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Loach Brands Government "Callous, Brutal and Disgraceful"
I, Daniel Blake picked up the first award of the night, Best British Film, and director Ken Loach used the platform to call out the British government. "Thank you to the Academy for endorsing the truth of what the film says, which hundreds of thousands of people in this country know, and that is that the most vulnerable and poorest people are treated by this government with a callous brutality that is disgraceful," he said. "It’s a brutality that extends to keeping out refugee children that we promised to help, and that’s a disgrace too."
It was the first of several politically-charged speeches of the night.
I, Daniel Blake picked up the first award of the night, Best British Film, and director Ken Loach used the platform to call out the British government. "Thank you to the Academy for endorsing the truth of what the film says, which hundreds of thousands of people in this country know, and that is that the most vulnerable and poorest people are treated by this government with a callous brutality that is disgraceful," he said. "It’s a brutality that extends to keeping out refugee children that we promised to help, and that’s a disgrace too."
It was the first of several politically-charged speeches of the night.
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