A former “dark tourist” who visited Chernobyl and was arrested by the Russian authorities has risked every thing once more – by visiting England’s “roughest street”.
Video blogger Benjamin Rich defined on his “Bald and Bankrupt” channel how he was “supplied intercourse on England’s worst avenue” by a woman with a black eye. Benjamin politely handed the obviously distressed Brummie a £10 and declined her “jiggy jiggy” offer.
His visit left him very depressed about the state of the nation. He explained: “You can’t help but think when you see things like this that Britain’s glory days are so long gone and so far behind us that I can’t see how we ever get them back.”
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Benjamin first checked into a dirty B&B that which reminded him of the Russian jail the place he was locked up after sneaking into the top-secret Baikonur Cosmodrome. Then he wandered alongside the town’s Soho Road, declaring the wealth of Indian and Pakistani clothes retailers.
A couple of minutes away, as he walked down streets ankle-deep in litter, Benjamin was accosted by a younger girl with a black eye, clearly down on her luck, who presents him “business”.
When he innocently requested the clearly determined younger girl what sort of enterprise she meant, she clarified “jiggy jiggy.”
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Social justice campaigner Imran Hameed stated that some working women alongside Soho Road are so determined they are going to settle for as little as £5 intercourse.
“Sex alone would be £20, but they would accept less depending on how bad they want drugs. Lots of people exchange drugs for sex as well,” he advised Birmingham Live.
“They would take £5 if need be, that would buy a wrap of drugs for a quick hit.”
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One Soho Road intercourse employee, who gave her title as Danielle, additionally claimed that she had been repeatedly raped, attacked and robbed whereas soliciting on Soho Road.
She stated she had been promoting intercourse for cash since she was simply 16 years outdated. She is now 34. “I started in brothels and escorting,” she defined.
Local café house owners say they shut early, as a result of the highway might be harmful after darkish: “You’ve got druggies walking around like zombies, gangs racing around and prostitutes on the street,” one saud. “Things turn a bit nastier of a night-time.”
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The space of Birmingham that Benjamin explores is really grim. Some of the streets within the terminally run-down space have been fitted with imitation entrance doorways and home windows, in an try and disguise the truth that half of the neighbourhood has been boarded-up.
He stated that it was clear that, within the “sixth-largest economy in the world, none of the money being made in the City of London is trickling down to places like this”.
Many of the folks he encounters in his travels say they do not know why they keep within the run-down areas which have turn into their house.
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Benjamin visited a variety of different UK locations in his “state of the nation” roundup, and all over the place he discovered the identical sense that Britain’s greatest days had been over.
Pointing out one grand outdated constructing in Weston-Super-Mare, he despairs of ever seeing a restoration: “Look at this lovely old building, now totally derelict. There are homeless people sleeping in there.
“We’re in the centre of a major British city and homeless people just sleeping rough. You can’t help but think, when you see things like this that Britain’s glory days are long gone, and so far behind us that I can’t see how we ever get them back.”
He provides that in lots of different nations that he’s visited, the Czech Republic for instance, folks appear to care much more about their heritage.
‘They’d maintain it restored, however right here in Britain we do not give a s*** about our architectural historical past. That’s why lovely outdated buildings that had been as soon as constructed by craftsmen with their arms appears like absolute s*** these days.”
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