Our real Brexit crisis: ’No one cares anymore' | Anywhere but Westminster

John and John respond to your comments and give an update on Charlie in a special episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vke_jagbJ40

Hearing Charlie's story reminded me of this line from the UN rapporteur Philip Alston's report on UK poverty - "The bottom line is that much of the glue that has held British society together since the Second World War has been deliberately removed and replaced with a harsh and uncaring ethos."

Without a doubt, some of the best journalism around. Hearing the voice of the unheard: we all need more of this.

I am in tears hearing Charilie (c 6m 20s). I'm a stoic bloke and been around the block a few times. But sometimes it's not the extraordinary human fight for survival in a war or disaster zone that gets you. It's when the quiet desperation is experienced behind walls or normality and nobody pays much attention. I am more convinced than ever that it is not about the Governments we elect, but who we are, that elects the Government. Community, care, connectedness and compassion is only really experienced at a local level. We all need to rethink this.

Depressing as fuck, but thanks for keeping this series going as it's pretty eye opening. I'd imagine the Tories are going to use people's desperation against them again, but I honestly don't know how anyone can vote for them after the last ten years.

Nothing sums up modern Britain and the gig economy more than getting a text saying "no work tomorrow mate". Just like David Cameron "we're all in this together": being screwed over and bullshitted to simulaneously. "You're not my mate. We're not in this together. Get to fuck"

I haven't lived in the UK since the referendum and every time I get home it just gets...worse. I'm tired of hearing about it, i'm sad watching it decay and I just pray that people stop falling through the cracks. This is a fantastic series that shines a light on those people, and I hope it continues. Fuck austerity, man. It's abysmal what people are forced to live through now. Nothing great about Britain right now.

Absolutely heartbreaking. Charlie around 6:30 had me in tears

It's not Brexit, it's austerity. This dire situation was always going to exist when the safety net was slashed even further regardless of whether we were in or out of the EU.

Depressing that people think nigel tells the truth...

2 observations watching this video: 1- Situation in the UK was a lot better in 2013 and 2015, on the surface at least. We had smaller problems then like ‘immigrants taking benefits they don’t deserve’, which is not entirely true but if it was, it was not the reason you can visibly see the situation is a lot worse in 2019. 2- Charlie broke my heart. A 40-hour job promised, but no work due to no orders. He wanted to be free from the rules of the EU, those rules that would actually protect him against his landlord for example. See the pattern there?

Charlie's situation is heartbreaking, and we know this isn't an isolated case.

13:24: 'No one really cares anymore...(about) anything. At all.' Quite an accurate summation, sadly. There seems to be a pervasive sense of nihilism within society that appears impossible to negate.

if we survive the mass extinction , this is the sort of thing i would expect in History classes post 2025

The only thing uplifting in this is John's persistence with that beard. I despair at everything else.

I spent most of my life in Northern cities - Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield - and it seems like we have come full circle and back to the start of the 80s. Life was miserable for ordinary people then ... in the report I see the same look in people's eyes. I saw the writing on the wall many years ago and left the country (for much further than the EU) and have no intention of ever coming back. I watch news stories like this, and it just confirms to me how right I was.

Thanks for posting again. I really hope Charlie and the other fella get sorted out with something long term.

"I'm frightened" Two words that the ruling party refuses to address.

Thoroughly depressing, the Tories and media have really done a number on the public. Many believe every word of rhetoric they vomit out.

When all this is over and people are able to look back at this period, this series will survive as serious journalism over all the shite that is being produced at the moment.