A london street artist to use his pieces to speak out against social injustice today Deputy Editor Sebastian Baca went to speak to him in south london we have covered the artists face to hide his identity. Oh in politics of course when strange bedfellows i mean another of those people who say we should like celebrities and stay out of politics or social issues but i think if you have a talent and you have intelligence to use it in a way which i would refer to be Creative Intelligence people would say that im taking sides i dont see it that way i just think that the other side im taking is one of truth. For me as with a lot of people are supposed politics is a dirty word some of the social commentary. That kind of was a seed was planted in the legacy because. Just ninety six i just on a world billboard i spray paint star which went up on billboards around the country and i had an x. Small Community Isolation and a gallery and nothing of. Someone came down from a local newspaper you know
General election joining me now is the founder of the big issue crossbenchers lord bird who is proposing the creation of a new body to curb the excesses of capitalism on bird welcome back to going underground so whats governments response to your proposal for a poverty prevention unit well when i spoke to her previous to the election just before a few days before she announced it. She liked the idea of looking at this how you could make all departments passed through the prism of how does this relate to prevention she like the idea of it are made the point to save or making it the most units never really car use so theyre bureaucratic n. G. O. S here i mean that is one of those form filling in an order and we know damn well that every every government minister and their departments are told clearly a lot. You know chasing the greyhounds chasing the rabbit of their department and then you know in the slightest bit interested in working across party and across government so you really go
Is privatizing. All the civil coming up in todays going underground so the lives of hundreds of thousands of british children in tory britain are apparently under threat according to antipoverty charity the Trussell Trust as u. K. Children lose access to Free School Meals during the Summer Holidays years of blairite labor and tory austerity have been put into sharp relief in one of the richest countries in the world meanwhile record rises in homelessness have accompanied the transfer of wealth from social services to defacto taxpayer benefits for the city of london some believe that all it would have taken for engineer liberal leader Jeremy Corbyn to be Prime Minister of britain right now instead of theresa may propped up by a party linked to far right paramilitaries would have been of the lethal Grenfell Tower inferno had happened before and not after junes u. K. General election joining me now is the founder of the big issue crossbenchers lord bird who is proposing the creation of a
Appear very violent period that the townships are burning but i think actually the real danger to the system will come when they link up and develop a bigger political agenda well see if that happens on the far left the Economic Freedom fighters south African Federation of trade unions a united front or whether it continues to be fragmented or sporadic and part of that will be whether Cyril Ramaphosa revives his old left wing heroic stance he was a Great Trade Union leader and can put down these protests and promise and divide and conquer and thats a tradition of they and see theyve done it well they may not be able to continue given the contradictions because of hundred one thank you after the break. Sixty is the day that the campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is founded we speak to one of britains great just fine on just peter can a lot about why his work for the organization is more relevant than ever and with london opening its doors in this Seasons Fashion week iconic design a dames
That means their tradition is often connected to the National Liberation movement they are very tied in as actually were the Economic Freedom fighters before they had a break in two thousand and thirteen now the critical thing is the communist party knows that sauron of course who they backed the head of jacob zuma is coming from an extreme capitalist standpoint but i think thats better than the corruption riddled zuma with his control family called the gupta family now those guys are on the run theyre literally being chased as we speak the communist party deserves some credit as is the congress of South African trade unions still the largest adoration still connected to the a. N. C. But they very clearly said theres no honeymoon for storm of course and the big test is when the finance minister delivers the budget which is next wednesday and in that budget moodys the big new york Credit Rating agency is anticipated to put very strong pressure to cut the budget deficit probably by raisi