 John Walter says that Steer "preached the politics of Cockayne" to hungry people.The goal of the uprising Steer organized was to tear down the fences and then to attack the landlords who maintained the enclosures, the law officers who enforced the enclosure act, and then to march with the people down to London, where the disaffected apprentices would join with them to demand change.There would be, he said, common ownership and access at that time.