Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.

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.