Beneath the Brexit crisis: the real fight to take back control | Anywhere but Westminster

John Harris and John Domokos dive once again into what rumbles beneath the Brexit crisis.
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In London, a remain-supporting courier leads a fight for basic rights and in leave-voting Derbyshire, ex-miners yearn for a past of solidarity and respect - while at the Labour party conference, it's all going off. Warning: this video contains signs of hope
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[@markcovell572]

Wow i am amazed to be one of the couriers in the video. I come in at 3.56...Ecourier hca medical D109. I am proud of what i do...saving peoples lives. I ride an 11 hour circuit everyday during the week with no paid holiday and £9 pounds an hour...Nice to meet everyone!

[@tams805]

You're doing fantastic work, but you're being had for that salary.

[@darrenholden7447]

I'm gob smacked at your working conditions. How the F do you not get holiday pay/ pension? Are you classes as self employed? I know I sound silly and I don't have a very well paid job so I'm not out of touch. I honestly believed that they were basic employment rights.

[@kushsakhu]

Wow👀 thank you for ypur courage.

[@tomcolton5662]

@@darrenholden7447 most delivery people are self employed, it's a way big Business can dodge rights & pensions. Even Royal Mail are privitised & eroding rights. My post man friend said RM are laying long served staff off & bringing temp staff in.

[@graceomalley4]

tom colton shocking. This should be highlighted.

[@martycrow]

I started watching as a sceptic. I almost knew what John Harris's take would be. But over many clips, this series has brought insights into what it feels like. There lies the beginning of empathy. Away from the opinion columns, the business pages, Westminster Watch. What is happening in the country - and I mean the UK - is so very tragic. Our narratives are pulling apart. As are our lives and ability to see the lives of others. Thank you John and the Guardian team on taking a chance with this fine social documentary. I am only sad for what it points to.

[@kushsakhu]

Well said.

[@jamesandrew1750]

Come on! I'm barely 3 minutes in and he goes around looking for people to fit his narrative and struggles (unsurprisingly as 1.5% of people are on zero hr contracts) but then meets with a workers rights transgender activist, you couldn't make this stuff up

[@anthonymurphyDroghedaRural]

I couldn't agree more

[@maxfischer5586]

What exactly is John Harris's narrative.

[@wecandothiswarriors]

Do you actually know who OWNS the Guardian LOL

[@cpbajj]

What a hero Max is. Support her union.

[@archvaldor]

Donation link... ?

[@falloncj]

I'm Irish. I'll never forget going on a stag to Brighton... I'd just never seen so much homelessness before. I think it sent me on a spiral that found this channel. Seeing the UK like it is now... the vitriol and stubbornness is terrifying. Brexit has broken the country.

[@marktaylor6491]

The country's been broken for year. Brexit is merely a very extreme symptom.

[@nealbeard1]

@@marktaylor6491 got to agree with that. Cannot believe I actually used to vote Conservative. Brexit is a direct result of austerity, disparity and SE London centric selfishness. The UK is greater London with an atrophying "rest".

[@bobmcdade5217]

@@nealbeard1 austerity that has been imposed upon Europe by the EU. No wonder people want to leave. I mean, who are you going to complain to?

[@YBTrolling]

@@bobmcdade5217 There's a lot of talk about the EU apparently setting the UK law, but austerity in the UK was fully an independent Conservative party decision though. We are not Greece, the Tories were *not* forced into opposing austerity onto the British people. Surely we can agree austerity failed, caused massive harm and the party who caused it needs to be voted out of power?

[@pandora8478]

@@bobmcdade5217 Eh? There was a global recession in 2008 you missed. Don't blame the EU for the sins of bankers.

[@AndrewSmith-sh8xe]

This video was more insightful than the last one. Wish Max and the delivery workers union all the best

[@DidntKnowWhatToPut1]

These videos never fail to leave me with an impending sense of doom and depression. It feels like all social progress has stalled.

[@BDaMonkey]

Seems like it over the last ten years.

[@bobmcdade5217]

you could make a series of videos visiting successful businesses and co-operatives filled with happy, fulfilled people. might cheer you up a bit.

[@Avengerie]

Doesn't help that they keep using the soppy music in the background.

[@martynblackburn1977]

Feelings lead us astray. What are the facts?

[@DCI-Frank-Burnside]

Three more episodes and it will be like watching a Bela Tarr film.

