Guy Fawkes.

[hawksley]

What a pity Guy Fawkes is not around today, 5 November ,to get rid of this shower we have in power today.

[jim360]

Given that he failed then, perhaps we need someone more capable than him and his fellow conspirators to do the job properly?

[Sipowicz]

He hasn't got a good track record!

[baza]

Yes, they are a load of damp squibs.

[jno]

the voters can do that nowadays. However, they seem not to want to. Better to go to a polling booth and write "None of these idiots" than to stay at home and ignore the whole thing, I feel.

[youngmafbog]

And you reckon Millipede and Balls-up would do better?

My sides are splitting.

[EDDIE51]

Now we have Al Qaeda trying to do the job instead!

[hawksley]

YMG, Yes just like Cameron and Cronies , Guy Fawkes Failed, sorry you are over weight , and your sides are splitting.

[heathfield]

I'm sure this sentiment has been used for every government before and since Guy Fawkes!

[jno]

the robber barons have been with us a long time, heathfield.

[Famous5]

I was talking to a group of primary school children one day and they told me that Guy Fawkes was a suicide bomber

[emmie]

that is the sort of teaching that is ruining this country, unless of course the children were joking. So let us have another 13 years of New Labour, and see how much they can or cannot achieve, they did such a fine job the last time around, illegal wars, gold reserves sold off for a song, some in the party that seemed to actually hate one another, and a Labour spirit, ethos that is long gone. They sold their soul and now there is no going back, and Milliband is not a good leader, i find him weak and not capable of taking the party forward

[jake-the-peg]

Sort of teaching that is ruining our country

Actually it sounds a brilliant take on history teaching

Relating today's religiously motivated terrorists to those of 400 years ago.

There are a lot of parallels

Perhaps if you'd had better history teaching and learnt to look at themes and question sources instead of leaning facts and dates by rote you might recognise the value in such a comparison

He probably wasn't literally a suicide bomber - but only a D- student would take such a comment so literally

[Svejk]

//Guy Fawkes was a suicide bomber//

Ha ha, brilliant.
Btw. Why is this in News?

[emmie]

i was a good student and know my history, however many don't, there was a programme some time back where they asked the children about relevant dates in our history, and British notables who have shaped the UK, some of the responses were very worrying, as to what happened to Guy Fawkes, well we don't do that today, mores the pity.

[Wharton]

What, burning Catholics emmie?

[emmie]

terrorists, these days we stick them in prison with all mod cons. shame.
as to Guido Fawkes, he didn't blow himself up, ergo not a suicide bomber, sure he wished he had after being tortured, though his demise was grisly not nearly so bad as William Wallace.

[emmie]

Wallace was hung, drawn and quartered, very gruesome end...

[Wharton]

....and he was a Catholic too, I think I'll stay clear of London :-)

[emmie]

probably best...

[jeffa]

There was a programme presented by Richard Hammond on the other night where they reconstructed the gunpowder plot in its entirety, including as accurate a replica of contemporary the parliament and exactly the same amount of gunpowder to see what would have happened if the plot hadn't been foiled. Extremely interesting. The conclusion was that even if the explosion had taken place and the king killed as planned, it would have made very little different to British history.