In the UK we police by consent and used to regard a legal system based on precedent as far superior to legalistic codification.
What Covid had very clearly demonstrated is that we woz wrong.
The great British public are incapable of common sense, and willing to find any trivial deficiency in the law to claim that any offence, no matter how blindingly obviously wrong, was not illegal.
So we end up with an inflated legal framework without ever considering removal of that law which is now redundant. Next stop, police state, and we have willing alked straight into it!
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