When the Conservatives smashed the Labour Party's stranglehold on the impoverished north of England in 2019, one name came to mind. Filmmaker John Walsh had been there to make a devastating critique of the whole political system in the north and focus on Middlesbrough. In a town where the local MP hadn't worked for his constituents in at least 15 years of his 30-year occupation of that Parliamentary seat. Walsh's expose of Sir Sturt Bell MP, and the subsequent aftershocks have, in my mind, led to the cracks in the Red Wall. John Walsh says he found this all out organically and did not intend to create one of the most controversial political documentary features ever made. You can make your kind up. To some, he is a hero for exposing a corrupt system. To others he he is a villain and betrayed a working-class ethic that keeps poor people in their place. The gutter if Labour has anything to do with it. I see some reviews here try and defend the Labour position. The film is on Prime Video and free for subscribers.
Watch, listen, learn, chuckle and get very angry.
Watch, listen, learn, chuckle and get very angry.