The Dictatorship of the Etonariat

[Richard Barrett]

The idea that because a trainee solicitor for example made a mistake in a bundle index means you cannot have confidence in the lawyers and judges arguing and deciding the case is nonsense.

If only that were the only thing undermining my trust in the judiciary!

[Richard Tarleton]

I like the embroidered dragonflies on Lady Hales's gown

[eighthobstruction]

I like the embroidered dragonflies on Lady Hales's gown

....i was thinking they might be lace....

[vinteuil]

I like the embroidered dragonflies on Lady Hales's gown

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... she has a thing about brooches -

https://www.legalcheek.com/2017/11/lady-hales-best-brooches/

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[eighthobstruction]

....yep

[Richard Tarleton]

Thanks both...I'll have a closer look at 1800.....

[eighthobstruction]

....for anyone wondering[ as i was] ....the Lord President[of Council] is Jacob Rees-Mogg....

[vinteuil]

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... indeed so, the Rt Hon Jacob Rees-Mogg MP.

And if you need the details of his coat of arms, wiki tells us :


Crest
1st, between two Spearheads erect Sable a Cock proper (Mogg); 2nd, a Swan Argent wings elevated Or holding in the beak a Water-Lily slipped proper
Escutcheon
Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Argent on a Fess Pean between three Ermine Spots each surmounted by a Crescent Gules a Cock Or (Mogg); 2nd and 3rd, Gules a Chevron engrailed Erminois between three Swans Argent wings elevated Or (Rees)
Motto
Cura Pii Diis Sunt (The pious are in the care of the Gods)


Thought you might like to know...



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[eighthobstruction]

oh aye Cockn'Bull and Moggn'Lesser Crested Sunt....+ stoat/weasel....

[Richard Tarleton]

He is quoted in today's Times Diary as pointing out (in reply to the Lib Dem MP for Banff and Buchan's saying that leading Brexiteers should be hanged, drawn and quartered) that as Lord President of the Council he is entitled to be beheaded.

[Bryn]

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... indeed so, the Rt Hon Jacob Rees-Mogg MP.

And if you need the details of his coat of arms, wiki tells us :


Crest
1st, between two Spearheads erect Sable a Cock proper (Mogg); 2nd, a Swan Argent wings elevated Or holding in the beak a Water-Lily slipped proper
Escutcheon
Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Argent on a Fess Pean between three Ermine Spots each surmounted by a Crescent Gules a Cock Or (Mogg); 2nd and 3rd, Gules a Chevron engrailed Erminois between three Swans Argent wings elevated Or (Rees)
Motto
Cura Pii Diis Sunt (The pious are in the care of the Gods)


Thought you might like to know...



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Hmm. I see that the phrase Cura Pii Diis Sunt is attributed to Ovid, and can also be rendered as "The good are Heaven's peculiar care". Ovid died before the Christ individual reached adulthood, let alone founded Christianity and thus is hardly an apposite motto for a Christian family, surely?

[un barbu]

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... indeed so, the Rt Hon Jacob Rees-Mogg MP.

And if you need the details of his coat of arms, wiki tells us :


Crest
1st, between two Spearheads erect Sable a Cock proper (Mogg); 2nd, a Swan Argent wings elevated Or holding in the beak a Water-Lily slipped proper
Escutcheon
Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Argent on a Fess Pean between three Ermine Spots each surmounted by a Crescent Gules a Cock Or (Mogg); 2nd and 3rd, Gules a Chevron engrailed Erminois between three Swans Argent wings elevated Or (Rees)
Motto
Cura Pii Diis Sunt (The pious are in the care of the Gods)


Thought you might like to know...



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Given his 'financial services' stake and in the best tradition of canting heraldry shouldn't there be a fat cat rampant in there?

[cloughie]

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... indeed so, the Rt Hon Jacob Rees-Mogg MP.

And if you need the details of his coat of arms, wiki tells us :


Crest
1st, between two Spearheads erect Sable a Cock proper (Mogg); 2nd, a Swan Argent wings elevated Or holding in the beak a Water-Lily slipped proper
Escutcheon
Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Argent on a Fess Pean between three Ermine Spots each surmounted by a Crescent Gules a Cock Or (Mogg); 2nd and 3rd, Gules a Chevron engrailed Erminois between three Swans Argent wings elevated Or (Rees)
Motto
Cura Pii Diis Sunt (The pious are in the care of the Gods)


Thought you might like to know...



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Careful with the spoonerisms on that last one!

[vinteuil]

Given his 'financial services' stake and in the best tradition of canting heraldry shouldn't there be a fat cat rampant in there?

... couchant, surely?


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[un barbu]

... couchant, surely?


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Indeed. Closer to his wannabe A.J. Balfour languid pose.