Beware the Ides of March Et tu Aaron.... or the ideas of May

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4260528/Major-Ukip-donor-threatens-pull-funding-party.html The Ides of March is a day on the Roman calendar that corresponds to 15 March. It was marked by several religious observances and became notorious as the date of the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BC.

From Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, 1601. 'Beware the Ides of March' is the soothsayer's message to Julius Caesar, warning of his death.

he Ides of March didn't signify anything special in itself - this was just the usual way of saying "March 15th". The notion of the Ides being a dangerous date was purely an invention of Shakespeare's; each month has an Ides (often the 15th) and this date wasn't significant in being associated with death prior to 1601.

Months of the Roman calendar were arranged around three named days - the Kalends, the Nones and the Ides - and these were reference points from which the other (unnamed) days were calculated: Kalends (1st day of the month).

Nones (the 7th day in March, May, July, and October; the 5th in the other months). Ides (the 15th day in March, May, July, and October; the 13th in the other months).

The state is in crisis, the major parties in crisis and the constitution creaks and cracks

Nigel and I are fed up with Ukip, says major Ukip donor Aaron Banks as he threatens to pull funding unless he is made chairman so he can 'purge' members and stop the party being 'run like a jumble sale' 

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