seat at the table of power chris fairly is the founder and c.e.o. britain has class a grassroots charity established to tackle the institutions at the center of britain's class problems. so i'm a working class kid from luton i went to comprehensive schools all my life going to l.s.e. just sort of statistically in the sense of you know if you throw enough working class kids at the russell group universities some of them get in and i go and i study economics at three years and i nearly dropped out i think at least once a year because you just get there and you work so hard to get there you've done so many things to prove that you're worthy of being somewhere and doing something and then you have just thrown back in your face every minute of every day that you're around people who are better than you know around you equals you're on your period because people have seen more than you they've experienced more they they know more they've done more people you know quite line in the whole and it sort of really mold you like i don't have this accent and i was going to find a proper like robot accent but i made an effort to present myself better because i felt so inadequate where i was so that's what we're trying to do with the work

because i was in university provide someone just a space and a community and someone to just lie back them up and say you belong here because i'm so every year people from the top twenty percent of social backgrounds drop out of university about four percent before working class kids for kids from the bottom twenty percent gets up to about eleven i think so two to three times as many working class kids drop out of uni every year and it is instilled in every single part of. various life and seven percent of kids educated in the u.k. go to private schools but private schools are such instilled hubs of privilege that a third of m.p.'s are going to private schools a third of the one hundred c.e.o.'s are going to private schools sixty something percent of oscar winners seventy percent of the leading surgeons and lawyers went to private school we don't have the old boys network that you've just given by rights when you're born into certain families so it's about finding those connections and those already trying to find working class kids which is why we're setting up what we call in the comprehensive network which is a group of students from comprehensive schools who made it we want to give a leg up to kids coming after them from comps again so education policy massively

guide equality in the rest of the country and education policy is decided in parliament inside film is an educational project empowering knowledge. most groups to tell their own stories are the collaborative documentary the food bank projects founder is talk to d.j. new an activist educating less school at sixteen to single handedly telling night school until eventually in the fifty's be a new good ph d. we worked with a group that is so i showed them how to use film camera to set a handheld camera and what they did is they interviewed each other so that they could talk about why they came to the bank why they need to use it how they felt about used in the tank and of course what you get there when you get people telling their own stories they get very different version. when you it's all mainstream media and people who come to the kinds of sanctions is one big thing someone came

in a couple of weeks ago and they've been sanctioned because they've been told they've been to the person that was assessed in their time and so that meant i had no money there was a woman with four kids who came in last week and she had been overpaid by the d.w.p. so they stopped her money so she had four kids and no money coming in and it's a car is a form of ventriloquism that people who don't happen to experience is people who haven't made those lives they don't know what it's like to go hungry don't know what it's like to go on a council stay and what it's like to be unemployed they're actually talking about working class lives on the one hand that leads to distortion of working class lives but on the other hand it kind of suggest that working class people aren't capable of talking about themselves in their own lives and capable of getting solutions to what's happening to them people are being excluded from the ability to integrate their own lives they're being talked about by people who have no experience of working class by the how can they possibly know what it's why to go through what the working class are going through at the moment they can't possibly know that so

i think it's really really important that working class people get to represent themselves thirty years in the film industry academy you build willing produce be a basis work from british culture. a six year old man is shifty plus the critically acclaimed feature lets is from baghdad we spoke about her firsthand experience of misrepresentation from london to hollywood in the last few years we really know the there have been some real issues around representation and discrimination and sexism and i think it happens around class too and a lot of it is really we're really about our prejudices in the u.k. and it wasn't who i started moving into production that i realized actually i didn't sound the same that i hadn't been to cambridge or had a private education and that most of the people had and then you also realize that so many of the people who are telling working class stories of course we do tell those stories on you they're not from your class and of course we live in a country that is very very polarized in terms of class and

a lot of the information that people get about the working class is just through media representation what they do ideologically is they present working class people in very negative for i so there's a kind of emphasis on poverty there's an emphasis on unemployment there's an emphasis on squalor there's an emphasis on crime. that dances it feeds into other discourse his political discourse is an academic discourses and then discourses around the unworthiness of the working force and if the only visibility you happy working has people is on things like reality t.v. shows then there's not very much knowledge about working class life there's not much engagement particularly critical engagement with our working class people have been treated under series of governments neo liberalism has very little use for working class people and then it's much easier to blame them for their predicament and they are in an awful predicament a moment well to look at the structural reasons why people are all elite in the

