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Brexit Isn't About Leaving Today's European Union: It's About Not Joining Tomorrow's – Forbes.

As the losing side of the referendum won't accept the outcome graciously in the best British traditions, I guess we still need to keep making the point. Tim Worstall does so very well in the linked article.
 
Our civilisation really would begin to die if there had been "…harmonisation of criminal law…." as they are now proposing. They don't understand (few people in the world do) that the Civil Law and Common Law philosophy of law (our sense of what law is for) is fundamentally different. Most of our people never understood it; they just felt a squirming in their stomach and an urge to clench their fists whenever an official from a Civil Code background spoke to them in a way that makes our very nature rebel.
 
I for one would not want to be subject to the kind of laws that make it a crime to mock a public official. What other valuable use do such pompous parasitical pricks serve?

6 responses to “Brexit Isn’t About Leaving Today’s European Union: It’s About Not Joining Tomorrow’s – Forbes”

  1. Bemused Avatar
    Bemused

    Hear hear.

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  2. Tcheuchter Avatar
    Tcheuchter

    Could it not be made a crime not to mock a pompous parasitical public official?

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  3. Tom Avatar

    Free peoples need no such encouragement.

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  4. Simon Bett Avatar

    it remains a fact the Great Britain has left the EU.

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  5. tomo Avatar

    When – a long time back I discovered what seditious libel was all about – it solved my curiosities about why so many public figures sound like thay want to bring it back…
    I see that in Turkey the tool is getting much use and there seem to be many in the upper reaches of EU hierarchy who admire Erdoğan’s defence of his dignity….

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  6. tomo Avatar

    It was (seditious libel)
    But now it ain’t
    But it might be again ….

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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.

Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.

He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that

“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”

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