My great grandad worked down t’pit before they had safety regs so probably *did* work the hours Lee claims his dad did, and then some. He didn’t keep chickens because he couldn’t afford them. And when he wasn’t down the pit he was conscripted into fighting wars for rich people because he was considered disposable. He lived to 96 and voted Labour all his life precisely because of arseholes like Lee who, when they weren’t sucking up to the bosses, were bullying and belittling people less able to stick up for themselves. And his son - my grandad - had a better life than him but never forgot why, and also voted Labour his whole life. I suspect Lee’s dad might do something quite different in the privacy of a poll booth than what he tells his pub bore son.
(Admittedly my dad had a better life still, was the first to go to university and had a career in banking, and consequently voted Tory or worse for years because of association with some of the dullest, most out of touch shits I’ve ever had the misfortune to occasionally come across. But even the best genes occasionally skip a generation
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