kind of lives that i lead factures definition the class was a communist concept to the blairite years of. we're all middle class it's why we really come confused because the government policies around this equality act does it really protect class and discrimination now it doesn't so i think we've just got this very mixed up you know lots of policies of really destroyed the working class by a firm base of economic certainty and also what housing policies have done to so devastated communities so i think we really have to have a really big conversation around this and i don't think it's as simple as ideologies that are good or bad or particular parties or good are bad i think it's like a really big with you that we need to have loads of working class people have turned away from the labor party because they see is being dominated by middle class

people who have middle class concerns and we can say that we can see how abandoned and i think that's part of the brics here the idea there always because they're racists is because they're an educated no it's because they've been abandoned and i think that's what people need to realize that you know you can sit in london and kind of be very contemptuous of the working class who voted to leave here but if you go to those mining those are mining towns if you go to those out mill towns and you see how people are living in then you might start to be able to understand why people voted to lade last is the only liberation group the only sort recognised marginals group a society that doesn't have protection under the equality that you can fire someone or hire someone legally speaking for having a certain accent or from being from a certain town or not going to a certain school we think that people's social economic backgrounds don't have a bearing on how capable well so it should be decided for you whether you can be successful based on trust and health is another example so both physical health and

mental health so you can get a distributor and i think from tower hamlets to kensington and the average life expectancy for a man easily goes up by i think eight years which is. it's an hour trip and that is decided by you know different types aspects like the access to good g.p.s. in the culture around g.p.s. pollution mental health services i mean working class men men from the bottom fifth of the size again around ten times more likely to kill themselves the men from the top fifty society and is is this or this guiding thing where if you don't explicitly talk about class and if you don't factor your laws and your services and the way the public life operates around big knowledge with inequality exists then you believe people open and they are just vulnerable and abandoned and that's something the brain is really sort of dropped the ball on i mean i would definitely argue that call is have the hall of all of the issues that are affecting people in this country of course we have to take things like sex and disability and race into

consideration of course we did but i think what we need to think about is not in terms of infection out here in terms of solidarity so that we work together we recognize that you know there are racist and gendered working class people i think the punk identity politics is it effects away from class and. the more visible. and i think become the more difficult has become poor working class people. north britain has class life where street sing about the role m.p.'s can play in amending the equalities act he was unavailable for comment if you want to join the discussion the charity's next event is the great british class conference held at the london school of economics in central london on the twenty fourth of march senior producer pete bennett their own britain's silent class war that some say has been waged right here from westminster and on both labor and the tories after the break as britain's department of work and pensions advertised for two hundred thousand dollar yeah digital delivery director to develop platforms and cope with

disability well for what has been the human cost of means testing of britain's most vulnerable and is britain's ongoing war in iraq that began with the labor government of tony blair continues to cost billions we speak to people sleeping rough just metres away from the front door of minority government needed to raise a may still of the war in iraq and now threatening war with russia although some more coming up about to have going on. for twenty eighteen coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all but there was one more question and by the way it's going to be our coach. guys i know you are nervous he's a huge star and a huge amount of pressure you have to be the center of the. great.

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pecan so and modigliani i can't boards and sold inside this warehouse that's where the report comes in it covers a deals which are naturally discreet commercially discreet but also discreet because they concern fraud. some of those paintings are linked to dark secrets nobody knows how many of these secrets a kept inside the geneva freeport system you'll never obtain an inventory of all the works in the freeport who knows how many there are three hundred three thousand three hundred thousand is it a matter of confidentiality only is it the world's black box of the art business. welcome back since twenty thirty nearly two hundred thousand disabled people have been denied welfare under a new means testing system carried out by for profit private companies since twenty seventeen two thirds of appeals have actually been won by claimants costing the

u.k. taxpayer millions of pounds but what about the human cost here's a story of just two of the many hundreds of thousands who spoke to going underground deputy editor sebastian back up the pip assessment is the functionality test is about what you can do and not about your. impairment know about your condition know about what treat me in a deal what medication you're taking it's can you pick up that cup can you get out of bed can you get dressed can you talk to people can you travel on public transport is about functionality it's not about your impairment it's about disability denial it's to know on the eve i health condition to know i need treatment you know i need medication their attitude you can improve it can get better. in twenty first thing recessed. going go for assessment which is just yes just really when it's not it's not

