Today is a Dark Day in History
On this day in 1606, Guido Fawkes, following months of torture was convicted of treason for his part in the ''Gunpowder Plot'' against an oppressive political class and the tyrant King James I, and executed. Now, some four centuries later, it is Guido's turn to torture politicians...
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Yes. And Simon Hoggart is the new Samuel Peyps.
...if only you could please hang, draw and quarter them too or burn them at the stake....
Why did Cameron claim that the Tories had banned Qaradawi.
A lie.
In fact they let him in five times.
Including when Cameron was an advisor to the home office.
An apology coming from Dave soon about misleading the house.
happy birthday - or something
keep up the torture xx
Keep on keeping on Guido. Stick it to the mendacious fuckers.
You can come and "torture" me anytime big-boy!!
..and there's a job as my personal assistant for that big, blond, bouncy, Conway lad, if he wants it!
Bitch!
BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Guido
Great picture in the Mail for the Friday caption contest - Action Man David Davis (in a fetching red shirt) leering at Henry Conway's boyfriend at a dinner party.
Alternatively, Derek himself, is pictured in the Telegraph with two attractive WPCs putting the cuffs on him.
What larks eh, Pip?
Guido. Your name sake tried to blow up a deeply unpopular, socially inadequate, misogynist and paranoid Scotsman, who fancied men.
So no change there then.
The oppressive political class only had power in the first place because the majority of the population were even more terrified by their experience of the alternative. After all Master's Latimer and Ridley didn't die of a cold.
I think there is a lesson in there somewhere.
Remember, remember 31st January ...
doesn't have the same ring about it.
There were several mentions on last night's blogs of Gordon's strange hand gestures. These were analysed on "The Daily Politics" yesterday and last time I looked the analyst's report was still available to be watched on The Daily Politics site.
Yes, but before we get too sentimental let us not forget he was a Catholic, after all.
It wasn't James's fault - son of a Catholic single mother, etc etc
Unhappy Anniversary.
Love from stanislav
Beats me why King James is a tyrant,
Do you need to re read history?
From your link to "The silence of the members":
The only time the House laughed hard yesterday while Mr Brown was on his feet was when he gravely announced that Paul Murphy, the new Welsh Secretary, was also "minister responsible for digital inclusion".
James I was a gay from Scotchland like Gordon Brown.
Guy Fawkes was executed for a plot to return the country to a more ancient, and just as corrupt, order - nothing changes
10.38 The only time the House laughed hard yesterday while Mr Brown was on his feet was when he gravely announced that Paul Murphy, the new Welsh Secretary, was also "minister responsible for digital inclusion".
Does that mean he sticks his finger up Brown's arse?
ofcourse ideas are more dangerous than gunpowder.
Fawkes was just the principle Patsie, that's all - so careful you don't emulate him :-)). The real instigator was the Royal Chancellor Robert Cecil whose motive was to forestall the Kings proposed minor Catholic emancipation measures and provoke a confrontation with Spain. A scary external threat to the Kingdom was needed, with a dash of dastardly home-grown terror thrown in. Fawkes, prodded along by Cecil's Agents Provocatuers, fitted the bill nicely thank you. Plus ca change eh? - and the supremely gullibly public still take it all in.
please clarify said:
"Does that mean he sticks his finger up Brown's arse?"
Presumably not while he's talking through it......
Didn't Fawkes actually commit suicide, after the 'hanging' bit, rather than wait to be drawn and quartered? According to The King's Book he jumped off the scaffold to his death, certainly no mean feat considering he could barely stand after nearly 2 months of torture and was dragged naked along the street behind a horse to the execution blocks at Palace Yard.
Happy deathday to you, happy deathday to you, happy deathday, dear Guido, happy death day to you.
and lots more power to your skeletal elbow, sir.
Since the original incident was on 5 November (I seem to remember, remember) 1605, it took less than three months after his arrest to charge, try, condemn, and exectue him.
Clearly justice was quicker in former timers. Nowadays they want longer than that just to bang him up without charge while they try to de-encrypt his parchment.
Let's also remember that James I (VI of Scotland) was, like Snotgobbler, also a Scot with some foul habits. He apparently used to sit upon the throne, slobbering and scratching his codpiece.
i wonder if he would had an ASBO or 42 days detention in todays climate.
it would have saved the civil war from happening i suppose.
Good riddance!
Master's Latimer and Ridley- weren't they originally in WHAM!
Except that the original Guido was a radical who wanted to blow up the whole of parliament. Whereas you just want a Conservative government.
Go on, burn the fucker!
Burn the fucker to hell!
Fuck him off!
"Beats me why King James is a tyrant,
Do you need to re read history?"
Guido is a catholic, and James I was quite tyrannical towards catholics. So Guido doesn't need to re-read history. It's all a matter of perspective.
Not as big a day of infamy as when that dastardly Howard sold out the Pilgrimmage of Grace, keeping that double pox'd heretick Henry VIII on the throne.
Sabretache - didn't Robert Cecil's pop, William, take a secret pension from Spain whilst publicly fighting against the Spanish Imperialist interest in England?
Plus ca change, indeed .....
In that case Guido, be very careful if Newsnight invite you on today!
Fuck me that must have been painful. No wonder he jumped.
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On the subject of mad terrorists/freedom fighters, take your pick.
All this Islamic shit, I have been thinking, what a bunch of nutters, recently though, all due consideration to this blog re politcal sleaze, NWO, CP, blah blah, blah, they might have a point.
I'm tempted to grow a beard. Start abusing women and encouraging the young to blow themselves up, just for fun.
Where's my AK gone?
Ask anyone down the pub if they know the names of any of the other plotters.
Fame is immortality of a sort.
Catesby
Robert & Thomas Wintour
Christoper & John Wright
Percy
Rockewood
Keyes
Digby
Tresham
Bates
Julian - he jumped off the ladder -with the rope round his neck - The feat was climbing high enough, helped by the hangman, up the ladder to make sure he broke his neck
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