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Yeah.Do you reckon the government should be there to help people when others around them can’t?
The government ain't gonna help us no matter what. They just want to screw us over every two minutes. Whatever government is in, it’s just going to want to screw us over – don’t matter if it’s Labour or Tories. The thing I disagree with is the foreigners coming in. They’re bringing more and more in and, in the end, there won’t be no Englishmen in the job.In your work?
If you look at Crossrail, a fifth of the workforce is foreign. I’m not being funny, but we work with some foreigners and they don’t listen to you. And it becomes a hazard.Is that maybe a language issue?
It’s a language thing, yeah. Plus, you try to explain to them what’s going on and they go, "Yeah, yeah, yeah." And then, when they’re doing the job, they do something totally different from what you asked them. Whereas two individuals like us, we know what we’re doing and we get loads more done.
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Listen. At the end of the day, even after 40 years of neoliberalism, people still want the post-45 social democratic settlement.Despite neoliberal culture, people still want that?
Aye, most of us still do. That’s at least what a poll in the Guardian was saying the other day. A social democratic settlement makes a better society and if you don’t want it, then go off and live in the fucking jungle. And just because there's a few tragic cunts like me, who are paying for this situation with our lives and by living on the streets, it's no reason to destroy the welfare state or take it away from those who really need it.

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No. I think there is a society and there needs to be one.
Oscar: I think society is about perception and what you make of it. If you believe that society is there to be good for all and to create positive change and to help people, then that’s what you get from it. If you believe that society is there to mess people and screw everyone over, then it probably will mess you over.So it comes down to the individual?
Yep.Okay.

No. It’s all anonymous, isn’t it? Nobody knows who lives next door to them.So you think it’s different outside of the city?
Oh yes. It’s different in the countryside, especially up north and where I’m originally from – Limerick.Previously - What Does Liverpool Think of Thatcher's Funeral?