a north wind. and it's a if the closer you. are have to prove the army and. the impression or are proven every world for next it's pain sometimes it's three sometimes fighting months. with this one point six million i could look at me as i know we want to see you again when you lose your support or your support you can't afford to say i can't afford to pay your electric bills you're in a freezing cold house you can't afford eight c. or relying on a food bank to aid. we know people who have. cut back on their medication and i've had to pay for the medication i have to prepare the prescriptions to if i lost my paper at a food price that which mean i couldn't have the medication i need day to day so

you're making life or death decisions stark choices can i hate can i ate can i pay for my miti cation cannot pay for my equipment that i need and to be a disabled person we have additional costs to to every impairment we need equipment and additional support when you've lost your pet that supports taking away your mobility car which is your legs your independence we are losing our independence our icici been right you to this day are abusing our fundamental here in knots this country has got money it always has money for bombs was we were we have money for that we for money for that the way what we call for money where kids starving you know people are starving old age pensioners not here now we can't for money for of volunteer markel food bank and i can tell you now. over sixty seventy seven people in world poverty they're coming for food but they work in order to turn up in

a carriage and form. and push come into a food bank because you cannot afford to eat. and when you see you see things and you talk to him and you just see him in all of them upon paper as well. just food banks anything not a food banks an exist in a country which is a country with an f. one hundred twenty thousand people who have died on the streets due to the cuts and i think that's confirmed and we are the first government as i saw you for the info we. heard from able people this government is they want well first i don't. the welfare state guy and union by want moons gone i don't want any of that because then you've got roy i just want you to work to die the cop with the dentist that's all i want you to do this work for big boss and then you don't pester independence payments process assesses asking claimants who have

a history of overdosing and trying to type why you not dead yet are that she said to my g.p. in consultant if an actor successor asked me why you know on seven die prescriptions dive to go to the chemist every week to get to stop me from harming myself my medication is supervised by my family so i can overdose and i am high risk of harming myself that is what the consultant said if akins if an atlas assessor asked me that. i could. i'll end up i know the assessment i've told my kids so car just. seriously distressed me i wouldn't dare put. their end up ask me a question not that i could end up buying high. and takin serious money medication

and another statistic with an ever growing list. i don't go out drinking i don't go out you know gambling not i you know when we do these guys drinkin you got gambling you got was money got the best clothes now i have an ongoing rethink. but you know why i've got to go. now to our forum. where we are some people of course. they can't fly as well as alex and i will fight for them and that is what we do this is what we do it we will for we will keep for in we will win if in the end but. it's a war and that's what filled in a way that's what. i was about this week was about and that almost off it's been one. where war disabled people with pit wear when a waters of all men award for roy. what.

i want. and i'm afraid this is what some people. come in government i don't care if i could have one would be best in the fire but now. you know what you've got blood on your hands for your during this government has blood on its hands the human rights abuses for the human catastrophe of the cuts and people's lives for the foulness of people are no longer here. disabled people right now is. another organizations and groups out there get involved join in and they say your rights. you can fight back and do something about it it's not high place it my feel like. there are people out there to support you to get involved when he can do something about this and. it rattles the m.p.'s when you go into parliament and sit it by

because you are living testimony of what they're doing and i can't run from that no matter how hard i try and you know i. exist we all here and i am here to say this is rome and we will fight back. full of peaches there speak you would never get it is a vast impact well it still economic optimism those arguably little in the u.k. philip hammond springs statement yesterday according to some charities about one of britain's most vulnerable communities britain's exponentially rising homeless here's a few of their stories in another film by going underground jeopardy has. to be you. know people are there because they've done something. wrong people just have a bad serious circumstances just on the street firstly thank you steve. it's a family of friends as far as i get out of the people at one time i was worried

when i was not. you know they're. given the subcultural and there's no nice we have to understand with this is any of this could be one thought of working families or a pre-check away from losing their homes thousands of people sleep on the streets of england every night more and more people are trying to charities for help i spoke to sheila shelter from the storm charity and chartres like cousin experiencing. we did have an idea about him escape that they were somehow you know what do you think this is a race that this man and they were drunk he's a huge you know i mean did you know the biggest change that we've seen has been the rise in what people like to call that you think. these are working people where accommodations while working and something's going wrong there i don't think it's

