It has all his usual trademarks and the 'working class people are good' message is laid on way too thickly. In many ways this movie is like a Ken Loach Primer. She's having the same problems, only hers start from a tinpot Hitler chucking her out of the Job Centre for being late for her appointment.
She's moved from a women's hostel in London because she can't afford a flat in London with her two children (one slightly miscast as a rather posh daughter, Daisy). He's had a heart attack and his doctors say he can't work but the Benefits Police say he has to go on jobseeker allowance and look for work or lose all entitlement to any money AT ALL. He'll never win an Oscar but this part was made for him) and the lovable but deeply vulnerable Katie (played equally well by Hayley Squires - Call the Midwife).
In a bid to out 'scroungers' the system has eaten itself and is spitting out vulnerable pitiful fodder like Daniel (played deeply sympathetically by comedian Dave Johns. A bureaucratic hell populated by "computer says no" mini Hitlers occupying mainly minor roles in the Jobseeker hell that is Tory Britain. And this is the main emotional driver of this nightmare. He chooses Newcastle as his latest political landscape, partly because "it's grim up North" but also because, in my experience, Geordies are the salt of the earth kind, lovable folks. If you know Ken Loach (and importantly his writing partner Paul Laverty) you'll know I, Daniel Blake.
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