It's down here, man.
Where is this?
We're driving around a huge retail park on the outskirts of Bolton,
in search of a political rally.
'I got hit by a Brexit bus.'
It's the biggest pro-Brexit event since the referendum
and the return to front-line politics of the supposedly nemesis of the global elite.
If this is such a good idea,
why does the country feel so bleak?
Because all they're getting is a constant diet of negativity
from a well-organised establishment who every single day
want to beat us into submission,
tell us things are awful, but it'll be OK
provided we give up Brexit.
What if other things are on people's radar now?
Schools are running out of money …
There's litter everywhere they look.
Of course, they are …
Their councils are cutting money hand-over-fist from their public services,
populations are going through the roof.
We have a major population crisis In Britain.
Absolutely huge, impacting …
That's nothing to do with population …
Oh, really?
That's to do with the fact that the government's been cutting money back
from local government for aeons and we're hitting the wall and all sorts of ways.
There are huge numbers of issues that affect people's lives
but the fact about the Brexit vote was that it was a big
fundamental decision, an emotional decision, you could argue,
that people made,
and here we are, over two years on,
with a political class that doesn't want to implement it.
Well, we'll creep back in,
we'll creep back in.
It's funny how he now calls it an emotional decision.
It's like years of treating the ground or this was a
fantastically common-sense practical idea.
I could do with the common sense practical idea about how to get in it.
Is it there?
'Please welcome to the stage, Nigel Farage.'
My first day back on a political stage since June.
How dare they try to make and vote all over again?
You know what? We're back and we'll fight them again.
I don't know how representative these people are of …
you know, of millions of people in the wider nation.
Why did you want it so badly?
Borders, currency, everything and we don't want to be ruled by unelected leaders.
It's the opportunity of being free, of being able to, you know,
the innovation … unshackle that's a good word.
Do you know many remain voters?
Yeah, my own daughter.
Do you think you've got things in common with her, in terms of the
sort of country what I live in and all of that stuff?
I do, but I think she takes the high moral ground.
I think we get a fairer country, a better country,
a country that suits everyone, a diverse country
and I think, you know, this thing about the remoaners and all this,
it's so bad, isn't it?
What, the way each side hurls abuse at each other?
Yes, yes.
Everyone feels sort of frustrated and annoyed and that nothing's solid
and that things are not under their control, right?
Yes.
But that applies to leftwing people too and remain voters too.
Do you think you've got anything in common with them?
Quite honestly, I'm not sure, because all they seem to do is to call me names.
So I don't know really
if I've got anything in common with them or not.
They do.
Yes, they do.
Remain voters, it's ordinary Joes I'm talking about.
The ordinary remainer? Well, I've not really met any.
Do you know any remain voters?
No, I don't, because everybody I know wants to leave.
You'll edit that interview to make him look a complete fool.
No! We don't do that.
What's the point in making people look fools?
He's not someone in power.
Do you think Brexit will change Bury?
For the better in any way?
Well, who knows? It might do, you've got to hope.
I mean, freedom is the sure possession of those alone
who are prepared to fight for it.
Who said that?
Pericles.
Wow, we never had Pericles in a video before.
It's on the Bomber Command Memorial.
We're fighting back, we've had enough.
'We're fighting back against who?'
The establishment, whoever it is that's steering in a different direction.
I'm trying to find some sort of basic points of agreement
across the political divide in these films and it didn't quite work there.
But this is the side that won the biggest political contest in postwar history.
More than 17 million people
supported their view of things and since
our journey began in May we've met a whole range of them.
I'm a Brexiteer!
Are you?
By talking to you I thought it would be the other way around.
I thought we stood a chance of getting nearer to how we were.
I suppose it's just people's situations, more than anything else,
depends which area and who you speak to.
Obviously, there's no single, simple reason why, but
somehow, the answer is all around us.
A giant Domino's warehouse.
Think of all the pizza bases that are in there.
This is what Britain is now.
They're like the steelworks and coalmines of now, aren't they?
