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LeftishBrit

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1. I'm glad it's being dealt with, but awful that it took so long

Reply to LeftishBrit (Original post)

Tue Apr 17, 2018, 11:32 AM

Apr 2018

This comes directly from Mayhem's attitude as Home Secretary: xenophobic and nasty

Apart from all other considerations, it is disgusting that they suddenly tightened laws to apply retrospectively, to people who had felt safe for decades and then were suddenly told that they weren't. It seems to be essentially an 'ex post facto law', something which is forbidden in the American Constitution; but of course we don't have a constitution.

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