So what does the future look like now? | Anywhere but Westminster

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5 күн бұрын

On a non-stop road and rail trip, John Harris and John Domokos go from Rishi Sunak's well to-do seat in Yorkshire via County Durham and Lanarkshire to arrive amidst the new-town community spirit of Milton Keynes on election day. Everywhere people are holding places together: will a victorious Labour party soak up those vibes?
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@kaze987 4 күн бұрын

Excellent question. Not "who did you vote for" but "what was in your mind when you voted" . Fantastic

@mikecooper2566 4 күн бұрын

What was in my mind was "lets get this done so I can across the road and get a Monster".

@ramatgan1 4 күн бұрын

Please don't stop this series. We need more of this.

@PassiveAgressive319 4 күн бұрын

To that poor man who’s on an interest only mortgage, using a food bank but thinks Farage cares about him? Unfortunately he’s mistaken. Farage is only concerned about Farage

@tynebar 4 күн бұрын

Always gets me, I just don't understand it.

@TheStarBlack 4 күн бұрын

People are thick and gullible. Same reason Labour voters think they've just voted in a left of centre government. This lot are ideologically joined to the tories at the brain. I'll be there in 5 years telling you I told you so from day one of Starmer's Labour leadership. See you then.

@j.harrison6744 4 күн бұрын

If Farage was only concerned about Farage, he wouldn't be in politics, he would've stayed in the more profitable trading and commodities.

@Deedumdee 4 күн бұрын

@@j.harrison6744 Yeah, he's only like 80-90% self-interested con-man, the rest is xenophobia and bigotry.

@RankinMsP 4 күн бұрын

@@j.harrison6744 He obviously wasn't making enough ot getting the platform to spread his hatred and lies.

@spicyempanadas2738 4 күн бұрын

Even as an American, I can appreciate how you approach election coverage: not with a focus on the candidate, but on the people who are vote. I'm glad after 14 years the British may have a chance to turn things around. I'm not optimistic our chances over hear, but I hope you all wish us luck.

@diskopartizan0850 4 күн бұрын

I think most Brits who are aware of US politics hope for a day there is a fair bit of healing over there and would certainly wish you all the best.

@maxthelab8457 2 күн бұрын

Nothing will improve under Labour other than they will charm anyone on benefits. Working folk are doomed.

@csharpe5787 2 күн бұрын

@@maxthelab8457 same old clichés they always turn up do you ever think before you type type?

@maxthelab8457 2 күн бұрын

@@csharpe5787 Touched a nerve?? Just because you know you're on to a winner being on benefits.

@spacechannelfiver Күн бұрын

@@maxthelab8457 I'm well off, educated, private health care etc. Voted Labour (and frankly almost always have). Thatcher much as I dislike what she tried to do at least had some principles; cant say the same about the last Tory government. Don't get me started on Farage.

@burntlands 4 күн бұрын

These "Anywhere but Westminster" reports/documentaries are just so great. The tone, the questions, the conversations, the people, and the places. Earnest and interesting.

@FilippoBelacchi 3 күн бұрын

I totally agree

@moskari26 4 күн бұрын

I appreciate Harris's way to do interviews; very humane with cheeky jokes of self-irony that'll get average people to open up about politics, which other interviewers often do it too formally.

@JVSwailesBoudicca 4 күн бұрын

He's brilliant. Trouble is, he will stop when there is no elections !

@diskopartizan0850 4 күн бұрын

Yeah he's great, love his columns too.

@JVSwailesBoudicca 4 күн бұрын

@@diskopartizan0850 Yes - I agree, its about the only column I still read.

@alst4817 3 күн бұрын

@@diskopartizan0850I love this series but his columns are rather dull

@r8chlletters 4 күн бұрын

Please keep your finger on this pulse and ask the people in the streets and the alleys and the food pantries how they are doing. It’s so incredibly important.

@Vhasemzini 4 күн бұрын

Apparently Nigel understands what's like to live in a town with five food banks.

@kaze987 4 күн бұрын

Of course he does!!

