Conservative MP Nadine Dorries says that the atmosphere in Westminster is so unbearable - because of the expenses scandal - that everyone fears there will be a suicide.
http://blog.dorries.org/Blogs/2009/May/22#22
Sometimes, Nadine, suicide is the only honourable option.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppuku
I believe nothing less than a ritual suicide would satisfy the British public now.
The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_peasants also presents us with equally blood-thirsty possibilities.
Storming the Tower of London
A group of rebels stormed the Tower of London— probably after being let in— and summarily executed those hiding there, including the Lord Chancellor (Simon of Sudbury*, the Archbishop of Canterbury, who was particularly associated with the poll tax), and the Lord Treasurer (Robert de Hales**, the Grand Prior of the Knights Hospitallers of England).
* In January of 1380, Sudbury became Lord Chancellor of England,and the insurgent peasants regarded him as one of the principal authors of their woes ... the Kentish insurgents attacked and damaged the archbishop's property at Canterbury and Lambeth; then, rushing into the Tower of London, they seized the archbishop himself. So unpopular was Sudbury that guards simply allowed the rebels through the gates. Sudbury was dragged to Tower Hill and, on 14 June 1381, was beheaded. His body was afterwards buried in Canterbury Cathedral, though his head (after being taken down from London Bridge) is still kept at the church of St Gregory at Sudbury in Suffolk, which Sudbury partly rebuilt.
** Robert de Hales was beheaded on 14 June 1381 on Tower Hill
during the Peasants Revolt.
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