It's not to different from a lot of working class towns world over with social economic issues from my travels. Nothing to do with 1066 and I'd say a lot of other points in the article.

I'm not in the UK anymore and been watching a UK YouTuber going around old towns https://www.youtube.com/@wanderingturnip/videos, some themes are not to different from a US YouTuber I watch going around US towns https://www.youtube.com/@PeterSantenello/videos