@AaronOkeanos 4 күн бұрын

Only people with a Coutts Bank account really knows how hard life can be. ^^

@chrysalis4126 4 күн бұрын

shows how gullible people are, see a photo of him in a pub with a pint in hand and think that makes him working class.

@j.harrison6744 4 күн бұрын

You could apply that snarky logic to most of the Labour front bench.

@robertstraw9881 4 күн бұрын

His brand of economics has put the food banks there. He loved the Truss budget.

@SandraSamen 4 күн бұрын

I love the life lesson at the end: "Unless politics is about life, and the ordinary and the everyday, it doesn't mean much"

@francesrice3317 3 күн бұрын

That is the sentiment so desperately needed here in America! When I got to the end of the video it was so powerful!!!!

@pr-ji1ni 4 күн бұрын

Thank you for featuring so many decent people who have no time for silly culture wars and just want to live in a better society.

@jonathangardner3192 4 күн бұрын

This is a truly remarkable series.

@ronanhaughey1196 4 күн бұрын

Donna. What a absolute gem

@redlightmax 3 күн бұрын

17:21 The cynics are belittling Labour's election results, but Donna has renewed hope - I call that a win.

@HolyMoleDude 4 күн бұрын

This has been the most valuable journalistic series in the UK since before the referendum. Exceptional work.

@20storiesunder 4 күн бұрын

There will still be a huge need for programs like these. There is so much work to do

@heathercooper6043 4 күн бұрын

Oh getting in with the excuses quick I see

@CH1LDOFTHEMOON 4 күн бұрын

Proud, that as a lifetime tory voter, I voted Labour just to see the tory's gone. Partygate and PPE corruption did it for me!

@sluglife9785 4 күн бұрын

We thank you for your service to the nation.

@Joe-sz8xn 4 күн бұрын

Thank you ❤

@tobiastrier 4 күн бұрын

Well done.

@breefolf 3 күн бұрын

sorry but you guys are completely delusional if you think labour will be any better

@MrMmnngghh 3 күн бұрын

Better late than never! Congrats

@AaronOkeanos 4 күн бұрын

What is the point of not voting? Noone ever knows. The only one who is punished by this is yourself because others decide for you. Which is ironically the point you give for not voting.

@TheStarBlack 4 күн бұрын

Because voting lends credibility to the rotting hollow corpse we're told is democracy. If you're happy to choose from the 3 or 4 flavours the establishment allow you to consider (3 of which are essentially the same thing) then go ahead, enjoy yourself playing at democracy. But if you're one of the minority who doesn't get their political opinions direct from other people or the media....then there is absolutely zero point engaging with this sham. It's an act, a smokescreen. It gives you the impression of having agency and power when in reality whoever you vote for, nothing is allowed to change in any meaningful way.

@sdrawkcabUK 4 күн бұрын

Did you not see the gross mismatch between votes cast and seats gained? I for one will not participate in such a rigged farce

@justgeneric2876 3 күн бұрын

A greek philosopher once said those who do not vote have no right to complain about what they get as they voluntarily gave up the right to decide their fate.

@sdrawkcabUK 3 күн бұрын

@@justgeneric2876 a Greek philosopher once said ‘why vote when your vote literally counts for nothing in a rigged FPTP system”.

@albert7311 3 күн бұрын

The voters have no right to complain because they agreed with the system of selection. Many non voters have worked out that all the major parties are controlled by the same people therefore there is no real choice. Voters are simple folk who believe that doing the same thing that has not worked for 100 years will fix our problems.

@tomfowler5581 4 күн бұрын

That was a beautiful ending

@kida6460 4 күн бұрын

I love the girl at 1:40 ... she's so pure we must protect her at all costs

@flabby2142 3 күн бұрын

weird thing to say "pure"

@LamentedSun 3 күн бұрын

As in pure rather than miserable apathetic or jaded

@sae447 3 күн бұрын

Yes! I hope she fulfils her wish to enter the medical profession.

@conorbangham323 4 күн бұрын

Please keep this series going. Credit to the whole team.

@jhwheuer 4 күн бұрын

Nigel really did a number on some folks.

@aremedyfrosty 3 күн бұрын

What is it you like about starmer who is worth 8 million and has to go around the country telling people his father was a tool maker?

