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Article: Stick them in the rooftops
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- Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK)
- Article date:
- October 18, 2008
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Did i hear this right - Gordon Brown wants to use the unemployed
to lag the nation's roofs? Even Margaret Thatcher never went that
far. When I was one of Maggie's Millions in the 80s, we were spat
at, sneered at, told we were scum, and to get on our bikes by that
knuckle-dragger Norman (now Lord) Tebbit. But the Tories at their
most rabid stopped short of suggesting that millions of jobless
should be converted into building materials.
How many of the indolent mass does Gordon envisage, and how many
roofs? And how would the fitting service work? Would skinny people
be lined up in rows, fat people jammed into the cavities, and short
people used as offcuts or for awkward cornices?
If Britain is ...