Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill

[lucian_albrecht]

For those who don't read bitvacuous's LJ, please either read her entry on the above bill or:

The Guardian

The Times

The text of the LRRP is less illuminating, because it's in legalese so you don't initially think it's saying what you think it's saying

Comments

[sandraregina]

Not with a bang, indeed. Why have a military coup, with blood and bad feelings, when you can just legislate yourself into supreme power?

head, meet wall...

[sendraks]

So all you need is someone to put through a bill to amend or supersede this bill bringing back the parliamentary process in the fullest.

You know, someone could use that as part of an election manifesto.

[sendraks]

Of course this will make the lives of civil servants (the much derided "officials") a bit of a nightmare. Unworkable legislation, which the "officials" advised ministers wouldn't work, gets rammed through the commons and the "officials" get the blame when it doesn't work.

The "officials" get sacked and this cited as a great saving to the public purse (while it isn't) and the Goverment goes and wastes money bailing out private industry.

It annoys me when articles, like the Guardian one" makes out that Ministers and "Officials" are almost one and the same in terms of putting forward policy agendas. Shows how clueless journalists can be.

[lucian_albrecht]

Don't read the Daily Mail article if you value your blood pressure, although they aren't in favour of the bill either.

Isn't the Guardian & The mail agreeing on something a Sign of The Apocalypse?

[sendraks]

I don't read the Daily Mail for that very reason.

Unless its for work.

[benethyarr]

Well, thanks to the nice people at WriteToThem.com, a letter expressing my feeling on the subject is even now winging its way to my local MP (or soon will be at least).

[lucian_albrecht]

That was the effect I was going for. Is your MP Greg M too?

[benethyarr]

Yes, that's the chap.