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SteamboatsDecember 1st – the day England died
Posted on December 1st, 2009 by James Higham
Thanks, Centurion 2 for the picIt’s the Winter of our Discontent and a new national holiday – the Day of the Great Treason.
In 1997, Tony Blair’s first move was to change the Treason Act to remove the death penalty. Not only that, he did it on the sly, as he did many things and MPs were not aware of what was involved in this until the very moment they were required to agree to it.
[ERROR OF FACT: Ian informs me that it actually happened like this:
Whilst the Treason Felony Act 1948 was not debated and amended directly, the amendment was as a result of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. Here is the whole Act. Here is the page which lists the repeals, including all previous Treason Acts in their entirety and Section 2 of the Treason Felony Act 1948.
I was out of the country at the time that Tony Blair was doing this.]
That was appropriate because he needs that provision now. A list of the MPs who voted for Lisbon and therefore the events of today will appear as soon as it can be sent to me.
Googling does not produce this list.
England and Britain – rest in peace.
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We don’t execute anyone for anyone else, why execute for treason? Two of the last four people sentenced to death for treason – Thomas Cooper and Walter Purdey- had their sentences commuted anyway
There’ll always be an England, Higham, as long as there are Englishmen prepared to defend their birthright.
I am, and I will answer should the call be sounded.
Nobody knows this thought of mine, so it is having it’s first public airing here.
On the day New Labour came into power and the labour voters were leaping up and down with glee. My thought was – I don’t trust these guys, they won’t deliver what they are promising, they are up to something.
Utter, utter bull. You referendaphiles have completely blown the Lisbon Treaty out of all proportion – it actually creates less constitutional changes than all previous EU treaties.
I agree with William – and I put my hand up and declare with pride that I am English and my country is England- nobody can make me say any different.
I refuse to go into that darkness quietly (apologies to Dylan Thomas) but I intend to kick and scream until no-one can ignore me.
Thank you, all and to Pericles – the proof is in the pudding – England is now no more on paper. If you’d bothered going through the white paper and book and the regional reactions to those, you’d see that the money is under the control of Brussels, the legal framework is now framed by Brussels, ipso facto this section of real estate is now in nine sections under Brussels.
The utter bull you refer to is that we accept this situation and in this I agree with you wholeheartedly.
You can’t kill an idea James, the thought of England is still here and it and we will fight back.
Blair should be tried for war crimes and with the whole of Westminster for treason.
The Queen signed every EU treaty without a murmer, she should stand beside Blair for treaon.
History will look back on this era of British politics with shame.
An aggressive foreign military action in order (publicly) to impose a government and policy on a foreign peoples.
A policy of ignoring the will of the English people on ANY Labour policy;
War
Mass immigration
EU membership
English parliament
This country (England)has been screwed by LIEbour, most densely populated country in the EU, massive borrowing to get to the next election so whoever wins has to sort out the debt, growing unemployed or public sector workforce paid for by a dwindeling private workforce.
2011 and 2012 will see the English population having to become politically aware
more strikes, more calls for ‘British jobs for British workers’ more votes to the BNP and other right wing parties.
‘I was out of the country at the time that Tony Blair was doing this.]’
England has not been England for a very long time, and if not for the bungling incompetence I’d hardly recognize it as such at all.
I didn’t know Blair had done that but it was an anomaly. Can’t see anything wrong with votong for Lisbon, myself.
There is no proof and certainly no pudding. This is drama queenery of the highest fibre.
And surely England was no more “on paper” after the Union of the Crowns and Parliaments? Just a thought. It seems that’s a kind of federalism you don’t, evidently, have a problem with.
Pericles, what tosh. The proof is there in the EU announcement. As for federalism I don’t have a problem with, it is federalism within the British Isles, not insinuated and imposed form without. There is a huge difference there.
There’s an article coming up today on the matter.
William, I’m with you. My spork is sharpened already.