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Rachel Wild's avatar

So glad you're featuring this. I was so sad to miss it at the cinema... really wanted to go and support it, but will satisfy myself with streaming as I haven't seen it still, but would love to.

Your observation that a middle class existence can be destroyed overnight is absolutely spot on. When I was served a Clause 21 eviction notice 2 1/2 years ago, along with 40% of all renters in the UK, following the interest rate hikes, I found it nigh on impossible to find another house to rent, due to abject housing shortages in the private rental sector.

I was solvent, never having missed a rent payment in my life, running a flourishing small business, (a cottage industry, as I run it from home), and, as I entered the period where I imminently had to provide vacant possession on the house I was being evicted from, my heart was in my gut. I realised that I could switch from being an upstanding contributor to society, to a vagrant, OVERNIGHT, thereby being deprived of the means to run my business... a burden to the state, instead of someone who was supporting it.

This is all just so wrong!

Thankfully, the Universe came through for me with about 10 days to go... but the stress was awful.

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Amanda Tobin's avatar

As someone who works every day with migrants, in the main some of the very poorest people here in Ireland, where I work and live, they definitely make me more collapse aware. People hanging on by mere threads to a roof and basic necessities and sometimes not even that. I sometimes reflect that they are ‘canaries in the coal mine’ for what is hurtling at speed towards more of us. Their creativity, dignity and resilience is remarkable , just like Raynor and Moth

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