Tony Harrison represents Britain as a divided society that he hopes will become UNITED. Is our society as divided???? DO WE NEED THE PHILOSOPHY REFLECTED IN THE POETRY OF TONY HARRISON in 2018? Spot the rhetorical Q!
How posh is Parliament..Channel Four News..
https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-qa-how-posh-is-parliament
48% of Conservative MPs were privately educated. 7% of population attend private schools.
FACTS on INEQUALITY IN BRITAIN
https://fullfact.org/economy/inequality/
Channel Four News clips
Aaron Banks is not an elected politician. He bankrolled UKIP.. Is this democratic?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vZ17-5bbGA
Homeless film:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu1EVZgN0_8
Brexit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FsKuNSf4uQ
JOHN HARRIS' films for The Guardian are brilliant. Here are two that explore 'BREXIT'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB8GjRjV6oE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH0F0pzsivY
AUSTERITY BRITAIN..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yg8QaeBdNs
BBC..Universal Credit..Note the comments of ex-Prime Minister John Major.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45817897?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/cn89m309ykvt/universal-credit&link_location=live-reporting-story
SKY NEWS...Universal Credit..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfhsjM9kBDQ
Prison crisis in UK..BBC Newsnight..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeFlGdPOQnA
Minister for Suicide Prevention...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45804225
https://news.sky.com/story/suicide-prevention-minister-joked-about-throwing-herself-off-beachy-head-11522855
The working homeless...BBC article..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-44904638
Windrush? Grenfell? Boris Johnson and the Brexit bus?....Some Prisons in meltdown...School funding crisis...mental health provision being cut all over the UK due to austerity...WOWZA!
I don't want to depress any of my fine students but the government policy of AUSTERITY is an extremely controversial policy and has had a MASSIVE impact on the UK. Since 2010, council funding has been cut in the UK by 49%. The impact of this policy has been that local councils are struggling to fund resources for all kinds of services from bin collection to providing care for society's most vulnerable and isolated people.
I would love to provide some kind of balance. The government champion the fact that we have never had so many people in the UK in employment. The NHS and Education are receiving record funding.
