levelling up
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Animated GIF sequence inspired by research participant photograph of a market town in the East Midlands.
‘Do not enter store if light is RED’
South West England, December 2020.
Image credit K. Tyler.
you need a social plan
The decline of the town:
You need a social plan and I don’t think we have a social plan. Maybe you’ve got to get through the pandemic and maybe when you do that something happens but I think for the places that are struggling this has made it a lot worse, considerably worse.
Quote from George. George is a white man in his 60s. He identifies as British middle-class. He lives in a market town in the East Midlands. George voted to leave the EU. Interview November 2020.
Photograph contributed by research participant George, November 2020.
we’re going to be last in the line
Well, like I said, on many other issues we just feel like we’re going to be last in the line, you know? We’re like how a lot of the north feels at the moment, it’s like the north/south divide, and I think it’s as apparent as ever if not widening the gulf in how we feel, because of how things are operating now.
Quote from Ray. Ray is a man in his 40s. He identifies as white British working class. He lives in a market town in the East Midlands. Ray voted to leave the EU. Interview November 2020.