@ucey-mi2wr 3 күн бұрын

@@aremedyfrosty both bad, but farage is an obvious grifter trying to divide the working class with hate. 'its not the tories corruption and incompetence that made yo

@therealrobertbirchall 3 күн бұрын

Nigel destroyed the British state.

@Boghopper9999 2 күн бұрын

@@aremedyfrostymost of the £8m is based on a valuation on the field he bought for his mother's donkey sanctuary and it's based on value if it was developed (which it is not; it's a donkey sanctuary!)

@jamesholt4449 2 күн бұрын

@aremedyfrosty he was a lawyer that took stand against the worst of people. He understands the problems and has more in common to average person that farage or conservative members

@martynrobinson7200 3 күн бұрын

Thanks, John, for being the journalist you are. There’s no one else doing this kind of thing. We all sit, horrified, watching the Westminster soap opera and you, as far as I know, are the only journalists getting out to find how policy, or lack of, affects ordinary people’s lives in your poignant, often heartbreaking films of hope and despair. Thank you.

@FilippoBelacchi 4 күн бұрын

I'm Italian and I've always loved the AbW series. Seeing food banks everywhere is excruciating, and and the same time puzzling. Britain is a very very very rich country, how can it be that is so iniquous and why people are still so scared of socialism, What do they have to lose?

@j.harrison6744 4 күн бұрын

Britain is not a rich country. London is rich, and is attached to a third world country called Britain.

@germansnowman 4 күн бұрын

We don’t need socialism (I grew up under it), but we do need what Germany calls “social market economy”.

@RandoStaRR 4 күн бұрын

Incredibly true

@blazzz13 4 күн бұрын

@@germansnowman Which socialist government did you grow up under, given the Tories have been in power for 80 of the last 123 years?

@germansnowman 4 күн бұрын

@@blazzz13 I grew up in East Germany behind the Iron Curtain.

@adscri 4 күн бұрын

There has been a return to the Victorian era where charitable institutions were the only ones to offer help - or else it was the workhouse. During the video an interviewee said this very thing. The post-election expectations are high, but radical change seems to be called for. Only time will tell.

@RoofLight00 4 күн бұрын

The problem is that after 15 years and successive Tory governments the country is broke. And they’ve left us to clean up their mess again, we never learn. We need to pay more taxes to help. I’m happy to do that if it means the money will go to help others like this rather than in garage’s pocket or tory pockets or bankers pockets.

@alicequayle4625 Күн бұрын

Need to make sure that spending does directly on services not on big biz siphoning off a profit. Large companies are taking over lots of nhs.

@tonychorley4936 17 сағат бұрын

For the people in Rishi’s constituency who voted him in again, please remember that he was filmed boasting about moving money from poor areas to wealthy ones. He bought votes from wealthy , or at least comfortably off people who cared for no one else.

@linedwell 4 күн бұрын

Go back to all those places in 18months, see what's changed, see what's improved, see what's worse.

@erertertert44 2 күн бұрын

Will be largely the same

@D_isco_D_ancer 4 күн бұрын

What a lovely woman the one who wants to be a doctor.

@jmudikun 4 күн бұрын

The old man at the food bank idolizing Farage 😂, now that takes the cake 😂

@paulgilliland2992 4 күн бұрын

My son is a British citizen although he grew up in Los Angeles. Here recently traveled to England and was there was for a month before going to Europe . He said England was grim and miserable but the people were amazing.

@methanedirigible 3 күн бұрын

It’s not all bad. Free healthcare, negligible guncrime. We’ve been hard hit economically, but in a world that’s drifting towards populism and far-right hatred, we’ve just election a centre left Labour Party. As in 1939, we stand alone as the last hope of tolerance and decency.

@lewissparkes 3 күн бұрын

You can say the same about most of Northern Europe

@Kayla-lh5we Күн бұрын

If England is grim it's because the people are making it that way

@jablot5054 18 сағат бұрын

Obviously he only went to inner city areas. Britain has some of the most beautiful countryside anywhere in the world. The people are a very mixed bunch from all over the world .

