"Ooh, little bit of politics there"
Mar. 4th, 2006 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dennyI just accidentally ran across reference to something called the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill...
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?
"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?
