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If you want to read the most brilliant analysis of politics and how it impinged on working people, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists tops the lot - it extends your boddage being no different that slavery into the Edwardian period and describes a team of workers, painters, plasterers, etc., doing up a house in Hastings,
The author Robert Noonan, pseudonym Robert Tressell, was a house painter himself, which is what makes the books still readable a century later.
It contains the most brilliantly concise analysis of socialism (using a knife and a sandwich) I have ever come across
Politicians used to be a necessary evil, now they are a hinder to society (unless you can get them to clean up their act - back to Corbyn)
Jim Carroll