HMG: Your Freedom
Another governement website where they can pretend to listen to your views.
Basicly it allows you to suggest and vote on laws you want to see removed. I highly doubt that anyone in power is goign to pay any attention what so ever to this but we could have some fun abusing it.
Have some fun.
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Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 9:58,
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Hugely conflicted
The illiberalism of the previous government was its most disappointing aspect (that and pre-emptive strikes on sovereign nations).
On the face of it this is a good idea but deep down I know it's turkeys voting for christmas.
Take the smoking ban: the liberal in me says wtf are the govt doing there? But then my clothes don't reek after a night out any more.
However, if we collectivise our abuse of this site I'm up for mischief.
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 10:31, Reply)
I don't think that there's anything illiberal about the smoking ban.
It isn't actually a smoking ban, after all: it's more of an inflicting-your-smoke-on-others ban, and that looks wholly socially liberal.
My worry about this is that it'll be hijacked by a bunch of chinless right-wing economic liberals, libertarians, and the Taxpayers Alliance.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 10:52,
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yes wholly socially liberal.lets wreck the social lives of millions of tax payers so some miserable dirty self righteous arses can go another day without washing or changing their clothes.
Nevermind people getting jailed, shot, raped and stabbed to death over this insane ban, or pensioners wasting away alone at home instead of spending their last days with their mates at social clubs and bingo halls.You're saving a small fortune in soap and laundry bills.
Its illiberal because business owners aren't being given a choice.Its their pub/club.Staff it with smokers and cater to smokers and rational non-smokers who take regular showers.They won't give us that choice because they know the smoking pubs will be heaving and your sterile gastro pub will be virtually empty until they allow smokers back.
Notice they haven't just banned tobacco.No - us smokers are handy cash cows.We pay more in taxes than we take out of the kitty.It's the lettuce-munching tea-total do-nothing-risky shits that are a burden on the state.
And theres nothing deadly in secondhand smoke.Its a pack of lies and propaganda.
A gay mate of mine made a fine point.If they banned gays because their stinky cockbreath had been proven to give people AIDS using the same twisted science thats been used to demonise smokers,there'd be fucking uproar from the likes of stonewall.
I think its only a matter of time before we get the choice of smoking pubs.The ban is being flouted all over Germany apparently.
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 12:21, Reply)
Hahaha
You're a brilliant satirist. A bit close to the bone though.
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Your statement is amazing. I don't know where to start. It's like a ouroboros of lies, propoganda and fuckwittery
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 12:38, Reply)
poe lols
yeah, if aids was airborn i'm sure there'd be unroar about keeping people with it out of pubs.
rather than say, global lockdown, international panic, and no one really giving a shit about pubs at all.
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whats illiberal is not allowing any smoking pubs or bars
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Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 14:38,
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I sort of like the idea
but the people who shout loudest on the internet tend to be the ones I least want to have a say in how our country is run.
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 10:48, Reply)
damn right
once I started looking through some of the suyggested laws I felt quite worried, until I remembered that the website is pretty much pointless. Unless one of the ideas gets a couple of million votes they;re going to be ignored.
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Crap Little Monkey Deathstar, so good they built it twice, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 10:58,
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Maybe it's a trap
Anyone who takes it seriously will be hunted down and removed from the electoral roll.
(, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 11:08, Reply)
I tried to have myself moved from the electoral register.
The person on the other end of the phone was baffled. "Why?"
"Well, I've got no real desire to vote, so there's little point."
"Errr..."
"Look, I'm not trying to avoid council tax or anything. I would just like to have my name removed from the electoral register."
Turns out you're not allowed to be removed. So all those campaigns saying that you have to register to keep your right to vote ought to be saying that you have to register to stay on the right side of the law, irrespective of your desire to vote.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 11:17,
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Great idea!
It's about time we repealed Newton's first law of motion. I mean, maybe I want to stay at rest or in a uniform motion even if a resultant positive force acts upon me. Ever thought about that? You crypto fascist science bastards.
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Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Thu 1 Jul 2010, 13:21,
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