tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post3478945953881625582..comments2023-04-11T09:46:53.479+00:00Comments on anticant's arena: Down to earth idealistanticanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-45136846605175628332009-11-22T21:08:54.945+00:002009-11-22T21:08:54.945+00:00I'm glad you said that, Jose. Rowland Kenney a...I'm glad you said that, Jose. Rowland Kenney and his like belong to the true aristocracy of intellect and integrity - not the sham ones of blood and wealth.anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-14269155385911698122009-11-22T18:43:34.706+00:002009-11-22T18:43:34.706+00:00Gentlemen that time were real gentlemen. Thanks, A...Gentlemen that time were real gentlemen. Thanks, Anticant, for your continued historical posts. I have always like history, pity it has been so dealt with by historians with biased objectives.Josehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15647938994078754298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-47623278253015617712009-11-19T10:05:28.303+00:002009-11-19T10:05:28.303+00:00Well, Samuel Bamford - another Saddleworth radical...Well, Samuel Bamford - another Saddleworth radical - tells a tale or two in his memoirs.<br /><br />Oliver the Spy and all that.<br /><br />And "freedom to walk the hills" didn't do Robin Cook much good....anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-84612347610359450702009-11-19T09:29:45.464+00:002009-11-19T09:29:45.464+00:00Oh dear me.
"Infiltrated by security services...Oh dear me.<br />"Infiltrated by security services"?<br />Um :::<br /><br />Maybe I know or have read different history books.<br /><br />Maybe "the freedom to walk the hills" for everyday folk never happened and maybe government did not use their secret services for the last few hundred years to infiltrate groups of protesting folk.<br /><br />Bugger me I may as well read Polly Tollpuddle in the Guardian of Truth.zola a social thinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14206983697656466653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-27861612996416439252009-11-18T14:03:41.760+00:002009-11-18T14:03:41.760+00:00In those days, although there were huge inequaliti...In those days, although there were huge inequalities between rich and poor and a lack of social provision which would be thought quite intolerable today, people from every walk of life felt free to hold and express unorthodox views without fearing the agents of the State would finger their collars. <br /><br />My grandfather - a good middle class Conservative - used to refer to Keir Hardie as "that scamp", but he would have been appalled if the ILP - however wacky he thought their ideas were - had been infiltrated and monitored by the security services.<br /><br />I sometimes wonder whether the ILP would have been able to establish itself and publish its opinions freely in today's repressively 'PC' culture.anticanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4580535460030164028.post-61205681745496585692009-11-18T12:57:59.534+00:002009-11-18T12:57:59.534+00:00Thanks Anticant.
Wonderful story well told.
Such ...Thanks Anticant.<br />Wonderful story well told.<br /><br />Such stories and story-tellers are not forgotten so long as folk like you keep on writing.zola a social thinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14206983697656466653noreply@blogger.com