Walking the walk
These guys walked the walk big time - all the way from Jarrow to London. They were unemployed and half starving and nobody cared much. They were out of sight and out of mind in their little town in the North East, a comfortable 200 miles or so from Parliament. It was all too easy for the politicians to forget all about them. What the hell. Let them starve. Why the hell not? They were just a bunch of grey faced Northerners in flat caps. Written off. Cast onto the scapheap and expected to stay there. Surplus to requirements. But they refused to see it that way. Instead of doffing their caps they decided to walk the walk. And by the time they reached the London Parliament the whole world had sat up and noticed. They said they were going to do it and they did it. The First Base 'Walk the Walk' project does much the same. It gives those who have been written off and forgotten the chance to say hang on a minute......