Sentences with phrase «british welfare system»

Here is what THR wrote about it, «Veteran leftie director Ken Loach's latest, about two honest people caught up in an uncaring British welfare system, features a familiar framework and perspective, but exerts a powerful emotional grip.

Over the past two decades, their collaboration has yielded some of the most powerful works in contemporary British cinema, including The Wind That Shakes the Barley (now streaming on the Criterion Channel on FilmStruck in a limited engagement), which chronicles the lives of two brothers during the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War, and last year's Palme d'Or — winning drama I, Daniel Blake, which skewers the brutal bureaucracy of the British welfare system.

However, his retirement lasted just over a year before he stated his intent to come back and make a film on the British welfare system and the Tory government's barbaric treatment of the most vulnerable people in society.

There will be a marked shift away from the traditional generous British welfare system to more punitive, American - style, one that ultimately comes down hard on those who refuse to work.

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«This free market vision would require major re-structuring of the British economy and its tax and welfare system.

Questions - Getting value for money from companies marketing services to help people make claims against missold Payment Protection Insurance Legislation, revising the system for electing British Members of the European Parliament, dealing with any consequences for social cohesion and criminality of the withdrawal of civil legal aid for social welfare law cases, annual value of employers» national insurance contributions Legislation - Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill

I have long championed honest food labelling as British farmers, who farm to some of the highest animal welfare standards in the world, need a labelling system which enables people to make an informed choice and support our great British food.»

Whether it was the people of the North East rejecting politicians plundering their earnings to pay for white elephant vanity projects, working class voters rejecting apparently over-generous welfare arrangements for EU migrants, or left leaning Labour voters rejecting the supposed excesses of the capitalist system, fairness lies at the heart of British anger.

«Migrants are filling gaps in the labour market left wide open,» he will say, «by a welfare system that for years has paid British people not to work».

The director of I, Daniel Blake — which depicts a man from Newcastle struggling to cope with Britain's welfare system - collected the BAFTA for Best British Film

In the main part of his six - part guide Ironmonger describes 31 leading British zoos, ranking them by a system of stars; he awards a maximum of four for each of five categories — conservation, enclosures (reflecting welfare), education, recreation and research.