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@slovenebotfarm @posta_octavian @lithologuy My dear boy...

@browne90068 @posta_octavian @lithologuy I’m not British, I live in a country with civil law and consider common law an inferior legal system.

The SDP has the most interesting and original social democratic platform I have ever seen. They: - openly advocate for higher interest rates to stop asset inflation - openly advocate to stop "dissaving" and overconsumption - want to encourage companies to invest in their employees over replacing them with cheap immigrants by taxing them less the longer their employees work there - 50k net migration limit per year - turn the state into an infrastructure investment machine - reject and oppose calls form the left to simply increase welfare, even dare to say that the pension system has to be sustainable - openly call to the end of the overvaluation of the pound to promote British industry - openly nationalist and patriotic - they advocate for total NIMBY death by restricting local opposition to housing construction - end buy to let mortgages This is what social democratic policies need to look like. Patriotic and developmentalist instead of welfareist. With genuine ideas on how to uplift *workers* in the UK. It's disappointing that they're Eurosceptic, but it's understandable considering they need new Bank of England policies to realise their policies. Full support to the SDP and their gigabrain team who've come up with their amazingly original proposals.

@slovenebotfarm @posta_octavian @lithologuy Besides, and venturing dangerously into counter-factuals, even without the HRA, I reckon English judges would've adopted this modern interpretive anyway approach.

@browne90068 @posta_octavian @lithologuy To put it simply, I have very little problems with what’s contained in the Convention itself, I do however have a problem with the fact that the Court has granted itself the right to update the contents of the Convention essentially on a whim and the way that right is being used.

@slovenebotfarm @posta_octavian @lithologuy What about the ECHR disgusts you?

@posta_octavian @lithologuy The ECHR has been so thoroughly internalized by the judicial caste of every liberal-oligarchic European state that withdrawing from the convention doesn’t matter, it’ll be enforced by the courts anyway.

@RoblosClownII @KavusV @reddit_lies If you think your little platoons were going to end the Great Depression, you should open a book sometime.

@KavusV @reddit_lies And it was like this until FDR raped everyone with the welfare state

Reddit atheists discovering how much the church does for the community is one of my favorite things.

@slackkejakke What?

In the contemporary age Perfidious Albion lives on in the form of overly complex legal structures and procedures that are so tiresome they just beat people into submission.

@Zoldy95 @Gaismair @EuhFuh A little inaccurate to credit Fairfax with Naseby, no?

@Gaismair @EuhFuh Fairfax was the overal commander at Naseby, and all the other major battles involving the New Model during the first Civil War.

Cromwell’s rise is so odd. Random MP who decided it was his time to lock in & created an army from scratch to slam dunk every royalist army without any training

@b0n0myt1res @AscendedYield Rank stupidity.

@AscendedYield Where were these "markets" when Rishi ramped up borrowing to fund furlough? Politicians govern Britain not Hong Kong

Labour MPs think they can shame Asian central bank reserve managers and Gulf sovereign wealth funds to buy gilts

@The_Clermontian My dear boy, if you think Reform will be economically sensible when their voting bloc is people nearer to retirement than further, you've got another thing coming.

This is why (whine as the kooks may) Shadow Chancellor Jenrick was so important for Reform. He came in and did a lot of work to reassure everyone that Reform indeed believes that money is real, the OBR is necessary and that they weren't going to do a bunch of unfunded handouts.

Burnham and 'Manchesterism' died the very day that Andy Burnham learnt what the bond markets were and decided to mouth off to the press about how he'd just borrow a bunch of money, ensuring the markets will always be spooked the second it looks like he'll be PM.

@DaveMorganJones @JudeL30577512 @2Felines8 @Conservatives Because it allows Courts to adopt expansive interpretations of legislation, thus undermining Parliamentary sovereignty.

