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We live on nothing and we're just surviving and don't forget by the way copyright disclaimer under section 107 of the copyright act 1976 Allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism comment news reporting teaching scholarship and research Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing Non-profit educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use No copyright infringement intended All rights belong to the respective owners You're kidding me Let's go It's a weekday morning on grimsby's east marsh estate where residents are beginning their day in the poorest part of the nation date where Residents are beginning their day in the poorest part of the nation Of course, that's not to say everyone here is living on the poverty line, but the data is striking The average annual income for an entire household here sits at just 22,000 pounds a year That's over 10 grand less than the uk national average and almost a staggering 86,000 pounds below london's affluent clapper maria Which has the highest in the country at just above 108,000 pounds Knowing I can't afford it, but i'm going It's in east marsh where we meet natalie who lives in the center of the estate with her partner and four children She receives around 2000 pounds a month in benefits But as she begins her shopping with christmas on the way she's struggling to make ends meet She receives 24 000 a year from From aid That's higher than the national average in that area And she's still struggling She do got four kids and probably I don't want to say it too early, but we'll see how her husband acts or her partner I get tight. Well, especially this time of year. I get tight on my budget I make sure i'm in bills and not a big shop and then whatever's left I get little bits obviously me christmas presents and my son's birthday presents birthday stuff at moment I'm not one of these with loads and loads of money like Where you can just spend it every day And just going to do big shopping I get quite a few benefits at the moment because i'm classed as one of the boys Care risks one of them's disabled So, uh, I used that to get my christmas presents and I've done my shopping online, which is a lot cheaper than in shops And natalie isn't alone Up and down the country the cost of living has hit homes and families hard With the price of energy rising by up to 60 percent in the last two years And those and is it true like if you go if natalie wants to go get a real job She would lose some of her benefits, right? Because it's on condition that she's can't work or something like that Prizes are felt acutely here Single mum Cheryl lives in a property that's covered in black mold and infested with mice But turning up the heating means less money for her and the kids It is very difficult. I've got like said four kids and then i'm trying to keep on top of mold mice and Condensation windows because I've got that one and my bathroom windows the same as well. So when you got mold You got condensation everywhere it helps to keep your ac on Like on florida mold is common in a lot of places man where the where the windows aren't Properly sealed correctly and in florida in general though like in florida in general just not if the windows are not sealed correctly mold will grow in your closets because of the Humidity and things of that nature but out in florida They say as long as you keep the ac running Then you good But who wants to do that though? What kind of energy bill are you going to be having at the end of the year? Especially in the uk florida energy is like a little bit different because like if you run ac all day It doesn't hit the same as if you run ac all day and say like chicago It's going to be a different number amount It is difficult I've got my heating on all day every day because obviously with the condensation it means the heat's escaping So my house is colder than what it should be So I'm paying more on my gas and electric than I should be per week just to keep the house on to keep my kids on This is brimsby. It is very tight. Yeah. I mean I make sure that it's always got what they need But yeah, he's definitely It can be a struggle. It feels awful. You know, I've got the kids coming up to me you know We need to sort them all out in the room again. Mummy are we're just in a mouse run across the floor mummy, you know it's it's not pleasant Stories like this are sadly nothing new for grimsby and especially the east marsh The area is the most deprived across the whole of northeast lingonshire and nearly every street Think about mold though. You can clean it as much as you want. It's going to always come back Once there's mold you just got to stay on top of it until they tear out the wall and fix the actual problem It's in the top one percent of deprivation across the country It's become associated with higher levels of crime and desocial behavior and homelessness Or if you can if you can afford a dehumidifier Takes moisture out of the air and and then get an air purifier. That'll help too Something with higher levels of crime and desocial behavior and homelessness Something visible all over Grimsby. I want somewhere to live I want somewhere to go I want to work But I'm just finding it hard How long have you been living on the streets for now and what's that like? I've been held just about it really Residents here are aware of the problems and sometimes help from within the community can come from the unlikeliest of sources With the lowest incomes