I don't normally do this sort of thing since there are so many terrible things that go

on in the world and I suspect there might just be about to be pompous.

But at the time of writing, David Amos MP was murdered while meeting his constituents

in the finest tradition of Parliamentary representation, the availability to all which

undermines our democracy.

I could not be more shocked.

The murder was an assault on our way of life and government, as well as the horrible death

of a fine person.

Not only that, but this is not the first time in June 2016 Joe Cox MP was brutally murdered

and as the new statesman recently logged the Habin Others.

I wanted to simply record my disgust at the murder of Joe and David and send all my

thoughts and prayers to their families.

Although we frequently give our MPs a hard time, I would like to record my respect for

the vast majority of them who work hard to represent their constituents, even my MP,

with whom I almost always disagree, but have no doubt of his essential decency.

Hello everyone and welcome to the History of England episode 329 Oaths and Libles.

Let me take you back to 1606 and to Parliament.

As you know the representatives of the people had been sent home in the aftermath of the

gunpowder treason and plot.

Well, when they were reassembled, they were treated to the side of a rat, disappearing up

a drain of state so fast that the speed of light lay in ruins around them shattered.

The rat was called Robert Cecil, first Earl of Salisbury, fifth creation.

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