Rule o' law? I got your rule 'o law right here.

I did a neck snap when I saw this over at the circle jerk:

Britain Is a Lost Democracy [Iain Murray]

It appears that the Rule of Law is a thing of the past in the UK:

In what the committee's top adviser, Sir Edward Osmotherly, described as a "surprisingly frank" letter, Mr Hoon revealed that the Government did not let doubts about a legal basis stand in the way of a proposal if it was expedient on other grounds to back the measure.

In the distant past, I worked way down the chain for Sir Edward. He is upright, clever and discreet, as a Senior Civil Servant in the UK should be. Let us just say that Sir Edward’s assessment is British understatement at its best. I think the American equivalent would be, “impeachable.”

01/22 04:07 PM

I thought for a moment he was calling for Bush's impeachment since preznit has himself been quite forthright in defending things like secret wiretapping of American citizens. Some would call that violating the rule of law for the sake of (supposed) expediency.

But for a kornerite to say that would be unthinkable.