Fascinating Historical Footnotes!


Although Abe Lincoln is an American hero, his words, quoted below, ought to strike a chord in patriotic British hearts…

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…in the light of the inclination towards treason among many Europhiliac parliamentarians.

“This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government…

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Disbarred attorney Eric C. Conn reported in 2010 that he paid more than $500,000 for this statue of Abraham Lincoln that sits outside his former Stanville office. (Floyd Chronicle and Times photo by Mary Meadows)
 Abraham Lincoln

…they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.”  Abraham Lincoln

And sticking with our brief history lesson..

Speaker of the Commons John Bercow has said the idea of the parliamentary session ending in order to force through a no-deal Brexit is “simply not going to happen” and that that was “so blindingly obvious it almost doesn’t need to be stated”.  https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-49251511

Did you know….

That seven House of Commons Speakers have been  executed by beheading?

If Bercow was put on trial for treason, and convicted..

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Bercow

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…that penalty would no longer be available if and when his sentence was handed down.

As a fun diversion, I ask my readers – which alternative form of punishment would be appropriate?