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Originally Posted by jfman
You either agree with the rule of law or you don't. That's hardly a matter of losing one's mind.
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He could have said the Government would seek to use every available avenue to challenge it.
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Further to what we were discussing the other day, politicians prefer not to box themselves into corners or make promises circumstances may require them to break. They especially don’t like committing to do or not to do something based on something that hasn’t happened and may not happen. That makes them a hostage to fortune. Marr knew he wouldn’t get a commitment out of Gove when he asked the question. That was quite possibly why he asked it; Minister refuses to rule out lawbreaking is a nice headline for the final Sunday of the silly season. And this year’s has been especially silly.
Of course the government isn’t going to intentionally break the law. But you can bet they will identify every loophole in what will be very rushed and cobbled together legislation and will exploit them, ostensibly in good faith, yet always aware that a judge may rule their actions unlawful at some later point.