> Knight Of The Road wrote:
>

>> "Brian Robertson" ntlworld.com> wrote
>>

>>> Bad things happen in time of war and in this case the war was
>>> provoked by the Tory government deliberately to destroy a way of
>>> life. In doing so they have written off subsequent generations and
>>> condemned previously respectable working class estates to crime and
>>> drugs.

>>
>>
>>
>> Wrong. I'm working class- something I seriously doubt you could claim
>> to be- and I have been unemployed for long periods during the last two
>> recessions.
>>
>> It never made me turn to drugs or crime, and your suggestion that
>> these things automatically follow unemployment is simply an insult to
>> decent working class people.
>>
>>

>
> Hmmmm..... I'm a bus driver. Prior to that I have been a pump jockey in
> a petrol station and a train driver (VERY poorly paid in those days). Oh
> and my parents were a bus conductor and an usherette in the local Odeon.
> Very middle class.
>
> I am not suggesting that unemployment alone turns some elements of
> society to crime and drugs. I am suggesting the the cumulative effect of
> 18 years of Tory rule turned those elements towards crime and drugs.