It is an honor to be a guest in this august body, the House of Commons.
I’m sure that you don’t need a outsider to come in here and tell you about English history, but I would like to remind you about the meaning of this word, commons.
In the beginning was the common. People hunted and gathered on the common to meet their needs.
Like all species, human beings inhabited familiar territories in their vicinity, but these were communal to their family or tribe, not owned by particular persons.