Here we go again, I know a fair few ‘drug dealers’ and used to be one once upon a time myself. Regardless of people’s chosen vocation, they are still human beings. And whilst middle England may find the notion of ‘drug dealing’ abhorrent, those of us who grew up in places like Liverpool, London & Glasgow etc, know that it’s a fact of life and just a job, a way to get out of having nothing in a place where deprivation and criminality is generational and endemic. I was all too familiar with that world, as was Smiley, no shame in that where we come from, just doing what is necessary…
You are 50 Cent and I claim my five pound note!
Listen here, I was brought up in a cul-de-sac, there really was only one way out.