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Talking about abolishing the monarchy should no longer be illegal

 
 
Not Here Still
09:45 / 20.12.01
Fucking hell.

Laws making it an offence for people to say they intend to abolish the monarchy could be dropped under a Labour MP's new plans.

I never even knew I was breaking the law! Jesus wept, under the 1948 Treason Felony act:

Anyone convicted of "imagining" or expressing their intention to abolish the monarchy - even by peaceful, democratic means - can be punished by life imprisonment.

How about if I suggest that we abolish them by drowning them under a sea of sewage?

I don't pay my taxes for them to go to the fucking queen. I want the monarchy to end right now.

I'm not suggesting that it's abolished.

Deposed, perhaps....
 
 
Shortfatdyke
09:45 / 20.12.01
how absurd! how quaint!..... tho isn't it stuff like this that makes american tourists love this country so much?

it was only a couple of years ago that hanging for treason was abolished.

the law is appalling, even though i doubt anyone has ever been prosecuted under it. democracy, my arse. how many other little legal gems are hidden away, i wonder? and of course, the bar on roman catholics entering the monarchy has had much more serious repercussions.

you could've warned me about the scary photo of ian paisley on the link, though.... enough to give anyone nightmares!
 
 
Fra Dolcino
09:45 / 20.12.01
There's the old chestnut that its still legal to shoot a Welshman with a longbow during night, from the Walls of Shrewsbury/Chester. And quite right too.
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
09:45 / 20.12.01
Hmm. Did they abolish the one which made "buggery" legal on naval vessels after sixty days at sea?
 
 
Not Here Still
10:46 / 20.12.01
The move comes as the Guardian prepares to go to the court of appeal to argue that the Treason Felony Act 1848 is incompatible with article 10 of the European convention, which protects the right to free speech

The Guardian is pretty heavily involved with this one, too - they ran a series of articles on 'abol***** the m*nrchy' earlier this year.

Oh, and the law about killing a Welshman within the walls of Chester would not be a real legal defence. I have checked - and they told me I couldn't kill the person I wanted to.

[edited to add: I was 100 years out on the date of this, too: it's the
1848 act, not a 1948 one....

[ 20-12-2001: Message edited by: Not Me Again ]
 
  
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