In the career of Jimmy Thomas, with its working-class origins, its Parliamentary ambitions and achievements and its final collapse into decadence, is reflected the history and the record of the British Labour Party. Thomas supported the ‘extraconstitutional’ activity and threats of strikes against British intervention in Russia, but this was an aberration which his friends in Cavendish Square soon forgave him as he struggled in and out side Parliament, at the Trades Union Congress and within the railway unions, to direct all protest and unrest into ‘Parliamentary institutions’. In a situation of great industrial unrest the aristocratic leaders of the established parties became more and more dependent on their new allies in the Parliamentary Labour Party. Only rarely did the League’s propagandists during the following years, through the 1935 election, the Spanish Civil War and the Popular Front, apply themselves to the question of Parliamentary socialism and the possibility of getting socialism without a revolution.