"It's 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 remaing 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 among you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth?
Ye sordid prostitutes have you not defil'd 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 grivances redress'd, are yourself gone!
So! Take away that shining bauble there. and lock up the door. In the name of God, go! "
Oliver Cromwell,
Dissolving Parliment in 1653.
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So is there anything new under the sun? Does anything ever change? *******************
Is it time for our Monach to ask Gordon Brown to dissolve our present Parliment? Then maybe we can weed out the 'mercenary wretches' and move on?
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