06.01.09

The wheel turns – Parliament under scruitiny

Posted in Home at 2:52 pm by JohnB

I’m not a politica animal at all – ask anyone who knows me! I like to be informed and I certainly have opinions on thisngs but on the whole politicionals are grey-suited ne’er do wels who are long on promise and short on delivery. I have come to accept this – apathy rules, as long as that’s OK with you…

I got sent this today though:

Extract of Oliver Cromwell’s speech as he dissolved the long parliament:-

“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 barter’d 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 defil’d this sacred place, and turn’d 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 redress’d, are yourselves gone! So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors.

In the name of God, go!”

It could have been written today!

Have we really learned so little? Are we really so disenfranchised and disinterested  with our countries gevernance that we’ve allowed these blood suckers to carry on such?

Well, the answer is of course; “It was all within the rules” – so that’s OK then.

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