England Expects


England Expects is a British television film produced by BBC Scotland in 2004. It stars Steven Mackintosh and was written by Frank Deasy. Nick Ryan, a journalist and the author of an exposé into far-right groups, worldwide, was the show's creative producer.

Synopsis

Former football hooligan Ray Knight is a normal everyday family man, living and working as a security guard at a financial trading company in Canary Wharf. He is fiercely protective of his teenage daughter Nikki, who currently lives with her mother and Ray’s ex-wife Sadie in a flat at a run-down estate, and he does his best to keep her out of trouble.
After a failed attempt on helping Nikki and Sadie get moved into a new housing development, which is being competed between Whites and Asians, and soon discovering that Nikki is involved in heroin addiction with her Asian neighbour and only friend Rashel, Ray’s anger drives him to join the far-right political ring led by his old friend Larry Knowles.

Production notes

The film's main objective is to explore the far-right and issues of racism.