Propogation: Subversion - change of venue

Due to unforeseen circumstances Club Subversion will now be held in the Red Room at Hidden (previously known as Studio 33) which is on Tinworth Street in Vauxhall, SE11.

Please pass this information on to anyone who might be going...

"Ooh, little bit of politics there"

I just accidentally ran across reference to something called the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill...

"They have produced a bill which could be used to sweep away parliamentary procedure and debate on an astonishing scale."

[...] the bill could potentially allow ministers to rewrite virtually any act of parliament, permitting them, for example, to abolish jury trial, put people under house arrest, rewrite immigration law or sack judges.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/constitution/story/0,,1715467,00.html

Isn't this exactly the kind of mess the EU had to drag itself out of a few years ago? Too much power in the hands of the unelected civil 'servants', and not enough in the hands of the nominally accountable elected representatives?


Discussion:
http://manyangrygerbils.typepad.com/many_angry_gerbils/2006/02/enabling_tyrann.html
http://www.spy.org.uk/spyblog/2006/02/legislative_and_regulatory_ref.html
http://www.outsidestory.com/home/2006/02/the_abolition_o.html
http://www.oncemore.co.uk/2006/02/legislative_and.html

The first one is definitely worth reading, despite the silly blog name. Oh, and note the point raised in at least two of those articles, that this Bill gives ministers the power to amend itself. How scary is that?

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