I was just drinking a lot, so I went into a hostel.
I'll find this little monster and bring him down.
Has he sharted?
Did you see a nine-year-old kid throw a brick through your
car window?
Welcome to Wythenshawe.
People are waking up. They're actually getting ready to fight back.
The sun is out and the buds are blooming in Manchester.
420 is the annual cannabis festival, where we found Mikey and Jack.
Jack has been struggling to find a job that will pay the rent
in his hostel.
How have you been? What's going on? I've been all right.
I ended up getting a job,
just at a call centre, so that was all right.
What's the money like? It's pretty shit, to be honest.
Is it? Yeah. But I just needed a job for now,
because anything's better than being on the dole, I think.
But then I'm thinking about how much the rent's going to take!
How are you?
I'm all right. Just...
Just been busy, really, doing my thing.
Just trying to keep my head down a little bit.
Yo!
So, what do you mean when you say you're keeping your head down?
Why is that? Someone phoned up and said that...
I am training up an army of activists through the MMA classes
to violently extort other activist groups, which I'm not.
That's just sort of, erm...
It's going a bit extreme. I wouldn't say that I'm doing that.
Someone's just a coward, don't want to speak to me in person, do they?
You are training up an army of activists, though, aren't you?
Yeah, of course. But that's what we need.
We need a working-class army.
People, when they grow up round here, they tend to stay in the neighbourhood?
Yeah, well, we had a family that obviously lived across the road from
school, and they're still there. The cousin's in the same year as me.
Speak of the devil, that's him there.
Kyle! Yeah, he'll be going to work.
So, yeah, people generally do stay around here.
Does your granny and grandad? Are they still there?
They're just coming out the house now, I can see them going in the car.
There's my nana. Nana!
She's hard of hearing.
Come here. Give us a big hug.
My nan and grandad, they were one of the first Irish families who moved over.
They didn't choose to come to Wythenshawe, they just got shoved in Wythenshawe, sort of thing.
And they just obviously stayed and never left,
and it just went from there.
Jimmy comes from a family of immigrants.
His grandparents moved here from Ireland 35 years ago.
But like with a lot of people we met,
immigration was one of the main reasons he voted in the EU referendum.
I voted leave, if I'm honest.
It's a small island, and I just think that when you're letting
people in and letting people in, it's just going to be too crowded.
I remember reading people on Facebook saying, if you vote
to leave, you're a bigot and you've damaged your country and all that stuff.
I think it's just a bit unfair.
So don't put me in a bad light.
Then people start not wanting to follow us cos they think I'm daft.
Not everyone we met had views about immigration as measured as Jimmy.
Did any of you vote in the Brexit referendum?
Yeah. What did you vote? I voted out. Why?
What did you think would happen after Brexit?
Is it easy to get jobs round here?
What do you mean? Who is coming in and taking them?
And what, you think they are taking the jobs?
We have been into places, and they just talk...
How do you feel about that?
Why?
It is not about the colour of skin,
and I am quite convinced it is not a racial issue,
it is a deprivation, it is a poverty issue.
It certainly isn't a colour issue.
It's not. It's people living in conditions of poverty...
..and then trying to combat them conditions with very little support.
That's the problem, that's the problem.
Hold on, it's coming.
I don't know what's spicy.
Well, I'm not having it. Do you want to get a plateful?
I want to take it home.
OK.
Every Friday afternoon,
Greg puts on free chicken for anyone who comes through the door.
He says demand is growing.
I am conscious of the fact that there's people right now that can't
buy a bag of toffees for the kids, that's the reality of it.
But if we can provide a couple of meals in a week, or maybe more,
then that should release a little bit of cash where they can...
Why shouldn't they treat the kids? Why shouldn't they treat the kids to
something nice once in a while?
I do it, but I am not comfortable with the fact that there are certain
people who can't do that.
That is just appalling.
No space.
Can I have a bit for our Richard, then? Yeah, of course you can.
He can have it, I can't.
Oh, don't film me, I've got no teeth in!
My son, I'm going to take him a bit of chicken, yeah.
Of course I am.
Nice one, thank you.
It had been weeks since we had last seen Mikey.
He had stopped updating the community action network website,
and there were rumours that he had been demanding money from
the activists at the squat.
I heard that Mikey was demanding half the resources.
That is what a lot of people at the squat said - he outright was an extortionist, etc.
This and that. Everyone was a bit worried about obviously...
like, Mikey's dojo coming down and smashing everyone's heads in.
The police got called, and that was the last I heard of him.
I wouldn't like to say he had gone mad with power,
because that is a bit strong, innit?
But I think it is something his friends should talk to him about.
The next few years... Mikey's completely derailed now.
I hope he's not lost his job, I really do.
Some of the organisers said to me that you had been round there...
..demanding a cut of the donations that they were taking.
I just wanted to make sure that that money was going to an organisation
or a service that was actually going to give it to the homeless kids,
that was going to go to the homeless kids.
It's not my fault they are a bunch of pussies and want to run to the police, is it?
And they should be scared, as well.
What's going on with work? I'm not actually in work at the minute.
Irrespective of what people are saying,
I didn't get sacked because of my...
because of violence or anything like that.
I got sacked because I was pissed and didn't go in,
at the end of the day.
And, you know what? I'm 28, so fuck it.
It's fight night, and Jimmy is preparing for battle.
This isn't a big venue, but it is a big fight.
Jimmy is fighting for his career.
Win this, and he will be back on the bill at Manchester's biggest arena.
How important is this fight, Jimmy?
I have put me life and soul into boxing.
There have been times when it has been difficult, and I've thought,
"This isn't working out, should I do something else?"
But I have always got my head down and believed that my time
will come good.
Well, we have definitely been demonised.
You can call us feral, you can call us chavs, you can call us pikeys,
you can call us hoodies.
If you wanted to make slanderous or derogative comments about other
recognised cultures, they are protected in law.
Us, we don't get any of that.
They can go round slagging me all they want, they are just a fucking bunch of cowards.
The never say it to my face, they all look down when they see me.
You know what I mean? They're all pussies.
Sat around in the squat,
talking about fucking conspiracy theories and chemtrails.
It is just a perpetuating circle, a downward spiral.
I was really close with Mum, especially when she was ill.
My dad had to work to keep the household up more hours than he probably
wanted to, so I just had to look after her, make sure that she was OK.
My mum was a big part of my boxing.
She used to support me a lot.
She always told me, "Just do your best, do whatever makes you happy,"
all that sort of stuff, like a good parent tells you to do.
She never seen me fight as a professional,
so I always get a blade of grass and I just stick it in my wallet,
and then when it is time to wrap up on fight night,
I always stick it in the bandages so she is there in spirit.
If you have got a big crack in your ceiling,
chances are it is not going to fix itself.
You can deny it's there,
you can distract people's attention away from the crack,
you can put a lovely vase with flowers on the corner,
but until you start to fix the crack, it is only going to get worse.
So my suggestion would be, quite strongly,
is that we start fixing the crack.
Something needs to be done.
What's going on with the job? I quit after, like, a few days.
Unfortunately, Jordan's in the wind.
I hope he's OK.