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The UK doesn't even have a constitution

Also, as a European living in the Bay, part of it is for the higher salaries. If I can take my Bay rate and bring it back to Europe I'm going to do that.

Yes it does. It doesn't have a Constitution, but that's not the same thing as not having a constitution.

Okay to put it another way the constitution is uncodified and weak - parliament can change constitutional laws at a whim due to no separation of powers and no-one could sit down and write it out anyway. So it's a pretty weird constitution if you can call it that, and many legal scholars argue it isn't one.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/764688

$51 is an expensive citation.

https://sci-hub.ru/https://www.jstor.org/stable/764688

UK operates on the notion of parliamentary supremacy, which makes any constitution, formal or informal, largely meaningless, since the Parliament can always override anything in it with simple majority vote:

"It is often said that it would be unconstitutional for the United Kingdom Parliament to do certain things, meaning that the moral, political and other reasons against doing them are so strong that most people would regard it as highly improper if Parliament did these things. But that does not mean that it is beyond the power of Parliament to do such things. If Parliament chose to do any of them, the courts would not hold the Act of Parliament invalid."

> The UK doesn't even have a constitution

It doesn't have a single written document titled “the Constitution”; but it has a constitution.

Careful, if any HN folk reside in Ottawa they’ll be all over you implying that honking horns is psychological torture and that everything is the fault of the RCMP and Provincial government for not shutting down protests first.

Hey, post your street address online here. Me and some buddies will camp outside your house honking horns all night long for a month or two, all in completely harmless good fun as we all agree it’s simply free speech.

Did they honk horns at night? I seem to recall explicit calls to not do that.

Sleep deprivation is recognized as torture everywhere.

I hate to break it to you, but there's plenty of Americans living all over Europe. Here in London there's loads.

Maybe people are voting with their feet for constitutional protections. Maybe it's because the USA is significantly richer and pays more, there's likely to be a whole range of reasons.

I work with several US nationals who have relocated to the EU.

> Here in the Bay it seems there's a constant interest from EU nationals to move to America (judging by the volume of applications we get). But I've never heard anyone interested to do the reverse.

Plenty of Americans do just that, a friend of mine got his USA certificate of un-citizenship last week

Canada has a clause in its Charter of Rights and Freedoms that literally allows the legislature of any province to pass laws in direct contradiction to most of the Charter - specifically, the sections on fundamental rights. They just have to explicitly point out which parts of the Charter they found inconvenient when invoking this clause. Quebec is notorious for abusing this power (mostly for its language laws), but other provinces have also found it useful on occasion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_33_of_the_Canadian_Cha...

> certain peaceful organization organizing protests the government didn't like.

When you go beyond defending behavior, to go out of your way to avoid saying what you are talking about, you discredit yourself.

"peaceful" is absolutely not the word I'd use for 18-wheeler trucks blaring their horns around the clock in a city center.

Of course not, "peaceful" is reserved for burning buildings and cars.

I remember the good old days when people could be against riots regardless of their politics without getting canceled. But those days are long gone.

I mean, don’t get me wrong, I’m pro-BLM. I’m not a racist or anything.

I remember the good old days when you could be pro-riots and still agree that the behavior was illegal, because "burning the system down" was a position taken with honesty.

When US "peacekeepers" invade a foreign country, that's illegal too.

Nah, that’s just enhanced liberation techniques.