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Briefing on the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill - Get Clued Up Now!!

info | 08.03.2006 08:15 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Boring bill title, but a massive change to the so-called democracy in this country. The Bill would allow the government to introduce, amend, or replace any legislation it likes, on the say so of a single government minister. Things like creating new offences punishable by up to 2yrs imprisonment, abolising local government, introducing house arrest, and giving the police greater powers of arrest and interrogation. It could also be used to set up new courts, and in effect re-write the rules on immigration, nationality, divorce, inheritance and the appointment of judges – all without any parliamentary scrutiny...

BRIEFING: Feb 24th: The New Politics Network published a briefing on the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill, outlining how the Bill works, the Government's reasoning for introducing the Bill and how the Network recommends amending it.

The briefing can be downloaded from the Network's website - it's recommeneded reading:
 http://www.new-politics.com/blog/wp-content/files/briefings/LRRBillBriefing.pdf

See also...

This weeks Schnews on the bill:  http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news534.htm

The Bill itself:
 http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmbills/111/06111.1-4.html

Recent Press Coverage:
 http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&search=search&tab=wn&q=%22Legislative+and+Regulatory+Reform+Bill%22&scoring=d

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  1. The voting of the MPs — Julian Todd
  2. Very worrying stuff — me
  3. "What the press is quietly screaming" — T
  4. Am I wrong? — Isobel