Monday, April 30, 2007

Tacitus.

Never in the history of the civilised world have so many laws been enacted in any nation as has been the case in the United Kingdom during the last decade. It is not just that we have had the greatest amounts of (largely useless and often downright vindictive) laws fom the Blair tyranny, but countless further laws have poured in from the power-grabbing imperialism of the EU.
Perhaps the last word should go to Tacitus (AD 55-130):

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws!"

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