Why The Expulsion Of The Greatest Briton Alive From The Labour Party Shows How Out Of Touch The Leadership is.

Adebayo Adeniran
4 min readAug 14, 2021

The sooner Keir Starmer is overthrown from the Labour party leadership, the better.

Ken Loach via Wikimedia Commons

Ken Loach is to my mind the greatest Briton alive. And I do not use these words lightly. Anyone who knows about anything about Britain’s most compelling film maker will appreciate exactly why I write this statement.

More than anyone else, Mr. Loach has directed several provocatively powerful films, which have exposed the profound social economic divisions at the heart of British society, in the post war era.

In “ Cathy Come Home”, we are treated to a gut wrenching portrayal of a couple’s descent to homelessness, when the husband suddenly loses his job. So powerful was the depiction of destitution, that it became a matter of public policy for the government of the day and it is a subject that remains relevant today.

The film that had the greatest impact on me was the one titled: “ Save the Children” Which was commissioned by the eponymous…

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Adebayo Adeniran
Adebayo Adeniran

Written by Adebayo Adeniran

A lifelong bibliophile, who seeks to unleash his energy on as many subjects as possible

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