in the country, it's perhaps Lenard has Perhaps no surprise that the nation's cheapest chippy is right here in No, it's crazy. I was about to say that probably that chippy behind them or nard's chippy. Is that what it was? Matthew, where did I get Lenard's? Matthew's chippy probably fire Anytime you in the hood and you see one of these especially especially when it's the corner apartment Like it's dead on the corner. It's always good It's perhaps no surprise that the nation's cheapest chippy is right here in east marsh Where a portion of fish and chips with a side of peas will set you back only three pounds UK fish and chip prices have soared in recent years with the classic takeaway now setting customers back nine pounds on average But at matthew's chippy on east marshes fish and chips at a restaurant here 18 dollars Stanley street owner stan matthew's explains how he keeps his prices at rock bottom Because i'm down on the docks. We buy our own fish We smoke we've got our own smoke house And so it all comes in line where we can get that product a bit cheaper Saying that they have gone up. We used to be two pound 50 But because it's like gas has gone up lector, it's gone up Um, they're up like all the roll materials have gone up. So we have to up it by 50 pennies. So So three pound they're still getting a good meal for three pounds. Yeah, it's fresh Like this and with a community in need He serves plenty of puntes every day who queue outside the door even before it opens Some eat here every night of the week and the product is well received including by me Three pound fish and chips. I mean that's a steal, isn't it? It's great for all pensioners every every penny counts, don't it? Three quid you can't knock it, can you? I come here Or every every time for a fishing chips the portion you get Is brilliant. Absolutely amazing quality good meal. You can't be People this is three dollar meal. He's doing something for the community People still coming here and disrespect them and giving fake notes He's brilliant. Absolutely amazing quality good meal. You can't be by a burger for three pound There's not a lot of money in it. We're in enough just to pay like the mortgage The gas electric that's about it, but we're feeding people that's That's the way I look at it. People are coming in and they're getting more and more He's doing it out the loan. Let's talk Chief takeaways alone aren't going to solve the issues facing Grimsby While the cost of living crisis has exacerbated things the challenges for the town are deep rooted Other needs here Greater than anywhere else in the country when it comes to citizen advice They they echo them They Think that's spice, isn't it? Yeah gotta be. Yeah, roll over there. Tweaking out the drug Tony Gaskin runs citizens advice for northeast Lincolnshire and says more people are using his service than ever before Well, that's three years. We've seen something like a 300 percent increase in emergency Charitable supports, which is food bank applications fuel and energy vouchers People needing help with homelessness. So around about 300 percent is is a massive figure But it's and it's really worrying. We've seen an even bigger percentage increase for personal independence payment And and and around about a 200 percent increase in council tax arrears and worryingly about another 220 percent on on energy debts What is it that drives places like east marsh west marsh to be So poor compared to other parts of the country? I think we're looking at a number of factors. We're looking at but people are in part-time employment people in the long-term Unemployment people with high high percentages in eastern west marsh with people with long-term disabilities And struggle to get to fine work whether do fine work and the limited by the number of hours that they work people have got struggling with the fuel costs because 19 pre 1919 properties that are difficult to heat difficult to insulate so there's a raft of problems But there's also a really engaged Infrastructure trying to bring people out of poverty in northeast Lincolnshire And particularly in these two wards and the work that's going on is remarkable But the the challenges that individuals face is is huge. So what's the best solution? Well, it depends who you are all of these people that always look for a solution It's gonna be here and some members of the public have different ideas to the experts about what's causing these issues I was talking to two young lads the other day and they was on about the cost of living I said you should have lived through the ages and you would have known what the cost of living was But it's a different generation now, isn't it the wolves tolerate low wages and bad work anybody could walk into a job and now because of Um, how can I say this family tax credit people realize they don't have to work anymore. So they don't let's take advantage of it A lot of people won't work because the way and the way it's often and working so I know people will say well, that's a load of rubbish But I spoke to people and said well, I'm not weird in the time I've paid me rent Pay me council tax. There's no pay me gas electorate. No, no extra to get food in If you look at the at the figures, there has been no inflationary increase to benefits for 10 years other than the one last year And in real terms people on benefits now with about 25% worse off than they were in 2010 With the cost of living increases it hits then that just exacerbates that problem and makes it Looking for an easier way