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[–] Aux 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

UK has very old laws. Some of them are like a thousand years old. It never had a revolution, so a lot of dumb shit got stuck. For example, if your house is near a church then you must pay the church for their building maintenance, lol.

[–] Mango 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When there's nothing a country can do about pieces of paper written on a thousand years ago, the legislative process is pretty well invalid.

[–] Aux 1 points 7 months ago

Well yeah, but we have free medicine, worker rights, paid holidays and other things Americans call communism.