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‘Help us repeal bad laws,’ said Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg on 1 July, asking the public for feedback on unnecessary legislation the British people would like to see scrapped. One response, published in the Independent on 5 July 2010, was so witty, it deserves a wider audience. ‘In Hereford’s Cathedral Close it remains illegal to shoot a Welshman with a longbow on Sunday’, wrote Paul Dunwell, of Alton in Hampshire, who went on to point out that ‘In Chester that’s perfectly OK within the city walls during the hours of darkness any night of the week, and Henry IV seemed to make enduring provision for the decapitation of not only Welshmen but anyone who shows them sympathy’. Meanwhile, he warns, ‘any Scotsman carrying a bow and arrow in York is fair game’.
Such laws, Paul points out, are ‘monstrously discriminatory, especially against those who cannot get Sundays off, those who work nights, and those who don’t live within easy commuting distance of Hereford, Chester or York’.
Such laws, Paul points out, are ‘monstrously discriminatory, especially against those who cannot get Sundays off, those who work nights, and those who don’t live within easy commuting distance of Hereford, Chester or York’.