'These blocks [of bread] represent the necessities of life. You can't live without them, and my price is £1' Well done to Dan Carden MP for reading extracts from The Ragged- Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell. We think this book should be in every school, as it encapsulates the struggle of the working-classes of this country, providing valuable social history as well as neatly explaining how capitalism can be exploitative. Give this a few minutes of your time. We're thinking of startin

Ragged Trousered Philanderer@RaggedTP 1h In November 2019, Andrew Neil accused Barry Gardiner of scaremongering over claims the Tories had been negotiating the privatisation of the NHS. Barry has been proved right. It’s time Labour ditched the useless wet-wipe Starmer and put Barry in charge. | Walking the Breadline

Labour MP Dan Carden's response to the budget was just excellent, using the words of Robert Tressell's 'The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists' to draw attention to the 'money tricks' used by the Chancellor to "mask his own government's economic failure" | The Daily Politik