The Tell Sid campaign promised to make the working man rich, but in reality the selling of public assets made us all poorer The Tell Sid campaign promised to make the working man rich, but in reality the selling of public assets made us all poorer I n the summer of 1987, as life in Britain was being steadily reshaped by Margaret Thatcher , I landed a temporary job as an electrician’s mate in a steel-drum factory. I was a truly useless assistant, and justified my existence by singing songs to