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You know that this is one of the oldest constitutional laws. Based on the french constitution, the 4th amendment in the US, and the Art. 10 Abs. 1 Grundgesetz in Germany, and everywhere else.

And even if the UK has no written constitution, they signed the Human Rights Act 1998 incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights (the “Convention”) into UK law. Article 8(1) of the Convention provides that “everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence.” See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_in_English_law for more.

Obama does not care a shit about his constitution anymore, and consequently his poodle in the UK neither. So they should just waive the Human Rights Act, and consequently leave the European Union. We pay enough for their cows anyway, and they are way above their tolerable abuses of civil freedom anyway.




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