Shamus's blog

Sean Crowley

Like Yosser in Alan Bleasdale's Boys from the Blackstuff – an eighties TV drama set in unemployed Liverpool - I’m angry. I’m angry because after more than a year in Finland I cannot find a job. After registering as a job seeker, the Labour Ministry sent me on a three-month intensive language course in Lahti, designed to fast-track me into work.