King
John was forced to sign; what about the European Commission?
I
wonder if when he announced his policy of fixed-term Parliaments David Cameron
had taken in to account that we would be celebrating the 800th anniversary of
Magna Carta at the time of the general election next year. Well, most of us
that is. Here in Bury St, Edmunds we will celebrate this year the 800th
anniversary of the meeting of the barons here in the rose garden beside the
Cathedral at which they first completed drafting the great charter, and then
swore terrible oaths that they would stick together and force the King to sign
at a council at Runnymede the next year.
I
doubt it. Nor I think would he have given much thought to the words of Winston
Churchill in an interview with the New Statesman'… Read
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