I'm not sure that's true, I suspect many might adopt sharia law ahead of British Law, but they're not in any way exempt from British Law by doing so. I don't really have an issue with people choosing to live by Sharia Law, Catholic dogma, Protestant whatnots etc provided its no defence in British law to do so. Similarly, those who 'enforce such law' should not enjoy any kind of protection in law either and be subject to the full force of British Law the moment they try to step outside British Law.

What people do informally in their own lives and beliefs are their own choices. When they enforce those on people who don't believe, then they're c**ts who need a good shoeing from the law.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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Costs don't work like that.

When a government or council takes responsibility for something like smoke alarms, it also has to take responsibility for buying them, fitting them, maintaining them, verifying their operational acceptance, their replacement. They also have to be up to certain standards and requirements.

I knew a guy who worked at a massive car park as an attendant. The first half of his shift was going through the car park recording whether each bulb was working or needed to be replaced, because there was a legal obligation on the car parks owners to provide a reasonable level of illumination at night to deter crime and risks of injury.

So whilst you and I can just buy a smoke alarm, and accept responsibility directly on ourselves for buying a s**t one, that option doesn't exist for Public or Private companies - who will be held accountable for failures.

So if a smoke alarm isn't working, there would be an expectation for it to be replaced promptly (as fires have a high threat to life), and the only way you can reasonably do that, is to check them on a regular basis or connect them up to a network system that reports failure. Of course the latter is better, but then that system has to be sourced, installed, maintained....

Of course the person who checks them, needs to be qualified to a specific level of technical competence, and someone has to cover for him when he's on holiday or sick.. and so on.

The same applies to a private contractor, except if they're dodgy they can circumvent some of these issues and they're less accountable to the people than politicians (but not much), meaning they could probably hire a lower skilled worker, and buy insurance. Where as council or government worker failures that result in deaths always result in new legislation from the outrage... and that adds more cost to your smoke alarm system.

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Whilst I do agree with this, its not really any different than people praising the emergency services for doing their job either...

Now I believe we should praise people who weigh in and prevent tragic events, but reasonably if we're saying that 'praising some muslims for getting involved' then you should also be saying that the emergency services were just doing their job as well.

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Any dictionary

"Everything is air-droppable at least once."

"When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support."

What an utter bellend you are.

I'm sorry if painting people who are constantly vilified and hated in a positive light offends you.

You recently posted that you don't care about refugees drowning in the med. Are there any deaths yesterday that don't bother you?