Tag Archives: house of lords delegated powers and regulatory reform committee

Mark Pack

Lords signals its intent to change controversial section of Public Bodies Bill

By Mark Pack | Wed 24th November 2010 - 8:55 am

Last week I wrote about the Public Bodies Bill and the power grab it makes to let the government change the law in future without proper Parliamentary control, similar though on a smaller scale to what Labour proposed previously with the so-called Abolition of Parliament Bill. David Howarth echoed these concerns at the weekend:

The Public Bodies Bill might not presage the end of parliamentary democracy in the way the 2006 Bill did, but it is a sloppy, lazily drafted bill that assumes, just as the 2006 Bill did, that those in power are all good chaps who would

…

Continue reading »
Posted in News | Also tagged , and | 4 Comments
Mark Pack

Abolition of Parliament: it was wrong then and it’s wrong now

By Mark Pack | Fri 19th November 2010 - 8:56 am

Back when Tony Blair was Prime Minister Labour tried to get through Parliament sweeping powers to change the law without requiring full Parliamentary scrutiny. Then Liberal Democrat MP David Howarth was one of those who led the charge against this, writing in The Times:

The Government proposed an extraordinary Bill that will drastically reduce parliamentary discussion of future laws, a Bill some constitutional experts are already calling “the Abolition of Parliament Bill”.

A couple of journalists noticed, including Daniel Finkelstein of The Times, and a couple more pricked up their ears last week when I highlighted some biting academic criticism of the

…

Continue reading »
Posted in Op-eds | Also tagged , , , and | 7 Comments
Advert



Recent Comments

  • Peter Martin
    @ Joe, France did have its own currency in 1926 so there isn't really a parallel between now and then. However, France was in the process of going back on to...
  • