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Tag Archives: Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill
I’m Back!
After a week of downtime on the servers, things are now back… and what a week to be cut off!
Blair government in meltdown, Clarke sacked. Prescott removed from job (but not title or perks….), an apparent climbdown on the potentially disasterous Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill (I haven't had a chance to study this.. have [...]
Posted in Identity Cards, News, Site News, Totalitarianism Bill Also tagged ID, identity, Parliamentary Democracy, United Kingdom 3 Comments
Guardian Comment upon Tony Blair’s Observer email exchange
Yesterday, we saw an exchange between Tony Blair and Henry Porter printed in the Observer.
Today, there is a rather good comment piece in The Guardian on this exchange.
Blair’s genius, here as so often, is to present ends that we would all find desirable, while implying that his methods are the only means of getting there. [...]
Posted in News, Totalitarianism Bill, UK Politics Also tagged Parliamentary Democracy, Tony Blair, United Kingdom Leave a comment
Tony Blair pinned down
Via Tim Worstall I learn that in The Observer Tony Blair has been pinned down a little on issues of Civil Liberties:
For me, it’s not comfortable reading.
You say people can only have blank placards outside Parliament and can’t protest. Go and look at the placards of those camped outside Parliament – they are most certainly [...]
Posted in News, Totalitarianism Bill, UK Politics Also tagged Parliamentary Democracy, Tony Blair, United Kingdom 1 Comment
Government Backs down over the Totalitarianism (Legislative and Regulatory Reform) bill
I’ve been away for a while, and I return to learn, via The Save Parliament Blog that "The Government has backed down over the so-called "dictatorship Billâ€, which would have allowed ministers to bypass parliamentary scrutiny.".
It looks like a win, but it’s not enough:
"Mr Murphy promised yesterday to give a statutory veto to the regulatory [...]
The LRRB debate