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<blockquote data-quote="ayase" data-source="post: 341508" data-attributes="member: 183">The root cause is lack of working class jobs, and we have Thatcher to blame for that. The town in the North East I come from, which I happen to have visited today, is evidence enough of the degeneration of the working class into an underclass with no meaning in their lives whatsoever. Where once was a thriving industrial town with many independant shops now lies row after row of boarded up shops. The only thing left open is an off licence to fuel the now unemployed populace's refuge in alcoholism. These people aren't lazy, they aren't freeloaders. There are just no jobs for them. Working class people don't belong in offices and call centres because they (we? I straddle the line very uneasily between the two) don't have the middle class talent for being two faced and pretending we like people. They should be mining and welding, doing what they are good at and what they enjoy. This society needs to be destroyed so a new one can be built, because the people in charge for the last thirty years have presumed that everybody aspires to be an office jockey wage slave. Which they bloody well do not!::inhales::Sorry. Scargillian rant over. Visiting Teesside has this effect on me.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ayase, post: 341508, member: 183"] The root cause is lack of working class jobs, and we have Thatcher to blame for that. The town in the North East I come from, which I happen to have visited today, is evidence enough of the degeneration of the working class into an underclass with no meaning in their lives whatsoever. Where once was a thriving industrial town with many independant shops now lies row after row of boarded up shops. The only thing left open is an off licence to fuel the now unemployed populace's refuge in alcoholism. These people aren't lazy, they aren't freeloaders. There are just no jobs for them. Working class people don't belong in offices and call centres because they (we? I straddle the line very uneasily between the two) don't have the middle class talent for being two faced and pretending we like people. They should be mining and welding, doing what they are good at and what they enjoy. This society [i]needs[/i] to be destroyed so a new one can be built, because the people in charge for the last thirty years have presumed that everybody aspires to be an office jockey wage slave. Which they bloody well do not! ::inhales:: Sorry. Scargillian rant over. Visiting Teesside has this effect on me. [/QUOTE]

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