THE film director of Americonned, which examines the impact of income inequality on workers’ families, has urged Britain to protect the NHS from corporate interests.

Amid strikes by United Auto Workers and health workers in the US, Sean Claffey told the Morning Star: “We see all of these people waking up to the fact that this trickle-down economics doesn’t work, and it has been a lie of the last 50 years.

“We are seeing this massive labour uprising here which when we started the film wasn’t happening, and it’s really hitting a crescendo.

“Once enough people don’t have jobs, or have jobs where they are not surviving, they become very angry and are easily propagandised into doing things even against their own best interests.

“I hope that people in England see what’s happening … they are knocking the NHS, degrading it so it makes people think we will got to a private system that will be better but obviously that couldn’t be further from the truth.”

Americonned’s British premiere is at the Rio Cinema in Hackney, London, on October 14.