Boys from the black stuff episode 4 "Yossers Story"

Boys from the black stuff
episode 4 "Yossers Story"
by Alan Bleasdale
1982

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• 04
• Yossers
• Story

[stephaz1971]

there now follows party political broadcast

on behalf of the conservative party

[Noodles37UK]

@SiLoJayLo I don't think they'll last. It was a hung parliament and we all could sense the ambiguity of the outcome. We all knew who would win in '97, and I think the ConDems 2010 got in thru apathy/ despair / default. I think peoples' traditional contempt of the Tories will get them booted out 2015. I mean the cuts, the unemployment. But let's face it, all political parties seem hopeless. But I hate the Tories. They haven't changed. Dinosaurs.

[SiLoJayLo]

@Noodles37UK I don't think Duncan Smith ever got over being rejected as party leader, & he's had all this time in opposition 2 put 2gether this "Grand Plan" of his, which is a disaster. With recorded unemployment running at nearly 3m people, does he not think that the sick & disabled are goin 2 be at the back of the queue, when it comes 2 tryin 2 find work. They'll be forced on2 the jobseeker's allowance (£67.50), but with no prospect of ever getting in2 work.

[Noodles37UK]

Though I was pig sick of Labour by 2007, it gives me the creeps how Duncan Smith ( wag the finger and try and look cool ) and Larry the Lamb Hague managed to WEASLE their way back. It was like a toilet you flushed years back suddenly being put thru your letterbox?

[Noodles37UK]

@SiLoJayLo Agreed. On the Wright Stuff today, he was in favor of the Tesco bullshit. I was beginning to go off him. It was horrible. But a guy from Yorkshire phoned in to say that as a Tesco employee, he couldn't get overtime cos of the dole- workers. Wright was defeated and handled it brilliantly, compassionately and sympathetically, for all of us I like to think. He referred to himself as a 20 minute Tory or something. He made my week.

50% get a job? Aye right...

[SiLoJayLo]

This coalition could give Thatcher a run 4 her money. Cameron, Osbourne & Duncan-Smith couldn't give a shit about young people. "Off benefits & back in2 work"? Rubbish. "Off benefits" - full stop. Send sick/disabled people 2 a stitch-up ATOS WCA, give them no points, & stick them onto £67.50, then abandon them. Then take another 15% off that, cos they've got an unoccupied bedroom. They pick on the poor. Last year - £27 bn written off in tax avoidance by the rich. Tory scum.

[jelleyman123]

2012 is '82 all over again, im 21 and got no prospects, just like yozza and 7 million of us on the dole...

[BritAU2TH]

@davidleigh65 - quite agree sir. save's me the job of replying. A very difficult and emotive subject that affected millions of families superbly constructed and displayed by Bleasdale. Probably Hill's best ever performance.

[BritAU2TH]

@bigheadbob37 - Dark days. I was in the Royal Navy in 81 with a sense of "queen and country" drummed into us while her government were selling the UK off in a fire sale.

[mrcarling67]

classic what can i say