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After all, he, too, was tired of this whole remembered industrial past. It made people who hadn’t lived through it feel like they’d missed the big event. It made any enterprise seem laughable by comparison, any success minuscule. The iron men and their good old days had been a pain in the arse for too long.
A large workforce, concentrated in dormitory towns, poorly educated, often foreign-born, lived off this welcome business, with street dealers instead of factory workers.
You had to wonder what kind of life those people could be leading, in their shabby housing, eating fatty food, hooked on video games and soap operas, spending their time making children and trouble, lost, enraged and marginalised.
