My favorite Oliver Cromwell fact is that when Winston Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty during the run-up to WWI, one of his jobs was to propose names for new capital ships (i.e. battleships and battlecruisers) although the king made the final naming decision. Presumably to take the piss out of the king, Churchill twice proposed Oliver Cromwell as the name of one of the Queen Elizabeth-class ships, on the quite legitimate grounds that the institution that became the Royal Navy was founded during his rule. The king declined and went with Valiant instead.
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RobotToaster@infosec.pub 1 year ago
To quote the great Oliver Cromwell, they are no more capable of managing the affairs of this nation than they are of running a brothel
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 year ago
floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
They’re not trying to run the country; they’re just trying to make money off it.