HOW ONE FILM PERFECTLY PREDICTED TORY BRITAIN AFTER THE CREDIT CRUNCH.

There are several different kinds of films in this world.  

Some films are very much of their time, like "Wall Street" and "Shampoo".

Other films are reflections of earlier times and act as social commentary like "Platoon" or "Schindler’s list".

And then there are other films, those rarest of films that don’t comment on the now OR on the past but those rarest of films that actually PREDICT the future, that foresee with a clarity that others cannot and show us our world before it happens,

The film I am talking about in relation to the credit crunch is, of course, ANTZ.  Now of course this is the point I imagine where I lose a lot of people.  A lot of people will reach here and think “That’s it, I’M out!  There’s no way that ANTZ of all films predicts Tory Britain's post economic crash!”  

As a delicious metaphor however …it does …100%.

Let’s look at the evidence.

The Privileged Elite look down on the workers as being lazy unworthy idiots and consider how much better life would be without them.

They maintain they know what they’re doing but really they’re creating disaster for the colony.

Then of course disaster strikes (in our case the credit crunch and in the ANTZ case the mega-tunnel) but in spite of that, somehow, the colony holds on.

As the workers try and hold on, those in power try to put them down …for the GOOD of the colony, but as Z points out “WE ARE THE COLONY!”

If we consider what has been happening since the credit crunch the parallels are stark

The disconnect from those in power (currently) is one that seems to feel that the country and the people are separate.  If a country is not it’s people then what is it?  On the Bronze-plaque at the bottom of the statue of liberty (In the USA) is a description of those it wanted to take in, but it could describe any country, anywhere, at any time.

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
MOTHER OF EXILES. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.

"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

This poem by Emma Lazarus has been oft-repeated (most commonly the last four lines) but when one thinks about what occurred in 2008 and those expected to bear the brunt for the sake of the country (or the colony) but let us consider this…

Is a country not its children, whose school budgets have been cut and will have their dinners taken.

Is a country not its students, who we want to drive the economy forward, who instead are now loaded with debt.

Is a county not its workers, whose wages have been kept low by a government unaware that THEY set the tone, and NOT the private sector.

Is a country not its disabled whose services and support has been cut over and over.

Is a country not those wanting to be able to afford a home, to rent or buy?

Is a country not its sick and dying whose pain is expected to worsen and endure because of less resources.

And is a country not it’s elderly who given their lives to serve, only to be told that their homes are now forfeit for private sector residential care.

And that isn’t even looking at the working poor, public sector workers, health service workers, teachers, the police force, the fire service and everyone not located in the south-east corner of England.

Now people say to me…well what would you do?

What you have to do in this situation, think differently.  If all you do is copy standardised practices then you cannot bring about significant changes.  The government bemoan the lack of growth and Theresa May copies Amber Rudd’s phrase “Magic Money Tree” (No doubt Theresa must have seen Amber saying that on TV …In the Leaders Debate.) but since 2008 in bailouts/nationalisations and Quantitive Easing the government has spent over half a trillion pounds on the private financial sector.  

Does that sound like we have no money to you?

The truth of this government is not only that they don’t WANT to try and go for different solutions, they are incapable of coming up with them.

This campaign has seen them re-use Strong and stable

Re-use Suicide note manifesto

Re-use Tax Bomb and now

Re-use “Magic Money Tree”

In order to come up with different solutions you must think differently and they can’t.

The truth is that there is ALWAYS plenty you can do if you’re willing to think differently.

I’ve been Mr Chatable.

And that’s my take on ANTZ and its incredible powers of prediction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Colossus

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