Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "If only some latter-day Cromwell would march into parliament and turf out all the MPs!" video.

  1. "You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go". I can barely conceal my pride at being from the family of Major General John Lambert, one of Cromwell's commanders at the Battle of Preston, and the victor of the Battle of Inverkeithing, when I read statements like that.
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  2. More accurately, people got tired of his son, Richard, known as 'Tumbledown Dick' who was totally unfitted for the position of Lord Protector.
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  3.  @sonnyirish3678  No. But I imagine he will be in the history books of the future.
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  4.  @BernardRex  I must confess that an element of Republican DNA is deeply rooted within me, which does come to the fore every time Charles does or says something less than sensible. Most of the time, these days!
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  5.  @BernardRex  I am a distant, not direct, relative. Moreover, sadly, General Lambert was imprisoned on Guernsey, and on Drake's Island, for many years after the restoration.
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  6. You don't actually know much about Cromwell, it seems.
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