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Wat Tyler of course takes me back to the two poll tax rebellions. Not really sure why Thatch thought that poll tax was a good idea. Maybe she thought that those who had not bettered themselves and were living with a number of other people in modest accommodation needed a lesson. But she had done her time and the knives had already been sharpened in her own party. Too soon to think this is happening in Labour. I posted elsewhere a review of the last government's manifesto by a political analyst. Sobering how much they hadn't achieved. As with all manifestos. That working class hero turned bad Livingstone campaigned on slashing bus fares from the universe pound, at the time And reintroducing conductors. Neither happened, following a reality check. Instead by accident or design he revolutionised public transport with the Oyster card. Lest we forget. -
“No free man shall be seized, imprisoned, dispossessed, outlawed, exiled or ruined in any way, nor in any way proceeded against, except by the lawful judgement of his peers and the law of the land. “To no one will we sell, to no one will we deny or delay right or justice.” These clauses remain law today, and provided the basis for important principles in English law developed in the fourteenth through to the seventeenth century, and which were exported to America and other English-speaking countries. Their phrasing, ‘to no one' and ‘no free man' gave these provisions a universal quality that is still applicable today in a way that many of the clauses relating specifically to feudal custom are not -
From memory, I believe there were people talking for one, and after Liz and Rishi took the reigns as well.... -
Remember what happened to Wat Tyler
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