THE FULL EMPLOYMENT

ECONOMY

NEW FORSEPTEMBER 2011

Andrew Presents

An Andrew Production

THE FULLEMPLOYMENT

ECONOMY

Sometime Around1980 in

Hellingly NHSMental Hospital

Later It’s Bedtime

After BreakfastThe Next Day...

It’s Friday AfternoonAt The IT Unit :-

The FollowingMonday Morning

Off To See The Nurse -

Next Up It’sPassing Out Time

Onto The SpecialistAssessments

Three Days Later...

After 20 Minutes:

On To The OfficeAnd Clerical Assessment

After The Injection,On To Pay Parade

After Several WeeksAssessment The

Outcome Is Decided

The Next DayAt The Jobcentre

In SevenoaksHigh Street

Back At The DepotAfter A Day’s Deliveries

The Other DriverReturns From Deliveries

A Couple OfDays Later

They Do It,And At A CompanyMeal At Christmas

In Bexley...

So, On To Hertfordshire

The Serious BusinessOf Training Begins

There Are Appointments

And More Instruction

There Is HomeLeave On ABritish Rail

Travel Warrant

At The End Of TheWeekend, Back To

Letchworth Skillcentre

Back To TheTypewriter Mechanics

Training

The Weeks Turn IntoMonths And Ray’s

Mental Health Deteriorates-

But At Least He’sNot On Injections

Some ThingsAre Not Quite

So Good

Ray becomes convincedthat the Skillcentre is

a home for former Britishservicemen from NorthernIreland and that the IRA are

lurking nearby.

Becoming more and moreisolated, Ray, as an amputee, writes to General Sir Stuart

Pringle, who has lost a leg in an IRA car bomb, to express sympathy.

Ray experiments...

A Few Hours Later:

Everywhere There IsA Hightened Sense

Of Danger

If Any Issues HaveAffected You, Make

A Song, A Story, A Poem –Whatever.

Contact Address:MedsInAsylums@Yahoo.co.u

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