Races 9.14.26 montage

Titles

SOMERSET, ENGLAND

There’ll always be an England

Reporter: Lisa Millar

9.44.55 man

Voxie

I love a little punt and the weather’s good.

9.42.47 man

Voxie

It’s country people and they’ve been doing it for years and years and years.

9.54.45 man raising glass at back of car

Cheers, you going to join us?

9.27.45 (you’ll find plenty of tweed but this is the kind of shot I was imagining)

There’s no shortage of wine – or tweed.. as an afternoon at the Cothelstone race track gets underway.

Upsot – race caller: we have one more left to take it, champagne Rosie she’s over it well

9.40.40 woman

Voxie

We can have picnics out the back of the cars and just watch the horses

It’s a centuries old tradition. Amateur riders and their horses, raising money for the coming hunting season.

9.56.40

Lisa and Derek

Lisa: Almost, almost did it. Almost did it Derek.

Derek: yep.

Derek: I’ll have a tener to win on number 6

Bookie: Ten on 6.

Derek Mead has had it on the calendar for weeks.. as have most of the locals here.

9.48.15

Derek Mead

It’s all part of country life really and this is what we cherish

Upsot: Lisa Millar who represents the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and she’s the London bureau chief ...

10.00.26 derek and lisa – handing out trophy ..

It’s the kind of place where out of towners are still welcomed

.. and even get to hand out trophies.. .

Up sot

Hello there. I bet you weren’t expecting this, in front of television and all the rest of it. Congratulations that was very exciting.

GV

We’ve come here to Somerset in the south west of England, a place which revels in its Englishness.

It’s a crucial moment.

Upsot: that was really great! Congratulations.

In a little over two weeks, England, along with the rest of the UK, will be voting in a referendum on whether to stay in Europe, or leave.

Upsot - Derek

Shall we hang in there, safer, safer.

It’s the English – more than the Scots, the Welsh or the Northern Irish, who are most in favour of leaving.

For them, this vote is about what it means to be English.

Upsot: we got a lot of foreign workers but they’re good chaps.

Derek Mead’s family have called this area of Somerset, home for centuries.

8.32.02 Derek Mead interview in home

DEREK GRAB CUT DOWN

Exteriors of house/lisa and Derek walking (

Derek Mead

Well yeah we are, we are very old in this patch of North Somerset. Ah we’ve been here for many, many generations and ah we actually originate from ah serfs and built a very ?? crew. Came up to the agriculture scene and now we are owner/occupiers of agricultural land.

[08:32:44]we farm about 1800 acres, milk ah 350 dairy cows organically ah we’ve got an open farm where the general public can come and see the cows being milked

Overlay this part of the interview with exteriors of property walk with lisa

8.33.37

[08:33:37] Do they see you as the landed gentry around here?

D [08:33:40] Um I hope not ah cause um you know we are land gentry in that phrase of the word ah but no I I don’t really fancy myself as the upper crust of the ah gentry of ah England.

9.05.30 lisa and Derek walking at his manor

Lisa and Derek walking

That must be spectacular for garden parties in the summer. Summer parties, champagne in the sunshine? Oh definitely, come through here and I’ll show you the clocktower

Farmer, businessman, entrepreneur – Derek Mead is also now a leading voice in the debate locally over Britain’s future.

Britain has been part of Europe for more than 40 years.

And Derek is trying to stop what they’re calling a Brexit.

8.41.31

Derek Mead

I class myself as a Great Britainer through and through but I am a European. You know the reality is that we are a small island on the edge of Europe with a population of half a billion which we should be looking at as their customer base.

////[08:37:52] our relationship should be in Europe, because I think it’s essentially, as a farmer the common agricultural policy I don’t necessarily agree with but if the agricultural policy was done away with, a lot of our farmers, 80% if not more would be in the red.

Croquet, band playing

And so to open the croquet world championships in Peasdeon St John

This region is also home to a Tory politician with a big reputation.

Rees mogg speech

13.26.34

..where Somerset leads the world follows ..

Jacob Rees-Mogg is a proud local member who’s served his constituency for six years.

