00:00To be honest, I think that every area in Birmingham has got a grotty element.
00:05I don't think there's bits of Birmingham that are more grotty than others.
00:08I think that we've got similar issues in lots of areas and it's just,
00:15these are the bits the council needs to sort themselves out with,
00:18like homelessness and things like this.
00:20These are prevalent in the city centre. I live in the city centre.
00:24That's got its grotty areas too, even though it looks nice to the tourists.
00:28So I don't think we should be looking at it in terms of this area is grotty,
00:32that area is grotty, there's grotty bits everywhere, you know what I mean?
00:35So I live in Erdington and there are parts of Erdington High Street which are awful.
00:46We've got so-called police, urban police, whatever they call themselves,
00:53going up and down trying to keep it tidy, keep people off it.
00:59But there doesn't seem to be any respect for where you live.
01:04I don't know that I've seen enough of the city to describe it as run down.
01:10This has actually got sort of an unnatural polish to it, I would say.
01:14And if you look at the sort of trappings of colonialism, they feel very empowering.
01:19But down at the street level, I don't see anything as grotty.
01:22It just feels human to me and human in a very inclusive way.
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