Central Grimsby has been named Britain’s “worklessness capital,” with over half of its working-age population relying on out-of-work benefits.
A Channel 4 documentary reveals that 53% of residents in Grimsby’s East Marsh and Port area were on welfare earlier this year. Of those, 33% claim sickness benefits, 11% receive jobseeker’s allowance, and 9% rely on other forms of support.
Life expectancy in the area is just 70 years—12 years below the national average—with over half of residents living in social housing.
Other hotspots for benefit claims include central Blackpool (51%), central Birkenhead (47%), and Drumchapel North in Glasgow (46%).
Kevin O’Sullivan speaks with a local business owner in Grimsby, Chris Carr.
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No one seems to be talking about the nock on effect of the covid shutdown. Many people found they preferred to follow the government advice and they like doing nothing.
COD HEADS IMBRED
susidised county lines…….
Well backed up Chris. I am sure your insight educated Kevin. Spot on
This government has caused the problems in the country!!
If you go to Grimsby you will understand it's a crack head town so avoid were possible
A lot of this goes back to education. The vast majority of those who have no work have little choice in what to do for a job. They do not have sufficient literacy or numeracy or IT skills, they mess about at school and then can only get a low skill job that an immigrant will do better. Added to this they get more on benefits, and the job centre are paid to put them on the sick, which goes back to the 80's and government trying to massage the unemployment figures.
There is a cultural problem in Grimsby a lot of violence, drink and drugs. It’s not good!
The jobs are being reserved for you know who
Its the fault of the politicians that took the fishermen their historical livelihoods away they destroyed community's for Generation,s for a globalist agenda, other islands with intaked fishing communities are still working and happy because they haven't been messed with. And so they should take from the globalist elite or their untertan.
So two generations have been hung out to dry. The area's become plagued with drugs and crime, and you wonder why the third generation has no ambition or drive.
Protect rich Baby Boomers and oligarchs and blame the poor. Typical Rubert Murdoch propaganda.
There was a documentary series called Skint based in Grimsby. You can watch most of it on youtube. Really depressing
for many not working is a lifestyle no problems no council tax no no dentist bills heating allowance free food banks charity shop clothes they get used to it plus they can work on the side weighing in scrap metal to subsidise Their alcohol and drug binges ….aye the kids grow up to do the same and their first in the council house waiting list for being vulnerable. After illegal asylum seekers of course.
Big up the Docks Beers crew! 🍺😋👏
Have you ever been to Grimsby Kevin? Clearly not. Like most port towns , it’s been run down for years. You’re OK in your Southern ivory towers. I suggest you watch the Despatches programme on Channel 4 last night. May educate you.
I’m not even from Grimsby.
Most of the factory jobs hes on about sre using agency staff they can get away with zero contract hours and work as and when not any good if you need a guaranteed income to pay rent
I completely understand the idea of a non-working culture. I’ve got a degree but I grew up in a council area and I see it everywhere.
People are content staying within their bubbles and not even leaving the estate. It’s passed down through generations and I always made sure to distance myself from anyone who swayed me from my own goals and into that culture. I’m passionately against it.
What we get for what we put in is not worth it
No welfare, just a Fair days pay for a fair days work? Can i keep up with the cost of living on my wages? Am i the new working poor? Working 7 days a week, 12 hours a day. Thank you.
Why work when illegals get everything for free and they aint british, If you can get by not working , fill ya boots
Why are all these towns that have had their industries destroyed and pretty much abandoned by government, struggling to get folk working? I bet they are chomping at the bit for shitty zero hour contract jobs with no future prospects.
So, this is what a ‘nanny-state’ looks like? Laziness and sadness. No thanks.
Why did they end The Fish Dock Races?
Bla bla bla…always looking for excuses. I came to Grimsby almost 20 years ago. No job, no money, no my place to live. Started from walking to every agency and knocking to companies doors to find a job. I have been seriously ill for many years. I have a disability, but was never on benefits and was always able to find a job. Now, I am successful manager with great professional qualifications and make a really good money. So what is stopping all the other people from work or investing in their future by going to college/Uni? When I was working for fish factories in Grimsby no English person wanted to do my job. So what job did I take away from "well motivated and hard working English"? Victim mentality-this is what Grimsby is. People here are still dreaming about the days when Grimsby was great and money was laying on streets. But it is difficult to be great with such a mentality. Ohhh…sorry, I forgot that many of them who say there is no job have no skills, no qualifications and poor attitude, but expect to be paid a salary of a Managing Director. On the other side, the fact is that the town is run terrible by the local council. Freshney Place "renovation" is a prime example. Or "well planned" and delivered on time works on the Corporation Bridge. If I was planning my work same as council has planned work on the Corporation Bridge I would be on benefits too.
Bring bk the fishing
its been dismantled by different goverments fishing industry gone from largest in the world to a woodyard and car parks for ships
We often hear about getting people off benefits and into work. Most people on benefits are working.
Income is so low for most people that after tax two thirds of their income goes on renting a room in a house share with half a dozen other people and still people wonder why so many have no incentive to work. Work doesn't pay. The only thing worse than spending your days at home broke, is spending your days working in some awful, low paid job you hate and still being broke.
I'm 62. I live rural north Yorkshire dales. There are no jobs. And if you don't have a car it's a pointless objective. I'm not in benefits at present but I will be applying next year.
I've never lived in Grimsby, but I have lived in North Lincolnshire and Lincolnshire all my life. I live around 30 miles out of Grimsby.
I have worked constantly for the last 27 years from leaving the education system at 21 until now at the age of 48. My father always worked as my grandfather always worked. My mum has her own business, too. It's certainly not everyone who is lazy. Sure, there are some, like every other town across the UK, that has its fair share of lazy people, but you can't put everyone in the same category.
The truth is that there are many contributory factors why the whole area is deprived. From loss of traditional industries that employed a huge % of the local population to constant underfunding and investment in the area for decades, to the majority of jobs being low paid manual jobs, poor housing conditions, high crime rates. The list goes on and on.
Whilst there maybe some better quality job starting to be created, what needs to be remembered is that there has been such a large passage of time where there has been so few good employment opportunities in the area that it is going to take a long time for those new jobs and new investments to start having a wider affect on the area. It's going to take years of construction, more job creation, training people before the full positive effects upon the local economy, and life in general are seen. It's not going to change overnight after decades of neglect.
Another important factor to consider is that it's an aging population. Like many of our left behind towns, not many people from outside want to come to live in the area and the local young, if they get any opportunity to leave, try to find pastures new elsewhere. You can't blame them but what it means is those that are left are older people and older people tend to have more illness, sickness, disabilities etc. The average UK age is 40.7 years old. In Grimsby it is 42 and rising.