Who were about to be clobbered by the new poor law.

Well, he must have known about Henry Hunt and the popular movement for reform and Peterloo and all the things that we study these days, if you like, the origins of legitimate democratic politics.

But he clearly had a great need to stand out, to be followed, to be something more than you could just be by normal means.

And he clearly was very fluent in messianic language in the language of the end of the world in in in presenting himself as a jesus christ figure who had been prophesied and of course this was still a very religious age much less religious perhaps than it than it was thought to be but an awful lot of the when they sent a parliamentary commissioner and a barrister after it was all over to try and investigate what had caused these people to actually follow him in such a deluded way he found that they all had religious books The Pilgrim's Progress or other religious books, quite a lot of them in their houses.

So they knew just enough to be convinced by him.

And the investigator decided a little learning was a dangerous thing.

And what they actually needed was what we would call citizenship education, a little manual to educate them in the rights and duties.

What was he offering to the people? I mean, what was his political program, as it were?