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Previously on "EU calls for budget primacy over sovereign parliaments"

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  • TimberWolf
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    Originally posted by Sysman View Post
    There is a precedent for this:



    I really do like that "dried rat" bit.
    According to a quick look on Wiki, he'd been buried quite a few years before being dug up, hung and decapitated. The embalming process must have been surprisingly effective if they had trouble hacking his head off after all that time, maybe he didn't tip the the axeman. And then his head was left on a pike for 25 years or so before being sold, and many years later ended up being buried in Cambridge.

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  • Sysman
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    Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
    We could do Blair twice?
    There is a precedent for this:

    The treatment of the corpses
    Cromwell's corpse had been embalmed and wrapped in cloth after the post - mortem. It was dug up along with those of his son in law Henry Ireton and John Bradshaw, who had been the judge at the trial of King Charles. The bodies were removed from Westminster Abbey on 26th January 1661. Four days later, on the anniversary of the execution of Charles I they were dragged to Tyburn. They were hung from the gallows all day before being taken down and having the heads severed from the bodies. It took more than one blow to remove Cromwell's head.

    Eyewitness accounts
    There are several descriptions of the events of 30th January 1661. A merchant, Samuel Sainthill wrote...
    "they were hanged by the neck from morning. Cromwell in a green seare cloth, very fresh embalmed; Ireton....hung like a dried rat"
    I really do like that "dried rat" bit.

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  • TimberWolf
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    Originally posted by Gonzo View Post
    I think you might have left it a bit late to string Heath up.
    We could do Blair twice?

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  • Gonzo
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    Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
    Heath, Major, Blair and Brown should be strung up for treason.
    I think you might have left it a bit late to string Heath up.

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  • Doggy Styles
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    Tell them to bugger off.

    How did we get into a position where the EU is now running the UK budget? Heath, Major, Blair and Brown should be strung up for treason.

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  • TimberWolf
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    Is that the same EU whose auditors have refused to sign off the bloc's financial accounts for the 13th year in a row.

    The auditors say there are weaknesses across the board and complain of neglect and presumed attempts at fraud.
    And they want to vet other countries budgets?

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  • EU calls for budget primacy over sovereign parliaments

    EU imposes wage cuts on Spanish 'Protectorate', calls for budget primacy over sovereign parliaments

    .. Commission president Jose Barroso unveiled plans for EU control over national budgets, including an incendiary demand that Brussels should vet budgets before their first reading in Westminster, the Bundestag, and other parliaments. ..

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