At some point we’ll have enough laws, surely? you know, running over the roughly 900 years we’ve had of the Common Law, at some point there won’t be anything else that needs to be added? The legislators will be able to put down their heavy burden, for we’ll have a law about everything, and it will just be up to the courts to make sure that they’re all enforced?

A council took a local farmer to court over
accusations that his pigs scratching their backsides caused damage to
protected trees.

The case took five separate
hearings before the council decided they didn’t have enough evidence to
proceed against David Sunderland.

Mr Sunderland
had been summoned for 22 counts of wilfully damaging trees in a field
where 80 of his rare British saddleback pigs were roaming freely.
…

Mr Sunderland, who could have been fined more than £400,000 – £20,000
per tree – said he had fenced off the trees to ensure that his pigs
found somewhere else to relieve their itch.

D’ye think actually that we might have passed that point? Perhaps our distinguished Solons might like to abolish a few laws?