southend every summer. But over the last few years, it has become dire. It has gone downhill drastically.
Me too! But every single year from when i was a very small child, right up into adult hood! Can never recall anything like this.
Scroll back a few decades ago when people.used to take their families on holiday to Southend to stroll along the prom eating fish and chips with their children happily playing on the beach .
There are loads of vids on here, of Southend from the 50s and 60s and 70s. Families enjoying the seaside and the attractions. And not a single Brown face to be seen!
Pre-invasion
Except bank holidays when then wars between the MODS and ROCKERS ! perhaps your not that old. ;)x
And enjoy Rossi's ice cream as well....part of Essex culture ...
@@andrearoyd2942
Woz you a mod or a Rocker?😋
Speaking as a person who has lived near and spent my youth in Southend I am horrified that this phrase Southend is no worse than anywhere else. The behaviour shown in this video would have been unthinkable in Southend at one time. Have we become so numb to accept this as a common occurrence and resign ourselves to saying don't worry Essex Police are doing their best ?
So he disagree with locals and reports but in next breath I do get a lot of complaints about drugs and anti social behaviour which the police do a great job controlling
Is he for real
Get labour out now .
He’s a lefty what do you expect?
Unfortunately , yes .
As if he is going to say any different 🤣 His job is to bring people into Southend. Hardly going to say there is regular trouble! Get people on who actually see it everyday.
Usual suspects
Your mum?
I lived there as a child. Eastenders used to come down at the weekends then but there were no machetes.
One thing is unacceptable , so make yourself heard:
Demand Change: Keir Starmer, Step Down Now!
It's a big petition. 216,000 now. We have to Try!
It's been happening in Lakeside shopping centre for the past year or so. Gangs of London teenagers chasing each other with knives and machetes, some running terrified into shops, asking for help to stop being stabbed. This is first hand from friends who work there, not a rumour. A lot of families have moved to Essex and Kent, to get their kids away from the violence and gangs, unfortunately it's an hour or two on the train, and the gangs can re-ignite the violence away from their own areas, where the police aren't prepared for this kind of disorder. Now Southend and other areas will have to adjust their policing before this gets out of hand.
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When the people who are running things either can't admit or are in denial about what is actually happening, then the country is bang in trouble.
I live in Southend, this is not the locals, this is London gangs who tend to sort their issues out in our area.
I pulled one of my businesses away from Southend a few years back. You could see this coming. It's a hell hole.
if that is no worse than anywhere else, your country is fucked...
So the people that actually live there are wrong are they? I cannot stand people who know absolutely nothing about these situations but preach a narrative and an agenda all of their own.
Thirtieth of July was only a few weeks ago which is very recent. That Councillor sounds like he's trying to save his job.
Make the last train back to London 9pm or earlier.
If you think it’s bad now 😮what do you think it will be like in a real bad recession, which will happen under this government’s time and it would of happened no matter who won the election 😢
When the money runs out which it will at one point they will mass riot when the benefits stop.
Sign the petition to call Starmer to resign.
I live near Southend. It isn’t safe anymore. And saying it isn’t less safe than anywhere else in the country isn’t really a good thing. Few places in the UK are as safe as they used to be.
Matt Dent must be walking around with blinkers on, Southend is out of control and none of the honest hardworking people who live there ventures outdoors from Friday tea time until Monday morning, during that time the streets are full of drug dealers from hackney Brixton and the likes, they're selling drugs to the throngs of girls and boys who follow them round town, the drug dealers arrive in their BMWs & Audi's and the teenagers by train, Matt Dent should have a walk around the pier head and the High Street at 10pm Friday or Saturday night without his police escort or his bodyguards, if it is so safe why did he need 20 cops with him when he did go to have a look,
N/B Anti-social behaviour is a drunk bloke walking home from the pub singing football songs to his neighbours, 1000s of rampaging drunk and drugged people fighting, looting, jumping on top of police cars and damaging everything in sight is something completely different, that is civil unrest and borders on riot, I suggest Matt Dent face up to reality and stop sweeping things under the mat, sorry carpet.
Goodness me, a cabinet member for culture and tourism saying that something that might affect tourism isn't happening. Should we believe him? I don't think so.
WHAT THIS GOOSE IS SAYING THAT THE SUBURBS ARE AS DANGEROUS AS ALL THE OTHER SUBURBS AND WE HAVE LOST CONTROL!!
London hasn't been safe for over two decades. Two members of my family were mugged 7 times between them. My son averted an attack using win chun that he learned as a result of this.
Blame Blairs New Liebour.
Nobody ever averted an attack using win chun
@@Simon-py4qy He did. He was walking a way behind my other son, who had someone jump on his back and try to stick his fingers/thumbs whatever in his eyes. My younger son did a flying kick. I assume it was his win chun but nevertheless my eldest said he didn't know what he would have done if he hadn't. If you don't believe it that is your problem.
@@1bethnal I believed you until you said flying kick
Weren’t Wing Chung an eighties pop group….. 🤔
noticing is racist
Nah, not noticing statistics can be tho.
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On that July evening there were numerous social media posts inviting people to a 'Beach Party'. A youngster told me that was teenager talk meaning a 'punch up' so it seemed it was pre-arranged !. It seems the teenagers have their own language...apparently 'allow it' means 'don't do it ' and all sorts of codes they use. Just glad I am in my 70's.
"Stop calling Southend unsafe" says top cop😂
Sound like something out of JAWs😂
Southend doesn't have a massive ethnic minority population of its own so I doubt the hundreds of not hu-white teens running up and down the streets are locals. Troublemaking tourists all on a jolly up from London, you can be there in 90 minutes and the last train home is at 11pm. If you want to see similar scenes in London you only have to wait another few days, Notting Hill Carnival is just around the corner.
I live not far from Southend. it has a sizeable ♠ and Muz population from when I lived there decades ago.
@@crawford1083 True but the videos featured those from the African diaspora. I'd hazard a guess that they are on an away day from the capital.
I remember the old days when mods and rockers used to lay into each other during the 60's with chains and knuckle dusters. They were the days.
Hi .l fear for the carnival in London .l am Begging who pepole thinking of going .Don't. .its gonna be chuka block .no ambulance will be able to drive threw even thou st charled hospital is just a few yards away many of my friends and family who live there are going away .. on return there homes will be filled with food and human waste in there front gardens... l am not going and told my circle about what is going to happen 💯. I just feel it in my bones ..no one listening to me just hope it's not a friend or family member gets in the way ...take care Don't fear be smart look sharp...