“That England is NOT a Free People, til the poor that have no land have free allowance to dig and labour the commons, and so live as comfortable as the landlords that live in their enclosures.”
Digger Gerrard Winstanley (circa 1649)
Shirley Anne Hardy
In memory of Shirley Anne Hardy, author of The Land Question: Stolen Land, Lives: the Great con of Debt having devoted her life to exposing the land theft from the British People.
“The myth of the English peasants “flocking to the factories for the good wages to be found there” reveals the same technique of cover-up so familiar to ourselves – utilized in the hope that a people will eventually forget their history, forget how they came to be where they are, and so – most hopefully of all – live resigned to an unjust lot. This technique having virtually succeeded in the case of the English, it is as well to revive the history of the English people, along with our own. Those peasants did not of course “flock” to the factories. They were driven – as men are finally driven. By hunger. By desperation and despair”
Shirley Anne Hardy