Ada- it was great to read such a reasoned argument about exactly what the Jarrow March was about and to hear that someone else has read (Red) Ellen Wilkinson's book on the subject.
It may be that such marches were the first time that inhabitants of the southern parts of England became aware of just exactly what effect the decisions of their elected Government were having on the people of the north -and Scotland and Wales- it was a long way away then (and maybe still is?) and easily ignored.
    The people of Cambridge, Northamptonshire and many other places south of Jarrow where the marchers stopped were no less than generous and many were totally appalled by the condition of the marchers, and the sheer desperation which drove them.
   It's difficult to appreciate that in our enlightened times (that was sarcasm by the way) but it's little wonder that so many in the 'regions' of UK are still so embittered about the posh boys who still run the country- for f... sake, surely we should know better by now?