@JudeL30577512 @2Felines8 @Conservatives If all it does is codify existing laws then what have you got against keeping it? (spoiler- its because it contains positive protections for these rights and you want to remove these extra protections)

Leave the ECHR and repeal the Human Rights Act to secure Britain’s borders. Scrap green levies and ideological net zero targets to deliver cheaper energy. Hire 10,000 more police and increase stop and search to make our streets safe. Restore the two child benefit cap, and face-to-face PIP assessments to get Britain working. Increase defence spending by £50 billion, using savings made to the welfare budget to defend our country. Scrap the 3% interest added to Plan 2 student loans and get under 16s off social media to help young people. That’s what the Conservatives under @KemiBadenoch’s leadership would do.

@isnit0 Pitch this manifesto and win exactly no seats.

I want to vote for a party that will: - scrap the triple lock (move to GDP/capita lock) - build significant infrastructure and homes (e.g. Forest City) - spend less on healthcare (e.g. move to insurance model) - cancel most student loans (for many, uni is a waste of time and money) - completely stop low-quality immigration - help businesses adjust to higher cost of labour (automation loans etc) - spend more on defence - means test state pensions - commit to experimenting with alternate education models (idk what will work in the future, but not what we have) There’s no option right now that even gets me half.

@WorldOBarry @MythoYookay Rank stupidity. You want the courts adjudicating on what a useful use of police time is?

@MythoYookay It should be possible to charge police themselves with wasting police time

@ArchysLife Carthage???

The scarier aspect is that this was close to the norm in the ancient world. Carthage engaged in child sacrifice, ritual torture was omnipresent in neolithic Central Europe, and so forth.

@Madz_Grant This is like a critic of Prohibition criticising Senators for being drunk on the Senate floor. You can't accuse her of hypocrisy, they're entirely different points. It's not like the party's advocating heroin use in Parliament.

Find this selective (and possibly sectarian) Puritanism quite funny when her party wants to legalise heroin

@ketaminecromwel @AllanRicharz @atlanticesque @BarneyFlames e.g. Spartan Steel & Alloys Ltd v Martin & Co (Contractors) Ltd (1973)...

@AllanRicharz @atlanticesque @BarneyFlames I think a lot of people replying to the original post are conflating good writing with good legal analysis. Denning judgments are almost novel-like in their language and he arguably made the law fairer in many ways but his analysis qua analysis is just bad in many cases.

I didn't appreciate this until I read some Supreme Court of Canada opinions, then looked into other nations' high courts We Americans take for granted how smart, fair, and eloquent our judges are and how developed and good our law is, on the whole. It's so much worse out there.

@wooshkim @LudditeHacker It took me 3 months to get through it. I'd pick it up every few weeks, and treated it more as an entertaining day's read than a plot to be followed.

@LudditeHacker I’m 200 pages into W&P and if I must be honest I’m not overly enamored with it.

Tolstoy on Chekhov and Shakespeare

@HCH_Hill @TobyDurant @VariolationT What decision led him to call Parliament?

@browne90068 @TobyDurant @VariolationT It's not a legal fiction, it was upheld in the same courts which later enforced limits, which he respected, and led him to call Parliament.

Britain was not an absolute monarchy under Charles I. Absolutism was a product of the military revolution on the continent, fed by the need for increasingly huge armies. The closest we got to those conditions in that era was... under Cromwell.

@HCH_Hill @TobyDurant @VariolationT When we're discussing absolutism, flimsy legal fictions such as these do little to gloss over the truth of the matter.

@browne90068 @TobyDurant @VariolationT But if so one, per R v Hampden, he could lawfully levy.

@HCH_Hill @TobyDurant @VariolationT Ship Money was, for all intents amd purposes, a tax.

@TobyDurant @VariolationT He called a parliament when he was obliged constitutionally to do so, which isn't absolutist. Ship Money wasn't a tax.

@A1an_M @thequentinletts Honestly, I think a smaller but much better paid civil service could be the way to go.

@thequentinletts This is why the first priority of any new, reforming, government has to be making the State, in particular the senior civil service, smaller. Without doing that, no other meaningful change will ever be possible.

Listening to Cat Little you realise that the top of Whitehall is a game of chess in which the pieces are live scorpions.