@methanedirigible 17 сағат бұрын

@@jablot5054 The people from the countryside are pretty homogenous though. Inner cities are far far more mixed.

@joemountain655 3 күн бұрын

Donna. What a legend

@AaronOkeanos 4 күн бұрын

Thank you for giving us again a window in Britains real life. I'm looking forward for you and your team showing if and how things change now under Labour.

@Pau1danelli 4 күн бұрын

I’ve been watching this series and following Jon for years now and it never fails to make me greatful for the teams work.

@ccan_max5285 4 күн бұрын

Please continue doing these they’re important

@poneill65 4 күн бұрын

You blighter John,... Why did you have to release this video with people like Donna at exactly the same moment as my summer eye allergies kicked in!!

@adamblair3135 4 күн бұрын

The lack of passion for Labour, is truly staggering. Remember what it was like to be a supporter in 2017? How much hope there was… How little there is now…

@elaineclift2227 4 күн бұрын

We need a change of electorate!

@MeatFeast-qk7nd 4 күн бұрын

To what or whom? @@elaineclift2227

@doghat1619 4 күн бұрын

@@elaineclift2227 Labour simply needs to put forward policies that make people genuinely excited again. Keir's labour stands for very little, except for "not being the tories". They're so afraid of losing the election they were handed, that they didn't promise anything major.

@tobiastrier 4 күн бұрын

What is hope worth if you never win?

@EdwardLindon 3 күн бұрын

The hope was confined to a concentrated few. More importantly, they didn't take power. So what was the point?

@rose-byte 4 күн бұрын

This is the type of news I want

@thetwohundred5213 4 күн бұрын

Excellent reporting. Why am I crying?

@sluglife9785 4 күн бұрын

Lots of lovely unrecognised folk about. Especially our strong British middle-aged women. Keep it up, you wonderful people.

@thecanticleofcrom4787 3 күн бұрын

Australia is also replacing communities with property developers wet dreams, seaside towns being denuded so they can waltz in and build concrete boxes, isolating people and destroying the social wage; bonuses that are multiples of the average wage. While middle managers are scraping their lucre from once public assets. The ambitions of people who don't know how to work with their hands, who are craving portfolios and projecting their laziness into a service industry humiliation for the populace as the do not know anything about the means of production.

@IanPattersonMU 4 күн бұрын

Old bloke who cant afford to pay his mortgage & feed himself without going to a foodbank thinks the multi millionaire eton educated former conservative member Nigel Farage understands what its like to be on his situation. Some people really are beyond any form of logic & whats worse is that they will come to realise that they have been had ( like brexit ) far to late to even help themselves.

@OK-hl6qd 4 күн бұрын

Some people are just straight up hateful

@susanrobson5878 2 күн бұрын

That chap is also unaware of the fact that Farage has been spending a lot of time in America supporting his pal Trump.

@Patrick-jj5nh 4 күн бұрын

1800 days to improve living conditions significantly. Or welcome a far right populist government in 2029.

@doghat1619 3 күн бұрын

You shouldn't be so worried about Reform taking power, in 9 years, they've increased their actually votes by 300,000 since the 2015 UKIP election. Farage's words are inflammatory, and appeal to a certain small proportion of the electorate, that is very wide spread, hence why even in this best possible scenario of the tories collapsing, they could only secure 5 seats. Next election the tories will be stronger and reform will struggle even more.

@hephaestion12 3 күн бұрын

About half of your videos make me cry. They remind me of all there is to love about britain and all there is to fix. Some of the highest quality journalism in the world and its basically just voxpops! 😂

@sapienproductions 4 күн бұрын

Very few media outlets are doing this work well. We used to have decent local newspapers and media to keep politicians accountable. Now they know they have a much easier time from the national focused media. Keep up the excellent work.

@airliebird58 4 күн бұрын

I hope you continue to do these pieces. They really are an insight. Thank you.

@mj8325 4 күн бұрын

Community spirit has gone no pubs youth centers to mix and help each other 15-20 year ago you could go in your local and pick up some work if you were down in your luck

@user-kf5mn5vn3t 4 күн бұрын

As always....... BRILLIANT WORK...... Well done guys.

