Rump Parliament

Parliament having again attempted to treat with the king, Colonel Thomas Pride, by order of the council of affairs, forcibly excluded 96 Presbyterian members from the parliament (Pride's Purge, Dec. 6, 7), which is henceforth known as the Rump Parliament (some 60 members).

1645, Jan 2001

You sixty men there, becoming fast odious, even despicable, to the whole nation, whom the nation already calls Rump Parliament, _you_ cannot continue to sit there: who or what then is to follow?

Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838

One must go back to the English Civil War of the 17th century, when the dictator Oliver Cromwell and his colleagues purged the House of Commons and appointed a doctored list of yes-men to the so-called Rump Parliament, to find comparisons with today's attitudes toward Parliament.

Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com 2009

A man loathed by his own party and voted in by the opposing party in the most corrupt laothed parliament since the Rump Parliament, just to spite the Tories.

The Speaker: Bercow's boundaries | Editorial 2011

Today in 1653, Oliver Cromwell dissolved the Rump Parliament.

April 20th, 2009 madkestrel 2009

I thought the puritan Cromwell used the homophone to call in troops to dissolve the Rump Parliament.

"Although I thought Ann's Rush apologism was unseemly and unfounded, I have to say I basically agree with Jon Chait..." Ann Althouse 2009

Originally said by Oliver Cromwell to the Rump Parliament when dissolving it; then said by Leo Amery during the Norway Debate of 1940.

Words to say to Speaker Martin Tim Roll-Pickering 2009

Originally said by Oliver Cromwell to the Rump Parliament when dissolving it; then said by Leo Amery during the Norway Debate of 1940.

Archive 2009-05-01 Tim Roll-Pickering 2009

The Rump Parliament voted that 30 members in the new House of Commons would represent Ireland.

1650 2001

Rump Parliament formed under Lenthall (speaker) and Richard induced to resign as lord protector.

1658, Sept. 3-1659, May 25 2001