13.27.13 rees mogg

To wish the contestants the best of luck

croquet

Eton educated and slightly eccentric .. they joke about him being the Honourable Member for the early 20^th Century.

Croquet.. might need to go to car shot here to move it along if croquet is starting to feel too long ..

But he doesn’t mind.

It comes with the territory when you’re considered part of British aristocracy... and drive an old Bentley.

Rees Mogg 12.52.27

I believe in freedom and I believe in democracy, and those are old fashioned values but they’re also modern values // And if people think I’m old fashioned for backing them then I’m delighted to be a member of parliament for 1265 when all of this really started.

His father was a Lord – and the esteemed editor of the one of the great British institutions, the Times Newspaper.

Jacob rees mogg interview at home

12.37.12

Jacob Rees Mogg

Well my family’s lived in Somerset as far back as we go. We moved into what is now the North East Somerset constituency ah in 1628. So we’ve been here forever really.

A heritage listed manor house is home for the Rees Moggs and their five children.

His wife is descended from an Earl.

Upsot: Rees-Mogg

Here is Thomas Wentworth whose my wife’s ancestor who was Thomas the First’s advisor and for his pains lost his head in 1641

Lisa: and speaking of, your wife!

Rees-Mogg: that’s right, my wife, given to me by my mother in law as a wedding present

Inside showing pictures

(birthday is may 24)

The 47 year old is a firm Eurosceptic. He’s happily found himself at the front of the campaign to leave the EU ...at odds with fellow Tory, and British Prime Minister, David Cameron, who wants to stay.

12.38.53 sit down interview at house

Rees Mogg

It’s a country with a very distinguished history, but also a very exciting future based on our democracy, the rule of law and freedom of speech. And Europe is a subset of that, it’s not the essence of our identity.

12.59.33

Lisa reversal question

Is there a sense Englanders want to go back to a country that doesn’t exist anymore?

Rees-Mogg 12.39.18

Rees Mogg

I hope not um. I actually think the Little England argument should be turned round that it’s a Little Europe. That Europe is protectionist. It keeps out a lot of Australian goods for example particularly agricultural produce. It’s about an old fashioned out dated European model where Europe is the most important continent in the world where actually Asia has overtaken us.

Music montage of somerset

It’s the very picture of rural English countryside… inspiring poetic masters like Coleridge and Wordsworth.

But don’t be fooled.

Somerset might be dotted with sleepy villages but its population is growing fast and unemployment is low – tourism and agriculture drive the economy.

Up sot – livestock auction

(auctioneer)

And this is Derek Mead’s domain.

Lisa and Derek walking 4.00.40

Lisa: Just like that it’s really quick. They’ve done this pen, they’ve sold them.

Derek: One of the styles of a good auctioneer he keeps it moving so he doesn’t lose the momentum.

He created this market nine years ago.

PTC

This is one of the biggest livestock auctions in England. By the end of today they’ll have sold about 6000 head. But it’s not just about business. It’s a meeting place for farmers to talk. And what they’re talking about is the referendum and whether to stay in or get out.

3.03.40 Derek and Richard Adams talking to each other

Derek – we worked it out with the French, we worked it out with the Germans, we’ve got to work it out politically. Trouble is now we’re half in and half out and we don’t know where we are.

Richard – that’s very true but the majority of the public don’t understand the tariffs

Include – subsidies – How much$$

Europe buys 45% of Britain’s exports – a lot of that comes from the land.

Farmers have benefitted from EU subsidies – receiving 3 billion pounds a year from Brussels – almost half of their income - as well as access to a market of 500 million people.

Britain joined the common market in 1973 ... back then, famers supported it.

So what are they thinking now?

08:48:19 derek mead sit down interview

Derek Mead

The main worry when it comes to farmers is the bureaucratic crap that they believe comes out of Europe but the whole trouble is we, our MPs and the Ministry of Agriculture are not over there doing a proper representation when they’re bringing in new legislation. /// BUTT [08:48:57] Now in France if they don’t like it they bin it.

3.10.30

Richard Newman

What bugs you about the EU?

Paperwork

Tell me more.

