Harry Leslie Smith’s The Green & Pleasant Land tells a true story about the lives of working class people living during a time of political and economic extremities. From their sufferings these unemployed miners, mill workers, along with the rest of ordinary Britain made a better world for themselves and others by constructing a Welfare State, where all could share in a nation’s prosperity .
This seems like a wet dream for modern tories. They seem to be trying to return the poor to those dark times.