Did ever Dragon keep so fair a Cave?

Submitted by Alan Marsden on Wed, 03/05/2017 - 22:32

Nothing stinks like a hypocrite. A Conservative councillor and the chairman of her council's planning committee, admitting in court to making illegal and irreversible changes to her home, a thirteenth-century listed house. So while granting or rejecting others' applications to renovate and extend, she herself simply went ahead and altered her historic home. At least she pleaded guilty, being fined £75,000.

Those holding public office should lead by example. Of the hypocrites of His day, Jesus said "They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger." (Matthew 23:4).

O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave? Will Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act III.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-39793404

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