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    #31
    Originally posted by threaded View Post
    The problem though dang65 that introducing a "right to self defence" would under English law be an even bigger change than the Human Rights Act and fantastically disruptive. Small wonder he cried off.
    Could you explain this or point me to some links which do. Thanks.

    EDIT: some Googling finds several pages which seem to be at odds with your statement.
    Last edited by Platypus; 22 February 2008, 14:05.

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      #32
      Originally posted by bogeyman View Post
      But democracy means following the will of the majority, doesn't it?

      Or did I miss something?


      Yes, you've missed something pretty fundemental: UK doesn't have "a democracy", UK has a "parliamentary democracy". The majority you speak of is those people in parliament.

      HTH

      Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
      threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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        #33
        Originally posted by threaded View Post


        Yes, you've missed something pretty fundemental: UK doesn't have "a democracy", UK has a "parliamentary democracy". The majority you speak of is those people in parliament.

        HTH

        Uh, yeah - I was indeed pointing out, in my rather oblique manner, that there is no democracy.

        Thank you Captain Obvious.

        You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.

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