@jmudikun 4 күн бұрын

Thank you for your excellent video. It broke my heart to see how people suffer and gave me hope to see people come together

@commonwunder 4 күн бұрын

Population of the UK ( including children ) Sixty-six million. ( Adults around forty million ) Labour voting turnout yesterday : nine million people. *Jeremy Corbyn turnout 2017 : twelve million, eight hundred thousand.

@Coops5361 4 күн бұрын

Aye & 40% vote share in 2017.

@diskopartizan0850 4 күн бұрын

And nowhere near power.

@J-wm4go 3 күн бұрын

Labour had a great policy platform, with a leader who (unfairly) was unelectable. If Starmer provides some policies of the Corbyn type, people are given something to vote FOR, rather than against.

@revol148 Күн бұрын

@commonwunder and there are also MP's arriving at the house of commons representing constituencies some of whom barely 49% of the voters turned out to vote for anyone let alone the sitting MP.

@AaronOkeanos 4 күн бұрын

Milton Keynes ... do they still have these delivery robots? It was one of the strangest stories in this series.

@grantbeerling4396 3 күн бұрын

This is Cameron's big society. Meanwhile, real wealth runs off with unpaid taxes. This has to change.

@Rijowhi 3 күн бұрын

Thank you again John & John.

@SkintLivingUK 3 күн бұрын

I just hope things get better for everyone, the rich need to let everyone else live with dignity

@matsudaseiko 4 күн бұрын

AT LONG LAST 14 YEARS OF GRIEF ! YES !.......WEEP 🙂

@arilebon 4 күн бұрын

Wonderful series.

@JVSwailesBoudicca 4 күн бұрын

Another cracking video, but too much sadness and hardship to be seen Lets hope it will diminish in the next year or so. Thank you.

@heathercooper6043 4 күн бұрын

Well that's what it's supposed to show you isn't it

@JVSwailesBoudicca 4 күн бұрын

@@heathercooper6043 🙄🤐

@MattThomas-dq6fj 4 күн бұрын

I just hope we see some positive change from Labour as I'm afraid Reform may take the county hostage within the next couple of elections.

@davidmunnery6668 4 күн бұрын

Made me cry again…

@MixologistMilo 4 күн бұрын

Great coverage chaps

@carwynj.thomas5057 4 күн бұрын

You should come to Gateshead. There’s some great people up here. They deserve to be seen x.

@FrancisBarton 2 күн бұрын

These films always break me. They just make me weep. Thanks John and John.

@Zulualfadelta 3 күн бұрын

Great series, I always look forward to the Anywhere but Westminster videos.

@Avengerie 4 күн бұрын

It would have been interesting if someone made a compilation of these street interviews going back 30 years with people saying “we need change” and the country gradually getting worse and worse. Managed decline and the rise of the rest. You can’t stop it.

@erertertert44 2 күн бұрын

I don't think people understand how much aging demographics, interest payments on national debt and finacial inequality are destroying our economy. Yet none of those things have been mentioned this election

@RS-B5ZV 3 күн бұрын

This is important documentary on UK and should be viewed by thousands

@petrihadtosignupforthis8158 4 күн бұрын

Mate, I really want you go around that weird island and just talk to happy people telling you about meaningless non-issues, about how there is too much noise from that arts centre that opened over there after foodbank closed... one can hope.

@robertboar9514 3 күн бұрын

Congrats to John and everyone involved in these videos - some of the best political coverage I've seen

@peterfromgw4615 4 күн бұрын

Well done with your reports. It’s appalling that so many people have to struggle to just exist in an alleged first world country like the UK. I’ll be visiting there in late August/early September, the first time since prior to COVID, and I’m expecting to see a very different UK, post pandemic, post Brexit. We here in Australia complain about our politicians however I suspect they are nowhere near as appalling as those in Westminister. Grüße aus Australien. Tschüss.

@lucym5163 3 күн бұрын

Another great video. Hope you carry on with this series well after the election.

@anniemack4282 3 күн бұрын

Such beautiful people. Such shocking neglect. Your films show both really humanely. It doesn't have to be like this.

