Apr
11
The UK Enabling Act
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I’ve been ranting about the proposed Abolition of Parliament Act to all and sundry for weeks now, and people just look at me as if I’m mad. I don’t know if it’s just because I’m becoming as incoherent as Marc, or because people really still believe that the government will generally “do the right thing”, or what, but there seems to be an underwhelming lack of interest, never mind outrage.
For now I’ll just make do with begging: everyone who lives in the UK, please visit the Save Parliament website. They’ve summarised the issues much better than I could ever do, and it’ll only take 5 minutes to read. Even if you’re not even remotely interested in politics, please read it. This one really does decide the entire future of the country.
[...] In similiar fashion, the official opposition have, in recent days, won ’significant victories’ on such things as Brown’s plans to steal a little more, on Blair’s plans to tag everyone, and on Mr Safety Elephant and his glorification of terrorism shit. And now, they’ve saved the day when it comes to the abolition of parliament act. Or so they say. A controversial piece of legislation which critics fear would give sweeping powers to ministers to change any law is to be rethought. [...]