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Sep 13, 2020 12 tweets 9 min read Read on X
Tomorrow I am going to rob a bank for £200 so I can feed my children for the rest of the month.

Presumably this is ok
@RobertBuckland and @SuellaBraverman
because it is

- only in a certain specific and limited way; and

- you would not find it unacceptable?

#canibreakthelaw
is it ok
@RobertBuckland and @SuellaBraverman

if I don’t pay my council tax this month because I have lost my job and need the money to feed my kids?

#canIbreakthelaw
is it ok @RobertBuckland and @SuellaBraverman if I drive to Barnard Castle with my 6 kids to test my eye sight?

#canIbreakthelaw
Is it ok @RobertBuckland and @SuellaBraverman

If I do not wear my seatbelt while driving because I am a bit of a fatty?

#canIbreakthelaw
is it ok @RobertBuckland and @SuellaBraverman if I pay you £100 to get a government contract to develop a COVID test?

#canIbreakthelaw
Is it ok @RobertBuckland and @SuellaBraverman if I attack you in the street because you intend to take away my human rights under the ECHR?

#canIbreakthelaw
Is it ok @RobertBuckland and @SuellaBraverman if I don’t pay my income tax or national insurance contributions because I want to take control of my money?

#canIbreakthelaw
Is it ok @RobertBuckland and @SuellaBraverman if I ignore your laws and create my own laws and border at my house?

#canIbreakthelaw
Is it ok
@RobertBuckland
and
@SuellaBraverman
if I handle salmon suspiciously as prohibited under the Salmon Act 1986?

#canIbreakthelaw
Is it ok @RobertBuckland and @SuellaBraverman if I carry wooden planks on the streets of London contrary to the Metropolitan Act of 1839?

#canIbreakthelaw
Is ok @RobertBuckland and @SuellaBraverman if I put a stamp with the Queen’s head upside down deliberately and in contravention if the Treason Felony Act of 1848?

#canIbreakthelaw
Is it ok @RobertBuckland and @SuellaBraverman if I carry out a citizen’s arrest on @BorisJohnson for being a rogue under the Vagrancy Act 1824 given he lied to the Queen?

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