Brexit has already happened in 1532
Henry VIII’s prompted a schism with the Pope and England's big break with the ideological leadership of continental Europe. Just like Brexit, it sought to remove the legal constraints of a foreign supranational power. express.co.uk/news/uk/113151…
Henry VIII’s prompted a schism with the Pope and England's big break with the ideological leadership of continental Europe. Just like Brexit, it sought to remove the legal constraints of a foreign supranational power. express.co.uk/news/uk/113151…
Henry VIII does exactly what Theresa May has been doing and he does it for two years: he negotiates with Rome on Rome’s terms. He uses as principal minister Cardinal Thomas Wolsey who didn’t believe in the divorce, hated Anne Boleyn and really wanted to keep England in Rome.
Henry makes exactly the same mistake, except of course when the catastrophe of Wolsey's approach with the divorce is brought home with the suspension of the papal court that had been sitting in England with Cardinal Leggett campeggio...
When that is brought home to Henry, of course, he is not a 1922 Committee. It doesn’t take him an eternity to decide that Wolsey has got to go.
This is the point where the stories diverge.
This is the point where the stories diverge.
Suggesting a no deal Brexit would be the best approach to proceed, Mr Starkey added: "Radically, Henry stops, thinks, commissions researchers, works out a series of rational grounds. He is pushing the argument to the self sufficiency of England, he really reinvents England.
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