A knowledge of history is clearly not an employment requirement for government service in Canada, if the remarks of Alykhan Velshi, Jason Kenney’s spokesman, are anything to go by. Referring to the decision to ban George Galloway from Canada, Velshi is reported as saying
“We’re going to uphold the law, not give special treatment to this infamous street-corner Cromwell.”
I have some sympathy with the Canadians, as Galloway is a far from likeable character, but a Cromwell? Hardly. For the real Cromwell you can do no better than Blair Worden’s summary in The English Civil Wars 1640 – 1660
His later victories, inside and outside England, were still more remarkable [than his exploits at Marston Moor and Naseby]. Through them, but also through willpower and political dexterity, a provincial gentleman-farmer, an obscure figure until his forties, rose to conquer three nations and to awe the courts of Europe.
Enough said: George Wilkinson's blog 