Ghost Town - Key Quotes

Question 1

No job to be found in this country

Answer 1

Economic state of the time under Thatcher’s government at the time – too obsessed with taking over the Falkland’s. They moved here because they were promising better life in England, and no one has any opportunity

Question 2

Government leaving the youth on the shelf

Answer 2

it’s a fight to survive – no support by the government, nothing to do lack of support. Nothing for younger generations

Question 3

This town is coming like a ghost town

Answer 3

repetition throughout the song – links to the name no jobs in the country no one is going to work. High unemployment

Question 4

Do you remember the good old days before the Ghost town

Answer 4

Before Margret Thatcher took over layered off a lot of people, mainly in industrials cities like Liverpool, Glasgow and for the specials Coventry. Hope for the future maybe it will get better.

Question 5

The people getting angry

Answer 5

Police corruption? Brixton riots? MT stop and search policy, corrupt only towards marginalised groups