Thanks to Daniel Hannan, the excellent British MEP who writes a blog and columns for the Daily Telegraph, for his article today in which he highlights the following passage from Jean-Paul Marat’s Address to the Electors of Great Britain:
“Gentlemen, the present parliament, by law, must soon expire; and no dissolution was evermore earnestly wished for by an injured people. Your most sacred rights have been flagrantly violated by your representatives, your remonstrances artfully rejected, yourselves treated like a handful of disaffected persons, and your complaints silenced by pursuing the same conduct which raised them. Such is your condition, and if such it continues, the little liberty which is yet left you, must soon be extinguished: but the time for redress is now approaching, and it is in your power to obtain that justice you have so many times craved in vain.”
Despite being written in 1774 the words are incredibly prescient to our situation in Great Britain today.
