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What has changed since 1653
"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 every vice.
"Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches and 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 has not bartered your conscience with bribes?
"Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the
commonwealth?
"Ye furdid 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 to get grievances redressed; are not yourselves
become the greatest grievance?
"Your country therefore calls upon me to to cleanse the 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 and get out, make haste ye venal slaves be gone - so take away that
shining bauble there and lock up the doors".
Oliver Cromwell's Speech on the Dissolution of the Long Parliament Given
to the House of Commons 20 April 1653.
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18th May 2009 11:32 am
nobbyclark
Member Since: 03 May 2005
Location: Perth, Scotland
Posts: 1268
Where is our Cromwell? Can't see Her Maj kicking down the doors at SW1 and demanding that the last MP to leave should turn out the lights.No longer a D3 owner but still subscribed to multiple threads!
18th May 2009 11:56 am
alanwxr
Member Since: 19 Nov 2006
Location: West Yorkshire
Posts: 306
Clarksons the man for me!!!!
18th May 2009 12:05 pm
robsmith
Member Since: 02 Sep 2007
Location: Staffordshire
Posts: 2392
Insults and dressings down just aren't what they used to be.
My favourite line has to be:
"Ye furdid 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?"
Wow - to the mind of a man in the 1600s that has to be one of the greatest sets of failings and sins one could ever commit. It makes todays speech very tame in comparison.Rob Smith
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