Because - politicians?
I don’t know if existing laws do already say that but there is certainly no shortage of examples of politicians introducing a new law when all they really needed to do was enforce the old law properly.
Works better on the news -
Media: “Horrible thing™ has happened”.
Politicians: “Well, we clearly couldn’t have done anything about the horrible thing™ which is entirely new and unprecedented. We’ll immediately pass a new law to prevent the horrible thing™. Look how pro-active and effective we are!”.
Lawyers: “Um, I think you mean ‘reactive’. And the horrible thing was already illegal under the Prevention of Horrible Things Act 1865, section 16. You just cut police funding and numbers and told them to concentrate on Other Horrible Thing to the point that they don’t have the interest or ability to do anything about the Horrible Thing.”
Politicians: “Shut up, fat cats. Will of the people”.
Bitter, moi?
