Who prates of stream and sea?
I say what is the use of our prating about our good intentions and waiting for somebody else to do the good actions?
Should she not have supported that proposal if she wanted to defend the freedom that she prates so much about?
Yet the curious thing is that we prate more than almost anyone else about the virtues of consultation.
We know that well, so they might as well stop prating about it from now on.
There is no point prating about human rights unless we are serious about the rule of law, because that is what protects those rights.
To go on prating about something which we might have wished but which is no longer possible, is to adopt an altogether wrong attitude.
That is not the basis of democracy about which she prates so much.