[@Avengerie]

Keep doing what you are doing, John. I stopped reading the Guardian, but I will keep watching you. Real journalism.

[@lawrnc]

This was definitely one of the best ones....and Max absolute legend! Wish all the best with the union work!

[@namelast6982]

This business of petty inconvenience and indignity, of being kept waiting about, of having to do everything at other people’s convenience, is inherent in working-class life. A thousand influences constantly press a working man down into a passive role. He does not act, he is acted upon. He feels himself the slave of mysterious authority and has a firm conviction that ‘they’ will never allow him to do this, that, and the other. Once when I was hop-picking I asked the sweated pickers (they earn something under sixpence an hour) why they did not form a union. I was told immediately that ‘they’ would never allow it. Who were ‘they’? I asked. Nobody seemed to know, but evidently ‘they’ were omnipotent. George Orwell.

[@jamesandrew1750]

Orwell before his enlightenment

[@namelast6982]

@martin corderoy Quot annos nata sum vos non scitis.

[@williammarshalknight1846]

Name Last I bet you shop at Waitrose

[@namelast6982]

@@williammarshalknight1846 Where else would I get Pomegranate Molasses prey tell?

[@williammarshalknight1846]

Name Last go Iceland like the rest of the great unwashed

[@davesmith6116]

@04:01The poor guy "lost two fingers in Harley Street" - the irony, and a perfect metaphor for what the UK has become.

[@kriddz]

it's pure poetry

[@fantasticsituation9461]

13:57 guy hits himself in the face with the sign lmao

[@williamc9578]

Keep it up John Harris. Regardless of what the moneyed-class say about The Guardian, you give working people a voice. And that's important.

[@HondoTrailside]

Wow, the working class has been reading a lot more Marx than I realized.

[@williammarshalknight1846]

The working class don’t read the bloody guardian or shop at Waitrose get a grip man

[@danielbulman6082]

@@williammarshalknight1846 who said anything about Waitrose?

[@williammarshalknight1846]

Daniel Bulman I did ?

[@danielbulman6082]

@@williammarshalknight1846 Yeah exactly, I'm not sure why you brought it up?? Nobody that you were responding to said that working class people shop at Waitrose did they?

[@jakartaharpman]

Most amazing moment for me was when the kids in Shirebrook said they didn't know what a trade union was.....

[@ameyas7726]

Now don't give those labour commies any new ideas!!

[@denzel270]

They clearly didn't live through the 70's then when unions destroyed Industry and brought the country to it's knees.

[@JudithBisson]

Problem is that those rich people don’t realize that if all of us who work behind the scenes Stopped. Those in power would loose it all.. within a few weeks really.

[@invictus_They-Them_Nazi_Hunter]

Robots will solve that problem.

[@GWHITE5287]

The guy outside the Labour conference one minute into the video is exactly what is wrong with Labour and why results like Hartlepool keep happening. A genuine disdain for anyone with a different opinion.

[@GarethWareth]

Max is a legend.

[@talcohen1346]

So much injustice and furstration it smells like the twenties. We all know what happened after

[@invictus_They-Them_Nazi_Hunter]

Economic success?

[@JuiceBarMEIGHT]

World war?

[@ChrisRedfield--]

Strange, 2019 and still a class divided society.

[@TheBushdoctor68]

Only because we allow it to be.

[@ChrisRedfield--]

@Crispen Drye no, its education.

[@ChrisRedfield--]

@Crispen Drye no, reality often plays a different game.

[@jameseden9380]

We need more of these please.

[@andrewbaumann2661]

Awesome work, Max! Keep it up.

[@markcovell572]

Nice one mr harris. ! You took me by surprise and i am sorry i was in such a rush!

[@alyshasmith4257]

Must have missed the sign of hope

[@SocieteRoyale]

great video, but those kids who had never heard of a union??? Clearly the Labour Party is ignoring these key voters and needs to get itself known amongst the yoof of Derbyshire who desperately need it's help!

[@damianreid2452]

Thanks John. Right on the button as usual - keep 'em coming.

[@BDaMonkey]

Brilliant, as per usual 👍

[@mikele-baigue8155]

Hey John and John. Thank you for taking up my request to visit Bolsover! It was a welcome surprise. Cheers.

[@aliceflanagan6622]

1:00 need the full interview, why’d u fade my boi out

[@jamesandrew1750]

Also his response was weak 'you don't watch my videos' isn't an argument

[@NickLitten]

Boil?

