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UK Parliament to be Made Redundant?
caluml writes "The Guardian is reporting that the current UK government is trying to sneak a new law though in an innocuously named bill called 'The Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill,' which would get rid of that pesky, interfering need to put laws to the Houses of Commons and Lords to approve. There is already the Parliament Act that can be used to force laws through, which was used recently for the hunting bill. " The original coverage is a bit old but the bill is still being tossed around in parliament. The text of the bill is also available via the UK Parliament website.
I swear, Slashdot will send me to an early grave if I continue to parse its headlines at such a high privilege level. Though I'm guilty of feeding this myself, I'm starting to tire of so many SKY-IS-FALLING stories (I've been around here slightly longer than my UID suggests).
I get the impression that this is kind of a rite of passage here. Would that be correct?
(I don't consider this offtopic because this is an absolute non-story. Your Moderation May Vary)
I'm still astounded that the UK has an unelected unaccountable house that can hold up anything they want for any reason.
I realise it's a legacy of centuries past, and I realise that it's 'historically important', but create a 'house of lords' museum and get yourselves a proper senate for the love of democracy.
Not Meta-modding due to apathy.
Yes, I was answering the question "Didn't you guys see V...?"
My answer was "unfortunately". If this is the best that Hollywood's got going these days.... no wonder they're struggling.
It was billed as an action movie, which it hardly was. The (maybe) 5 minutes of action in it was fairly good though.
I can see, however, how it does appeal (somewhat) to those on the left suffering from BDS (Bush Derangment Syndrome - actually diagnosed by some psychologists).
"America's War"
Evil right wing talk show hosts who pop pills
Evil Christians
etc etc
The closest thing in the world today to an actual government functioning in the ways that Britain's government is shown functioning are in those countries run by islamofacists or communists (Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, etc).
Will I get modded down if I blame all this on Bush?
A Government Is a Body of People, Usually Notably Ungoverned
FDR created a larger Supreme Court to accommodate a larger, more complicated government he created to cope with both 20th Century Depression and World War. Whether that was to get his way politically or not, he made the Judiciary Branch more powerful. That was within, and therefore with respect to, our democratic republic.
These actions by Bush are designed to completely subvert the government. To get it out of the way of corporations. That's a lot different from tweaks like more Justices, or direct election of senators, or black/youth/female sufferage. It's subversion. And, by subverting the Constitution itself, treason. That cannot be said of the politicians who have come before.
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No, for me the world is groaning under the weight of a few conspiracies supported by people like you. Who will just insist that Bush won the recount, for example, when Gore won. Except the Supreme Court decided otherwise.
You blew your cover you maintained with some dignity in your previous few posts. You're a Bush worshipper like the rest of your rightwing buzzword parrots.
Take your coincidence theories and share them with your own abject elite: the fascist propagandists who own the media, the government and the entitlement to say whatever you want, no matter how rotten the lie.
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