Glories of Empire

According to recent archaeological evidence, a site in eastern Kent may have been the beach-head for an invasion of Britain by highly organised multicultural wogs. At a more recent period of our island story, the same district has been the scene of various little setbacks for the Farage Falange, including some less than happy and glorious episodes for the strutting Caudillo himself. It would of course be invidious to connect such episodes with the military defeat and historical eclipse of some howling blue-painted barbarians by a multi-racial army under an Italian general; not least because pre-Roman Britain was most likely a developed and sophisticated society in its own right, rather than a purple-hued rabble of troglodytes splitting each other's heads with their questionable personal hygiene. It is at least probable that the ancient Britons, unlike the Farage Falange, had advanced sufficiently to understand that successful international trade tends to be a two-way negotiation.

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Jesuit Diplomacy