[cm2187]

The fact that he was arrested over a ham sandwich is even worse.

It's funny because on one side the UK is the birthplace of most of how democracies work today, and the oldest continuously running democratic parliament. So it has fairly good credentials.

But on the other hand this system is so dangerous, there is only really one chamber (the other one has no power), no counterpower, no constitution (the precendents thing is a joke, given that they are free to make up their own precedents on the fly), it is free to basically vote whatever it wants with a 50% and 1 vote majority, and that includes wiping out any civil liberty they feel like.

Again hard to call "unstable" a system that has shown to be so stable for so long, but it feels that it is not stable by design.

[dmix]

Canada's legal system is heavily inspired by the British one (at least outside of Quebec) and even they wouldn't touch this sort of thing with a ten-foot pole.

This sort of policing of offensive content on social media among democracies is basically just the UK + the middle east.

I can't think of any other non-despotic countries dumb enough to do this?