Whenever I see videos like this I always come back to the same thought. Britain has always had its share of shitholes, like any country--the squalor of medieval cities, the tenements at the end of the 19th century/early 20th century--but at least they were OUR shitholes. When you're dealing with your own people, you always have a chance at improving the situation, because ultimately it's a material problem.

What we have now is a spiritual problem, and the people occupying these places have no connection to us whatsoever. Why should they care that the grand Victorian buildings in the town centre are derelict? Their ancestors didn't build them. They don't know any different.

Perhaps I'm a coward for leaving the UK rather than staying and fighting the decline. The way I see it, things will not change until people are forced to confront this decline through some kind of economic crisis or civil unrest; something on their doorstep that they can no longer ignore. At the moment, the vast majority of British people are still too comfortable to acknowledge that there is a problem.