Starmer Memes

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The post includes a picture with text which says: “The constitution actually says you can legally overthrow your government if they are tyrannical”. This is alongside the caption “Article 61 of the Magna Carta”.

This is not true. The UK does not have a singular constitution like other countries such as the US and, as we have written before, Magna Carta does not give UK citizens in the present day the legal right to overthrow the government.

Magna Carta, which means “great charter” in Latin, is the name given to a series of royal charters issued in the 13th century. The original version of Magna Carta, drawn up in 1215 following disputes between the King and a group of rebel barons, was designed to limit the power of the monarch and enshrine certain rights.

This original version had 63 clauses—only four of which are still relevant today.

 
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Do we have the right to overthrow our government?

The Declaration of Independence says that we not only have the right but we also have the duty to alter or abolish any government that does not secure our unalienable rights, including life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Given that the U.S. was formed by settlers who threw off British government rule, there is also an historic precedent for overthrowing the government.

The right to revolt

The idea that people have the right to overthrow their government has a long and complex history, stretching back at least to the ancient Greeks and Romans. In the modern era, the idea has been most closely associated with the philosophy of classical liberalism, which emphasizes individual rights and limited government.

The idea of the right to revolt was famously articulated in the Declaration of Independence, which declared that “whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government.”

 
In the UK, a petition to remove Keir Starmer as Prime Minister has gathered one million signatures in less than 24 hours!
People hate him and don't want war
 

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