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Sure, but its not that hard or expensive to hop a ferry/train/plane trip to France or Ireland and buy an unlocked phone, as one example. Any laws the UK passes have to account for the geographical realities of its location.

Just because the UK is no longer in the EU doesn't mean its not affected by many of its decisions, given the enormous volume of trade that will continue to occur between them.

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What happens when you get stopped and searched in the UK (probable cause isn't a factor here) and they find a "special encryption" phone?

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I hate to break the bad news, but people break laws all the time, including in the UK. People will just manage the risk exactly like any other law they choose to ignore.

Criminals still carry blades as weapons in the UK, despite it being a strict liability crime and at risk of stop and search.

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>Any laws the UK passes have to account for the geographical realities of its location.

The sun never sets.....

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And the Channel between England and France is a mere 20 miles at its narrowest point, Ireland is 12 (the UK's nearest EU neighbors). You can argue it down to zero miles for Ireland if you start your journey in Northern Ireland.

The sun absolutely does set on what little is left of the "British Empire" in the 21st century.

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> The sun absolutely does set on what little is left of the "British Empire" in the 21st century.

I suggest you look at the locations of the British Overseas Territories

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The famous phrase was as much about the relative geo-political strength of the empire in the 18th and 19th centuries as much as it has to do with actually being able to see a sunset... but feel free to take it literally if you like.

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this subthread is literally about geography

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Its literally about the quote widely used to generally describe the nature of 19th century British power, but ok!

> The sun never sets...

> https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/the-empire-on-which-the-...