So if they never get charged with treason, what is the point of spending time to increase the penalty for treason?
Wouldn't it make FAR more sense to increase the penalties for the things they do get charged with, or perhaps looking into why people are being charged with other things instead?
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Originally Posted by Rerun
Why is this always your attitude? ... as in why bother making changes to the law unless we are in a crisis situation because surely there is something more important that needs to be done?
Has the government EVER done anything that you agree with?
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To address this question, this is clearly a case where the solution that is being proposed is NOT the correct solution because it would never have any impact on any case that we would like it to.
You act as though MPs go and sit in the House of Commons for 4 years straight, only coming home for 2 weeks of vacation a year and have tons of time to debate stupid things that get proposed. The reality is there is limited time to propose, debate, modify, debate again, and vote on these Bills.
Why would you support wasting time on a Bill that:
a) will never impact anyone because the conviction rate for the offense is astronomically microscopic
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b) Doesn't actually address what you have identified as the real problem, which appears to be that people are not getting charged with treason when they probably should be.