Those Happy Days #4 Abandoning vehicles is our game, but obviously it’s others we’ll blame.!

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They’re so awful and they just get worse. Yes, YouTuber’s have ruined the culture of living freely in vehicles in the UK.

I’m not going to watch the latest video thanks to you guys here, it’ll just upset me. I live in a little village in one of the UK’s most popular National Parks, and vanlifers are nothing but a nuisance sorry. All summer long we get a random van parked in front of our house as soon as one of our cars moves.

This is coming from someone who believes in the right to roam, and has lived in a van myself.

The picturesque, rural B roads which I have to drive to work each day are just lined with vans, it’s literally turned one of the most wild and beautiful parts of the country into a car park.

They don’t pay local businesses for accommodation, and they spend all their money in Tesco. Now the local council is spending a lot of money on building overnight park-ups when there aren’t enough affordable homes for locals to live in. But they won’t use them, they’ll want to continue clogging up the beauty spots.

It’s such an arrogant and un-thought out statement to just say ‘we help the local area by boosting the economy’. I’m all for sustainable tourism, but as someone who is from one of the top tourist destinations in the UK, it’s a sensitive and complex issue at the moment. Vanlifers have done NOTHING to support this area, the rise of tick tokers and vloggers over exposing the area is a real issue too. For the first time it actually made me not want to live here anymore this summer 😢 Worzel can F off.
 
Sunshine99 said:
They’re so awful and they just get worse. Yes, YouTuber’s have ruined the culture of living freely in vehicles in the UK.

I’m not going to watch the latest video thanks to you guys here, it’ll just upset me. I live in a little village in one of the UK’s most popular National Parks, and vanlifers are nothing but a nuisance sorry. All summer long we get a random van parked in front of our house as soon as one of our cars moves.

This is coming from someone who believes in the right to roam, and has lived in a van myself.

The picturesque, rural B roads which I have to drive to work each day are just lined with vans, it’s literally turned one of the most wild and beautiful parts of the country into a car park.

They don’t pay local businesses for accommodation, and they spend all their money in Tesco. Now the local council is spending a lot of money on building overnight park-ups when there aren’t enough affordable homes for locals to live in. But they won’t use them, they’ll want to continue clogging up the beauty spots.

It’s such an arrogant and un-thought out statement to just say ‘we help the local area by boosting the economy’. I’m all for sustainable tourism, but as someone who is from one of the top tourist destinations in the UK, it’s a sensitive and complex issue at the moment. Vanlifers have done NOTHING to support this area, the rise of tick tokers and vloggers over exposing the area is a real issue too. For the first time it actually made me not want to live here anymore this summer 😢 Worzel can F off.
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I absolute hate his entitlement and rhetoric when it comes to this matter. When they broke the law on their Italy trip by illegally parking in tourist spots, he said "we wanted to see if locals subscribe to a life of freedom like us".

These two are a nuisance and annoyance everywhere they go and never give anything back. They only ever take without asking. I vividly remember their trip along the English coast in Morgan years ago and they would park that monstrosity at the beach promenade every single night, blocking the view for the people living there.
 
November_again said:
I absolute hate his entitlement and rhetoric when it comes to this matter. When they broke the law on their Italy trip by illegally parking in tourist spots, he said "we wanted to see if locals subscribe to a life of freedom like us".

These two are a nuisance and annoyance everywhere they go and never give anything back. They only ever take without asking. I vividly remember their trip along the English coast in Morgan years ago and they would park that monstrosity at the beach promenade every single night, blocking the view for the people living there.
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I think the world you're looking for is 'freeloaders'
 
There is an article in The Daily Fail today, about van lifer's parking in the cemetery in Scarborough, causing havoc. How low can you go?
I know from friends and family, in other seaside towns and rural areas there have been problems. We have even had trouble in London. Those two
stealth camped in my borough. This causes problems with the limited parking spaces, and amount of traffic.
 
And he says they're still planning on going to the US.

As long as they go to cities or college towns they'll be able to find vegan food. But once they get into the "Real America" they're so keen on seeing, (like Indiana, Kansas or South Dakota) stores and restaurants selling vegan products will be few and far between.

