The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance from it; he who will be so bold as to attempt to dance upon the brink of the pit, may find by woeful experience that it is a righteous thing with God that he should fall into the pit.

With Private Member's Bills having been suspended during the Second World War and for some years afterwards it was not until 1950 that an opportunity emerged. He was elected as a Labour Party candidate to Castleford Urban District Council in 1914. He led delegations from the Spiritualists' National Union to the Home Secretary over what spiritualists believed was heavy-handed policing and in 1943 obtained a concession that action would only be taken in the most extreme cases of misrepresentation.

A spiritualist his main achievement was to lead the successful campaign to repeal the Witchcraft Act 1735. Thomas Judson Brooks MBE JP (7 July 1880 – 15 February 1958) was a British coal miner and politician who became a Labour Party Member of Parliament.