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Thread #124364   Message #2761062
Posted By: MGM·Lion
06-Nov-09 - 03:21 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: England My England
Subject: RE: England My England
It seems a reasonable suggestion to me — there are plenty of other places if it's so intolerable to stay here racked with vicarious guilt for the iniquities of some of your ancestors. You say Lizzie is picking & choosing — so are all of you who insist on picking & choosing, e.g., the slavers over Wilberforce.

I am reminded of the Lord High Executioner's 'little list' in W S Gilbert's The Mikado, of 'society offenders who'd be bettr underground, and never would be missed'; which included "The idiot who praises with enthusiastic tone All centuries but this and every country but his own".