Showing posts with label misgovernment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label misgovernment. Show all posts

Sunday, 1 March 2020

"Silent, upon a peak in Darien"

https://pipparathborne.wordpress.com/2020/03/01/silent-upon-a-peak-in-darien/
photo © 2020 Martin Hübscher Photography
Despite his soul-piercing look of reproach, hope springs eternal while King Cat surveys
the ruins of his kingdom after human occupation.

Thursday, 4 April 2019

England, 2019

"Many of us...have a feeling that we are living in a country where fanatics, hooligans and eccentrics
have got the upper hand."
Horace Rumbold, British Ambassador to Berlin, 1933

"My God. History will condemn this period. It will condemn those who’ve sat back and kept their view to themselves, who haven’t stood up and tried to stop all this nonsense.”
Anna Soubry MP, 2017

Muse_reading a scroll Louvre_CA2220
Clio, Muse of History reading a scroll
Attic red-figure lekythos, ca. 435-425 BC. From Boeotia. Louvre. Image: Wikipedia

“I don’t want to be known as the last prime minister of the United Kingdom”
attributed to Theresa May, Prime Minister, 2019

"When I am dead and opened, you shall find Calais engraved on my heart".
Mary I, 1558, referring to the humiliating incompetence of losing England's last stronghold in continental Europe

Cassandra lamenting
Jan Swart van Groningen, Woman Lamenting by a Burning City 1550-55
Pen in black, brush in brown,
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Image: WGA

Saturday, 27 October 2018

October Afternoon

Trafalgar Square, afternoon, 20 October, 2018
  
700,000 patriots marched to save the future of our country from the consequences of Brexit
 
over 300,000 people have signed the  
 
over 1 million people have signed
The
Independent's petition for



Thursday, 28 June 2018

Option 4



The Government's own Department for Exiting the EU has concluded that the best option for the United Kingdom's economy and people's jobs is to remain. 


Our elected representatives have shown themselves incompetent to act in our interests. Members of Parliament have undermined Parliamentary democracy by handing more power to the executive.

Now that everyone has more information about the consequences of leaving the EU, we, the People, should be allowed a say on the final deal.

A new People's Vote would not be a second EU Referendum.

It would be the third EU Referendum since 1975, when the majority voted in favour of remaining.


Brexit is still legally reversible. 

We can still save our country and all our futures.

There should be an Option to Remain.

Wednesday, 11 April 2018

What, in our house?

https://pipparathborne.wordpress.com/2018/04/11/what-in-our-house/

BRITAIN IS A HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT,
IN DENIAL


Something has gone very wrong in our country, and like a terminally ill person in denial of their mortality, about half the British public aren’t admitting it. Such things don’t happen in Britain, they believe. It’s only other nations that commit atrocities, build concentration camps, persecute innocent people. “It wouldn’t happen here”. 

It is happening here.

“What, in our house?” enquired Lady Macbeth, on hearing of the murder of King Duncan, which she had just instigated.,,,Read full post