November 5th, The Great Repeal: Gunpowder, Bills, And Plot
Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November; Restoration, Revolution, and Rot; I know of no reason why England should ever be forgot. Today we publish 1000+ pages of primary legislation doctrine in 7 key bills to reverse a century of decline in a single day, and pursue a new future into the unknown.
Britain stands at a crossroads it hasn't faced since the Glorious Revolution. Not a choice between competing tax policies or rival management teams, but an existential question: does sovereignty still mean anything? Can a nation that once governed a quarter of the globe govern itself?
For a century, Parliament has been answering "no" in a thousand small surrenders—each Act of Parliament a fresh concession, each regulation another thread in the web that now smothers enterprise, speech, and the very idea of British self-determination. The state expanded. Liberty contracted. And somewhere along the way, the Mother of Parliaments became a rubber stamp for Brussels bureaucrats, Strasbourg judges, and an unelected quangocracy that answers to no-one. That's where i began thinking, back in 2011. Ish.
I wrote these bills because I didn't want to leave my homeland. I wanted home to be actually home, instead of having to make home somewhere else, like i'm now forced to. I barely recognise my country, or my countrymen. These pages took seven arduous months to put together; some took longer than others. They are my contribution towards helping our nation heal as it devolves into factionalism, stupidity, sectarianism, and cruelty. If what I have personally been through this week to get them there is anything to go by, it doesn't look like there is much to be salvaged. I hope I am wrong.
What follows is not tinkering. It is not reform. It is restoration—the systematic dismantling of a century's accumulated nonsense and the reconstruction of a constitutional order fit for free people. Seven Acts of Parliament, each more aggressive than the last, designed to do what cowards and careerists insist cannot be done: reverse course entirely. Abolish the quangos. Repeal the speech laws. Restore parliamentary sovereignty. Restructure the constitution from the ground up. These bills don't ask permission from the administrative state. They don't apologise for being "too radical" or "politically impossible." They simply do what needs doing.
The Great Repeal programme begins where others fear to tread: with the assumption that nearly everything built since 1900 was a mistake that can—and should—be undone. From the Restraint of Bureaucratic Overreach Act eviscerating 570 quangos to the Oblivion Act making MPs actually choose what legislation deserves to survive, each Bill attacks a different head of the hydra. The Free Speech Act doesn't protect speech; it entrenches it beyond Parliament's own reach. BINCA doesn't "reform" immigration; it rewrites the entire concept of citizenship from scratch. The Unity Act doesn't "devolve" power; it abolishes the House of Lords, every tier of local government, and relocates Parliament itself to Britain's geographic centre.
Some will call this extreme. Dangerous, even. Unthinkable in a mature democracy.
Good.
It is precisely that caution, that institutional cowardice dressed up as prudence, that allowed the rot to set in. These Bills are designed to horrify the comfortable, terrify the complacent, and thrill anyone who still believes Britain ought to be more than a regional administrative unit of supranational organisations. They are written in the spirit of 1660, when Parliament voided a generation's worth of legislation in a single stroke—except this time, we're giving MPs a month per decade to save what they can justify keeping.
The question is simple: what would you preserve if you knew you didn't have to wade through 125 years of bureaucratic sludge? What laws actually deserve to survive scrutiny? Read on. Because what follows isn't just legislation—it's a declaration of intent from a nation that's finally had enough.
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Start: What Went Wrong In Britain?
Alex Coppen
In 1914 Britain stood as the world's dominant power, master of constitutional government where free peoples ruled through elected representatives, yet barely a century later exists as a managed population subject to unelected bureaucrats, foreign courts, and supranational authorities.
