Jingo Joe
Paul Addison, 2 July 1981
Joseph Chamberlain: A Political Study
by Richard Jay.
Oxford, 383 pp., £16.95, March 1981,0 19 822623 3 Show More
by Richard Jay.
Oxford, 383 pp., £16.95, March 1981,
“... war: not labour versus capital, but the productive classes against a parasitical aristocracy. Lord Salisbury, the Conservative leader, he attacked as the chief representative of a class ‘who toil not, neither do they spin’. ‘What ransom,’ he asked, ‘will property pay for the security it enjoys?’ – and his words were intended as a threat. Perhaps ... ”