By default, all laws since 1997...

By default, all laws since 1997...

Poll: By default, all laws since 1997...

Total Members Polled: 142

...should be repealed.: 95%
...should stay in force.: 5%
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fluffnik

Original Poster:

20,156 posts

233 months

Thursday 23rd July 2009
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I think a good start for a new government might be to undo the work of its predecessor. smile

Durruti

1,023 posts

244 months

Thursday 23rd July 2009
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Make it 1797 and I'm in.

Evening comrade.byebye

beer

fluffnik

Original Poster:

20,156 posts

233 months

Thursday 23rd July 2009
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Durruti said:
Make it 1797 and I'm in.
We've got to start somewhere. smile

Durruti said:
Evening comrade.byebye

beer
beer

eharding

14,099 posts

290 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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Personally, I'm rather hoping that the Hunting with Dogs act will be revised on the day after the next General Election to make it lawful to hunt the previous two Prime Ministers with dogs....and motorbikes....and helicopter gunships....and space hoppers.

What better way to mark a new start, and generally make the whole nation feel better, than to see Brown and Blair turned loose in the remote Scottish highlands wearing nothing but Speedos, to be hunted down in a televised epic by various teams of eager volunteers.

Me, I'm planning on volunteering for Team Space Hopper, because even though it is by far the most impractical means of pursuit of that miserable pair of crooks, it will prove that motivation will win the day - expect to see grainy video from the night-vision camera of an Apache, finally closing in on the figure of Brown, having been mauled by several packs of hounds (on motorbikes), and about to deliver the coup-de-grace, when into the frame appears a fat bloke on a space hopper - having bounced 30 miles through thick gorse in under an hour to catch up with the hounds - to deliver a coup-de-brick, with a large breeze-block to the face. Chew on that, Winky.

Blair I'll leave to the Apaches, as long as I've remembered to set the Sky+ to record the footage of a Hellfire missile going through that grin.

Edited by eharding on Friday 24th July 00:40

Allanv

3,540 posts

192 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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eharding said:
Personally, I'm rather hoping that the Hunting with Dogs act will be revised on the day after the next General Election to make it lawful to hunt the previous two Prime Ministers with dogs....and motorbikes....and helicopter gunships....and space hoppers.

What better way to mark a new start, and generally make the whole nation feel better, than to see Brown and Blair turned loose in the remote Scottish highlands wearing nothing but Speedos, to be hunted down in a televised epic by various teams of eager volunteers.

Me, I'm planning on volunteering for Team Space Hopper, because even though it is by far the most impractical means of pursuit of that miserable pair of crooks, it will prove that motivation will win the day - expect to see grainy video from the night-vision camera of an Apache, finally closing in on the figure of Brown, having been mauled by several packs of hounds (on motorbikes), and about to deliver the coup-de-grace, when into the frame appears a fat bloke on a space hopper - having bounced 30 miles through thick gorse in under an hour to catch up with the hounds - to deliver a coup-de-brick, with a large breeze-block to the face. Chew on that, Winky.

Blair I'll leave to the Apaches, as long as I've remembered to set the Sky+ to record the footage of a Hellfire missile going through that grin.

Edited by eharding on Friday 24th July 00:40
I like your style. smile

stifler

37,068 posts

194 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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eharding said:
Personally, I'm rather hoping that the Hunting with Dogs act will be revised on the day after the next General Election to make it lawful to hunt the previous two Prime Ministers with dogs....and motorbikes....and helicopter gunships....and space hoppers.

What better way to mark a new start, and generally make the whole nation feel better, than to see Brown and Blair turned loose in the remote Scottish highlands wearing nothing but Speedos, to be hunted down in a televised epic by various teams of eager volunteers.

Me, I'm planning on volunteering for Team Space Hopper, because even though it is by far the most impractical means of pursuit of that miserable pair of crooks, it will prove that motivation will win the day - expect to see grainy video from the night-vision camera of an Apache, finally closing in on the figure of Brown, having been mauled by several packs of hounds (on motorbikes), and about to deliver the coup-de-grace, when into the frame appears a fat bloke on a space hopper - having bounced 30 miles through thick gorse in under an hour to catch up with the hounds - to deliver a coup-de-brick, with a large breeze-block to the face. Chew on that, Winky.

Blair I'll leave to the Apaches, as long as I've remembered to set the Sky+ to record the footage of a Hellfire missile going through that grin.

Edited by eharding on Friday 24th July 00:40
rofl

Jasandjules

70,420 posts

235 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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EHarding, I think you ought to send your plan to Cameron (if they make it part of their election campaign it'd be a landslide victory)...

But why stop at the laws? How about the taxes as well? (though at least the laws ought to then repeal all the powers they've handed out to people who ought not to have them).

Puggit

48,768 posts

254 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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Now I'm no Labour apologist, but surely within the thousands of pointless and toothless laws, there must be some gems?

anonymous-user

60 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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eharding said:
Personally, I'm rather hoping that the Hunting with Dogs act will be revised on the day after the next General Election to make it lawful to hunt the previous two Prime Ministers with dogs....and motorbikes....and helicopter gunships....and space hoppers.

