Oliver Cromwell’s perfect description of today’s politicians

As more and more of our corrupt, lying, third-rate, self-serving MPs are shown to have been stealing taxpayers’ money (Darling and Brown being the latest crooks to be exposed) there is a strange sense of satisfaction��recalling what Oliver Cromwell�said on 20 April 1653 when he dissolved a�similarly rotten and corrupted Parliament:

“Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches and 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 now remaining 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 has not battered your conscience with bribes?� Is there a man amongst you that has the least care for the good of the commonwealth?� Ye furdid prostitutes have you not defiled this sacred place and turned 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 to get grievances redressed; are not yourselves become the greatest the grievance?� Your country therefore calls upon me to cleanse the Augean stable by putting a final period to your iniquitous proceedings in this house and which by God’s help and the strength he has given me I am now come to do I command ye therefore upon the peril of your lives to depart immediately out of this place…� Go and get out, make haste ye venal slaves be gone”