A quick look back at my "alma mater' (1980). This was filmed 3 years after I had left in 1983, and just before this system was abolished due to abuse and cruelty. For any fellow inmates wanting to say hello, I was in Bentley Dorm. They wouldn't even let me have my mobile phone, that's how cruel the bastards were..... It was 1980 after all! The Bastard As home secretary, Whitelaw adopted a hard-line approach to law and order. He improved police pay and embarked upon a programme of extensive prison building. His four-year tenure in office, however, was generally perceived as a troubled one. His much vaunted "short, sharp shock" policy, whereby convicted young offenders were detained in secure units and subjected to quasi-military discipline, won approval from the public but proved expensive to implement. Courtesy Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Whitelaw
62 hours of pure joy; for little more than a large whiskey. 62 hours of not wasting precious funds on booze, to be told; "Vapers Not Welcome". Is it any wonder that a record number of so called "pubs", closed last month? Truth is, there are hardly any real "boozers" left - ever since John Prescott declared "we are all middle class now", and 10 years after that introduced the ban on smoking as the ultimate coup de grace, so that people could take their kids into pubs (is that really wise in any case? We aint French after all). People, you get what you deserve, and I'm off to Howards End to write my memoirs, starting with a War & Peace sized chapter on how successive governments, (and publicans) have let us down in the name of greed and snobbery! Over and out.
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