but why didn t the system do more to deal with this crisis? what is it about british politics which means a knowable problem, a crisis that people on your side of politics or on the other side of politics have privately talked to me about for a quarter of a century but have not managed to solve. i very consciously went into it wanting to ask the question why has it taken politics so long to sort out social care? and in the very first conversation i had with the bbc, with expectation, months before we started filming, i said i feel guilty we did not do more, and that became a starting point for the film. i absolutely did not intend to go in talking how i did about my mum. clearly that was a motivation for me doing it but i never wanted to do ed balls my care story . but there was a learning i had in those first couple of weeks
was it also a journey looking at yourself thinking, why didn t, not necessarily i, but why didn t the system do more to deal with this crisis? what is it about british politics which means a knowable problem, a crisis that people on your side of politics or on the other side of politics have privately talked to me about for a quarter of a century but have not managed to solve. i very consciously went into it wanting to ask the question why has it taken politics so long to sort out social care? and in the very first conversation i had with the bbc, with expectation, months before we started filming, i said i feel guilty we did not do more, and that became a starting point for the film. i absolutely did not intend to go in talking how i did about my mum. clearly that was a motivation for me doing it but i never wanted to do ed balls my care story .