[@theconversation9103]

@@NickLitten Too sheltered to get hip-hop slang G?

[@traffordsec4322]

@@theconversation9103 G? The world needs wannabees

[@jackfrancis5238]

@@NickLitten boy

[@bluceree7312]

I like AWBW. Cameo by Mr Dimbleby.

[@sinfo881]

great journalism. Thanks

[@borytastards2035]

Max you legend

[@latest3dsgames]

Surprisingly I enjoyed this video which was well put together and rather interesting

[@iangrant9675]

Well, one thing that's changed in the last decade is that motorcycle couriers don't have motorcycles anymore!

[@khalidalali186]

Me watching this, while taking a driverless taxi ride across San Francisco was strange 😅

[@TheAlbinoskunk]

Studying to be an architect but doesn't know what a trade union is

[@SleepCove]

TheAlbinoskunk I knew people when I was at Uni who didn’t know what the difference between left and right meant.

[@jrisner6535]

Come to Sheffield! Big cities are struggling too

[@jimsy5530]

Can you class Sheffield as a big city?

[@inoel75]

I know I'm not a native speaker, but I always considered my English to be at least acceptable - I was obviously wrong, I could hardly understand a word 😅 A little less background noise might have helped, though 😉

[@SteveUrlz]

You're not only one. I had to put CC too

[@leftmodernist5210]

Max was great!

[@IZotit]

Sensational journaling.

[@bobbysands9071]

Not "journalism?". No!?

[@FrenchTheLlamas]

More in scotland, cheers.

[@Ernoburger]

Just a small technical comment: I really don't like the de-saturated look. I realize that is the look of certain high-end panasonic cameras, but get some color in there will you? If you don't want to do color-correcting, perhaps try sony camera and lenses or some other body and lenses just to get a little more natural colors. This is already a hard topic, don't make it worse with this ghastly, de-saturated look. Again, I realize a lot of modern cinematographers like this look, not least because it's the default output of a lot of high end digital cameras these days, but I'd say make it look a little more natural. Nature isn't THAT de-saturated.

[@kebabtank]

14:00 Hahahaha!

[@mirzapa]

A transistor radio?? Is this dude for real? How many apps are there for live radio??

[@andrewau1993]

it is strange the british people had never fallen to the idea of a class revolution.

[@willbaren]

Another excellent episode documenting the “deep tectonic movements” in the UK.

[@marksavage1108]

we must campaign for remain,,,, right there your red wall fell.

[@Avengerie]

10:31 great moment

[@robertball3301]

Avengerie 10.21 was a better moment

[@MrSatnavatron]

i needed this like i needed Bercow yesterday Edit: im actually happy , not sarcasm x

[@RhythmFish1]

Feel free not to watch then

[@nealbeard1]

Happier with empty green seats and a lunatic attempting to ride and control a meteor.

[@RhythmFish1]

"Edit: im actually happy , not sarcasm x"......Glad to hear that ;)

[@bishboshs]

13:15 How can you back someone regardless of what they do? It sounds stupid but it's like the phrase..."would you jump off a cliff if they asked you?"

[@cthoadmin7458]

Funny how with all this technology, and things seem to be going backwards for these poor workers.

[@broadway254]

When's he gonna get a trim....

[@nosensenonsensecommonsense6347]

The Guardian ‘Working Harder for Labour than Labour is to Respect the People’

[@isshoyggdrasil7334]

I'm in love with Max. 💜

[@yourgreenbill2880]

Thank you for this video. I feel like the next few years are going to bring big changes both in terms of social rights as in environmental and economic awakening. Simply because we have been pushed to the brink ! The time for hatred and division among the many is hopefully over. People are craving for real and concrete solutions to their problems now and blaming *the others* is no longer convincing !

[@danw5525]

I'm a centre-right person who normally cant stand the Guardian and pretty much all it produces. This series however, is absolutely brilliant. Keep up the great work.

[@robertodantas.4319]

tem muitos mendigos aí na inglaterra?. me disseram que a crise está feia aí.

[@petertraudes106]

Tem, inglaterra têm muito pobreza causada por la politica de austeridade. Mais de 20% da população vivem em pobreza.

[@jonaspedersen5990]

London... eek.

[@qwertykevin1]

Wtf is he holding to hear the radio in 2019

[@Halokon]

a radio...

[@Alex.HFA1]

Can anyone in these comments explain the profile of a Pro-Brexit Labor voter? I genuinely don't get it.

