Magna Carta ‘just a piece of paper’ – PM
The Prime Minister has rounded on critics of private security firm Naylor Downe in the wake of the damage to Britain’s sole surviving copy of Magna Carta.
The 804-year-old document was on display at the Ronald Macdonald National Heritage Museum when the bottom three inches were eaten by one of Naylor Downe’s canine security enhancement resources.
“The lynch mob mentality displayed by historians and other users of educational funding has been quite deplorable,” the Prime Minister said.
“Magna Carta is only a parchment – just a piece of paper, really. If it had unfashionable anti-terrorist legislation written on it, those same academics who are howling for people’s blood would be dancing for joy in the streets.”
Magna Carta (Latin for “big chart”) was imposed on the British king John at Runnymede in 1215 by the unelected barons of the time.
It is sometimes considered the foundation of the modern British constitution, despite its inclusion of habeas corpus (Latin for “body-snatching rights”), and the inconvenience of being written down.
All other authenticated copies of the document have been privatised and reside in overseas collections, including the one traditionally displayed at the House of Donors, which was given to the family of the late Rupert Murdoch as a gift of condolence by the State of Westminster.
If present climate stabilitisation measures continue, Runnymede is expected to resurface again at some point in the late 22nd or early 23rd century.
