Boys from the Blackstuff - Yosser's Desperate

Extract from the 1982 BBC Drama Boys from the Blackstuff. Yosser goes to a church to speak to Fr Daniel Thomas, in a scene memorable for the line "I'm Desperate, Dan".

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• yosser

[24nov67]

she wasn't interested in anything north of london, but northern england and scotland really felt the force of her anti working class policies. So anybody thinking of voting conservative at the next election be warned, take it from someone who was there in the eighties that under david cameron this country will go back to the bad old days of the 1980's.

[chairmanmeow1973]

Classic telly from when the beeb had some balls...

[jezebel892]

Bernard Hill played the Captain in the film 'Titanic'. Acting is such a gift. Wish I had it. This is such a sad scene of a man on the edge, the priest is so kind and sympathetic. Then, a little humour comes into the scene when he says 'Call me Dan', and Yosser says 'I'm desperate Dan'.

[ImEuanAndIGotsSkeelz]

@24nov67 but not old enough or clever enough to remember what labour did in the 70's, thatcher was the inevitable result of that not just some lady who came along and made things rubbish for fun.

[drwhatson]

@24nov67 You're absolutely right of course - it already has! :-(

[hokuula]

@catherine869 Sorry but what you are saying has no evidence to back it up at all. When Thatcher took office in 1979, unemployment was 1.1 million. By 1982 it was over 3 million and it remained above 3million until 1987. In British history there has never been as big a jump in the numbers claiming unemployment benefits as happenened under Thatcher. Her policies destroyed industry and communities and left behind major structural unemployment problems that still remain nearly 30 years on.

[ludwigvonsteampole1]

@catherine869 You talk in riddles which make no sense. We are all commodities to be conditioned. The ruling Banking - Industrial elite have controlled the system for the past 250 years. We are sold the illusion of wealth and prosperity, self gratitude and importance, when i reality we are all prostitutes to our industrialist masters.They use every tool in there power, Psychology, Economics to extract every last drop of wealth from the unwashed massed, whilst providing the illusion of freedom.

[Minidodds1979]

I agree, things go round in cycles, this is the result of post-labour Britain, we are all screwed

[vimana19]

"Call me Dan." "I'm Desperate Dan..." Wham, wham, wham, wham, wham....!! Yosser should've been called laconic Hughes.