Not many opportunities at all. Jobs are being taken day by day.
Most of us are on benefits and struggling.
Hard times, innit?
This is Moston,
one of Manchester's less salubrious neighbourhoods,
where we caught up with Corey and his mates.
Are these all yours? No! Are they heck!
Two of them's mine,
and then I've got two little ones in school as well.
Don't draw on the walls.
Well, you seem to have collected
quite a few of the lads from round the estate.
Why do you look after them?
I'm not smoking. You tell 'em!
Don't get mad. I'm not!
You're under arrest! Put the cig out, you're under arrest!
So, what type of options are there for the kids round here?
When they... Workwise, when they get to kind of 15, 16? None.
None. Trouble. Trouble. Trouble. Trouble.
Crime.
CHILD BABBLES
This is the road that I grew up on all my life.
That was my house over there, the corner one.
Are you all right, bro, yeah?
Like Moston, Wythenshawe has a reputation.
But, after years of investment,
the place is on the up.
It wasn't always like that.
In my era, that's when I reckon it was the worst,
Wythenshawe, from the age of like about 13.
Murders were happening, and stuff like that.
Me seeing that as a child...
..as the only path you see, you're going to go down that path.
I used to knock on houses first,
that's something I used to do as a kid.
And if they answered I'd say, "Is my football in your back garden?"
If they didn't answer then I knew they weren't in, cos I knew at
that age, they'd just look at me as a kid, not knowing that I'm going
to rinse the house, I'm going to burgle it. Do you know what I mean?
The school over there, I broke in there and robbed loads of computers.
I was, like, 13.
And then when I was, like, 14,
I got done for ten burglaries and aggravated and stuff like that.
What does aggravated mean?
Got found in the house with a meat cleaver, so... You know what I mean?
Take me through your mind-set where you've decided
to break into someone's house with a meat cleaver.
Some guy tried stabbing me.
Every time I went to burgle a house, I went with a weapon.
I got permanently excluded about year 8,
I got found with weed from school.
By year 9, I was in prison.
INDISTINCT SPEECH
I need cigs. Got no cigs left.
How long have you been here now, then?
We've been in here since...
..Lilly was six months old.
About eight and a half years we've been here now.
She's nine next Sunday.
Last year on her birthday, it was my fucking Christmas do
so I couldn't really do much.
This year it's derby day,
so I can't do much on my little girl's birthday.
Massive deal, derby day.
People take it really seriously. I take it really seriously.
That's me derby day shirt, cup final.
Derby day socks.
Derby day boxer shorts.
What is it like round here?
Rough. Horrible.
We can't even leave the kids' bike out.
Just go missing out the back garden.
That was me on the Manchester Evening News.
A couple years back. They kicked the front door off with a Rambo knife
at three o'clock in the afternoon to get my jewellery.
I'm in a bath at the top of the stairs, that door
and i just hear a bang.
Kicked the door clean off.
Three lads in balaclavas running up the stairs.
Two of them ran in the room and one locked me in the bathroom.
My arse fell out while I was in the bathroom, straight away.
Then I thought, "Well, you can only get me.
"You can't get the kids, can't get the missus.
"Fuck 'em, they're having it." I just opened the door
and I give it to all three of them, stark bollock naked -
all ten inches swinging around!
I'm only joking!
They wanted me jewellery, wanted me gold bracelets.
Well, they weren't having my gold bracelets.
I've worked hard for them.
No illegal activity had ever been made to acquire them.
All legal, worked all my life.
That's above my front door, mate.
You're having that in your fucking skull next time you come.
The system's on its arse. There's nothing for kids. Like benefits,
they're making it harder for people to claim -
people with actual reasons why
they need to claim benefits then they're making it harder
then them kids are going to grow up like us
just because they've got no money and they see their mum struggling.
I don't want to see my mum struggling. That's why I do this.
No job or anything would take me on.
I know that, so...
..I've got to do my thing on the road.
It's the only way. No opportunity.
I'd rather be out here making key, doing all that shit.
Quick money, innit? Easy money.
Sell bud, whiff, crack, anything.
Say hello!
Do you want your red one?
Yeah. No! You've got a blue top on!
I'm sure you said you were thinking of trying to move away from here.
We can't.
You like that one, don't you?
We're not called
fucking Ooga-Boogoo fucking Abdul Patel...Hussein...
..so they don't do nothing for you. What do you mean? We had...
Four of us live in this house. You've seen how small this house is.
They're saying we're adequately homed.
Yeah? Would you... In your personal opinion,
is this adequate for us, this house?
With two kids sharing the same room,
him screaming all night, affecting her school life? No.
But why would being an immigrant affect that?
You tell me.
We come over here and we can't get no help, nothing.
They come over, they get a telly paid for,
they get fucking foreign channels paid for them on Sky,
they get a house given to them, all the rent paid for,
and they get fucking food allowance,
all this allowance, everything.
