John SpitheadI carried my bodkin and shears
https://friendica.world/display/84b6ef2b-1969-002d-438f-a8c244973630
Simon Brooke@Wen And both parties also substantially funded by Big Oil, and by the kleptocrat-enablers of the City of London.
Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0@grimalkinUSA @scottishlass
Updated lyrics:
We're bought and sold for techbro gold
Such a parcel o' rogues in a nation
(Sorry, bitcoin and memecoin wouldn't scan)
(Original lyrics at https://mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=5583, with a reminder that politicians and gold have an affinity)
Martin'The meeting of Commissioners' - a #collage inspired by betrayal and my reading about the #ParcelOfRogues who sold out the sovereignty of the people of #Scotland in 1707.
It strikes me that the political shenanigans going on now are not much different to the sort of thing that went on was back then. Everyone has agendas and most are self-serving. Very few people involved in politics actually have any real guts or integrity.
This book I found in a charity shop provides great context to #Lockhart's memoirs of the #Union and the people involved.
The 4th Duke of Hamilton was a right two-faced slimeball. He had a legitimate claim to the throne of #Scotland, but when he realised no-one would support it he decided the Union was his next best option (lots of land in England). He betrayed his Jacobite friends many times over but managed to keep stringing them along.
"John, Earl of Stair, was the origine and principal instrument of all the misfortunes that befel either the king or the kingdom of #Scotland...
It was he that, to secure his court interest in King William's time, contrived, and was the author of, the barbarous murder of #Glencoe...
It was he that first suffered, I should rather say, taught and encouraged, England arbitrarily and avowedly to rule over Scots affairs, invade her freedom and ruin her trade."