The transformation occurred through seventeen deliberate wrong turns: the state seizing control during WWI and never relinquishing it, surrendering monetary sovereignty from Churchill's gold standard disaster to Bank of England independence, embracing socialism's catastrophic welfare state built on false demographic assumptions, capitulating to American hegemony at Suez, subordinating Parliament to international bodies from the UN to the ECHR, celebrating moral licence as social progress whilst criminalising self-defence, destroying grammar schools and educational excellence, deindustrialising the nation responsible for the Industrial Revolution, enshrining authoritarianism through EU membership and mass surveillance, replacing the population through unwanted mass immigration, arresting productivity through taxation reaching wartime levels, entrenching Marxist pseudoscience as climate policy, sabotaging Brexit through three years of parliamentary obstruction, and imposing lockdown tyranny revealing Britain had become a country where different laws applied to different communities.
Each surrender of sovereignty was voluntary, every expansion of international authority deliberate, every weakening of democratic accountability a choice—proving even the mightiest nations can be conquered not by foreign armies but by domestic cowardice masquerading as enlightened governance.
01: The Restraint of Bureaucratic Overreach Act
Alex Coppen
Britain's administrative state has metastasised into over 600 unelected quangos consuming billions in taxpayer funds whilst strangling democratic accountability. This Act abolishes the vast majority in one stroke, criminalises bureaucratic obstruction with prison sentences up to two years, caps public bodies at fifty with 100,000 total employees, imposes universal sunset clauses requiring Parliamentary reauthorisation every three years, and bans civil servants from reconstituting abolished functions under new names. Creation of any new quango demands a standalone Act passed by three-quarters supermajority in both Houses, effectively ending the century-long proliferation of unaccountable committees, agencies, and councils spawned from Whitehall without democratic consent.
02: The Negative Liberty Act
Alex Coppen
English common law declares all actions lawful unless Parliament explicitly prohibits them, yet a century of wars and Blairite managerialism infected Britain with continental "positive liberty" doctrine requiring citizens to seek state permission for ordinary activities. This 408-page legislative thermonuclear device reverses the burden by simultaneously abolishing the entire planning system, equality law, surveillance infrastructure, employment regulation, licensing regimes across hundreds of activities, most tax codes including income tax above 10%, National Insurance, inheritance tax, business rates, VAT, and virtually every environmental levy whilst establishing a five-year immigration moratorium permitting entry only for British citizens' immediate family and cases of "overwhelming compassion in wholly exceptional circumstances."
The Act codifies negative liberty as constitutional principle, prohibits identity cards, digital identity systems, central bank digital currencies, social credit scoring, facial recognition technology, mass surveillance, lockdowns outside declared emergencies, and financial discrimination based on political views, withdraws Britain from dozens of international treaties including potentially the Refugee Convention, legalises defensive devices like pepper spray and personal cultivation of psychoactive plants including cannabis and psilocybin mushrooms subject to strict quantity limits, replaces progressive taxation with flat rates and enormous allowances, eliminates development permission requirements so landowners may build anything not expressly prohibited by statute, abolishes minimum wage laws whilst permitting at-will employment contracts, introduces impeachment for the monarch requiring two-thirds Commons vote, establishes absolute Parliamentary supremacy where courts must interpret Acts according to plain meaning, and entrenches constitutional debt ceilings alongside balanced budget requirements—simultaneously destroying the regulatory state built since 1900 whilst restoring the ancient English liberty principle whereby freedom is the default and restriction the rare exception requiring explicit statutory justification.
03: The Free Speech Act
Alex Coppen
Free speech is not a permission slip from government but a pre-political natural right beyond state jurisdiction, existing before and independent of any authority's power to grant or restrict it. This Act establishes absolute protection for expression by criminalising censorship by both public and private entities, sending politicians to prison for five to ten years for restricting speech, banning compelled expression entirely, excluding hardcore pornography from speech protection, abolishing the Public Order Act and Online Safety Act, and entrenching these protections so deeply through international treaties and constitutional conventions the Act becomes practically impossible to repeal. Ministers introducing speech-restricting legislation face personal imprisonment, whilst the Crown becomes constitutional guardian with Royal Assent permanently withheld from any measure violating these freedoms.
