General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

No matter what you think about the small boats, I am surprised that no one on here has commented upon the PM using the law to alter the status of fact: ie to legally enforce a falsehood to be regarded as fact.

Even Lord Sumption ( Former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom) who strongly supports it called it a law asserting that black is white. It has also been compared to having a law to declare 'All dogs are cats'.

Very Orwellian!

The sort of thing despots do.


“I have never heard of them trying to change the facts, by law. For as long as black isn’t white, the business of passing acts of parliament to say that it is profoundly discreditable.” Sumption