I had guilty feelings of hope about this recession: the one in the 80s mostly seems to have been a class centred / North-South recession, where this time it looked more likely to spread the misery around. Because I anticipated the plaintive wail of Daily Mail readers finding that when they did go and sign on it turned out they weren't given a new TV, house in #nice-part-of-town, a car and an unlimited supply of liquor.
Though while I hoped it would bring them down to earth about what life is like on the income they deem a luxury, it would probably have just been held up to prove that these things were only on offer to the unemployed masses if they were black / gay / immigrant / %daily-mail-enemy-du-jour%
(rest of comment deleted as I realised I was just heading into Medium Grade Ranting)
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I had guilty feelings of hope about this recession: the one in the 80s mostly seems to have been a class centred / North-South recession, where this time it looked more likely to spread the misery around. Because I anticipated the plaintive wail of Daily Mail readers finding that when they did go and sign on it turned out they weren't given a new TV, house in #nice-part-of-town, a car and an unlimited supply of liquor.
Though while I hoped it would bring them down to earth about what life is like on the income they deem a luxury, it would probably have just been held up to prove that these things were only on offer to the unemployed masses if they were black / gay / immigrant / %daily-mail-enemy-du-jour%
(rest of comment deleted as I realised I was just heading into Medium Grade Ranting)