Butler’s anarchist son who’s never had a job

THE son of an aristocrat’s butler, Ian Bone has spent most of his life claiming benefits and waging war against the rich.

His father worked for Sir Gerald Coke, grandson of the Earl of Leicester, and the family lived in a cottage on his estate in Hampshire.

As a youngster Ian, who has five children with two former partners, said he hated the well-off children ‘from the big house’ and grew up with contempt for the upper classes.

After gaining a politics degree from Swansea University, he became an anarchist while being supported by the taxpayer.

‘I thought I might as well be unemployed so that I could be a full-time radical revolutionary and the state would pay me to do it,’ he said in one interview. ‘I never thought about having a job or a career.’

He lived in Bristol for much of his early life, where he helped found Class War, a group dedicated to the violent overthrow of state structures, before moving to London.

He spent some time on the squatting scene in the 19 0s when he came to know Jeremy Corbyn’s brother Piers, a housing and squatters’ rights activist at the time.

The 1-year-old now lives in a detached home worth almost £400,000 in a booming part of south London with his partner and fellow anarchist Jane Nicholl.

Bone, who has Parkinson’s disease, has published a book called Bash The Rich and once appeared on Channel 4 to call for British troops to desert en masse during the Iraq war.

He was once dubbed Britain’s most ‘dangerous man’ after the Class War newspaper he launched in 1982 became so incendiary it featured pictures of beaten-up policemen.

Front pages included Margaret Thatcher with a hatchet buried in her head, a picture of gravestones with the headline ‘We have found new homes for the rich’, and to commemorate the birth of Prince William, the headline ‘Another f ****** royal parasite’.

One of the most notorious pages was the regular ‘hospitalised copper’ feature which included a picture of a beaten-up policeman.