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From "The Infidel Stain (A Blake and Avery Novel)" by M.J. Carter -
"“Explain it to me. I ask you honestly. I wish to know.”
“Parliament functions to allow the privileged to maintain their privileges,” he said. “It has consistently fought Lord Allington’s attempts to shorten working hours for the laboring class. It forestalls his attempts to regulate children’s work in mines and factories and votes down his plans to introduce universal education for children. It fights tooth and nail to maintain the Corn Laws which keep bread prices high, so landowners like your father are secure in their wealth. Meanwhile the harvests fail and the poor go hungry. In whose interests are these things done?”
“But the children of the poor need to work to help feed their families. Everyone knows that.”
Blake gave me his look. I looked away. We lifted our cups and sipped our coffee."
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