British Law, World Law, British Bullshit, World Bullshit

First we had the ridiculously dangerous legislation that actually extended British law to cover the entire globe, that nobody seems to be at all bothered about. Specifically, it will be a crime in Britain to have sex with someone under 16 in another country, even if this is legal in that country. Many countries have ages of consent lower than 16. Indeed, in Europe and the United States the age of consent is usually lower, ranging generally from 13 to 15. This will apply to British nationals, but it will also be retrospective. So, if a 16 year old Danish national has sex with a 15 year old Danish national, legally, in Denmark, and then goes on to become a British national, he will have committed a crime.

Now we find that a SNP councillor Jahangir Hanif has been suspended by his party because he is said to have "fired a Kalashnikov." Here in the UK of course, this would usually* be a crime, so isn't it fairly obvious that he'd be suspended? Perhaps, only this all happened not in Britain, but in Pakistan! Indeed, there is no insinuation that Mr. Hanif broke British or even Pakistani law, he has been suspended because of "the SNP's strong views against firearms, particularly involving children." Views against firearms? Against as in against their very existence? That's funny, because the SNP manifesto states:

Scotland’s armed services should be well remunerated, equipped and trained.

Can you have a well equipped armed forces without guns? Not to mention that SNP leader Alex Salmond calld the deployment of armed police to stand guard outside a gas terminal "a sensible precaution." The truth is that the SNP are not anti-gun - they are perfectly happy for the state to have guns. What they are is anti-people.

*There are circumstances where this would be legal, but I won't go into detail as it's not really important.