On this morning 407 years ago, after a month of torture by the political class, Guido Fawkes in a last act of defiance jumped from the gallows, breaking his neck in the fall. Escaping having his genitals burnt before his eyes, before being hung drawn and quartered alive.
Now his name lives on, to torture the political class…
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Tom Harris bemoans the public’s attitude to politicians…
“Mr Oborne echoes the lazy, anti-politics whine we hear so often these days, all based on the absurd notion that politicians were once loved and only fell out of public favour during the expenses scandal. He should take a walk to the Strangers’ Bar. But not to sup with the patrons he seems to despise so much, dearie me, no; he should instead look at the paintings on the corridor outside the bar, which depict the devastating fire which consumed most of the Palace in 1834. And he should reflect on the fact that on that dramatic night, as the Commons went up in flames, a crowd gathered on the South Bank to clap and cheer.”
The thing that Dave needs to work out is which group is more likely to vote Conservative. Mad swivel-eyed loons or mad homosexuals wishing to get married.
A heroic, and very sensible, act. But I always wonder how he managed it after being racked so that all his joints were dislocated.
After his death, who told people about the promotions/demotions of unknown SpAd’s and journalists?
Heroism and courage. Unlike this blog.
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hello sweetie
will no one think of the freedom-loving rebels in Syria fighting for Eretz Israel, beheading Christians and massacring university students?
Heroism and courage. Unlike the LieBore Party and the Limp Dumbs.
Tory crooks, stealing from the taxpayer.
Before the NHS?
That hat is at a very jaunty angle. Is he gay?
I would
In your dreams. He’s mine
The King at the time was gay as was half the Court and most of the government. That’s what’s nice about England–it doesn’t change much. Scotch homos all over the place.
+1
how dare you!
+1000
Latest bigoted nonsense fron the dicks on this site, “Homosexuals are always Scottish”, yeah whatever you sad fucks.
Actually, he’s saying that England is always ruled by Scottish gays. I think he’s drawing parallels between James vi of Scotland and the last labour administration. This comparison appears to bear some merit.
THE Scottish are a bit weird, you must admit.
Every one of them in Parliament is a freak apart from Jim Fitzpatrick, and he’s of Irish extraction and got out early.
And lets not forget the Beggars Benison Society. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beggar's_Benison
Ooh err…………
It would be nice if some MPs personally re-enacted the event.
It would be nice if
someall MPs personally re-enacted the event.There. Fixed it for you.
Yes, my ancestor Sir William Waad made a good job of nailing all the conspirators. God save the King!
Did he say that the original was a Paddy?
So, we celebrate yet another heroic failure.
Well, it is the English way after all.
Good grief, Penfold!
If Fawkes had been successful, would the EU have come into existence ?
Fawkes was just the watchman in the cellars, a relatively minor figure in the conspiracy, he, under torture gave the names of the leaders of the plot. We might have gone through Roman Catholicisation of the UK and the infant Charles would have been proclaimed king and the conspirators would hope to be able to control the young king.
In 1605 we had a choice between being ruled from Europe or by a gay Scotsman. Whereas in 2010′ er……
and your point is?
Today is the Aniversary (407 years ago) of the death of Guido Fawkes. The BBC have documents that prove Guido Fawkes was a member of the Tory Party.
What was the age of consent in those days?
…and he ate babies.
Do you have the source?
With lashings of ginger bear.
My kinda Guy!
I’m well hung….
Time to untie the brick now
R.I.P
You could drink as much as you liked then as cars didn’t exist
As long as the horse hasn’t been drinking…
…but a pencil must be lead.
You would probably have serious health problems if you drank London’ water in those days, safer to drink beer
John Johnson’s blog just does not have the caché.
You should always clear you cache after visiting here.
Are you attempting to accent something?
Ummm laut
Cachet.
I would have liked to live in a forte.
And may I suggest before too.
The original targeted all politcal classes unlike the current who focuses on the political class as long as they arent right wing…………
That is Robert Lindsay in a jaunty hat.
