Tuesday, August 16, 2011

The PR world of The Boy

What did they make of it? … "I thought it was shit and he's a knobhead", said one as they lit their roll-up cigarettes in the sunshine. "I don't have a dad and I've never been arrested".

And "he says your community is a big part of your world, but you can't get a job in your own community. The Polish people get them". And "I'd love to go to university, but can I afford it?" The lad with the woolly hat, kicked out of sixth-form college, wants to join the army ("since I was four years old"), but knows it also faces cuts.

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