Cromwell Had It Right

[CrapAtCryptics]

A very fitting comment when he marched into Parliament in 1653, snatched the mace and said -
" 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 grown intolerably odious to the whole nation". " In the name of God, go.

Says it all - nothing ever changes.

[dannyk13]

Agreed.

[youngmafbog]

Yes, I asked where Cromwell was the other day.

The Europhiles ignored it of course.

[naomi24]

And he turned out to be just another of the self-serving ……

[spathiphyllum]

Exactly Naomi.. he just knew what to say and how.

[ToraToraTora]

boy do we need someone like him now, what treacherous douche de merde we have in Parliament today.

[jno]

"practice of every vice", sheer blather. God forbid Puritans should rule the country, ABers would soon be whining "why is this metropolitan elite banning Christmas?"

[Metaphysicalus]

If you don't like the government, stop voting for the same people every election. Invoking Cromwell won't bring back the halcyon days of yore that really never were. It reminds me of a poll that was done in the USA, when people throughout that country were asked to rate politicians, they generally gave them a failing mark; but then gave their own representatives a high mark. Who was it that said that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over again, but expecting a different result each time? C'est là que réside le problème.

[ichkeria]

Lol yes hardly halcyon days. I think that is what is known as taking a quote out of context, which in those days was a succession of dysfunctional parliaments.
What is happening now is parliament struggling to come to terms with what is effectively undeliverable. And most members are much to polite to say that the referendum was an ass :-)

[ToraToraTora]

what's undeliverable? They can all go on holiday and we leave next Friday, sorted!

[youngmafbog]

"What is happening now is parliament struggling to come to terms with what is effectively undeliverable. "

More like struggling to understand that the will of the people needs implementing.

It is perfectly deliverable, for those that 'won'.

[Zacs-Master]

Well, he certainly made an impact in Ireland!

[New Judge]

"What is happening now is parliament struggling to come to terms with what is effectively undeliverable. "

Incorrect. What's happening now is that MPs are failing to deliver what they don't think should be delivered - i.e. the UK leaving the EU. It is perfectly deliverable. There is no need for the UK to be in th eEU's Customs Union (Turkey is as a non-EU member and it is causing them tremendous problems); there is no need for the UK to be in the EU's Single Market; there is no need for the UK to be subject to the jurisdiction of the ECJ. These are all things that MPs have determined are necessary for the smooth running of this country (i.e. so as not to cause them too much bother). This is clearly nonsense. But instead of entering a new phase for the UK where we are not EU members we have entered a new phase where those on the losing end of public votes are eventually the winners. This will cause at best widespread apathy and at worst considerable strife and rancour for years to come.

[ichkeria]

It’s undeliverable in two senses: firstly there is no such thing as a clean break from the EU. And second, there is no majority in Parliament for any form of Brexit. Yet, anyway.

[youngmafbog]

Unfortunately so Naomi.

[Old_Geezer]

A clean break doesn't mean no contact, merely not being part of the EU and under it's control. So that's deliverable as many here have mentioned.

As for there being no majority in Parliament for any form of Brexit, it's unfortunate that so many of the elected fail to represent the country, but that aside, didn't May reject asking the queen to suspend parliament not so long ago ? That would have delivered on the correct date.

[jno]

Charles I would have suspended parliament, so perhaps her knowledge of history persuaded the queen of the unwisdom of doing so.

[jno]

sorry, a "would have" was omitted there

[jim360]

I suppose Cromwell might also have nicely resolved the problem of the Irish border for us too.

[jno]

true, ethnic cleansing has its uses.