It was the 28th of July 1540 when the King of England ordered someone to cut off the head of his Chief Minister. Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex, earned this honor from no less a King then old Henry VIII. He had been accused of high treason and heresy so a double damnation and was executed without trial via a simple bill of attainder. It was quite a fall for the Lord Great Chamberlain, Governor of the Isle of Wight, Lord Privy Seal, Master of the Rolls, Principal Secretary, and Chancellor of the Exchequer. The poor headsman probably had to swing a dozen times to get it off.
On this day under dark and rainy skies I cannot help but think that things in England would be far better today if the King was still allowed to chop off the heads of his ministers who failed him in any tiny particular or detail. I'm OK with defenestration but the Russians have been using that method for generations now and it seems a shame to conflate the death of some worthless men with the deaths of some unfortunate souls who failed to keep their peccadilloes secret. One was simply corrupt and the other was merely caught in the act or dispatched for being in the way.
I won't say that things move more smoothly when the Sword of Damocles hangs directly over the heads of men in office who feel they are untouchable and unaccountable but I'd feel a lot better about how things are run if the sword dropped from time to time on the evil ones. Of course, right now, the great unwashed mass steeped in virtue and humility that comes naturally and by the grace of God to liberals and other demons on the left think they have found just the man to drop a sword on.
England's path has been steadily downhill since the Tudors and the power of the throne faded away. Still, there are many wonderful books written about the times that came after and about the faded glory that was the Angevin Empire before the Tudors
Still, Charles old buddy, if you need a list of people who would benefit your kingdom by suddenly being a head shorter, I could help you out.
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The UK was finished after they lost WW1 and especially after WW2. They chucked over a million lives away for no good reason. And at the end, the Americans came in and finished the job the Brits started but failed to finish - not once but twice! At least Hitler was a good sport about it and let over 250,000 solider go home at Dunkirk rather than taking them prisoners' of war.
What Trump and his lot should bring up with the new UK PM is the fact the UK never repaid the US for their war debt, they quit paying in 1932 and that debt is still outstanding. The UK only paid off their WW2 US debt in 2006.
Now the Brits are pushing to upgrade their pathetic DEI-woke diverse military so they can go to war with Russia via Ukraine. Yeah, that will turn out just fine from a country who's military barely exists and could barely even get a ship to Cyprus. Gallipoli 2.0 anyone?
Speaking of Cyprus, it's odd the Brits didn't declare war on Iran who openly attacked them without provocation. Guess they were a bit concerned about retribution from their own muzzy population.
If there was a time machine that would be the one thing I'd try to prevent. That idiotic war made a dent that will never buff out of Western Civilization and the saddest thing is that we're watching them line up to do exactly the same thing but with Russia and the rest of the world is left wondering, Just What the Hell are You Doing?
We're watching the UK sign up to provide unlimited unending drone weapons made in Britain to the scum of the earth ruling Ukraine and absolutely nobody at all is considering the fact that if Russia sees nothing to lose, they will simply destroy. It is what they do and what they were exquisitely trained by communist leaders for 80 years to do.
The problem is the pasty ass clown now infesting the throne would chop off the wrong heads.
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