Also, they should hide that American Flag duvet. Americans take Old Glory very seriously and don't take kindly to foreigners using it as bedding.
 
We're suffolk coast and have the same issue with vans parked up along the seafront. I can't get parked anywhere near to take my child to the beach - and more than once I've had her ask me "what is that man doing" (looks left to see almost totally naked bloke sleeping in a van with the doors open right next to the kids playpark).
They may well chuck stuff away, but the bins are overflowing with supermarket rubbish (no they're not constantly eating at the local cafe or chippy surprisingly), and you now have to pay to use the local loos at the beach because obvs otherwise they are taken over by campers having a morning tit in them.
Worzel's optimism that they could just "fine those who litter" - you've got no fixed address? How on earth would that work?
 
These vanlifer/Youtuber cocks have spoilt it for everyone. Our van is part converted - no kitchen or rock n roll bed, just a pop-top roof, fiamma awning with 3 standard seats in the back.

I've had folk come onto me when I've legitimately parked to visit places - not even pulled anything out, just literally been me, the missus, 2 kids and my parents. So I legit use the 6 seats. I invite them to take a look at our van and explain not everyone who has a van is a knobber out to make a mess or take the piss. I've now just taken to using our VW Sharan even though its not as versatile when me and the kids do a bit of fringe surfing on our wooden body boards. I have to jerry rig towels to get out of the wetsuit or folk walking by get an eyeful of my whalelike visage, that obviously isn't an issue in the van.

As a responsible van owner - we pay for proper campsites - wherever we go - minimum of 2/3 nights as I can't abide unpacking/packing up for just a few hours - too much effort!! If we are in the van and its one night - I'll book a Travelodge or Premier Inn etc.

I simply will not allow more than an overnight wee in our portable bog - I'm the only one who empties it, so if anyone is allowed to emergency 2 - its only me!

I'd possibly nut Worzel irl as I feel he's the type to rant on about the 'injustices' they face - stop being part of the problem mate, you are clearly well off enough to not be the part of the problem, but clearly want your cake and to eat it, wherever you please, without a bye or leave to the local folk or others around you.

I actually welcome the various council's stances of starting to 'shutdown' this epidemic of self entitled stopover nonsense. Get booked into a proper site with facilities to handle the waste you produce and stop coming out with the 'supporting local business' shite you spout - you only do that if they suffer you videoing with a free lump of cake and some beverage.

When we stay in Newquay, we stay on a lovely, well appointed site, where we park the van up for upto 17 nights in August, then use the local buses as much as we can by buying a rover pass if available. Yes, its a pain dragging our gear about by bus, but a lot of Cornish car parks are now having height restriction bars to curb the overnighting knobs. A pain for the early morning surf brigade - but you cut your cloth accordingly - do some research and make solid local contacts and you will find a solution.

Sorry for a ranty post - but their entitled aggrieved viewpoint is bleeping bollocks - they are along with other like minded Youtubers, the main driver in the epidemic problem that we now see at beauty spots and on the coast.
 
Well exactly, people staying on campsites also support the local economy, they too eat at local cafes and frequent pubs etc as who wants to cook every meal on holiday?! But also support campsites which are generally small businesses.
Worzel just wants everyone else to fund his lifestyle choice, no better than someone expecting to live on benefits really without putting anything back into the system. They expect to have water, place to park, refuse collection, toilets, street lighting and so on without contributing anything anywhere towards it. A few coffees isn't going to cut it.
I honestly don't get his aversion to paying for a nights camping, find it really distasteful he expects everything for nothing.
Also can't get over the amount of people who feel sorry for them, that they deserve a break after their "rough year" JFC they spent most of the year on holiday or hiding away in their parents spare rooms.
 