You’ve’ got to fill in forms for everything basically. Luckily I’ve got a daughter who does it these days. I would have given up.

Farmers have also had the choice of millions of migrant workers from poorer European countries prepared to put in backbreaking hours for minimum pay.

In spite of the cheap labor … for some, the number of people moving here is a worry.

This is the voxie .. he’s above with Derek chatting so thinking this might work

3.02.00

Richard Adams

Lisa: If the vote was today which way would you be going?

Richard: I’d come out. And the reason I’d come out is we need our own sovereignty, our own democracy, our own security and to safeguard our own borders. The immigration numbers Ive been told, Ive been lead to believe are 300,000 net coming into the country, in ten years that’s 3 million.

That’s a message we hear again and again ... the desire to be in charge of their borders.

3.23.45

David Lockwood

I think the vote at the end of the day will depend on the man in the street. And if there’s a big crisis with migrants or terrorism close to the vote it will make a big difference. Sovereignty is more important than subsidies... I’m going to try to buy this heifer.

New link

There’s one group in Somerset which has a lot to lose if England leaves the EU – their future here hangs on it.

TRANSITION TO POLISH CHURCH

Montage w/ music

Sunday morning church service in the City of Taunton in Somerset

Upsot – polish mass/ singing (REVEAL)

For these Polish immigrants, this is as much about community as communion.

Ivona outside church – thought track her? 4.55.08

IWONA GRAB CUT DOWN

Iwona Kot

4.55.08 there’s a couple of hundred of people here now every Sunday, 10 years ago it was just 30 – 40 people so it is an improvement I would say

Iwona Kot is one of around 700,000 who’ve come from Poland to live in the UK.

There are so many of them now living in Somerset ... they have their own priest – shipped in by the church to care for this growing flock of foreign Catholics.

Iwona Kot – reveal her

IWONA GRAB CUT DOWN

Iwona Kot

4.59.57 It’s absolutely brilliant because he’s an important part of our life. A couple of years ago you would have had to go to Poland to have a holy communion.

Iwona in the kitchen

Leaving her office job in a government department in Poland, Iwona was part of a wave of Polish people who rushed to find work and better lives in the UK when their country joined the European Union in 2004.

Upsot: oh well I’m on nights again tonight

The Freedom of Movement Act means people can migrate from one country to another with barely any restrictions.

All they need is an EU passport.

Interview

IWONA GRAB CUT DOWN

8.02.30 Iwona Kot

When I came over here I worked as a cleaner and I worked in a factory. // 8.21.05 it was a very, very busy time and I remember that there was a time when it was um a big order so we had to work something like thirteen hours sometimes, you know fourteen hours.

Kitchen chatter upsots

Ten years later Iwona is engaged to an Englishman, Stuart, has a child with him - and has brought her grandmother from Poland to live with them.

7.38.10 Stuart

Communication is a bit of an issue. Me and Babcha, we get on really well. But obviously there’s many, many times she asks me something I’ll ring Iwona and get her to translate.

IWONA CUT GRAB OUT – about slang

Their welcome mat is always out for other Polish immigrants.

7.39.05 Stuart

I get a little bit of banter at work. My house is known as little Warsaw or the Polish Embassy of Taunton.

Iwona: It is actually.

Montage of putting on uniform

Iwona has also broken through another very English barrier.

Thought track over uniform sequence

Iwona

[08:05:36] Yeah I feel very special. // I’m serving for ah British Police and British people so basically as not a British citizen person I think that // I’ve been appreciated in some way to get that chance doing this and I’m very proud of that.

On the beat – up sots Iwona - cut aways of houses.

After a year as a volunteer she earned the right to wear the badge.

Her beat is the toughest in Taunton. A poor neighbourhood of public housing, and a growing population of Polish migrants, on low incomes.

Iwona: how is your English progressing

Polish woman: you know my English is not very well, but I think when Im coming to the English less my English is very good.

Taunton town and old buildings – music montage

Simon working bar - tattoos

Just down the road from the Taunton police station we meet Simon Braun, a publican and a patriot.

He’s lived all over the UK and moved here a year ago to open this pub.