04: The British Immigration, Nationality, and Citizenship Act
Alex Coppen
British citizenship ceases to be an administrative status acquired through bureaucratic process and becomes an inherited bond to land and people, determined by birth location and ancestral connection across three generations. Indigenous British Citizens must prove all fourteen direct ancestors were born in England, Scotland, Wales, or Northern Ireland within a rolling seventy-five-year window, with marriages to nationals from culturally distant "Tier B" countries permanently breaking Indigenous lineage for all descendants. The Act abolishes naturalisation entirely, grants marriage-based status only to spouses from approved countries, ends birthright citizenship for children of visitors, withdraws from thirteen international treaties including the Refugee Convention and European Convention on Human Rights, and subjects conditional citizens to five-yearly algorithmic National Integrity Assessments with automatic removal for scores below zero.
05: The Barbaric Practices Act
Alex Coppen
Sexual entropy correlates with civilisational decline, and this Act reverses seventy years of moral dissolution by criminalising the exposure of children to sexual content in schools, prohibiting all medical interventions aimed at "sex change" pseudoscience, banning Islamic practices including Sharia councils and religious dress coverings, outlawing hardcore pornography production whilst requiring paywalls for all sexual content online, prohibiting cousin marriage and surrogacy entirely, and comprehensively reforming abortion law to permit termination only where pregnancy threatens maternal death, involves fatal foetal abnormalities, or resulted from rape with police involvement. The legislation treats biological sex as immutable scientific reality determined by reproductive anatomy, eliminates religious exemptions for non-stun slaughter and male circumcision, and establishes criminal liability for false accusations, doxxing, academic fraud, and reproductive deception including paternity fraud.
06: The Oblivion Act
Alex Coppen
Rather than spending decades reviewing 125 years of accumulated legislation, this Act reverses the burden by systematically repealing virtually every law enacted since 1900 through a thirteen-month staged process giving MPs one month per decade to preserve what they consider essential. Laws from the Edwardian era face extinction after just thirty days, whilst the most recent legislation enjoys thirteen months' reprieve, with secondary regulations attached to their enabling Acts regardless of creation date. The Secretary of State may preserve legislation only where necessary for constitutional government, public safety, fundamental rights, essential services, or international obligations, subject to Parliamentary approval through affirmative resolution, whilst repealed statutes are deemed never to have had effect from the repeal date—forcing a comprehensive legislative reset unparalleled in British constitutional history.
07: The Unity Act
Alex Coppen
The United Kingdom's constitutional architecture collapses under devolution's incoherent asymmetry, with Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland possessing parliaments whilst England has none, and 1,600 unelected Lords occupying the second-largest legislative chamber on Earth.
This Act abolishes the House of Lords entirely, transforms devolved assemblies into National Upper Houses exercising revision powers through "round-robin ratification" where bills must pass the 400-member Lower House before transmission to each upper house for approval or rejection, relocates Parliament from Westminster to Derbyshire at Britain's geographic centroid, eliminates every tier of local government between Parliament and approximately 6,000 enhanced parish councils, establishes infinitely scalable territorial governance accommodating future charter cities and overseas acquisitions, and codifies fifteen natural liberties as constitutional protections superseding the European Convention on Human Rights.
The thirteen-year implementation transforms Britain from a unitary state with devolved muddle into a federal-unitary hybrid binding four nations together through shared Lower House sovereignty whilst permitting territorial autonomy over devolved matters.
The Stakes
Britain stands at a crossroads. These seven acts don't tinker at the edges—they demolish the entire edifice of the modern administrative state.
Consider the sheer audacity. Where current law demands permission before citizens act, these bills flip the presumption entirely. The Negative Liberty Act alone strips away over 570 licences and permits. Want to start a business? Run a taxi? Operate a market stall? Under the present regime, you beg bureaucrats for approval. Under this programme, you simply begin.
