Work

I was quite emotional this morning listening to a man on the radio who worked at the freezing works (abbatoir or meat processing unit) for 40 years and was laid off when the Islington plant closed (as were my uncle and cousin) and then again as the Belfast works closes this month. Unskilled abattoir work is what put food on the table in my childhood home and I hate to see how vulnerable people are in recession and what it can do to the hopes of whole families, even entire generations.

Sometimes I know capitalism sucks.