to Oh, I used to like in a cycle that's not getting better for you It's getting worse and worse about a year go by here and makes it more difficult increases It hits then that just exacerbates that problem and makes it more severe and makes it more difficult to manage And in the interim in the short term Increasing benefits by the rate of inflation is the right thing to do But with a quarter of people in the area, right? That's not likely an active as of march 2023 How did this once prosperous town find itself in this situation? Grimsby's fishing here increased benefits at the same prices at the same speed as inflation come on now Who you fooling right now? And it stretches back over a thousand years and by the mid 20th century It had reached its peak when over 500 trawlers a day would leave these shores in search of a catch Then the cod wars happened It seems that the countries that are barren is from the fishing grounds, which have traditionally been ours Are standing back now and taking a market and laughing at us Between 1950 and 1976 the cod wars were a series of disputes between Britain and Iceland Which changed Grimsby and British fishing forever It's like briskly UK vessels have been fishing in Icelandic waters since the 14th century But after the tiny country gained independence from Denmark things changed Iceland expanded the area other countries could fish from its coastline from four nautical miles To an area eventually 50 times that size While the industry was already in retreat these moves along with a declining cod population Decimated British fishing and the EU's common fisheries policy in 1980 Nixon LB resubd appreciate the resub. There it is. I couldn't see it E3 which brought months to restrictions and quote as became the final nail in the coffin Thousands of British fishermen lost their jobs as a result But had to wait until the year 2000 before the government paid out any compensation for the pain caused Grimsby fishing heritage centre retired trawler men still get together once a week To share stories about how they risked their lives to put fish on British plates The young ones of today are struggling Because there isn't the work for them anymore 85 Because there isn't the work For many why the glasses look like that? Are those the ones that adjusted to sunlight gotta be because that's crazy anymore 85 to 90 percent of people in Grimsby had something to do with the fishing industry And it's everybody hard and I think That's why we're like that now in Grimsby We were over fishing If you saw a farmer Yeah, man, all of these fisher town all of these fishermen towns or industry like big plant towns They're all doing bad I don't like is there a case where one of them are doing good? That we just haven't seen Going around showing his cattle when I've been a young me and say what's happening this bloody lunatic And we were catching fish with a rose and Rose and it's breaking my heart in the spawning season because of self fish came on the shoals And I thought why don't we stop? And the end there was fish less fish less fish less fish It used to be great Grimsby When fishing was going I had two families. I had a family at sea and I had a family itself Grimsby to me has gone downhill These days, there's barely any homegrown trawlers left in Grimsby's iconic docks But that doesn't mean the industry is dead Produced by iconic docks, but that's how fish be looking man. Why I look like it's like Rotten or something. It looks slimy doesn't mean the industry is dead Produced from Scotland Iceland the pharaohs and Norway is sold and processed here instead Before being shipped around the UK And at the crack of dawn We get a glimpse of what Grimsby's fishing heritage looks like in the 21st century I kind of want to do this like what he's doing like go check it out and be a part of it for a day, but like I'm just like You know what I'm saying? I'm too and I'm too city I would do it, but I wouldn't like it Good morning Straight in then gents hey and then 275 80 270 a kilo 270 Here at the grip. What is this like actions? Grimsby fish market traders say they used to shift about 7,000 boxers a day Now they're lucky if they hit 7,000 a week Despite the change in fishing fortunes the market CEO Martin Boyers takes a more philosophical view and is far more upbeat than most when it comes to Grimsby's future The industry is is quite complex and what we've managed to do in Grimsby is to be able to diversify So as you've seen today with some of these vessels, we're not just a fishing port anymore We're also an offshore wind farm port. So what's called operations and maintenance And that diversification has allowed us to continue with the Grimsby fish market even at that smaller level as you rightly point out But like a lot of things it's it's not like it used to be Yeah, because everything else is subsidized and taken care of all the bills That fishing market ain't gonna do it no more But it's still here. We're still busy people still eat fish It's a good protein and there's still a good demand for it What does the future look like are you hopeful that things will get better for Grimsby? I think it's a great opportunity and what we've got to do is actually get that message over to the young people in Particularly in a place like Grimsby that there's a lot of jobs available in fish processing It's not about going to sea people just do to think you know if you didn't do any good at school Or you can always go to sea well that was all right in the 1960s, but that's gone But it