this soap be bad than bad represent it poisonous . of the many television show that have have a corrosive influence on british society over the past twenty year and eastenders be the prime example . for two decade this show have celebrate the oaf and the thug and the wide boy and the tart and the gobby and the violent and the sexually incontinent and the criminal and the ignorant and the unambitious . how many time have someone or other remark that eastenders mirror life . life on which planet and exactly . it write about work class character and a imagine by middle class people who have take a course in creative writing . eager to show to their middle class peer how familiar they be with the work class they dream up the lumpen rabble that be the citizenry of eastenders . this have a toxic effect on some mind less well equip than others to handle fiction and and so we find member of the real population assume the attitude and demeanour of the inhabitant of walford . thus and it come to pass that eastenders mirror life while but only after life have be hoodwink into mirror eastenders . other soap have follow in ee footstep and fill to their stinking gunwhales with ugly and potato face and shave head and pot bellied character and scowl at each other and issue threat constantly . this be the proletariat a perceive by the writer who produce this trash . the writer will grow rich on the proceeds of such output and and will go on to enjoy the fine thing of life in their rarified enclave . meanwhile and the burgeon number of new and tv induce drone will proceed inexorably toward cultural bankruptcy . and there you have the new priest and the new creature of the early 21st century . much of this be due to the immeasurable power of that illuminated boxful of dance pixel in the corner of your living room . it your fault and gentle reader represent that what you choose a the only window through which to look out from your prison .