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About the Laughing Cavalier Movement...

  1. The Laughing Cavalier movement is intended as an antidote to the puritanical attitude of the roundheads who are trying to make our lives a misery (and largely succeeding). The movement will give you a chance to hit back when you have been unfairly treated by roundheads.

  1. There are far too many governmental organisations, local authorities, unelected bodies, self appointed, smug, self righteous groups of single issue zealots trying to tell us what to do, what not to do and lecturing us constantly. They are uniformly depressing and we mean to do something about it-with you.

  1. Cavaliers are for (amongst other things) enjoying life, celebrating our Britishness, being proud of our history, savouring good food and drink without guilt, being polite to each other and encouraging good manners, looking after those who need our help and doing good by stealth. They are for Continental Europe and its rich variety. They believe in Common Sense.

  1. Cavaliers are against (amongst other things) interfering prod nosed governments and their legions of increasingly Stasi like employees, ludicrous rules that make our lives hell for no discernible reason, pointless regulations, political correctness, car hating politicians who waste our high taxes and useless recycling. They are against the soviet like bureaucrats in Brussels who are taking away our Britishness and the ability to make our own laws.

  1. Cavaliers have no religious affiliations. Cavaliers believe that you should be free to worship whatever God you choose, or none, but that you, in turn, should allow your fellow men and women the same freedom.

  1. Cavaliers have no particular political affiliations. They may belong to any party or none but they excoriate any politician who preaches at us and who makes the world a more miserable place by his or her existence. This particularly includes those politicians from all parties who would nanny us (usually in very deliberate, condescending voices).

  1. They have absolutely no class bias. Cavaliers are just as, or perhaps even more, likely to be found in a Working Mans Club or at a football match as on the grouse moor. But we have no exclusion. We even accept Earls of the realm. Ferret owners are particularly welcome too.

  1. They have no sex bias. Women and men make equally good cavaliers. Many of our most admired Honorary Cavaliers are women. Many women suffer from Roundhead behaviour more than men.

  1. Cavaliers believe life should be good, it should be fun and that we should emulate our American cousins in pursuing happiness as defined by their Constitution. In fact, Cavaliers think we could well emulate some of the sentiments of the Declaration of Independence in our own approach to life.

  1. We are not suggesting for a minute that we slavishly copy the American way of life but the Founding Fathers who wrote this Declaration made a far better job of it than the lunatics who wrote the European Constitution. It bears inspection, we think.

  1. Consider this from the Declaration for instance:  that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Yes. We can agree with all that, we think.

  1. And what about this bit: That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Ring any bells with you?

  1. Good, is it not?  Real Cavalier beliefs. Some of this could well apply to us here. If we don’t like the way any Government, present or future, local or national, of any political persuasion, works, then we should change it. If they persecute us rather than serving us then let us get rid of them. The Ballot Box concentrates minds wonderfully, we note.

  1. Cavaliers also believe that there are a lot of us out there who are totally fed up with Roundheads and Puritans. It’s about time that we had our say. Many of those who are trying to preach at us, lecture us, overtax us and make our lives miserable are actually paid by us and enjoy their pensions through our generosity. Why do we put up with them if they try to become our masters rather than our servants?

  1. So read on and, if all this appeals to you do , please, consider signing up as a Cavalier. We need your support to survive and fight those pesky Roundheads.