Quote Originally Posted by Subotan View Post
The "will of the people" is nice and vague enough to justify pretty much anything. And yet if we had followed it constantly, then we would never have legalised abortion, homosexuality, scrapped the death penalty etc.

Seeing as how the legislation it is referring to is based on the European Convention on Human Rights, I'd say the latter.

Silly me, having my own, well considered opinions. I guess I should just hoover up whatever is in the Daily Fail and believe that then.
are you sure of that? i am not so sure because there is no evidence that britain would have acted differently were circumstances different.

you may get a shock when you realise that the majority of your compatriots disagree with you.

you can hold whatever opinion you wish, i just find it slightly tyrannical that you are willing to justify the imposition of your liberal (in the modern sense) opinion on every one else, whether they want it or not.