How Jobcentres have turned into a Circus of Horrors/October 25th 2011.

Richie - Your wonderful, in-depth article regarding the vacancy for a knife throwing asisstant in Blackpool brought back memories of my own fleeting brush with stardom! It was during another Tory-induced recession back in the early 80s that Young Wob, down on his luck and cruelly victimised by the odious Thatcher, managed to find gainful employment with Hattie, the Busty Bearded Seductress who danced the seven veils. As her assistant I accompanied this pouting beauty to numerous bars and gentlemen's clubs of dubious reputation acting as compare and all-round dogsbody before this lithe, exotic creature titillated and beguiled paupers and millionaires alike, displaying her ample wares after a tantalising tease with silk and peacock feathers. A woman of few words it was only when I accidentaly barged into her dressing room that I discovered the truth: Hattie was a tattooed former lorry driver from Bradford who had undergone a backstreet snip in order to make ends meet! It's mad in Tory Britain I say!