What better way to mark a new start, and generally make the whole nation feel better, than to see Brown and Blair turned loose in the remote Scottish highlands wearing nothing but Speedos, to be hunted down in a televised epic by various teams of eager volunteers.

Me, I'm planning on volunteering for Team Space Hopper, because even though it is by far the most impractical means of pursuit of that miserable pair of crooks, it will prove that motivation will win the day - expect to see grainy video from the night-vision camera of an Apache, finally closing in on the figure of Brown, having been mauled by several packs of hounds (on motorbikes), and about to deliver the coup-de-grace, when into the frame appears a fat bloke on a space hopper - having bounced 30 miles through thick gorse in under an hour to catch up with the hounds - to deliver a coup-de-brick, with a large breeze-block to the face. Chew on that, Winky.

Blair I'll leave to the Apaches, as long as I've remembered to set the Sky+ to record the footage of a Hellfire missile going through that grin.

Edited by eharding on Friday 24th July 00:40
I'm with you apart from the Speedos! smile

paddyhasneeds

54,519 posts

216 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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Puggit said:
Now I'm no Labour apologist, but surely within the thousands of pointless and toothless laws, there must be some gems?
Such as it being a criminal offence to weigh Herring in an incorrect manner you mean?

Einion Yrth

19,575 posts

250 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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Puggit said:
Now I'm no Labour apologist, but surely within the thousands of pointless and toothless laws, there must be some gems?
By all means find one if you can - plus the OP is 'by default'; any decent laws that somehow snuck through the disaster that has been Blair and Brown's administration could be special cases.

FourWheelDrift

89,431 posts

290 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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Well if every new offence needs a new law then the Labour government have created at least 3600 new laws on offences alone. Creating 3600 new criminal offences since 1997 just for starters.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2679148/Lab...

cs02rm0

13,812 posts

197 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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Freedom of Information Act. I think that might just be the exception that proves the rule.

IainT

10,040 posts

244 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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Lokking at teh current muppet-in-charge I can't but help pine a little for the Bliar days. Roll on the General Election.

Jasandjules

70,420 posts

235 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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cs02rm0 said:
Freedom of Information Act. I think that might just be the exception that proves the rule.
AH, but which Party/Govt actually created it?

triggersbroom

2,404 posts

210 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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Article... said:
Here is a list of some of the new criminal offences brought in under Labour:

- Creating a nuclear explosion

- Selling types of flora and fauna not native to the UK, such as the grey squirrel, ruddy duck or Japanese knotweed

- To wilfully pretend to be a barrister or a traffic warden

- Disturb a pack of eggs when instructed not to by an authorised officers

- Obstruct workers carrying out repairs to the Dockland Light Railway

- Offer for sale a game bird killed on a Sunday or Christmas Day

- Allow an unlicensed concert in a church hall or community centre

- A ship's captain may end up in court if he or she carries grain without a copy of the International Grain Code on board
FFS banghead





Edited by triggersbroom on Friday 24th July 12:38

triggersbroom

2,404 posts

210 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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garyhun said:
eharding said:
Personally, I'm rather hoping that the Hunting with Dogs act will be revised on the day after the next General Election to make it lawful to hunt the previous two Prime Ministers with dogs....and motorbikes....and helicopter gunships....and space hoppers.

What better way to mark a new start, and generally make the whole nation feel better, than to see Brown and Blair turned loose in the remote Scottish highlands wearing nothing but Speedos, to be hunted down in a televised epic by various teams of eager volunteers.

Me, I'm planning on volunteering for Team Space Hopper, because even though it is by far the most impractical means of pursuit of that miserable pair of crooks, it will prove that motivation will win the day - expect to see grainy video from the night-vision camera of an Apache, finally closing in on the figure of Brown, having been mauled by several packs of hounds (on motorbikes), and about to deliver the coup-de-grace, when into the frame appears a fat bloke on a space hopper - having bounced 30 miles through thick gorse in under an hour to catch up with the hounds - to deliver a coup-de-brick, with a large breeze-block to the face. Chew on that, Winky.

Blair I'll leave to the Apaches, as long as I've remembered to set the Sky+ to record the footage of a Hellfire missile going through that grin.

Edited by eharding on Friday 24th July 00:40
I'm with you apart from the Speedos! smile
Yep, leave the fkers naked, and see what the local wildlife will to to their bits whilst evading justice!

AndrewW-G

11,968 posts

223 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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triggersbroom said:
Article... said:
Here is a list of some of the new criminal offences brought in under Labour:



- To wilfully pretend to be a barrister or a traffic warden
now that's going to be a fun law for a couple of people I know, no more sneaky free parking in Chester from them smile

Einion Yrth

19,575 posts

250 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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AndrewW-G said:
triggersbroom said:
Article... said:
Here is a list of some of the new criminal offences brought in under Labour:



- To wilfully pretend to be a barrister or a traffic warden
now that's going to be a fun law for a couple of people I know, no more sneaky free parking in Chester from them smile
I suspect it's buggered up the business model of a few strippagrams too.

andy43

10,227 posts

260 months

Friday 24th July 2009
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eharding said:
....and space hoppers.
Put me down for one too.