Why People Have Stopped Trusting Politics? The Story that Broke Britain
Episode notes
Episode 27: Why people have stopped trusting politics? The story that broke Britain.
We treat politics as a rational exercise, a matter of choosing between competing policy lists and economic models. But while the "leadership elite" reads from autoprompters, millions of people are living in a "fog of despair," feeling the weight of a system that has fundamentally abandoned them.
In this episode of Builders of the Broken Bazaar, Dr. Tabish Zaman is joined by Jeremy Clancy, a filmmaker and narrative strategist whose work has been at the center of Britain's most viral political movements. Jeremy shares his journey from the deindustrialized ruins of Bolsover to the inner circles of political campaigning, offering a raw look at why the standard "startup fairy tales" of progress have left a bitter taste in the mouths of the majority.
Together, they discuss the importance of "emotional resonance," the systematic erasure of working-class identity, and why the most radical act for a storyteller today is to stop manipulating and start listening. This is a conversation about making hope normal again—not through empty slogans, but by providing a mirror for people to see themselves and their power once more.
Because before a system collapses, the story we tell about how the world works usually fractures first. It’s time to tell a better story.
🎙 “We are the clay and the world is the kiln. It takes a long time to recognize how you've been baked by your experiences.”
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Host: Dr. Tabish Zaman Guest: Jeremy Clancy, (Narrative Strategist, Writer & Filmmaker).
Editor: Liam Gadsby.
Research and Impact Officer: Mohammad Alauthman.