Fox is consoled by the fact that previous human scarecrows have risen far in the world. George Edwards, another Norfolk boy, went to work, aged six, in the mid-1850s scaring crows for 5p a week. Edwards later formed an agricultural workers' union, spoke out against the oppression of rural labourers and when he became Labour MP for South Norfolk in the 1920s had to borrow a suit when he first entered Westminster.