1980`S BRITAIN WAS A TIME OF HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT
AND YOUNG PEOPLE ARE PARTICULARLY AFFECTED
A HOUR LONG SPECIAL ABOUT THE YOUNG UNEMPLOYED OF WALES IN THE MID-80`S
WHAT FUTURE DO THEY HAVE NOW?
WITH THATCHER RAPIDLY CHANGING THE COUNTRY FROM A LAND OF INDUSTRY AND ENGINEERING, TO SERVICE AND FINANCE, FORCING through reforms that would not have been possible if she hadn`t had the luck of the North sea oil revenues finally coming onstream - set up the previous government several years earlier. Squeezing the money supply, running down or selling national industries, removing the role of union as the centre of working class politics by crushing them (with a little help from the police) and elevating the role of The City as the chief way of generating income by .. er regenerating income...was meant to transform all of "UK PLC" for the better.
But this was all done with scant regard to whole towns, cities and generations, young people in the 80`s in many areas were thrown on the scrapheap as soon as they left education. The people in this doc face problems that many of the young unemployed people of 2012 will find similar. Going through a school system to join a workforce that dissipates just as you`re about to leave, they have found themselves qualified (or not) for a world that we all know now that will never come back.
This film is totally the own words of the people living though this experience. It shows how the kids have handled the knock backs, the pointless activities that they`re made to do on a national scheme - meant to gain you qualifications and experience, the things they try and do to avoid getting more despondent about their lives and what they`ve tried to get a job - whilst stuck in a recession.
Millions of young people are playing "The waste game" but is there any hope of winning?
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