On this
day in 1605 Guido Fawkes was arrested in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament
while stockpiling explosives in an attempt to blow it up. There is an old joke
about how he was the only person ever to enter Parliament with honest intentions
but as he was a mercenary with little interest in parliament but probably more
interest in getting paid a lot of money to kill many people and make the lives
of those he didn't kill miserable just to further his own cause at the expense
of others, he was just like your average Tory MP really.
And now
the news:
You
might enjoy a firework display tonight but it probably won't be as amazing as
this:
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