UK to replace human rights act

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or their country will become the envy of the world after they prove that bending a knee to Muslims and the like does NOT better your nation and in fact destroys it.

Yeah or that. Ahahah

[Onizuka]

Those are the countries were there are still laws around like, "it´s illegal to sell your eyeballs", "You may not sell toothpaste and a toothbrush to the same customer on a Sunday", "It is illegal to kill a sick person by frightening them", "Anal sex is prohibited", or "Taxi cabs are required to carry a bale of hay in the trunk".

It´s always been like this, isn´t the best way to go about laws.

Best one was "Its illegal to transfer a gorilla in the frost seat of a car on Sundays"

[Noradin]

I have Googled it and it appears he said that to Sky News after polling closed, whilst the count was on.

Even if it was before polling ended, how would they know if it created an upswing in Brexit voting? I thought there wasn't any exit polling for the Brexit vote.

If it was after the polls closed, then obviously it cannot have had any effect on the polls, maybe it came across as if he said it earlier due to bad wording.

Whether 'they' would know if it created an upswing in Brexit voting is irrelevant to my belief that it probably would have had an effect if the statement was known while polling was ongoing. I didn't claim I had scientific proof for my impression, after all. (Why would I?)

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Best one was "Its illegal to transfer a gorilla in the frost seat of a car on Sundays"

I'm pretty sure many such specific laws come into being due to someone at least attempted the stunt in question.
Allengedly they made a law in Germany to forbid elephants from riding in the tram after an incident with the Wuppertal Suspension Railway.

[Mayhem]

I'm pretty sure many such specific laws come into being due to someone at least attempted the stunt in question.
Allengedly they made a law in Germany to forbid elephants from riding in the tram after an incident with the Wuppertal Suspension Railway.

Couldn´t find anything about that, also doubtful as it´s probably not just about elephants.

[caervek]

Over 17 million people who voted for Brexit, did you forget? I am here to remind you

Replacing the HRA with better legislation has nothing to do with Brexit, this has been in the works for years, it would have been done in the 2010-2015 term but the liberal half of the coalition government threatened to veto it as they did a EU referendum.

[dribbles]

Replacing the HRA with better legislation has nothing to do with Brexit, this has been in the works for years, it would have been done in the 2010-2015 term but the liberal half of the coalition government threatened to veto it as they did a EU referendum.

Prior to Brexit any UK created law was always in danger of being overruled by the European courts. Now the UK government can just give the EU courts the finger.

[caervek]

Prior to Brexit any UK created law was always in danger of being overruled by the European courts. Now the UK government can just give the EU courts the finger.

Two problems with this:

1: It's nonsense.
2: Even if it wasn't, nothing would be different now as brexit isn't scheduled for anytime before this law is changed (hell ATM brexit isn't scheduled at all).

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Prior to Brexit any UK created law was always in danger of being overruled by the European courts.

It still is.

Now the UK government can just give the EU courts the finger.

And they still cant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe...f_Human_Rights
is not a part of the EU.

[Vinictus]

David Cameron won the election. Nobody voted for Theresa May, nobody voted for her government.

The people have had no say on this prime minister or the government she runs.

Huh? I not sure you understand British politics, please keep away.

[Tauton]

http://www.euronews.com/2016/08/28/u...man-rights-act



Any thoughts on this?

They've said 'we are going to change the act' - there's not much to say, we have literally no idea what may or may not be added or removed so... there's nothing to say?

[dextersmith]

Didn't the UK consider rights for robots just a while ago? I hope they don't turn this into a farce where robots can sue for union representation, and pets can vote while criminals can't.

[Masark]

we have literally no idea what may or may not be added or removed so... there's nothing to say?

The only possible way you'd not have at least a couple ideas what this government (and this PM) plans to do is if you'd been stuck on Rockall for the past 4 or 5 years.

The Draft Communications Data Bill might give you some clues about intent.

[Tauton]

The only possible way you'd not have at least a couple ideas what this government (and this PM) plans to do is if you'd been stuck on Rockall for the past 4 or 5 years.

The Draft Communications Data Bill might give you some clues about intent.

Not at all - you're talking about 'what ifs', even now you're quoting a different piece of legislation. You can guestimate as much as you want, the only real discussion (as we have no power over it) is when facts come in. It's like when they announce a new expansion for WoW and everyone says 'my class is going to be terrible' ... you've no idea, you can guestimate from before but they could do whatever they want.