wasn't supposed to be like this. There's no way. I don't I don't care how much money Is on the line you're not getting me to go up to sea I've never done a do it I don't think I would ever do it if you'd be like man, you got to be on this this ocean For three months, but we'll give you a million dollars. I don't think I'm gonna do it Because the chances of me losing my life are like 60 percent And that's too much of a chance for me 70 percent of people in Grimsby voted to leave the EU in 2016 And it was hoped that brexit would help change the future of britain's fishermen It's an opportunity here to look at one of the ways in which this country will build a Take that control of a massive industry. I'll work out because water's got 200 miles and there's a potential to Do really well for for uk fish martin says it hasn't quite worked out that way But he doesn't regret his further better designs make A lot of the a lot of people's decisions to separate from the EU and the bricks in situation like I'm not educated enough to speak on it like crazy But just from me watching a lot of these videos I see a lot of people are not happy with that decision low-key But they just too prideful to admit that they was wrong Hey It wasn't quite worked out that way, but he doesn't regret his vote to leave the EU. Yeah, yes, it was never as simple Uh towards in the industry for those certainly to me as it was portrayed to the great british public And one of the things you find about the fish industry is that when it's when it's the election is that economically in terms of gdp It's very very small, but in terms of emotion It's very very high. So I just thought it was a bit of a bandwagon and a bit of a cheap trick actually Back in london. We caught up with the conservative MP for great grimsby leonichi She's positive the town is far better off outside the EU and that any damage had already been done Well, let's be clear 70 percent of people in grimsby wanted brexit You know undoubtedly we're a brexit town and people wanted to be free of the EU But people didn't make that decision based on business. They based that wanting to be sovereign country You know when I talk to people about that that's undoubtedly they say yes We know that there are going to be pros and cons with being part of the EU or not being part of the EU So somebody in the comments like explain like Like the whole oh should I watch a video okay now this is big miss them. I think I did watch a video before so I kind of got an understanding of it, but like I want to know like The widespread effect of it all you know People who don't come from grimsby that think that we've got some amazing fishing industry And that brexit has been terrible for us. Well, let me tell you the fishing industry died the day that we joined the common market What do you do to try to stem the losses that we hear about from business leaders in grim I'd just be feeling anybody in these positions of power They'd just be chatting just to make themselves and the decisions that they made sound better Or less impactful Who said before the vote before britain left the european union It was so much easier to do business and actually it was easier to generate profits for grimsby I've worked hard to make sure that people can see a different kind of mp I've been out there. I've been working with people on practical projects helping them to to succeed in areas You know east marsh has been one of the poorest areas in the uk for five decades or more Um, it's not something that's going to be fixed quickly All I can say is i'm working hard making sure I can do the best that I can To really be noisy to grimsby and I have been I've been at the center of government Making sure grimsby being represented Build a school and build a hospital Once you do that Everything's on an up and up man. Once you build that hospital Brand new i'm talking about if they can afford to see you can afford it build a hospital everything around that hospital is going to thrive everything going up Great grimsby had been a labor seat in every election since 1945 Making up part of the so-called red wall that crumbled to the Tories in 2019 Those we spoke to weren't completely sold on their relatively new mp But with a general election just around the corner. There wasn't much appetite for labor either The uh, local area mp. Have you seen much of it? Never see it Um, can't remember what her name is. What's her name now lia? Oh, yeah, lia nicker. Never ever see her Have you ever seen your local area mp? No So she just came on here and just did all that capping. I'm out here with the people I'm doing this and doing that and my face is like come on now. Nobody's seen you. Do you think of your local area mp? Uh, I can't give an opinion Somebody I don't know I won't be voting because it to me don't matter who you vote for They're all those bats The unseen I'm sorry. I try not to be on political, but I call her the unseen mp um Never see her How long does an mp's run in office? Like how long is there when they're voted in how long does their term? Is it the same as the president u.s president four years? And then it's another vote or what? Jane Hilden king was once mayor of northeast Lincolnshire and now works for the fisherman's mission Giving support to retired workers and their families She was born in the east marsh and has a much better understanding than many about how grimsby found itself in this situation We have a thriving docks. We had numerous companies from fish fingers, bird's eye, rosses