CUT SIMON BARBER SEQUENCE AND UPSOTS

Simon Braun 6.48.05

I was actually surprised when I moved here that there were so many migrants in the area. That surprised me cause I wasn’t used to that. I thought sunny Somerset would be London would be in my ignorance London would be more of a place where they’d go to.

Polish shops etc – Tauton GVs

Spotting the influences in Taunton of the EU’s open door on migration isn’t hard.

It’s the same across the country.

In the last decade, the number of EU born people living in the UK has more than doubled and is now over 3 million.

7.09.53 reversal

What does it do to a community when there is an influx of immigrants?

Again he rambles a bit through this grab .. so see how it works

[06:48:41] I think it causes a problem Um I moved once um and I I felt as though, this is a a a a suburb of London and I felt as though I was um an outsider, almost made to feel that I wasn’t really welcome. And I was born in this country um so I went and moved // cause I wanted to live in an area with people like me. [06:49:18] Now but one could say I’m a racist.

Q Are you ?

Simon Braun

S [06:49:23] Absolutely not. Absolutely not.

[06:47:32] // it’s not about race, it’s not about religion, it’s about us just being told to do and put in our place by Europe.

Reversal question

7.09.01 so what’s been lost in England?

6.51.50 simon braun

we’ve lost the pride. We’ve lost the pride to say hi, I’m English or hi I’m British because all of a sudden you are seen as being, by saying that you are seen as being sort of knocking everyone else that’s not. [06:52:06] So I think we, I think we’ve lost that pride in who we are, our nationality

For those who plan to vote out, it’s a common complaint – that the EU is an impediment to England being the great country it should be.

7.02.50 Simon Braun

We’ve been this island and I think this is what’s going back to this this whole brexit thing is that we are defending ourselves against what’s happening.

// 6.45.14

we’ve just had enough or I’ve certainly had enough of um being dictated to by Europe.

Transition to Cambridge

For a broader view we’ve had to leave Somerset.

We’ve come to Cambridge to visit historian Professor Robert Tombs.

Upsot – walking to boats - 14.08.15

couldn’t think of a better way to tell me about history

He’s written what’s regarded as the definitive book on it all ... The English and their History.

Robert Tombs interview

14:05:57:07

Reverse question: Why has immigration become such a big issue for people in England?

Robert Tombs 13,56,45

People on the whole do not dislike the immigrants who are here. Ah you don’t get people smashing the windows of Polish grocer shops or ah I have a s- a mosque in my street it would be unthinkable that anyone would fire bomb the mosque um or anything like that that just that just won’t happen. [13:57:03] But I think have people have a sense that this is um an uncontrolled and open ended process um which could go on for years and which would in that case greatly change the sort of society we are.

Upsot on boat punting:

14:13:17

The idea that people who know best make the big decisions and then the rest of us sooner or later follow, is not part of our tradition // Well, I think that people feel that they want to decide//

Fear was part of Britain’s initial decision to join the EU in the 1970s – fear of a failing economy and a loss of clout.

Back then Britain looked to Europe as a way to keep its place in the world. But that’s changed.

Robert Tombs [13:40:13] // And I think that the change has been that people are no longer as scared as they were in the 1960’s and ‘70’s because Europe no longer seems to be the lifeboat if anything it seems to be the Titanic. And I think people are much more confident about Britain’s potential future. So in a sense the argument has been about whether the future outside the EU would be bright or whether it would dark.

Rees Mogg campaigning

Rees-Mogg montage out campaigning

Jacob Rees-Mogg: can we give you one of our leaflets? And you can give it to your father to read too.

Voting isn’t compulsory in the UK and spending a Thursday queuing at the ballot box may not be the most appealing prospect.

Making sure people get out to vote will be crucial

For Jacob Rees Mogg it’s a family affair.

His eight year old son Peter – with him all the way.

Rees-Mogg arguing with IN campaigners

Recent polls suggest the LEAVE and STAY sides are neck and neck.

Upsot:

Jacob Rees-Mogg: the British people are not going to be lectured by foreign leaders about our democracy.

In campaigner

Duncan Hounsell

12.12.21 he’s very charming, very articulate man, he’s certainly well respected but I think on this issue he’s just wrong.