They're the symbols of our age.
Party conferences used to happen in seaside towns.
Now they take place in these surreal modern developments.
Pretty much identical to where we were in Bolton.
The noise here is all about Brexit
and whether there should be another referendum. But in the bowels of the conference centre,
there are also some people talking about the deep issues
that sit under why so many people voted to leave the EU.
Particularly in English towns.
Brexit is actually the symptom, not the cause, of those divisions.
In 2005, Tony Blair said:
'A character of this changing world is unforgiving of frailty.
The Future belongs to those who are swift to adapt, slow to complain.'
But what of those unable to adapt?
Those towns where people didn't have skills and qualifications,
all they got was the warehousing jobs
and all of the things then that matter disappear,
and that pride, and that sense of purpose, and that sense of being part
of a country that is bigger than yourself, and your role in it …
All of that went.
This series is kind of alternating between big political events and life in
one place in particular, Walsall, in the West Midlands,
and I've now arranged to meet the Labour candidate for the Tory-held
constituency of Walsall North, where we've been a lot.
And she's on her way here, I hope.
With a dog!
'This way.'
I'll be back in a minute.
This is your day job, isn't it?
I feel like I'm in a local paper with a big cheque.
This is our postcard to Amazon.
So, those big sheds that now ring our towns …
You know what goes on there and you think about it a lot, right?
Yes, yes, especially when you get people telling you the way that they've been
treated in the workplace.
So, for example, people will have water bottles,
empty bottles with them, stationed with them.
So that they can go to the bathroom while they're working because they don't get the time.
It's very euphemistically put.
You mean they have bottles on their person into which they wee?
Yes.
To save time and not go to the toilet.
Exactly.
We don't think about this enough, do we?
No!
People of Walsall North have felt forgotten.
How did you vote in the referendum?
I voted out.
Oh, you did vote out?
I did vote out.
It says here, 'Gill Ogilvie fully supports and respects the decision taking by other people
to leave the EU.'
That's actually true.
It is true, yeah.
Wow, and do you still feel like that?
I still feel like that because …
Even if the evidence mounts up it's going to be somewhat rocky?
It might be rocky but the reason why I voted out was
about having autonomy over our economic decisions.
If we came out as a party and said:
'We're going to ignore the people's wishes, and we'll hold a second referendum.'
I'd be very doubtful we'd ever win Walsall North back again.
There's your stereotypical feature of the modern British town centre,
a shut-down M&S.
'We look forward to seeing you soon.'
What does that even mean?
This is a ghost town up here. The town is dead.
Really? M&S closing is killing this part of the town?
It killed the town up here.
All them years, it's a ghost. Barmy!
It's the older people that have gone (…) and then there's me, that's my trade.
I don't know what's going to happen with this.
Three years ago, on a Thursday, I had 10 times that amount.
Well, thanks to the internet.
Yeah, it's good for some but not good for others.
Jobs in Walsall were once centred on the leather trade, in nuts and bolts.
At the end of our long journey into Britain's Brexit breakdown,
we're now going to a massive embodiment of the new world of work.
It takes us 35 minutes to get there
and it feels like half that time youve spent getting from one end of this
massive warehouse to the other.
I feel like I'm at the end of the Earth.
That's a dirty great power station, and next to it is a dirty great Amazon fulfilment centre.
It's a quite surreal scene here.
Which is aimed at drawing attention to the fact that …
Raising awareness for people to understand that people inside Amazon,
and how they're treated. The health and safety is appalling.
Are you aware about the trade union recognition for the GMB?
Let me just give you that.
Hi, excuse me, are you working at Amazon?
All you need to do is go online and fill it in.
The employer doesn't know that you've done this …
Yes, so it's completely confidential.
The coach that's just gone in with all the employees on,
that's from Walsall,
so a full coach, 52 seats.
In come the workers, out come the parcels.
Yes.
Hiya! Sorry, are you both blue badge?
You got to get in … hello? Thank you.