Fingers, we had the humble bank with all this employment Look around today. No three factories or very few if they are the very small We've lost basically all the oil industries and the big industries from the humble bank And I think generally the public did y'all see them man. This is all subject She just mentioned oil, but I know y'all might have seen this. This is world news or something Somebody was digging in some ice and they found oil I don't know the whole story or where like I know they was probably actually searching for it But they found it Instant billionaires is crazy. Don't let me find the oil Listen So No jobs in the big industries from the humble bank And I think generally the poverty is because no jobs and we are suffering in this area to lack of employment So therefore because of employment what jobs are around are very low paid And of course our people are suffering really badly and I don't think people grasp it I don't think the government grasp it. We put the comments of people in the town to Leonici who told us It is impossible for me to meet or 88,000 residents who live in the constituency I live in Grimsby. I have spent most of my life working in and around Grimsby I meet constituents in the town every week and work hard to represent them and will continue to do so It's fair to say that towns like Grimsby sometimes It's cap. I don't believe you. It's come with an unwanted rep. The people have spoken mutation Post industrial decline as a story heard up and down the country and walking around the town It's hard not to notice the deprivation on display But there's more to a place than just its high street and Grimsby has a proud community For 18 years entertainer Andy Carr had a unique insight into his hometown and what makes its people tick He was the original mighty mariner Grimsby town football club's official mascot Every week he saw thousands of fans make their way here to cheer on their team and their town and his passion Jorge has always Trying to see why is that the mascot though? Like what's the what's the Junior in his love for Grimsby and doesn't understand why it comes with such a reputation It annoys me because I wouldn't you know, I'm a homie. I love living in the area and Grimsby because it's my family The same there's a lot of areas. There's more areas than bad areas for me in Grimsby and Cleetops But it's just a shame that once again Grimsby Cleetops is being tired with the negative brush When actually there's a lot more positive To come out the area and and the people the people in Grimsby and Cleetops, you know There's a lot of good people. Yeah, we've got some bad, you know, there's you know Some unditiables as you get again instantly when he started talking about a bad people He couldn't get this statement out. He was yeah, we got some bad Some undesirables, you know, but uh That mean there's more undesirables than he really wanted to lead on in all towns and cities I just I just wish that um, I just wish that the positives for the area Outweighed the negatives which I actually think they do How do you feel then when you hear about those statistics from the ons? It's one area We're talking about one area of Grimsby Cleetops I haven't to be fair seen the statistics of what the other areas are But what about all the other areas in Grimsby Cleetops? Um, you know that um probably nowhere near the bottom, you know, they've obviously singled it out It's good in one sense that it's been singled out because maybe you can do something about that area But I personally would never move away from Grimsby Cleetops I love living it. You know love living down here and the fact that I'm a big Grimsby town fan I couldn't I couldn't move away and not come to the games But as crowds leave this stadium Sometimes you got to move to grow And if you satisfied being stagnant didn't hope for a show stay where you at or you got a family and you just You like that life stay but if you're trying to go Reach the sky you can't reach it from your hometown. I don't care how great of a hometown you live in People will only see you as that person who you are In that town they'll never see you as more Every other weekend and head home. What sort of situation are they returning to? In some ways it feels like Grimsby has been left behind Depending on who you ask it could be in for a bright future One thing feels certain though that the last couple of years have not helped the situation And if UK living standards don't improve fast It could be the difference between Grimsby's resurgence or further declined They're not bothered about this down here and that's been like it for years What you can see is just rough. It's rubbish everywhere. There's a lot being done And whether or not it's enough that's debatable whether or not it's too late. I doubt it I think that that we've got time to try and turn things around A lot more could be done in this area because I know I'm not the only house with mold or mice either So a lot more could be done to to help There's always a lot more that could be done man. It's just is there money that can be allocated to the to helping Where are we taking this money from? And is it worth to get relocated to where it's being relocated or acts to be relocated? And that's nine times buying out of ten times the problem every time Like yeah, we're not going to take this money from over there to put it here. Sorry Figure it out man. TLO leave a like comment subscribe turn your post notification bell. I hope it all gets better But I'm not ignorant