Random bystander near rees mogg

12.24.50 it’s a fanciful idea and they’ve not made it work, have they. The EEC they have not made it work, they are unlikely to make it work, they are too blinkered.

In campaigner

Andy Wait

12.11.23 to my mind it’s an absolutely no brainer I think if we come out we’ll be worse off in so many ways.

Upsot:

Jacob Rees-Moghg: all you’re doing is being told what to do by foreign leaders

No one really knows what will happen if the UK leaves the EU. There is very little concrete information.

The STAY side’s predictions are grim – high unemployment, a falling sterling and four thousand pounds less per year in the pockets of voters.

Codswallop according to Mr Rees Mogg

Interview with rees mogg at his home

Jacob Rees Mogg 12.40.30

They haven’t yet come out with the plague of frogs and the death of the first born um and the plague of locusts I expect that will come in the last few weeks. I think the remain side have become so absurd in their claims as to look ridiculous and the Prime Minister even suggested we might go back to war if we left the European Union. This is just silly. Ah it’s um trying to scare people into doing something with fantasies, with children’s tales, with beware of the bogey man.

12.59.45

we can talk about trade and regulations etc but at the end of the day this debate has been about immigration hasn’t it?

Jacob Rees Mogg

[12:44:11] Well actually it’s come down to democracy. Who’s in control? Do we vote for a Government that can govern us or do we have our laws made in Brussels?

Somerset bbq up sots chatter etc

11.20.00

What would you put with this Iwona? I’d put mustard and ketchup with it, it’s really tasty, I always do it so I would recommend it to try

Over in Taunton ... the cultures are bonding over dinner.

Iwona

11.16.50 just integrate together // try traditional English bbq food and try polish traditional food

Some of these people are new arrivals .. just a matter of months ago they left their Polish homes .. with the same ambitions Iwona had a decade earlier.

But they’re arriving just as Britain decides if they will have leave again.

Malgorzata Olejniczak

11.29.08 // I worry .. My English is not good ... I don’t feel confident I don’t feel safe

Iwona from sit down interview

Q [08:13:11] Now you can’t vote yourself but what do you think about the fact that the UK might turn its back on Europe?

Both these grabs have same theme of confusion etc .. either mix and match or use one or the other

Iwona Kot 8.12.50

I’ve got a permanent residence status so I’m allowed to stay here and work here you know but I I don’t know about the consequences actually. I don’t know who’s going to have the right to stay or not, I don’t know.

Revisit Derek – feeding ducks - 09:13:30:00 (160511)

Oxford University estimates if Britain takes the exit door 75% of EU migrants working in the UK wouldn’t be allowed to stay.

Derek Mead believes the economy won’t sustain it .. too many English just aren’t prepared to take on menial jobs.

Derek feeding ducks – 09:11:58:15

(160511)

[08:44:22] Um but we feather bedded our um our social ah remuneration now to such an extent, a lot of these will not even touch it. They won’t even get anywhere near it and the only way that these jobs are actually um ah done is by um people coming in from abroad.

Q [08:44:44] You’re saying the English won’t touch …

D Yep.

Q … why?

D [08:44:46] Because they can earn more um by social um welfare than what um they won’t go out and do it and they physically don’t like dirty, wet jobs ah which are not very pleasant.

transition into London pagent Rees Mogg - Taxi sequence .. chatting to people on street

Mogg getting into cab and driving off

It’s the State opening of parliament ... the pomp and pageantry of British politics is celebrated.

Jacob Rees Mogg is in London on his way to Westminster.

Thought track Jacob rees mogg - cut with queen parade

14.40.24 rees mogg

Romantically it’s the spectacle // There is a theatrical element to it which is enjoyable.

Queen .. parade .. music montage

Flags, bands, queen etc etc

For Jacob Rees Mogg, it’s a reminder of just who should hold the power to decide this country’s future.

14.40.55

And that’s what this EU referendum is about, the people, not the bureaucrats in Brussels, and the worst of all worlds they don’t even have an imperial state crown. They’re boring dowdy people // and I think stopping them is very important.

GVS music montage