[@NxDoyle]

Why does it look like a photo from 1974?

[@NathanJ2378]

10:31 heartbreaking

[@MrDanielfff777]

Not really, unemployment was at 3.9% at this point, he could go find a new job easy or claim unemployment

[@Himmelhauser]

Tragic.

[@EMKWANREVIEWS]

Awesome series and video but my god... the color correction was terrible. Made my eyes hurt! This is from another KZbinr.

[@purplepioneer5644]

EMKWAN REVIEWS winter sun

[@obiwankenobi661]

what a mess

[@casperwallace9685]

and it was Scotland who pulled Parliament back to work

[@ccf3294]

The Jack of all trades is the master of none

[@jaaksavat7916]

I'm 68 years old and realised the gig Uber economy came and neoliberal politicians promised privatization of anything and everything public would great for all and I'm shocked to watch these Unter people.

[@chestypants78]

Working class Brits who vote Tory and care far more about 'immigrants' than their own working rights. I mean, if that's not dense, I don't know what is. "What don't we want?" "Sick pay!" When do we want it? "Never!" "What do we want?" "Zero hours contracts" "When do we want it? "Forever!" "What don't we want?" "Redundancy pay!" "When do we want it? "Never!" "What don't we want?" "Paternity leave!" "When do we want it? "Never!" "What don't we want?" "Holiday pay!" "When do we want it? "Never!" "What don't we want?" "Pensions!" "When do we want it? "Never!" Btw, the meat of a wealthy individual is very tender, since they haven't worked their muscles and are thus rather juicy. Remember this for The Great British Famine and subsequent Revolution, in the near future. Unless you vote Labour!

[@chezceleste]

Brilliant.

[@allyourcode]

@13:09 face palm

[@corryjookit7818]

The employment laws work in Scotland OK

[@tomcolton5662]

Services, services, services, UK is a service economy. Automation future should be firmly on agenda, governments are way behind.

[@bobmunchen4364]

all these young people not knowing what a TU is...could it be that Labour haven't been doing their job and instead focusing on something else I wonder?

[@robduncan599]

I feel compelled to make a comment about lots of things in this video , yet i really don't know where to start , i don't know if i should laugh or cry , be optimistic or in despair, it's hard to be hopeful, like many i guess . I'm just glad I'm past my prime running around chasing my tail for a pittance thinking I'm doing ok forgetting in 10 or 20 years will i still be chasing my tail , while the men in suits decide my fate ,

[@QuantumWalnut]

The Guardian reporter did a fine job disguising as a homeless person in 2019.

[@End-Result]

"Sorry We Missed You" dir. Ken Loach ft. "just how far northern, post-industrial working class people have been alienated from their own class interests" Also, you chat to Bullingdon boy Dimbelby but not legend Loach?

[@TheFriendoftheFunk]

EndResult that's The Guardian for you

[@watercolourmark]

Take back control? I’ll settle for someone in control.

[@invictus_They-Them_Nazi_Hunter]

Yes, the system is corrupt and no longer fit for purpose

[@ruthguthrie1099]

Roll on Scottish independence.

[@corryjookit7818]

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Three cheers ! I hope its sooner . Some of the people on these videos appear to be a bit racist.

[@williammarshalknight1846]

The working class will take the Labour Party back

[@matthewbrooker]

What will happen to workers with The Rise of the Machines? All become bankers?

[@Mariecl3]

Hi Matthew Brooker, I work in Banking software and our main area of R&D is AI for all computations and to automate all decisions making in trading. Bankers will fall faster to AI than courrier services 😀 The irony is delicious.

[@darcy100190]

Engineering. Nuclear power plants. IT. Technology's. Clean energy. We need to move forward and give people something to do.

[@808GT]

If the Sports Direct bloke would have saved some money for property instead of buying Airpods for 159GBP he might have a different outlook.

[@davidpower1583]

Up until the moment the Supreme Court made "New Law" the three most senior judges in England had sided with the government's case. While it is true that no one is above the law, it is also true that making new laws (e.g. the Surrender Bill) for short term party political purposes, is both disgraceful and dangerous.

[@JokerFey]

1:00 oopfff!! 1:02 oopfff you got Burn Boi!

[@mikematthews5423]

Look at all the working rights that eu has give us ! But we had that poor woman and her co workers living and working as 2nd class citizens. All we hear from the mainstream media and newspapers is that brexit is a right wing policy. Let's have a left wing brexit helping are working poor and if that dont work let's not continue in this society that has nothing to offer for the working poor .

