We used to get a fella or lady we didn’t like and throw em in! Then, when the law came a questioning, we’d just plead they’d succumbed to witchcraft.
Boy those were the days.
How did it fail? Whose voting against that idea?
More enlightened times
Bit cruel on the snakes isn’t?
Should have took a leaf out of Iceland’s book in the financial crash of 2008. The UK panicked and said they’ll leave the country. Iceland didn’t. They arrested them and threw them in jail. They weren’t leaving no country.
Parliament has proceeded to be lame ever since. If that passed we’d be in the brightest timeline
Clearly they failed because private banks still exist.
I would also vote for this
Poor snakes!
An Ancient Roman punishment for treason, only they added a cockerel (to symbolise pride) and, (I think) a dog, to symbolise cowardice. The snake was there to represent treachery.
What a waste of some perfectly useful bags and snakes.
The photo is actually a painting of the House of Commons in the 1790s. I remember because I have an ansestor who’s in it.
Only when the politicians money is at stake do they care lol.
This related to the South Sea company and had a monopoly in the UK in trade with the “South Seas” and South America, at the time Spain and Portugal controlled all the trade in the region and the UK was involved in a war over who ruled Spain so that there really wasn’t any prospect of them making a profit from their monopoly. The company though also traded in government debt. The prospect of future rises in the value of the company dramatically increased the price of shares in the company, then at the end of one year they announced that they weren’t going to pay a dividend and investors lost confidence in the company and the price collapsed in what was known as the south sea bubble. Since the government debt was a large part of the company, the government itself was in trouble as well as many wealthy investors.
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Nice
*TIME TO PARTY LIKE IT’S 1720*
Ah, we should bring back ye olde snake bagging!
We used to get a fella or lady we didn’t like and throw em in! Then, when the law came a questioning, we’d just plead they’d succumbed to witchcraft.
Boy those were the days.
How did it fail? Whose voting against that idea?
More enlightened times
Bit cruel on the snakes isn’t?
Should have took a leaf out of Iceland’s book in the financial crash of 2008. The UK panicked and said they’ll leave the country. Iceland didn’t. They arrested them and threw them in jail. They weren’t leaving no country.
Parliament has proceeded to be lame ever since. If that passed we’d be in the brightest timeline
Clearly they failed because private banks still exist.
I would also vote for this
Poor snakes!
An Ancient Roman punishment for treason, only they added a cockerel (to symbolise pride) and, (I think) a dog, to symbolise cowardice. The snake was there to represent treachery.
Extra Credits did a short video series on it.
https://youtu.be/k1kndKWJKB8?si=FqrBqwKivp_TGO1R
Where did they get all the snakes?
Seems unnecessarily cruel.
What did the snakes do to deserve that?
Is it still on the cards?
House of commons discussed
House of lords dismissed
Can’t imagine why it worked out like that, crazy.
I took miss the days of sensible legislation.
What a waste of some perfectly useful bags and snakes.
The photo is actually a painting of the House of Commons in the 1790s. I remember because I have an ansestor who’s in it.
Only when the politicians money is at stake do they care lol.
This related to the South Sea company and had a monopoly in the UK in trade with the “South Seas” and South America, at the time Spain and Portugal controlled all the trade in the region and the UK was involved in a war over who ruled Spain so that there really wasn’t any prospect of them making a profit from their monopoly. The company though also traded in government debt. The prospect of future rises in the value of the company dramatically increased the price of shares in the company, then at the end of one year they announced that they weren’t going to pay a dividend and investors lost confidence in the company and the price collapsed in what was known as the south sea bubble. Since the government debt was a large part of the company, the government itself was in trouble as well as many wealthy investors.
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