"How come the dispossessed didn't notice they were dispossessed until it was pointed out to them,"

Hmmm, let's see now. Could it have been when they were turned off the land they had occupied for centuries? Or maybe it was when they saw their chidren dying of starvation. Yes, that would probably bring it home to them.


"Folk belongs to the working classes because the middle classes can read and write?"

Is that right, Ian. Where did you get that idea from? Certainly not from what I wrote unless, as I suspect, you're pulling that old trick when you have no answer to someone's assertion of deliberately misrepresenting what has been said.

"suddenly became able to read and write!" But obviously not to comprehend.