I love the analogy
between voting UKIP and Oliver Cromwell
"It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting
in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt for 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.... 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 have not bartered your conscience for bribes?...Ye are grown
intolerably odious to the whole nation; ye were deputed here by the people to
get grievances redress'd, and are yourselves gone....In the name of God,
go!"
Oliver Cromwell dismissing parliament April 1653
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