For the first time in my life, I feel ashamed to be British http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/07/for-the-first-time-in-my-life-i-feel-ashamed-to-be-british/ …
.@SIN_Notung Parris was first elected to parliament in 1979, an election won partly because of nasty anti-immigration rhetoric.
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he spent a week on the dole in Tyneside for TV. Can't remember now what conclusion he came to.
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He was great in that. He concluded that he'd not really had much of a clue before doing the programme.
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yes that's when I first heard of him. I think he gained a certain amount of respect for it. I was on the dole in TS > 1 wk.
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He did. He was a bit of a Thatcherite headbanger at that point. He's a friend of a friend of mine. Nice guy, apparently.
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