Today is Guy Fawkes Day

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Remember, remember the fifth of November,
The gunpowder treason and plot,
I know of no reason
Why the gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot.


One of these days, Guy Fawkes will succeed! Praise for the Guy. The only man who ever entered Parliament with honest intentions.

ruveyn

Yes, he was not the leader of the plot, but effectively the commander and technical planner.

There are tunnels now connecting Whitehall and parliament to Westminster tube station and allegedly secret sections of the tube, for use in national emergencies.

My father was in the foreign office. He was in close proximity to two IRA attacks. The mortar attacks on 10 Downing Street. The other he was walking down the street with a college just outsides and a bomb exploded. He said it he says all the windows shatter at once and as in slow motion cascading to the ground. He found his colleague warped round him in a tight embrace.

Yeah I think I saw him in that movie V for Vendetta.

I guess it's like the 4th of July over in Britain with the fireworks and all.

Bonfire night in Lewes, East Sussex.

I never really got why they celebrate nov 5th, is Guy Fawkes hero or villain

Ironic. I'd like to think the Ft. Hood shootings today had nothing to do with that, likely they didn't but still - its a heck of a coincidence.

Its supposed to be celebrating the fact that the Catholic bomb-plot failed. Popular opinion isnt really "with" the government so much these days, so its not surprising a certain ambiguity is starting to creep in. Wont be long before we see Brown effigies on bonfires I suspect.

It was a bomb plot in the early 1600s, as I remember. They wanted to blow up Parliament. They got caught, so perhaps it's just a collective sigh of relief?...

My family never "celebrated " it, the idea of burning an effigy of the man and what that mentality of mass hysteria/hatred can actually do is horrendous.

Fawkes and his associates may have had a "cause" ...... a protest against religious persecution, bigotry etc. Not that I'm justifying any sort of violence but the hatred perpetuated by stuff like "ritual effigy burning" is not far removed from sorts like KKK, The SS etc.

What are the striped uniforms above? Are they what members of parliament wore in the 1600s?