If you're not willing to admit that the poor are often awful people then you're not willing to admit that poverty is bad
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Ken Loach's benefit claimants are the noble savages of modern Britain. Hard-working and honest despite (perhaps because of) their meagre conditions. Why should change anything? Show us that poverty breeds alcoholics, wife-beaters and child-abusers
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Dickens has been accused of sentimentality, and specifically of sentimentalising and romanticising the poor. People who say this are familiar with the good-hearted Cratchets, but seldom mention Mrs Gargery or the alcoholic and abusive brick-layer of Bleak House
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isn't this the point behind the older brother in Kes?
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Maybe. I was thinking more of I, Daniel Blake
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