Bugger the Parliament and Buggers of Democracy
Having listened to the song, bugger the bankers and bureaucrats, I felt like adding few lines to the lyrics with our citizenry in mind.
The song had buggered all the dominant parties of UK but they have fell short of and have been careful not to bugger their august assembly which is a British creation having got the King Charles I sentenced to death by hanging or is it beheading?
In our case we have buggered our parliament and buggers of democracy by a presidential decree.
So the lyrics should go as
Bugger the buggers of democracy
Who bugger the parliament,
In broad day light
Bugger the citizenry
Who buggered
Their vote of confidence
Bugger the buggers of legislature
Who buggered the lawyers
And the lawyers
Who let them be buggered
By the lawyers
Of legislature
In broad day light
In broad day light
Bugger the citizenry
Who let them be
Buggered by
Law makers,
Lawyers
Who take the oath
In the name of protection
Of the constitution
Is it in fact,
We are buggered by
Our own,
Constitution?
Charles I
Charles's last years were marked by the English Civil War, in which he fought the forces of the English and Scottish parliaments, which challenged his attempts to overrule and negate parliamentary authority, whilst simultaneously using his position as head of the English Church to pursue religious policies which generated the antipathy of reformed groups such as the Puritans. Charles was defeated in the First Civil War (1642–45), after which Parliament expected him to accept its demands for a constitutional monarchy. He instead remained defiant by attempting to forge an alliance with Scotland and escaping to the Isle of Wight.
This provoked the Second Civil War (1648–49) and a second defeat for Charles, who was subsequently captured, tried, convicted, and executed for high treason.
The monarchy was then abolished and a republic called the Commonwealth of England, also referred to as the Cromwellian Interregnum, was declared.
Charles's son, Charles II, who dated his accession from the death of his father, did not take up the reins of government until the restoration of the monarchy in 1660.
With the monarchy overthrown, and the Commonwealth of England declared, power was assumed by a Council of State, which included Lord Fairfax, then Lord General of the Parliamentary Army, and Oliver Cromwell. The final conflicts between Parliamentary forces and Royalists were decided in the Third English Civil War and Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, whereby all significant military opposition to the Parliament and New Model Army was extinguished. The Long Parliament (known by then as the Rump Parliament) which had been called by Charles I in 1640 continued to exist (with varying influence) until Cromwell forcibly disbanded it completely in 1653, thereby establishing The Protectorate.
Cromwell then became Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, a monarch in all but name: he was even 'invested' on the royal coronation chair.
Upon his death in 1658, Cromwell was briefly succeeded by his son, Richard Cromwell. Richard Cromwell was an ineffective ruler, and the Long Parliament was reinstated in 1659. The Long Parliament dissolved itself in 1660, and the first elections in twenty years led to the election of a Convention Parliament which restored Charles I's eldest son to the monarchy as Charles II.
Following the Restoration, Oliver Cromwell was exhumed and posthumously beheaded.
