Gissa job! I can do that. Go on, gissa job. Yosser Hughes, played by the late Bernard Hill in BBC series Boys From The Blackstuff, came to epitomise the desperation of the unemployed in the 1980s.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Mrs Thatcher was steeling herself for her gruelling battles against the enemy within, which culminated with her crushing Arthur Scargill s year-long coal strike three years later.