I am grateful to fellow liberal Dave Simpson for the following (slightly edited):
David Davis' invective at Prime Minister's Questions, copied from Leo Amery's speech against Chamberlain in 1940, which was in turn lifted from Cromwell's dismissal speech to the Long Parliament (or the Rump thereof) prompted me to look at the original rant, (Wikiquote, of course) which is singularly appropriate to today. Some choice extracts:-
"... put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonoured by your contempt of 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 ... Is there one vice you do not possess? ... which of you have not barter'd your conscience for bribes? Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the Commonwealth? ... Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole nation; you were deputed here by the people to get grievances redress'd ... In the name of God, go! "
Neville Chamberlain, for all his faults, does not fit the bill quite so well as this crew!
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