Context

• Mass unemployment - 3.6 million
• Edinburgh was the home of the worlds most opiate drugs
• Traditional industries has been closed
• Thatcherism led to a rise in capitalism - left her role in 1990 and John Major became prime minister
• Poll tax was introduced in Scotland
• 'Government created the demand' - Irvine Welsh
• Change was about to happen - rise of Britpop
• Gen x were known as the slacker generation