I think that there used to be a possibility that if you played the game, kept your end up and looked after your mates you'd be seen right. Some people still try and make that happen, but we all have to understand and acknowledge that no matter how hard we work, how well we do, how decently we act, at any moment our peers, organisations and country may turn on us and render us into destitution and disgrace.

So we have to bleat on about how valuable we are so that we have some idea that our families are not going to have to sleep in the street.