noachian
I've just looked at A very British Dude and his first page and this struck me immediately
"This is not rosy-eyed wishful thinking. Countries in Europe which still have Kings and Queens tend to be the ones with the longest liberal traditions of good governance: the UK, The Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark and Norway. They have old institutions precisely because they have not had revolutions"
The UK has had more then it's fair share of revolutions which the government of the day have ruthlessly put down.
We could start going backwards with
The Poll tax riots in early 1990's
The Irish Free state
The Chartists
1798 Irish rebellion
The American War of Independence
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Duke of Monmouth (and if you are from the Westcountry Judge Jeffreys is a *******)
The Glorious Revolution of 1668
The English civil war
The Gunpowder plot
and so it goes
as Ricky Tomlinson might say No Revolutions My ar5e
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"That government is best which governs least."
"This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all diseases and miseries".
"To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy --and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful."
Remember TANSTAAFL and TANJ
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