What do we get? Fuck all. Does that happen, though?
Who told you that happens?
Who told me that happens?
The fucking 150 people that live on the estate that have been
over here a couple of months
that have got a bigger and better house than us.
What have they ever given to this country?
Apart from most of them bring fucking Aids and fucking all that
back over here with them.
You don't mean that. Yeah, I fucking do.
Yeah, I do.
A lot of people would be quite offended by what you're saying.
I couldn't give a fuck.
The NHS is in a complete meltdown
because they're letting too many people in the country.
It can't cope.
My grandad's Pakistani - he come over here. He's an immigrant.
But he come over here and he worked all his life.
He had his own business.
He ran a pub, bought houses,
and he rented them out.
That was his business. He'd never, ever scam anything.
So if you come over here, and you want to work
and you want to pay your rent and you pay into...
I've got no problem with you at all.
The ones that want to come over here and scam
and all they want to do is just feed off the benefits...
No. Did you vote in the EU referendum? Yeah. How...?
Out. Out? Out. Out.
Have you changed your mind at all? No.
Not at all.
Do you think these views are common round here? Yes.
Major. Not just round here.
The whole of the fucking country.
Yo, yo, yo! Dying, mate. Rough!
You look rough.
Where you going? The Vulcan.
What, now? Right now.
RADIO BLARES
RADIO: ..for the derby - Manchester United against Manchester City.
Derby today. United supporters will come to this pub.
360 turn, you'll see the Old Bill there, watching us again.
What's going on today, mate?
I'm hoping to kick fuck out of a red.
Want to smash fuck out of them Munichs, lad.
Why do you call them the Munichs? Cos they're fucking Munichs, lad.
Fuck the aeroplane. Fuck off.
# We're City, we're mad We'll kill your mum and dad. #
I love City. Love 'em to bits.
But the adrenaline rush when you do have a scrap
is non-comparable.
ALL: City! City! City!
The only thing I can explain the adrenaline rush like it
is when I was younger,
is getting a chase off the police.
That feeling you get in your belly.
The adrenaline rush, your legs go to jelly.
There's nothing, no better feeling than it.
It's just a buzz.
Go on, City!
Come here, come on, come on.
When it comes to the Munichs, we fight, we fight, we fight.
When it comes to the police, we run, we run, we run.
SIREN BLARES
YELLING
NO!
Fucking Munichs!
Come on! Come on!
I can't breathe, mate. That's what you get for being fat
and missing the action! Not being able to keep up!
No wonder I get nicked all the time!
Our big focus is the Manchester derby.
It's like being on a date with a horny girl,
a nymphomaniac, and being given Viagra free.
Someone wants to fuck the shit out of you
and you want to fuck the shit out of them.
But if I know you want to fuck me,
mate, I'm taking you to heaven, I'm going to fuck you back so hard,
and that's how it is.
CHEERING
You OK?
I'm living out me car, look. There's all me clobber.
All me clobber's there, all on the back seat.
I'm not fucking about, I'm out of the house!
A silly little argument that got out of hand.
Where are yous off to? The shop.
Where are you getting from the shop?
Going rob some sparklers, innit?
Robbing it! Yay!
You've gone through someone's door to get money.
Obviously it's not the best thing to do.
It's a shit thing for other people as well.
But you've got to survive out here.
You mean burglary? Yeah.
How did that go? All right.
On Strawberry Road growing up,
it was like me, Calum, John, AJ...
But every time I got out of jail,
AJ was always the one at my mum's gaff first,
with a spliff or something, you know what I mean?
My first spliff that I've had for months.
AJ was in a mate's house.
They found out he was there somehow.
Seven of them booted off the doors
and just stabbed him repeatedly, like over 20 times.
And he just died.
It's crazy, innit?
I got shivved in the chest.
And have you carried a knife since? Yeah.
Have you got something on you now. Yeah, yeah, you've got to have it.
Can I see it? Yeah.
Well, I feel safer...
..that I've got that, I do feel safer.
If feds come at me, I can just dash.
My mum bought me a stab vest after AJ was killed.
If you look at it from like a mum's perspective,
that could have been her son.
Did you wear it? Yeah, every day, man. Every day.
People started to call me Bulletproof Jack.
Out of everything, you rob sparklers?!
There's nowt for the kids to do.
It's horrible. There's nothing.
They just go about causing trouble, crime.
Cos there's nowhere for them to play.
Quick! Before it burns!
Well, that was just me, that was my life.
Didn't think of another way of living.
"Oh, should I it get my head down, try and get a job when I'm older?"
Didn't think like that.
I thought I'd just be a criminal forever.
You're abseiling down the walls,
coming through windows or doors.
He gave me five hours to live on arrival.
It was easy to rob someone as well.