Living with rats | poverty in the 1970s | London | 1970s Bermondsey | We was all one | 1972 

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Most of these tenements have been demolished. My family came from a tenement that stood in Burgess Park as it’s known today

Blame communism

Lovely people! Bloody animals more like!

We dont have to imagine it. I live in a mid terrace house in East Lancashire and have had episodes of rats under the floorboards and in the loft. They are not scared of humans because theres so many of them. Confident rats scuttling around in broad daylight. Its sickening

We’ve got really huge ones in Australia- they’re called wallabies!

it’s still happening in london. hackney is awash with rats. and the rats don’t give a fuck. and they’re biters too! everywhere else they’re scared of humans. but in london they’re the boss.

What's it called?

@@arnoldlayne9918 we was all one

@@jamesmacdonald5881 thank you

Non-BRITISH. The country is "The UK", and comprised of English, Welsh, Irish and Scottish people (among others).

You should try to understand - just replay the video a few times. The accents aren't that strong...just be glad they're not Glaswegian, then subtitles would be a must.

Primal Convoy I was speaking about the English LANGUAGE, which is not my mother tongue... Sorry if that was unclear, I know what the UK is 🙄

DIETRICHCICCONE Yeah, I visited Scotland a few years back, wasn’t easy to understand 😳😂

@@mirgri7207 yes I got your point. Sincere apologies on behalf of my ignorant countrymen.

London is also riddled another kind of rats if you get me.

@@Cal-Valhalla no?

Exactly just ignore them people who don't appreciate that we are living in the present

@@Jake.03-g3k indeed jake we should

I think people always think that because of nostalgia and by this causes more and more hate in the present like I see comments like "oh no smartphones" oh life was so much simpler "oh no technology" but just imagine if modern technology existed back then they will probably be in love with it and mostly forget that this technology that they are hating on are actually keeping us entertained and actually curing people from the virus so no need to complain just because you miss your childhood I mean I miss my childhood but most people take it too seriously that they hate what we have today

@@Jake.03-g3k very true .. your right ... nostalgia gives ppl a sense of euphoria ... ppl have fond memories from particular moments in the past and block out all the bad things ... this is why when ppl view random videos shot in 1940s Britain .. they don’t mention the trauma ,wash houses , slums / poverty , ptsd from war etc , .. coz i bet ppl from those times would love to have experience the improvements that have been made

Wake up the documentary is about poverty.

There was a rat climbing up a tree outside my classes window in Japan the other day. It's an international school, where very rich and famous Japanese send their kids. In one house, down the road, next to a Porsche, there was a dead rat under a garden fence...

Moved in to a flat, where the previous tenants were evicted for illegally breeding small dogs and cats (- we were told, after having moved in -). I caught a dozen of them in the old fashioned wooden mouse traps, over a few months. I was advised against poison. They go away to die inside the walls and the roof, and leave an awful smell. I have felt a strange sense of grief, looking at the little fellas, lying there. Not that I gave them a tearful send off with a 21 gun salute or anything..

@@jasonayres Poisons also harm other wildlife and pets if they catch a poisoned rat and eat it.

@@jhibberd6290 🙂👍Thanks. I hadn't thought of that.

@@jasonayres I 100% support killing destructive disease ridden vermin. But sympathy one living being to another in the face of death is just healthy compassion.

Yep!

To late the damage has been done. Close the door on your way out.

Really? It was the Socialist policies of post war governmemts that led to Britain's highest ever levels of prosperity and lowest levels of poverty by the end of the 1970's. Sadly after 40 years of Thatcherism (and that includes Blair's New Labour) poverty levels are nearly as bad as they were in the 1930's.

@@freebornjohn6876 "Poverty"

It was seen a giant leap for mankind not just Texans. And the bloke was right, it cost billions to fake that & $56,000,000 per day since that. Could of housed the world but as usual screw poor people.

@@thomasmcdonnell7914 he never said they faked it or that they've paid huge amounts since the first landing to cover it up. How can he be right about something he never said? Re housing the world the USA gives huge amounts in foreign aid, the most of any country. In addition to that why should they take on responsibility to 'house the world' as you put it? Surely housing is the responsibility of each countries respective governments.

How exactly were these people disadvantaged because of their race?

@@samnicholson5051 How exactly was my comment talking about disadvantaged people?

You're confusing race and class. Personally I don't like the term as it refers to a lack of racial discrimination. I would rather target and define the racial discrimination itself, and of course the racists.

@@PERCYxyz are you sure it’s me that’s confusing it?

@@rollerbladinggeek5507 Yes. The term "white privilege" (which I do not like personally for previously mentioned reasons), relates to the lack of racial discrimination white people face. It does not relate to their economic class.