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Actor!micky107 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2019 2:42 pmStrangelove wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2019 2:32 pmBigot!micky107 wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2019 2:24 pmI said from my chair. https://nationalpostcom.files.wordpress ... own-04.jpg
Besides; the girls' a Russian.
Bigot is derived from Visigoth, and was used as a racial slur by the French against viking settlers in Normandie!
Just Swedes basically, but on my mother’s side, there was a priest back in the early 17th century who was very active in pursuing witches and having them burnt at a stake, and his third wife, who was the mother of the son my family comes from, was Finnish. Also, on my father’s side, there was a French protestant bishop, who came to Sweden as a refugee in the 16th century. One of his sons later worked as a pirate in the Caribbean, the Dutch paid him to attack Spanish ships. When he died of old age in Amsterdam, he owned large parts of Guyana and some 60 barrells of gold, but had no children. The lawyers his siblings sent to Guyana managed to get the deeds for the plantations in their own names and stayed in South America, while the Dutch government collected the gold barrells for safe keeping till it could be determined who the rightful heirs were. Unfortuntely the barrells seem to have been misplaced since, but there is still a group of descendants renewing the claim to the Dutch courts every twenty years or so. Maybe some day they will succeed in getting reimbursed for the 60 barrells of gold. I’m descended from one of his sisters, but I haven’t registered with the group as I doubt the Dutch will ever cough up what they owe us....
I said last night at a charity do that the family avoids the topic of Brexit especially at meals as we don’t want to gang up on the PM!
Maybe to some, but ....The Brown Wizard wrote: ↑Thu Sep 05, 2019 8:32 am Standing up for sovereignty is hard work.
He must be a hero of sorts...
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-49661855Mr Johnson has previously insisted that it was normal practice for a new government to prorogue Parliament, and that it was "nonsense" to suggest he was attempting to undermine democracy.
But the Court of Session judges said they were unanimous in their belief that Mr Johnson was motivated by the "improper purpose of stymieing Parliament", and that he had therefore effectively misled the Queen in advising her to suspend Parliament.
They added: "The Court will accordingly make an Order declaring that the prime minister's advice to HM the Queen and the prorogation which followed thereon was unlawful and is thus null and of no effect."
(same article)Dominic Grieve, the former Conservative MP and attorney general who now sits as an independent, said the prime minister should "resign very swiftly" if he has misled the Queen.
Mr Grieve said: "He will find himself in an untenable position in Parliament. Every member that believes in our constitution would simply say it's over."
