Emanuel shinwell autobiography of a flea
Dalton charged that Cripps had expressed the "judgement of a flea" in His fellow Labour MP Emmanuel Shinwell called him "the most wicked man in..
Even Emanuel Shinwell, one of the original red Clydesiders, who was then sitting for Easington, had to admit, “This Government does get things.
The Autobiography of a Flea/Chapter 1
Born I was—but how, when, or where I cannot say; so I must leave the reader to accept the assertion " per se, " and believe it if he will. One thing is equally certain, the fact of my birth is not one atom less veracious than the reality of these memoirs, and if the intelligent student of, these pages wonders how it came to pass that one in my walk—or perhaps, I should have said jump—in life, became possessed of the learning, observation and power of commit-ting to memory the whole of the wonderful facts and disclosures I am about to relate.
I can only remind him that there are intelligences, little suspected by the vulgar, and laws in nature, the very existence of which have not yet been detected by the advanced among the scientific world.
I have heard it somewhere remarked that my province was to get my living by blood sucking.
I am not the lowest by any means of that universal fraternity, and if I sustain a precarious existence upon th