"Your piece on Liverpool was all about setting up a basic welfare system,"
It covers the poverty that made that welfare city necessary, the conditions of employment, including the 'pen' system which made it necessary for men to queue for work each day, then go home when there was none and try again the following day (still alive and kicking in New York when Budd Schulberg wrote On the Waterfront in 1954) - the docks - the Pen system lasted until the end of WW2 in Liverpool with the establishment of the National Dock Labour Board.
The document also deals with th deliberate driving down of wages by employers.
Conditions were appalling in pre-war Liverpool, among the worst in Britain
Have you any actual evidence on how well they were living - no - thought not?
"Belcham merely points to the rapid expansion of the city,"
Not how the people lived then - what's your point in putting it up as a claim that people like Kenny didn't join up out of necessity?
"Quite frankly couldn't care less, but:"
Isn't that obvious - SFA to do with the fact that the Army were recruiting on the basis of offering the unemployed a steady secure job, which you denied - whose fault Northern Ireland, The Falklands, Iraq, and Afghanistan were is nothing more than a smokescreen - though interesting you should defend all of them - oil wars and searched for non existent WMD ad all
A caricature Blimp
Jim Carroll