When it comes to laying it on the line, this is unparalleled. There can be no debate.
We can either listen to this and begin to make a real difference,
or continue to be the walking dead, shuffling towards the eternal grave.
We can be dictated to by corporations, malignant politicians, or nihilistic media barons and their malevolent stranglehold on our consciousness, or we can flip the bird and start to live.
The full speech:
As her family sits around the dining table and Muriel discovers it’s been 10,000 days since 1999, she delivers the following monologue:
Muriel Deacon: … But it still doesn’t alter the fact that it’s all your fault.
Everything.
All of you. The banks. The government. The recession. America. Mrs Rourke (Emma Thompson). Every little thing that’s gone wrong, it’s your fault.
Stephen Lyons (Rory Kinnear): How am I responsible for the whole entire world?
Muriel Deacon: Because we are. Every single one of us. We can sit here all day blaming other people. We blame the economy. We blame Europe. The opposition. The weather. And then we blame these vast sweeping tides of history, you know, like we’re so out of control and we’re so helpless and small.
But it’s still our fault.
You know why? It’s the one pound t-shirt.
The t-shirt that costs one pound. We can’t resist it. Every single one of us. We see a t-shirt that costs one pound, and we think, “Oh, that’s a bargain; I love that,” and we buy it. A nice little t-shirt for the winter to go underneath, that’ll do. And the shopkeeper gets five miserable pence for that t-shirt. And some little peasant in a field gets paid nought point, nought one pence. And we think that’s fine. All of us. And we hand over our one quid. And we buy into that system for life.
I saw it all going wrong when it began. In the supermarkets. They replaced all the women on the till with those automated checkouts…
Rosie Lyons (Ruth Madeley): No. That’s not our fault. I hate those things. I always have.
Edith Lyons (Jessica Hynes): I can’t stand them.
Muriel Deacon: Yes, but you didn’t do anything, did you? Twenty years ago, when they first popped up did you walk out? Did you write letters of complaint? Did you shop elsewhere? No. You huffed and you puffed, and you put up with it. And now all those women are gone. And we let it happen.
Penny Lane
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