The Unity Act goes further still. Local councils—every single one—vanish. Gone. County halls, unitary authorities, borough offices: all abolished. Westminster becomes accountable directly to citizens without layers of interference, whilst territories gain genuine autonomy through upper houses with actual power to reject legislation. No more postcode lottery. No more parish pump politics dressed as democracy.
But sovereignty means nothing without protection, and here the Free Speech Act breaks new ground. Not since before the Great War has Britain contemplated such absolute protection for expression. Politicians go to prison—prison—for interfering with citizen speech. Private censorship becomes illegal. Every hate speech law, every malicious communication statute, every public order provision criminalising words: repealed. The Crown itself loses free speech rights, ensuring power cannot silence truth.
Where does administrative overreach begin? The Restraint of Bureaucratic Overreach Act provides the answer through forensic demolition of quangocracy. Between 300 and 600 unelected bodies—nobody even knows the true number—currently exercise power over British life. Committees, commissions, agencies, authorities: phantoms of the bureaucratic state, created by administrative fiat, spending billions without accountability. This act names them. Abolishes them. Consolidates what little remains into structures Parliament can actually oversee.
Immigration policy transforms utterly under BINCA. Three tiers replace the present chaos. Citizens possess full rights. Subjects—Commonwealth and Irish nationals maintaining special status—enjoy residence but limited political participation. Visitors receive precisely no pathway to citizenship except through marriage or parliamentary grant. Overstay your visa? Immediate removal. No appeal. No delay. Birth on British soil grants citizenship only where parents hold proper status. The anchor baby era ends.
Then comes the Barbaric Practices Act, perhaps the most inflammatory of all. Sex education disappears from schools entirely. Parental authority returns. Gender procedures become criminal. Islamic religious customs—Sharia courts, religious dress, non-medical circumcision, polygamy—face comprehensive prohibition. Surrogacy: banned absolutely. Assisted dying: repealed. Pornography production: criminal. Abortion: restricted to narrow medical necessity. Academic fraud about British history: punishable. Cousin marriage: illegal.
Yet even these six acts merely prepare the ground. The seventh—the Oblivion Act—represents something never attempted in peacetime. Every statute, every regulation, every statutory instrument enacted since 1900 becomes automatically void. All of it. Unless Parliament affirmatively preserves specific provisions, 125 years of accumulated legislation simply ceases to exist. Think of fumigating a building. Stripping varnish from furniture. Ripping out the rot.
Does such wholesale destruction risk chaos? Perhaps. But consider the alternative: continuation of a constitutional order where nobody can identify what the law actually requires. Where 60,000 pieces of legislation interact in ways no human can comprehend. Where citizens need permission to perform the most basic economic activities. Where courts subordinate British law to foreign tribunals. Where bureaucrats exercise power without election or accountability.
The present settlement emerged not through design but accretion. War powers became permanent. Post-war socialism embedded itself through administrative structures. European integration subordinated sovereignty. Social engineering replaced limited government. Quangos multiplied. Speech restrictions expanded. The administrative state metastasised.
These acts propose reversal. Not reform. Not adjustment. Reversal.
Critics will howl. Removing hundreds of licences risks public safety! Abolishing local government destroys democracy! Banning Islamic customs violates human rights! Mass repeal courts anarchy!
Yet each objection assumes the present system functions adequately. Does it? Britain has become precisely what these acts seek to prevent: a managed population subject to administrative whim, where ancient liberties vanish behind bureaucratic procedure, where the state dictates behaviour through infinite regulation, where citizens cannot speak freely, transact freely, or even think freely without navigating forests of restriction.
The programme offers a choice. Continue the managed decline into administrative authoritarianism, or restore the constitutional settlement where Parliament was sovereign, citizens possessed genuine liberty, and Britain answered to nobody but the Crown-in-Parliament.
Radical? Certainly.
Revolutionary? Undoubtedly.
Necessary? The evidence speaks for itself.
