Wildy OT, but important

Mar 17, 2006 3 Replies

Dunno if anybody's seen this bill that's going through parliament just now:



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It's a piece of enabling legislation which basically allows the government to nod *any* change of legislation through with simply select committee (i.e. Government Crony) approval.



A far better summary of the impact than I could write can be found at



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There is a structured campaign against this piece of legislation which can be found at:



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For the sake of all that's good please write to your local MP, Judge, Newspaper, any Lords you know and fight to have this killed.



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On or around Fri, 17 Mar 2006 13:05:45 +0000, "Paul S. Brown" enlightened us thusly:

Yer not wrong. It's typical of the underhand way this current government is prone to operate.

I shall be writing to the MP pronto, thanks for the heads-up.

I agree, it's an appalling piece of proposed legislation and I have already written to my M.P. to say so. Let's do all we can to get it voted down!!

Simon

"Paul S. Brown" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@individual.net:

So, in effect, Tony becomes dictator...

Horse, bolting, stable door?

Derry

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