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Happy Birthday Magna Carta

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Today is the 796th anniversary of the first great charter – the magna carta of 1215. Now some people think that it’s pretty much a busted flush these days, having been all but entirely repealed. Others seem to think that it’s irrelevant because we’re now a parliamentary democracy though the evidence suggests that despite them changing our passports to say “citizen” rather than “subject”* we are still actually a constitutional monarchy. Just because parliament acts like it’s supreme (and sadly the monarchy lets it) doesn’t make it so, just as just because parliament would like us to think they can … Continue reading →

The rule of law

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Hat tip to the good Captain Ranty for the following two videos. This is a very interesting development by The Runnymede Institute to address the constitutional fuck up that the last couple of Governments have made by tinkering badly with how parliament and the union are formed. The Videos cover their cahllenge to the illegal (or possibly unlawful) reformation of the house of Lords, do spend the 10 minutes it takes to watch the videos, they’re really terribly enlightening: The likelihood of them succeeding is I fear very low, because of the law is actually upheld then an awful lot … Continue reading →

We’re all just a pack of cards

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Via the erudite pen of Captain Ranty it would seem that at least one Judge is inclined to agree with the freeman argument that it’s out legal fictions created with our birth certificates that are liable for Council tax and the like and not us. The Judge is at the very least uncertain enough to have told a council to go away and prove it’s case, having accepted that if the council can have representation then the legal fiction represented by the birth certificate can also have representation – thus accepting the differentiation between the human person and the legal … Continue reading →