: Cameron was forced to change date of his speech from the 22nd to 18th (now changed again)
Cameron is forced to change date of his speech - it would have been even more pertinent had it taken place on Jan 22.
No 10 planners and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office failed to notice that next Tuesday (Jan 22) is the 50th anniversary of the Elysee treaty, a key date in the Franco-German calendar which is being marked by elaborate commemorations.
Did they also realise that it will be the anniversary of the (then) EEC Treaty of Accession (Jan 22 1972) when Edward Heath had black printers ink thrown over him to fulfill Shakespeare's prophetic words?:
"With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds;
That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life,
How happy then were my ensuing death!"
Richard II, Act 2, Scene 1
The lady that threw the ink was protesting because of Heath’s policy on closing the historic Covenant Garden market. The fact that she was not protesting about the betrayal of signing the treaty seemed to make it all the more important as a sign of what was being done on that day - the 71st anniversary of the death of Queen Victoria (on Jan 22 1901). The fact also that she was also wearing purple (picture attached), the colour of death in France, added to the significance.
Cameron is forced to change date of his speech - it would have been even more pertinent had it taken place on Jan 22.
No 10 planners and the Foreign & Commonwealth Office failed to notice that next Tuesday (Jan 22) is the 50th anniversary of the Elysee treaty, a key date in the Franco-German calendar which is being marked by elaborate commemorations.
Did they also realise that it will be the anniversary of the (then) EEC Treaty of Accession (Jan 22 1972) when Edward Heath had black printers ink thrown over him to fulfill Shakespeare's prophetic words?:
"With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds;
That England, that was wont to conquer others,
Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.
Ah, would the scandal vanish with my life,
How happy then were my ensuing death!"
Richard II, Act 2, Scene 1
The lady that threw the ink was protesting because of Heath’s policy on closing the historic Covenant Garden market. The fact that she was not protesting about the betrayal of signing the treaty seemed to make it all the more important as a sign of what was being done on that day - the 71st anniversary of the death of Queen Victoria (on Jan 22 1901). The fact also that she was also wearing purple (picture attached), the colour of death in France, added to the significance.
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