UK youth unemployment: the UK's worst ten cities

[upsidedownwalrus]

Oooo, I hope so. There is a definite lack of hen parties in Hastings.
It has changed and is changing (it is still spending an EU grant for around £200m), but until there is more work here or the train link to London becomes much faster, it won't become like Brighton.

Hastings is loads better than Brighton in any important way. It still has a thriving fishing harbour, the beach is never too crowded, and there are all kinds of interesting shops on the sea front because the rents are so cheap – you can rent a small shop right on the front for about £2,000 per year, so there is barely a chain in sight. And you can walk to beautiful countryside and secluded coves. Sunday lunch for a fiver and a pint of Harvey's for £2.50. Plus, of course, there is the Jack in the Green festival.

yeah - i was just thinking that when I was a kid, Brighton was so rundown and depressing, you'd never have known that it would become so expensive and 'trendy'...

 

[shagnasty]

The young have probablly forty odd years of employment in front of them so to write them of means condemming them to a long period not having money to start a family raise their children etc.I would help if there was genuine training .training which gives them a trade or ability to take many other jobs .not the training you get now which makes them fodder for macjobs

 

[Philip Pomper]

Having lost the "most violent town in the UK" crown to Newport, here at last is something that the people of Hull can be proud of.

I thought Barrow-in-Furness had that title. Oh well.

 

[nightbreed]

Interesting to see Hastings in there, a lone Southern town in the midst of the North (+ Birmingham).

I wonder what happened in Hastings to screw it over so much?

Have you ever been to Hastings??

The place reeks of depression and has done since the Normans invaded!!

 

[derf]

Having been to the top 7 and lived in 3 and 4 this news is failing to make my heart go all wobberly. I bet some far right political groups are booking their coach trips there right now to blame immigration for the situation.

 

[goosegrease]

Have you ever been to Hastings??

The place reeks of depression and has done since the Normans invaded!!

REINSTATE ANGLO SAXON RULE!! DEATH TO THE NORMANS. The BNP don't mention the Normans in their race policies, or are they Norse? Actually, fuck it.
(your not the only one whose bored)

 

[Roadkill]

Having been to the top 7 and lived in 3 and 4 this news is failing to make my heart go all wobberly. I bet some far right political groups are booking their coach trips there right now to blame immigration for the situation.

They've been trying that in Hull for years, and although they do have a presence in the city, the BNP have never done much at any election they've contested. Thing is, as I used to like pointing out to racist wankers on local boards and in real life, they should be pathetically grateful to the immigrants of various origins for the number of new businesses they've started. The impact on bits of the city has been really positive. When I was younger I remember Spring Bank as a bit of a wasteland, with half its premises boarded up and derelict. Now there are very few empty premises down there, and a whole load of cafes, food shops, restaurants and so on. The local boneheads prefer not to see that, though...

Anyhow, on topic, I'm not at all surprised. The city's suffered from high unemployment and all the problems of entrenched poverty and social exclusion that follow on from it for a long time, but it's worsened in the last couple of years. The impact of the recession on the poorest areas of the country has been devastating, and it's sounded the death knell for a fair bit of what's left of the country's manufacturing sector. Several large employers in Hull have shut down or cut staff, and not enough has sprung up to replace them. The situation will ease when the economy picks up, but a lot of the underlying problems will still be there and will remain until there's a concerted political effort to redevelop economically fragile areas of the country like east Yorkshire.

Incidentally, although I don't know Hastings, I rather endorse littlebabyjesus's remarks. I like Hull for a lot of the same reasons.