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Originally Posted by garinda
It sounds all lovely and 16th century-ish.
Will we be able to execute traitors again?
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Ohh, if only, if only. No wonder the mandarins in Whitehall are not too keen on Mr Salmond and his referendum. Can you imagine the amount of work they would be landed with, in having to renegotiate every treaty signed and still effective over the last three hundred years.
Frau Doktor Merkel was right the other day when she indicated that the alternative to saving the euro and the eu was potential conflict. But as with most euro pols. she is months behind the curve. Change, conflict driven or otherwise is on its way and cannot be stopped. It will make no difference how much money is thrown down the gaping maw of the banking system. As Omar Khayyam put it in the eleventh century:
"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. "
And the words that the moving finger wrote...
"
j' accuse! "