the man who's put up the red. they've been. they've lost amazing to me you know just small bit this is meant that the whole thing's broken down most of the so real wage people have made their deposits that's about all we'll have in the way of a protection from them and homelessness you know people in the full she is thirty forty fifty so just the confusion that they are suddenly one of these homeless people. people lucky enough to get into a shelter i went to central london to spend the night on the streets with two former objects to find out how they survived sleeping rough for six years. the first thing we could tell you if your hair cut for example your hand and looked expensively from your hands and you knew all that stuff by jerry someone new a green. among homeless people and there is. and is

a very dangerous element. and the world when there's no laws there's no authority it's the law of the jungle very quickly. to stand up and say. you know. you know even say. if you. would just. stop. homelessness is risen by forty four percent under this government one solution to this ever growing crisis is the homelessness reduction bill put food by tory m.p. block the bill is proving divisive however even within the tory ranks i travel to the conservative party conference. chairman of the local government association in trouble the baileys is pushing jewish on to councils and we don't need you these we need resources to be able to deal with things and this doesn't bring any resources with it it just adds a new juice to council if it's just

a simple matter of telling councils i must fix it then we would have already affixed what we needed to resources to do that in this bill while providing resources and we've got different types of fibrous we've got sixty seven thousand people in ten break up additional white skin and about three thousand rough sleepers we've got a load of youngsters who left. that family for live in the paper ciphers so there's a lot of hidden homeless as well so it's come up with a simple solution would be possible five or six but the reality is we don't have enough suitable competition for people to their life we need more single accommodation we need more support as an accommodation we need better facilities to help people with drug and alcohol problems it's a big cause of so if i miss this marriage breakdowns causes high risk losing jobs because i miss that they're all loads and loads of factors and we call them the they're running just to want to be able to fix it but just to do that the other thing that we've. with mental health mental health issues. i mean it's just

a catastrophe way should. that eleven wildness that we come across that we have to say no we become and take this path oh no no we can't do that in this business isn't well enough to be out on the streets but there is nothing else for the people to get at the idea that you bought it because you wish you bought it because you're the junkie so you bought it because you wanted to push him in but it would produce showing. that you may need. a new discrimination against people who are homeless who are suffering deeply emotional distress and the understand why they're motivated to do with the reality to change. is real it's no small the possibility to change your life and never look back you know your past is no life that homeless people or old community there is much is the undertaker the dropping the dead body up tonight as much as the top scene the the doctors do not

hold as much as a plumber as much as the big as much as the m.p. the homeless person is just as informed. masses are adding their expertise the alcoholics drug addicts but i mean you know expansive they can be anyone they can be you or me my children. are in need in the problems of homelessness and in fact in fact we have i mean we have people who are in walk in full time work with cannot find anywhere forty percent of the cost people on the zero hours contracts where they no hang up money do you think about getting somewhere to have a special sort of fasteners only it's just could be anything. from the storm spent two hundred fifty thousand pounds in providing refuge to fifteen thousand. people approximately the same amount it costs for one six hour

already have twenty to mission over syria. deputy editor sebastian back to that contrasting the war on british streets with the u.k. war against the syrian government and now maybe russia that's if the show will be back with a going on the ground special program at twenty one thirty g.m.t. tonight to investigate the repercussions of tourism a speech in parliament outlining britain's options for defacto revenge against russia for the alleged chemical attack in england till then keep in touch via social media see you in a few hours time. the knot winds up. the definitions and. king i need. to take in the

equal city. and then you're going to bring. how we think i'm. moving. out into the well yeah that sounds out. just feeling if one means i left the station at the deep but i learned from. them tokyo found it was going to keep going. to like. this one was because did it because it didn't seem quite a cultural fit and i found the premise.

it appears and highly likely these are the words used by u.k. prime minister to resume pinning blame on russia for the poison attack on a former russian intelligence officer turned british claims are made. of course without evidence. the far right. isn't just on the march it's taking violent. action i don't like it. i see those organizations which are usually split into which we form different names how do you view that. complex web of basher.

the u.k.'s prime minister expels twenty three russian diplomats from britain from a tally ation for the kremlin's alleged involvement in the poisoning of a former russian intelligence agent and his daughter despite police having declared you know they. speak no alternative conclusion other than that the russian state was culpable for the attempted murder of mr scrooge powell and his daughter under the vienna convention the united kingdom will now expel twenty three russian diplomats who have been identified as undeclared intelligence officers. russia says the u.k. has offered no words bonds to official requests in accordance with the chemical weapons convention to help the investigation moscow earlier.