British Directors, Scriptwriters and Film Makers speak out against the CRUEL TORIES
Ken Loach has launched an uncompromising attack on the UK government Loach talking about his film I Daniel Blake thanks the people of Newcastle and the academy for “endorsing the truth of what this film says, which is that hundreds of thousands of people – the vulnerable and the poorest people – are treated by this government with a callousness and brutality that is disgraceful.” Loach continued by making reference to the Tory government’s apparent U-turn on its promise to accept thousands of unaccompanied children fleeing danger in Syria and elsewhere. “It’s a brutality,” he said, “that extends to keeping out refugee children we promised to help.” “In the real world,” added Loach, “it’s getting darker. And in the struggle that’s coming between the rich and the powerful, the corporations and the politicians that speak for them, and the rest of us on the other side, the film-makers know which side they’re on.” Loach went further, saying that the g...