[2] A trouser salesman from Bradford, he led the Freethought Socialist League, working with Thomas Stewart and Ernest Pack.Gott came to the attention of the Home Office in 1902 with the Truth Seeker when local Manchester residents started to agitate against its circulation.[4]: 280 The proposed new legislation to replace the blasphemy law was supported by the Prime Minister H. H. Asquith, but it failed to pass through parliament.[5] An appeal was lodged, supported by the National Secular Society; the Lord Chief Justice upheld the conviction.said: It does not require a person of strong religious feelings to be outraged by a description of Jesus Christ entering Jerusalem "like a circus clown on the back of two donkeys".