Camperfan said:
Well exactly, people staying on campsites also support the local economy, they too eat at local cafes and frequent pubs etc as who wants to cook every meal on holiday?! But also support campsites which are generally small businesses.
Worzel just wants everyone else to fund his lifestyle choice, no better than someone expecting to live on benefits really without putting anything back into the system. They expect to have water, place to park, refuse collection, toilets, street lighting and so on without contributing anything anywhere towards it. A few coffees isn't going to cut it.
I honestly don't get his aversion to paying for a nights camping, find it really distasteful he expects everything for nothing.
Also can't get over the amount of people who feel sorry for them, that they deserve a break after their "rough year" JFC they spent most of the year on holiday or hiding away in their parents spare rooms.
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The final straw for me with these two was when they were going from door to door asking if anyone had an outside tap so they could refill their van. It's not like they're short of cash, just book into a campsite and fill up there you grifters.
 
Camperfan said:
Well exactly, people staying on campsites also support the local economy, they too eat at local cafes and frequent pubs etc as who wants to cook every meal on holiday?! But also support campsites which are generally small businesses.
Worzel just wants everyone else to fund his lifestyle choice, no better than someone expecting to live on benefits really without putting anything back into the system. They expect to have water, place to park, refuse collection, toilets, street lighting and so on without contributing anything anywhere towards it. A few coffees isn't going to cut it.
I honestly don't get his aversion to paying for a nights camping, find it really distasteful he expects everything for nothing.
Also can't get over the amount of people who feel sorry for them, that they deserve a break after their "rough year" JFC they spent most of the year on holiday or hiding away in their parents spare rooms.
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And the annoying thing is these two are not poor. They keep banging on about living an alternative lifestyle off grid blah blah but they could so easily afford a campsite. But I guess they think they're above all that as they aren't on holiday but travellers or something.
 
Jelly Bean said:
And the annoying thing is these two are not poor. They keep banging on about living an alternative lifestyle off grid blah blah but they could so easily afford a campsite. But I guess they think they're above all that as they aren't on holiday but travellers or something.
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Every time they've been to a camp site, Worzel kicked off in the vlogs about how expensive they are because a lifetime of freeloading has made them so entitled, that they don't think they should pay for services. But then, we're also talking about the guy who shamed his 9 Euro per night pilgrimage accommodation.
On the other hand, they make so much money from the gullable idiots who financially support them, that they often stay in expensive hotels and enjoy spas off camera as LTT revealed.
 
I've just checked and our potential 2025 booking for the site in Cornwall - fully serviced grass pitch with leccy, water and drainage for 16 nights will be a smidge under 1400 quid. Should we happen to venture across to Switzerland as has been mentioned by the boss... it'll be a few nights of hotels on the way out and back - usually etap/ibis type. Plus, the site fees in Switzerland, I'm guessing same as the last year so about 9/10 nights so about 700CHF or roughly 625 quid.

So it works out roughly the same for us to do Cornwall as it does to do Switzerland - thats obviously just the site fees - fuel/food is another matter as away away is much further and has to include a ferry/eurotunnel crossing.

We try to alternate each year between home or away - last couple of years have been away back to back away away due to the age of the kids and getting kid prices on where we've been - but now thats pretty much finished due to their ages, it'll be back to alternate trips.

Dragging this comment, kicking and screaming back on topic....

For all their tightness of stopping in Tesco/Asda car parks - 5 litre bowsers of water are only a few quid in big supermarkets - for about 10-20 quid they could fill most vans water tanks. 70ltrs is standard - so thats 14 bowsers at Tesco's price of £1.50 - thats 21 quid - from EMPTY! Surely the parents wouldn't begrudge a 'starting' fill-up before a trip. Then its on £1.50 per 5 ltrs - I'd happily pay that if we were mooching in a supermarket car park - not that we would as thats a bit 'povvo' as the daughter would say.
 
Sunshine99 said:
Was it an undeclared ad maybe? Always best to report that to the ASA, it can get them into trouble and rightly so.
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Deffo undeclared - its what they do. Clear breach as well - close up on the rental firm logo, then Worzel bleats the full details later in the vid. Might even be mentioned in vid description etc.

Scarborough one is still up - acting like info but an ad underneath it all.
 
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Did you actually buy it this time, Worzel?
 
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