my mascot Gonk, on the TV set for a year." Working class parents cared less about their children getting far at school and encouraged them to leave when quite young to start work and bring money to the family.
             The boy's belief in his excelling class and hierarchy are cleverly hidden in the facts he has remembered; "I knew the capitals, the Kings and Queens, the dates." "The white sleeve of my shirt saluted again and again. Sir...Correct" "dominus domine dominum"(meaning master, a secured place in hierarchy), "My country", "Name the Prime Minister of Rhodesia. My country. How many florins in a pound?". He remembers all the things that made Britain 'great' all the things which either don't exist now, or have no importance-his belief and trust in the system has failed.
             The simplicity in which the answers to the game-show questions are listed and his view of himself in society shows how he thought the views and ideas he was taught were unquestionable like hierarchy and the future.
             However Duffy manages to completely change the rolling optimistic tone in the fourth stanza by opening it with a very sad longing phrase; 'I want it back.' He wants the feeling of success, knowing what's important and simple availability of
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