Spy Blog has an excellent analysis of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill or as it otherwise has been described as The Abolition of Parliament Bill.
Cabinet Office Minister Jim Murphy has published the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill 2006 looks to be another sneaky attempt by the Executive branch of Government to further weaken the role of Parliament.
Why does the NuLabour Government hate the idea of full public consultation and of detailed scrutiny by Parliament so much ?
This Bill adds to the already strong case for a law which imposes criminal penalties on any Government Ministers, civil servants and lawyers, who dare to use words like “any” or “all” or “every” in a Bill or Order or Regulation, without qualification, caveat or restriction of unlimited powers.
Similarly, by law, no Act of Parliament should ever be worded so that it could be interpreted to give the power to amend itself (not the same thing as normal Secondary Legislation), without new Primary Legislation and full, detailed scrutiny by Parliament.
This Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill fails these simple constitutional safeguards.
Murky.org also makes some great points in his summing up of The Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill
Tags: politics, totalitarianism
