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Originally Posted by Doug
Can we keep this in context……….This is the real world and it’s unpleasant, but we can hope to make it better, but only if we can talk sensibly…………
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I was.
I just think all this talk of a friendly clip round the ear from the local Bobby, with everything in the garden being rosey, is a bit cliched.
I've just watched on BBC2, hard nosed protaganist, and journalist Jerermy Paxman, reduced to tears as he found out how his well to do Yorkshire family roots really lay in the slums of Glasgow. Where his great grandmother lived with nine children in a one roomed tenament, and had her alms money stopped because she had the misfortune to have a child after she was widowed.
She would have shown, like many people of the time, 'respect' to her betters.
It doesn't make it a better world for that though.