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Stars: Meg Fozzard, Shian Denovan, Tom Knight, Ray Bullock Jr., Gala Wesson, Daniel Davids | Written by Christopher Presswell, Forgács W. András | Directed by Christopher Presswell

The Whip opens with Emily (Meg Fozzard), who suffers from a brain injury, and her sister Sadie who cares for her full time, suffering through a benefits interview. And I do mean suffering as the interviewer, somewhere between disinterested and outright hostile, gets Emily’s name wrong and asks if she has mobility issues as she sits there in her wheelchair. Despite a host of issues stemming from her injury, including short-term memory issues, shaky balance confining her to a wheelchair, and hands that shake, she’s deemed fit for work. A forgone conclusion given the government’s “Putting Ability Back into Disability” slogan for revamping the National Health Service.

Elsewhere, Michael Harrington is trying to sell these new policies to voters, and they are not buying it.

"It's gonna take more than two women to walk in off the street and rob the House of Parliament!" Will it? Workbus Films in the UK has revealed an official trailer for an indie heist thriller called The Whip, arriving in UK cinemas this September. For anyone unaware of how the UK government works, the title The Whip is a reference to the "Chief Whip" - the leader of the governing party in the House of Commons, with great power over the cabinet, being seen to speak at all times on behalf of the Prime Minister. Well timed with this trailer dropping around the same time as the big UK vote. With the looming threat of devastating welfare reforms, a full-time carer plots a daring heist from the Houses of Parliament in a bid to thwart the scheme, and bring the government crashing down with it. Their goal: to steal...