sympathetic testament to working class courage and character, Unfortunately, to be part of the struggle to change the workers lot, it has to be more.
CONSCIOUSNESS The mair theme is the developing political consciousness of a Liverpool working class family in the face of an attack by the multi-national corp oration which cakes over the firm-a Chinly disguised Fisher Bendix-that the tather works for.
We see Maconochie, the tatner, touchingly played by Shay German, re-awaken his memories of the class struggle between the wars, while Willy the boytriend and then husband of Sandra, one of Maconochie's Laughlets, progresses freun being an unorganised lout"' to a class-conscious son, a friend of the fartily and secretly in love with Mary, one of the ober daughters-develop from sappy interest in the occupation or Yorry's polifical ideas and the last we hear of ber, in the midst of the family's econdnic and personal crisis, is that she has retreated behind the bottle of sleeping-pills.
It's not as if some awareness of the dreaciness and oppression of the traditional role of working class wives is omitted. In an early song, sung by the sisters, Fiona says: 1 feel like I'm on a bus going the wrone way, Frin he bell, but it won'tstop, and I'm too scared to jump off. sibility ur desire for rebellion is allowed to intrude into their stunted Lives, The mother, for instance, simply sints into maudlin world-weariness and passive acceptance of their Jor. She is critical of no-one, not even her sor who joins the police force, although her class-conscious hushand rejects him lentediately. For her the family militant. We also see Yorry the vicar's ties pardon everything. It is the frilure le chalenge this view of the family and the wonsan's role within it which is the canted pal-nect of wha But no posjust one. able lo do so.