A message To Gordon Brown From Beyond The Grave

These words from Oliver Cromwell’s Speech on the Dissolution of the Long Parliament
given to the House of Commons on 20th April 1653, are as relevant today as they were in 1653.

‘It is high time for me to 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, and would
like Esau sell
your country for a mess of pottage, and like Judas betray your God for
a few pieces of money.
Is there a single virtue amongst you? Is there one vice you do not
possess?
Ye have no more religion than my horse; gold is your God; 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 sordid prostitutes have you not defil’d this sacred place, and turn’
d the Lord’s temple into a den of thieves, by your immoral principles
and wicked practices? Ye are grown intolerably odious to the whole
nation; you were
deputed here by the people to get grievances redress’d, are yourselves
gone!
So! Take away that shining bauble there, and lock up the doors. In the
name of God, go!

Oliver Cromwell.

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