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Government to abolish democracy
Mar. 16th, 2006 08:10 pmOkay - this has been bouncing around for a while but there doesn't seem to be nearly enough public outrage or even awareness about it. Maybe someone will tell me I'm making a mountain out of a molehill and this is just The Times stirring things up (I hope so).
It seems the government seems to want to sneak "The Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill" through (Also known as The Abolition of Parliament Bill). This bill will allow ministers to pretty much create arbitrary crimes with a penalty of up to 2 years without any parliamentary scrutiny. The only protection from totalitariansim is that a minister has to be really sure it's the right thing to do.
This is what Liberal MP David Howarth says about it.
Okay - I don't normally trust a word written in the Times, but This is what the Cambridge university Faculty of Law says about it.
Ministers (in their typical "trust us" naivity) claim streamline the process of government by cutting all the parliamentary red tape and bureaucracy out of government. Which is missing the point entirely. That bureaucracy is there for a reason! It's there to stop bills like this from getting through.
Grrr!!! This shouldn't have even been considered, let alone introduced as a bill. The safeguards are non-existent. Bitch to your MP about it
It seems the government seems to want to sneak "The Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill" through (Also known as The Abolition of Parliament Bill). This bill will allow ministers to pretty much create arbitrary crimes with a penalty of up to 2 years without any parliamentary scrutiny. The only protection from totalitariansim is that a minister has to be really sure it's the right thing to do.
This is what Liberal MP David Howarth says about it.
Okay - I don't normally trust a word written in the Times, but This is what the Cambridge university Faculty of Law says about it.
Ministers (in their typical "trust us" naivity) claim streamline the process of government by cutting all the parliamentary red tape and bureaucracy out of government. Which is missing the point entirely. That bureaucracy is there for a reason! It's there to stop bills like this from getting through.
Grrr!!! This shouldn't have even been considered, let alone introduced as a bill. The safeguards are non-existent. Bitch to your MP about it