@samsam21amb 3 күн бұрын

I really loved Ed Davey’s campaign & manifesto and he did great. I wish he got more seats and formed an opposition or even a coalition government with Labour.

@whorhythmic 4 күн бұрын

Niko mentioned 🗣️🗣️💯💯💯

@Senna_Folo 4 күн бұрын

Please keep going, Would be interesting to see how people feel in a few years, hopefully things can get better now the torys have left.

@RandallSlick 4 күн бұрын

These films never fail to impress and occasionally inspire. Top work. But please, floating rather than swing voter.

@plumduff3303 4 күн бұрын

Fantastic journalism here's to a postitive change in people's lives from this day forth.

@rllymarlon4886 4 күн бұрын

Thanks this was very touching to see!

@catherinemoore9534 4 күн бұрын

Brilliant series of videos. 💯🥰👏🙏

@BeccaAl Күн бұрын

Thank you to the people featured. Anywhere but Westminster! Seeing people’s humanity is so important. I do really hope things start to get better because it’s not fair so many people are struggling in different ways, they have no support.

@ubiktd4064 3 күн бұрын

The future looks like BlackRock

@normanchristie4524 3 күн бұрын

A great program John & Co.

@SuezWSuezW 3 күн бұрын

Great series, guys! Some very interesting and sobering stories.

@alx_b 2 күн бұрын

The best political reporting team anywhere in the world. Just brilliant every episode, compassion at the heart of every story. This feels like the end of a chapter, I look forward to seeing how they cover the coming change in the UK and how it succeeds - and fails - and what difference a new kind of politics can have.

@citizenA-Z 4 күн бұрын

beautiful film

@LeMonsieurBanane 2 күн бұрын

Thatcher said, 'there is no such thing as society'. How skilled the Tories have been at making this a reality.

@BTihamer100 3 күн бұрын

Brilliant journalism! 👏

@D_isco_D_ancer 4 күн бұрын

Always interesting these Anywhere but...

@jameseden9380 4 күн бұрын

Amazing, thank you

@tonychorley4936 17 сағат бұрын

Love this series, real journalism , not just about the metropolitan lot.

@dewijones92 3 күн бұрын

love this

@PlantbasedSilvi 3 күн бұрын

It is frightening that there are food banks all over Europe because the state is not doing its job, there is too little social housing and wages are too low. I have just asked the AI and compared our countries, England is said to have over 1200 food banks, which is 2.10 per 100,000 inhabitants, in Germany we have 1.17 per 100,000 inhabitants, which is almost twice as many. I don't know whether this has anything to do with the Brexit. The minimum wage is higher in your country than in Germany: 13.38 euros in England and 12.41 euros in Germany.

@Herocoldfinger 4 күн бұрын

Wait, being racist doesn't stop the hunger?😮

@albert7311 3 күн бұрын

There's nothing wrong with prioritising your kin.

@yorib5321 2 күн бұрын

Why don’t his ‘kin’ care enough so he does not have to go to a food bank?

@jamesholt4449 2 күн бұрын

@@albert7311what does that even mean.

@ruffey1748 4 күн бұрын

4:46, what a class moment, excellent reporting!

@katejacobs5491 3 күн бұрын

I love this series, always feel pleased when I see that John Harris has posted. Just noticed that I’ve missed some of the recent posts. Goodee! I would have no idea what was happening without these. Quite brilliant, and essential viewing.

@eelm2079 4 күн бұрын

here's when the people realise it's the government failing as opposed to their selected fan club...

@piotrbiegasiewicz 4 күн бұрын

Great program

@tld8102 3 күн бұрын

they should not expect things to get better quickly.

@MrMmnngghh 3 күн бұрын

Those abandoned sites in Consett and Coatbridge look no different to how parts of Britain looked forty years ago. It seems to have always been that way. I lived in England from the early eighties to the early 2000's and every town or city I live or stayed in had a "Decrepit Quarter" of its' very own.

@infostudy101 3 күн бұрын

Where did you move to in the end?

@MrMmnngghh 2 күн бұрын

@@infostudy101 Melbourne, Australia. Back to the birthplace. We've got our own abandoned ghettoes too, but nothing quite on the scale of what U.K. governments have put their citizens through.