Power to the people
I am pleased you, too, are saddened by the failure of Guido Fawkes’s to return Britain to it’s rightful Catholic state. Guido Fawkes failed to bring about a Catholic theocracy, and for this we must mourn.
What’s English for “Spanish Inquisition”?
Torquenga
No, I totally meant Guido, not Guy. Ahem.
Under examination ( i.e.torture) Fawkes was asked why he was in possession of so much gunpowder. He replies that it was to “blow you Scotch buggers back to your foul mountains”.
He obviously predicted the rise of the Labour Party and the BBC.
From what you say, he was to be hung a number of times…
He was going to do a streak in Smith Square where the question over well-hung (or not) could have been established…
He was to be hung in such a way that he would not have been dispatched, and cut down before the drawing and quartering. Usually a beheading would have been performed before the quartering, which would typically be the dispatch.
Emasculation usually took place after the initial hanging, and before the drawing. (Some argue that to be drawn refers to the act of bringing the convicted to the place of execution)
This was standard for Treason. Mercy was really in the hands of the hang man.
This practice was only rendered obsolete in 1870, and the death penalty for Treason revoked in 1998.
We all displayed a lot of guts.
Yep – the Death Penalty for Treason was abolished by Blair. Now we know why…
Beat me to it.
War criminal Bliar thought he recinded, revoked or repealed it. Common Law is immutable it still stands. I am happy to say.
I would have sent him on ‘holiday’ via a stopover in Diago Garcia
Just to go back again to what Iain Dale said the other day, he said why would any one want to be a politician,because of the way the media treats them.
It’s quite simple really, it is of course money first,then power wealth and influence.
None of them know what it is really like to have to earn money and then get paid for it.
They just live off the state that they accuse the scroungers of doing.
They are leeches off your backs!
Spot on.
Ooh, you monkey…
he then rather spoiled any possible merit in his case by tweeting this:
Just made the mistake of reading the comments on Guido’s thread about me. Total nutjob arsewipes. I won’t be doing it again.
My sidekick Dale is the arsewipe. We both like nuts
Why the reference to arses?
Why do you think ?
It hath not escaped my notice, you did not yesterday similarly commemorate the execution of Charles the First, which did take place on 30 January 1649. Is the modern iteration of the Fawkes a royalist, perchance, averse to celebrating the deposing of a tyrannical monarch? One presumes that a rebel who could see one King’s death as a good thing, could not in all consistency fail to regard another’s death as a misfortune. And I did succeed, where the Papist failed, did I not? Charles the First was deader than Kelsey’s nuts when I had finished with him. Of course, I had an Army and not a ragtag crew, it must be said in fairness.
I liked him, he was my daddy.
Guido probably does not want to contribute to the resurrection of the Star Chamber in these dark days of Leveson and Royal Charter talk.
As I recall, that august body did not sit on Sundays {they needed the time off to read the papers}
History is Bunk
Always thought that you look a lot more handsome with the mask on Guido.
If my very wealthy dog Rosie looked like that, I would shave her arse and teach her to walk backwards.
King Charles Spaniels are dirty bitches.
He was a psychopath whose sole goal was to re-introduce Papal-inspired religious genocide to these islands.
Is there really anyone who’s sad that he died?
Right wing terrorist groupies. Obviously.
“I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.”
if you were a real revolutionary guido, you’d try and blow some shit up and then get yourself killed.
“To torture the political class”.
Would like to like to borrow a few thumbscrews to get yourself started?
We are waiting.
haw-haw
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
He tried to snap his neck on the rope but sadly only the rope broke, leaving him to face the drawing and quartering in full consciousness.
Surely even you have seen Starkey’s salivating description of the event.
Guido, you are a patriot and a felloew RC. God bless you!
I told him not to stash all the barrels in the cellar!
Hanged not hung
While attempting to give the impression some how being of-the-people, the true nature of this site is clearly hard-right and anti-working class. So instead of Guido Fawkes, would not Guy False be a better name?
Have been checking “Guido Fawkes” on line and found the following remark from “Bonfire”:
“Fawkes is a right wing nutter who supported the contras. Now we have a dummy to burn on bonfire night.”