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# Britain Impoverished by the Liberals Begs on the Thames Embankment with Her Battered Lion, the Palace of Westminster in Ruins Behind Her
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/obnishchavshaia-iz-za-liberalov-britaniia-so-svoim-pobitym-lvom-pobiraetsia-na-naberezhnoi-temzy-na-fone-vestminsterskogo-dvortsa-v-ruinakh/
- Published: 2023-11-19T19:54:22.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:35:18.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Art, London, Observations, Society, Humour

Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1891.

On the whole, 130 years on, the subject is topical once more. Only now the old lady Britannia must also sit there with a black eye, courtesy of her cultural enrichers.