Good morning, Mr Blake, my name’s Amanda. I’ve got a couple of questions here for you today to establish your eligibility for employment support allowance. It won’t take up much of your time. I, Daniel Blake ***** 2016 starring David Johns & Hayley Squires & Dylan McKiernan & Briana Shann & Kate Rutter & Kema Sikazwe & Steven Richens & Gavin Webster et al, director Ken Loach, opening commentary
We’re digital by default. ibid. benefits bloke
What’s wrong with you people? ibid. Daniel
I spoke to the landlord about it. Because I complained he kicked me out. ibid. Katie
Dan, they will fuck you around. I’m warning you. Make you as miserable. No accident. That’s the plan. I know dozens who have given up. ibid. friend
When you lose your self respect you’re done for. ibid. Daniel
The State drove him to an early grave. ibid. Katie
Piccadilly was already a seething mass of people; the hoarding around Eros was crowded with young people mainly from the Forces. Ken Loach: The Spirit of 45, woman, 2013
Will we, the people who have won the war, drive home our victory against fascism by defeating our pre-war enemies of poverty and unemployment? ibid. man
We’re still being taken in. ibid.
The great inter-war slumps were not acts of God or blind forces. They were the sure and certain result of the concentration of too much economic power in the hands of too few men. ibid. Labour Party manifesto 45
The Labour Party is a socialist party and proud of it. Its ultimate purpose at home is the establishment of the socialist commonwealth of Great Britain – free, democratic, efficient, progressive, public-spirited, its material resources organised in the service of the British people. ibid.
The best health services should be available free for all. Money must no longer be the passport to the best treatment. ibid.
Newspapers carried the astonishing news to an amazed public – Labour landslide. ibid. Pathé news
We have been the dreamers, we have been the sufferers, now we are the builders. ibid. Aneurin Bevan
The idea that people who worked in the industry had any say in how the industry was run was a completely foreign idea. ibid. Tony Benn
It was not until 1967 that dockers gained permanent employment. ibid.
They [police] seemed to enjoy inflicting pain and suffering on the working man. ibid. striking miner
The last registered dock workers did not get their jobs back. Casual labour has returned to the docks. ibid.