A very underrated Weller lyric, he chose it for his Suburban 100 book, filled with his favourite lyrics.
The song is about the mid 1980s and the problems caused by the Conversative Goverment, specifically in this case, employment - or the lack thereof. There is also another reference to the Conservative's advice that if there was no work in your town you should simply go somewhere else and find it there. ('Hombreakers' 'All Gone Away'...)
I'm not sure if the cousin looses his health farm and ends up serving cocktails and lettuce in another, or that he only succeeds because he is serving the idle rich, the only people who truely benefited from Thatcher's reign. Both are applicable.
The Archers is a soap opera broadcast via Radio (instead of television) in Britain.
A very underrated Weller lyric, he chose it for his Suburban 100 book, filled with his favourite lyrics.
The song is about the mid 1980s and the problems caused by the Conversative Goverment, specifically in this case, employment - or the lack thereof. There is also another reference to the Conservative's advice that if there was no work in your town you should simply go somewhere else and find it there. ('Hombreakers' 'All Gone Away'...)
I'm not sure if the cousin looses his health farm and ends up serving cocktails and lettuce in another, or that he only succeeds because he is serving the idle rich, the only people who truely benefited from Thatcher's reign. Both are applicable.
The Archers is a soap opera broadcast via Radio (instead of television) in Britain.
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