Review: Lawrence Stone, ' The Causes of The Englush Revolution, 1529-1642''

This could be an account of today's circumstances

Many times reprinted.

Highly recommended.

One additional point: Henry VIII's Legalisation of Usury ('In Restraint of Usury' 1545, see Sir Harry Page's book of that title) made legal the lending of money in England *for the first time*.

My speculation is that this led to a speculative-perhaps, driven market in land: something that would have increased the amount of economic- and, thus, social- and religious-distress in the subsequent Century.

I wonder, therefore, if that was a factor, even a key, central factor, in the precipitation of the First English Revolution of which Lawrence Stone writes.

The Killer Stats

The killer stats.

According to a recent video by Vernon Coleman (on YouTube and archived at www.vernoncoleman.com), we now have proof that a) capitalism kills us, all, prematurely, (which we already know from the data given in 'The Spirit Level' book and via www.equalitytrust.org.uk), and, b) that the present virus doing the rounds (Covid 19, SARS2, what-ever its present name or mutation is) is *less* deadly than going to work  (aka going to *be* worked) was, last year in the US and UK.

Thus, it seems, the *aggregate* death rates, week-on-week, in *both* the US and UK, are *less*, week-on-week, for 2020 as compared to 2019.

When 'the working week' recommences, I'll endeavour to give links to the statistics.

For now, I rely on Vernon Coleman's observation.

Unless you can confirm or otherwise.

Good or Evil

The night before last, it occured to me that the contest is between me and Dominic Cummings.

As a prelude, I don't fight. I practice the Theory of Noncontested Spaces. So if the Zionist/Capitalists want to fight, I'll walk away.

Now, the cipher, here, for Dominic Cummings has been our friend Simon Hill, for whom I'll create the tag #sillysimon. I forebear to tag him as #idiotsimon, just about, since I pray that he will learn that being a 'leftist' (albeit one that voted Lib-Dem at the last, December 2019, General Election) *and* supporting the Zionist/Capitalist/Nazi/Evil is inconsistent.

Time will tell.

In the case of Dominic Cummings, poor man and family, I have to use the tag #evildominic, with great sadness, as a means of linking posts together.

Like #sillysimon, we can reasonably expect that #evildominic is a supporter of the Zionist/Capitalist/Nazi/Evil.

Unlike #sillysimon, who has only supported the former Coalition Partners, the Lib-Dems, of the Conservative/Capitalist/Zionist/Nazi/Evil, #evildominic is a full-blown participant in the murder of hundreds and thousands of entirely innocent people: mostly low-income, poor and disabled, often elderly imprisoned people, through his work for Austerity/Capitalism/etc.

And its #evilsibling, this pandemic/plandemic/flu/virus event.

Now, for a moment, let's ignore the Face-gang in front of #evildominic, Boris Johnson, Priti Patel et al, and wonder about who is funding and supporting this Conservative/Capitalist/Zionist/Nazi/Evil attack on the population of this Country?

Of which the mandatory face mask diktat is but a prelude of worse (mandatory injections, mandatory sterilisations, mandatory voluntary euthanesia, and, even more evil impositions).

Clearly the Capitalists and their supporters in this Country, from The Monarchy, The Aristocracy, The Establishment, Its Praetorian Guard networks, likely many/some/a few/perhaps in The City of London, but certainly all members of the Capitalist Employers' Round Table at Chatham House, The Royal Institute for International Affairs and its World Economic Forum networks, the Bilderbergers, The Trilateral Commission, The Council on Foreign Relations in New York and its equivalents in Canada, China perhaps, Russia perhaps, The Gulf States, India and Australasia, Saudi Arabia, and, of course, The Zionist/Capitalust Apartheit State of Israel.

But what about the people of the British Isles, your neighbours and families, your 'communities', Trades Unions, Co-operatives, Churches and local Councils?

Who do they support?

Zionism/Capitalism/Nazism/Fascism/Apartheit/Racism/Evil?

Or #truesocialism?

Ie True Co-operative Socialism #cohyphenoperativesocialism.

Support for Zionism/Capitalism/Evil can be active (like bullying at the Supermarket) or passive (Passing By On The Other Side).

Support for True Co-operative Socialism, however, can only be active.

Since, as remarked by others,

     'For Evil to triumph, all that need happen is for good people (the good in all people, that is, even in #sillysimon and, presently, #evildominic) do nothing.'

Yes?

My Dad's Murder (The Murder of .my Dad, that is)

My Dad, I consider, was murdered by Capitalism.

He succumbed to his third heart attack in September 1978, two weeks after I started my PhD in Chemistry at my beloved UCL.

He was fifty-six years old, or so I thought.

That had two consequences. First, because my Mum, who is still alive, at the age of ninety-four has had to endure forty-two years' widowhood on a reduced State Pension: because Dad 'died' early, he didn't have a full National Insurance record, so his wife, my Mum, had the double whammy of an early widowhood and a Reduced State Pension.

The same is true of one of her sisters, my Godmother, who, all being well will be one-hundred years' old this year.

So much, then for the 'Mixed Economy' and its 'Welfare State': the former a Tory idea, the second a Liberal plot.

Both foisted on The Labour Government of 1945-51.

The second, or at least, a second consequence of the murder of my Dad by Capitalism, was that his son, this son, spent *his* fifty-sixth year quietly, and irrationally, wondering if his fifty-sixth year would, also, be his last: my last.

It was not to be.

Firstly, I'm now sixty-nine, dreading the appearance, each morning, of each day.

Secondly, it turned out that my Dad didn't die at fifty-six years'of age.

He died at the age, my Mum told me later, of fifty-seven.

So much for my year of silent worry.

Which brings me to this mask thing.

Capitalism has gradually ratcheted-up the Iron Heel on our necks.

Now, The Party of Freedom (as if!), the Neoliberal Tories have reverted to their True Selves: the Nazi Party of NeoConservative Authoritarianism.

The hypocrisy is breathtaking: it lobbied for escape from The Iron Heel of The European Imposition, with which I agree, only to replace the tantalising prospect that I will be fined One-hundred Pounds Sterling (not Euros) if I go into a shop not wearing a mask (incidentally, I haven't got a mask, nor do I want one: my Quaker Testimony to Integrity in-forms me, that to wear one would be wrong).

So where next with thus agenda of Nazi NeoConservative Authoritarianism?

The Rack?

The Inquisition?

Movement Sensors as well as 'Smart Meters' in every home? The former was threatened to us at Coleridge House 'For Our Safety', the latter already exists in 'my' Housing .Associatiin flat here in Littlehampton, monitoring my every switch-on and switch-off.

If we were 'self-responsible' to adhere to the (anti-)social distancing during the height of the lock-in, why not now?

Oh yes, I get it: anti-socialism.

Nothing more, nothing less.

The Continuatiin Of Zionism/Capitalism/Nazi/Iron Heel Tyranny: Authoriatarian NeoConservatism.

Is that what my Dad's war-time service in the RAF To Defeat Nazism/Fascism was all about?

I doubt ir.