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Leave or Remain?
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BobClay
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Can't help but think looking at the Brian Rix farce (and I apologise to the late Mr Rix for the comparison) that is called parliament that we could do with another Oliver Cromwell.
"It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice.
Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government.
Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.
Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess?
Ye have no more religion than my horse. Gold is your God. Which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?
Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lord's temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices?
Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation. You were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance.
Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God's help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do.
I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place.
Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.
In the name of God, go!"
Oliver Cromwell's speech to parliament in 1653. (It does sound like Oliver was a bit pissed off at the time.)
"It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice.
Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government.
Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.
Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess?
Ye have no more religion than my horse. Gold is your God. Which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?
Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lord's temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices?
Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation. You were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance.
Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God's help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do.
I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place.
Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.
In the name of God, go!"
Oliver Cromwell's speech to parliament in 1653. (It does sound like Oliver was a bit pissed off at the time.)
Can't help but think looking at the Brian Rix farce (and I apologise to the late Mr Rix for the comparison) that is called parliament that we could do with another Oliver Cromwell.
"It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice.
Ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government.
Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like Esau sell your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for a few pieces of money.
Is there a single virtue now remaining amongst you? Is there one vice you do not possess?
Ye have no more religion than my horse. Gold is your God. Which of you have not bartered your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?
Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place, and turned the Lord's temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles and wicked practices?
Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation. You were deputed here by the people to get grievances redressed, are yourselves become the greatest grievance.
Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse this Augean stable, by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this House; and which by God's help, and the strength he has given me, I am now come to do.
I command ye therefore, upon the peril of your lives, to depart immediately out of this place.
Go, get you out! Make haste! Ye venal slaves be gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.
In the name of God, go!"
Oliver Cromwell's speech to parliament in 1653. (It does sound like Oliver was a bit pissed off at the time.)
I just saw this on Facebook too.
Tilly
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Apparently all her really really good ideas were on MySpace
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
I thought we were getting a curry?
Thehooperman
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Sorry but all of your rice, kebab spices, curry ingredients are stuck in a long queue somewhere in France.
Sausage and chips anyone?
Sausage and chips anyone?
The Hawk
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I remember going into a fish & chip type shop in a small town in the Netherlands, a number of years ago. It was run by a Chinese family who only seemed to speak mandarin and dutch. The only thing I could work out to order was 'frietjes met mayonaise'
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
I was in a "Chinese" in France, where they only spoke French and Vietnamese - a bloke from Cannock was demanding that he had chips with his curry and I was the only (slight) French-speaker in the group - in the heat of the moment, searching for the word for "chips" and knowing that it was probably one syllable, fairly short and started with an F, I actually ordered a curry flambé.
She fetched all the kitchen staff out to laugh at us and then (justifiably) absolutely refused to do curry et frites.
Tilly
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Every single battered ( or double ) sausage in Britain is produced at a factory in Staffordshire
The Hawk
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Trumpet
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Top of the World anyone?
I know the doorman, it'll be ok.
Gramaisc
Forum O. G.
I understand that Mme Loiseau's maiden name may have been Schrodinger.
https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2019/0320/1037463-brexit-the-cat/
https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2019/0320/1037463-brexit-the-cat/
BobClay
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If it had been true I'd have to say it's a pretty fair summation of the whole f****** Brexit farce though. Dead ? Alive ? Entangled ? Collapsed into an infinitely small point of infinite density ? Exists in an existential curled dimension held together by superstrings ? Is spread across a landscape of 10 raised to the power of 500 other universes.
Anything goes with this bollocks.