[@Jamie_Johnson]

"Do I have to pretend to be racist to get in one of your videos, John?" Ahahahahahaha! This guy SMACKED IT!!! Nail on the head. Brilliant.

[@kaze987]

Canada needs someone like John and his team to present a similar show here. Toxic politics has crept in from down south and the urban vs rural divide is really dividing us. Well done to the team for this series!

[@homosexualpanic]

That guy at the beginning saying about 'do I need to be racist to be in your video', he's everything wrong with the Labour Party

[@philip013]

Not racist enough?

[@gartner101]

He reflects the frustration with the Guardian. Nonstop hit pieces against Labour that are trying to solve the deep seated problems created by the Right for 40 years.

[@importantname]

constantly looking backwards for solutions will leave you well behind those going forward

[@PaulGappyNorris]

David Boson - on the contrary, it is BECAUSE 'we' do not take note of History that 'we' are doomed to repeat the same mistakes....

[@importantname]

@@PaulGappyNorris we learn from the mistakes of history. My comment is that many seek to live as if we lived along time ago - for instance; claiming that a book written hundreds of years ago has all the answers.

[@TheAlbinoskunk]

12:25 this lady is an incredibly eloquent, insightful speaker and I think she represents the platform of the Labour Party wonderfully. Make her leader

[@BarrieJamesCaricature]

Would be great if the presenter could stop eating while he presents.

[@adarkimpurity]

Did you just compare a deliveroo employee to the coal miners? ;D

[@chezceleste]

I think he did...except miners never worked that hard..."snap up and go on badly" as they used to say...those delivery people are on the go all the time.

[@andrewburgess2482]

'Do you know what the Labour Party stands for ? ' I don't think I could answer that one either

[@thethirdman2135]

The north London labour party no longer represents British working class people

[@uberlovestories6559]

In '96 and I spent over fifteen grand racing motorbikes on a despatch rider's wages. (28K) We earned loads more then, because there was a shortage of couriers. Courier companies were forced to pay us high wages. Mass immigration (supported by Labour) has driven down wages. I'll never vote Labour again because they no longer support working-class people.

[@gartner101]

Have you not noticed right wing New Labour has been replaced. It is a different party now.

[@sumorabbit2160]

@@gartner101 Yep, now they want to give voting rights to foreign nationals, tax you for having a garden and seize private property and assets!

[@gartner101]

@@sumorabbit2160 they want to save civilisation from growing corporate tyranny.

[@sumorabbit2160]

@@gartner101 No they want to control everyone, from our minds to our pockets

[@rogercliftonville-acton1574]

@@gartner101 Unfortunately not by old labour (1900s-1960s) but by the intellectual/metropolitan freakshow that predominated in the 70s and 80s, first obsessed with South Africa, now Gaza. Old labour cared about the British. New labour cared about the rich. The current mob...well, they may not care about the rich, but they certainly don't care about the British. Call it Mrs Jellyby syndrome. All thats left of old labour is Frank Field and Dennis Skinner. One's been thrown overboard, the other is senile.

[@davidshrimpton3600]

Max has free chosen to subcontract to a company, change who you supply your services to.

[@schmootheonly]

Except these types of jobs are all that's left for so many people

[@strongangel]

The Supreme Court verdict is so much meaningless sh*t. The very first Crown Proceedings against it would fatally hole it. Sorry Guardian, but you are going to have to do a lot better than this.

[@superbeedge]

Yeah, she seems like an ordinary working class person...

[@schmootheonly]

For her generation she is

[@jenniferholden9397]

Brexit means an end to the NHS, do these old NUM members not want the same employment rights for the younger generations? I just don't get why.

[@Doomedcreatures]

labour cant be socialist in the EU

[@swithgk6538]

Your film is about globalism and the financial crisis NOT brexit

[@CharalamposKoundourakis]

Surely that's what brexit is about

[@20thCenturyPox]

The flag at 8:41 says it all about England - backward and turned upside down.

[@peteradaniel]

The guy at 0:58 gets this vox pop bang on!

[@laurencebilly2685]

Labour is completely out of touch. They have become a intellectual elite, arguing theoretical pure ideology rather than do the basic work of helping the worker.

[@rogercliftonville-acton1574]

For examples of when their theories are put into practice, just look at the incompetence of inner London councils in the 1980s.