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Barrister (non practising). Constitutional law, criminal law, EU & international law. Legal history, Astronomy & astrophysics, planetary geology, climate science & biodiversity, classics & ancient history, the supernatural & folklore.
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Very nice. 😋I had wide strawberries from my garden, but they were very small…
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Didn’t Trump’s 1st US administration enable, some might say incite or encourage rebellion by his supporters on the steps of the Capitol on 6 January 2021? And didn’t he pardon many of them as one of his first acts as president on his 2nd US administration? Perhaps, I’m mistaken here…
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The government always has money. It can:
1. Raise taxes (and should);
2. Borrow money; and
3. Print money (within reason) - quantitative easing.
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Yes, a wonderful rose.
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Then:
1. She is being discriminatory; and
2. She is betraying her obligations to her constituents as their MP.
If she were an employee she could be sacked for refusing to carry out her duties and for her discrimination against others.
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I'm an Army veteran, and I'd like to add that you absolutely can (and should) refuse unlawful orders. I know that is easier said than done when you are surrounded by other members of your unit, your superiors, etc. but it is a duty to refuse unlawful orders.
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Maybe we should just get all the astronauts safely home from the ISS, then bring it down safely in a controlled descent and concentrate on unmanned missions for the foreseeable future? Far more useful science, less cost and far safer.
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Clearly not a threat, and to attack it would be a war crime, in fact, it would be State sponsored terrorism too.
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💯 As was the Downing Street Declaration 1993 (John Major), which paved the way for the Good Friday Agreements 1998 (Blair).
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The ECHR and the EU Single Market are the two great triumphs of Conservative foreign policy. In any rational works the Tories would be as proud of then as Labour is of the NHS.