But he learned some social lessons. The Clara School was a school for the children of the better classes, for the people of the district were well off. The boy wore leather breeches and greased leather boots which smelt of train-oil and blacking. Therefore, those who had velvet jackets did not like sitting near him. He also noticed that the poorly dressed boys got more floggings than the well-dressed ones, and that pretty boys were let off altogether. If he had at that time studied psychology and æsthetics, he would have understood this, but he did not then.
I have a suspicion that this little episode is a pointer towards the origin of Jeremy
Corbyn’s entire political philosophy. Not so much his social background but his
sense of inferiority rooted in a well below par school performance. He has
always known why the other boys would never copy his homework.
He isn’t well-dressed either, and certainly isn’t pretty, so
does that mean he’s in for an election flogging? I do hope so.
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