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All Together Now?: One Man`s Walk in Search of a Lost England

“This important, disturbing and frequently heartbreaking book should be read by every politician in Westminster.” Observer”In a few weeks` time, it would be thirty-five years to the day since those men and women had walked 340 miles to try to save their communities and their culture, and thirty-five years since I had turned down Pete`s invitation to join them. I called work and booked some time off. Then I bought a one-way train ticket to Liverpool.”In 1981, Mike Carter`s dad, Pete, organised the People`s March for Jobs, which saw 300 people walk from Liverpool to London to protest as the Thatcher government`s policies devastated industrial Britain and sent unemployment skyrocketing. Just before the 2016 EU referendum, Mike set off to walk the same route in a quest to better understand his dad and his country.As he walked, Mike found many echoes of the early eighties: a working class overlooked and ignored by Westminster politicans; communities hollowed out but fiercely resistant; anger and despair co-existing with hope and determination for change. And he also found that he and Pete shared more in common than he might have thought.`All Together Now?` maps the intricate, overlapping path of one man`s journey and that of an entire country. It is a book about belonging, about whether to stay or go, and about the need to write new stories for our communities and ourselves.

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