Not wanting to get involved in politics, he's sucked into the fight against the occupying British when he witnesses, firsthand, the atrocities committed by the English troops the Black and Tans against theIrish.
But even for those who disagree with his analysis, Mr Jones's diagnosis that the poor are objects of scorn and an acceptable target for the sort of casual hatred reserved in previous decades for black people, say, or the Irish is depressingly difficult to argue with.