Wanting a suitable illustration for the 1st of May, I turned to my collection of political vintage postcard and find a fine portrait of Philip Snowden MP. Snowden was as full of contradictions as a chocolate teapot – converted to socialism after researching a speech he was due to make on the evils of socialism, eventually becoming Labour’s first Chancellor of the Exchequer and then being expelled from the Labour Party for his support of the National Government in 1931.
alanburnett.com 