Danny Dyer discusses fractured UK politics: ‘We’re just so f***ing divided right now’
“Misogyny, sexism, homophobia and racism are all on the rise again. We’ve regressed as human beings, so we need some sort of reset, don’t we?”
Danny Dyer has discussed his despair at the state of UK politics in 2026, saying he hopes for a “big reset”.
Dyer, who returns to the big screen tomorrow (March 13) with new one-hander movie One Last Deal, appears on the cover of Rolling Stone UK to discuss his life and career, as well as his fears for the world at large.
“Misogyny, sexism, homophobia and racism are all on the rise again. We’ve regressed as human beings, so we need some sort of reset, don’t we?” he told Rolling Stone UK in the cover feature, going on to aim to diagnose the cause of the fractures in modern British politics and society.
Dyer said: “We’re just so fucking divided right now. The working classes, no matter what colour your skin is, are fighting each other and the elites are taking the fucking piss. It’s now very apparent they’re taking the piss, but instead of everyone coming together and looking up, we’re just fighting and blaming each other. It’s petrifying to be honest with you, I don’t know why we’ve digressed so much as human beings.”
“I don’t know how Keir Starmer is hated by the extreme left and the extreme right,” Dyer added of the Labour Prime Minister. “How does that work? I’ve said this before, but we just need some more people from working-class backgrounds [in Parliament] and that will save it. But there’s some corrupt shit going on upstairs, man, and there’s the fear that they’ll eventually get corrupted too. You’ve just got to sit back and watch it all unfold and hope that humanity finds its way again.”
Of the lead opposition, Reform UK’s Nigel Farage and Green Party leader Zack Polanski, he added: “I think Labour and the Tories are responsible for the rise of Farage. You can understand if those two parties aren’t doing it for people anymore, then they’ll look for an alternative in him. Polanski [too], the Greens’ bloke. He seems like he’s got something about him. He’s intelligent, but do people give a fuck about the Greens? I think no one really cares and that’s the trouble.”
Read Danny Dyer’s Rolling Stone UK cover feature in full here and order your print copy of the magazine here.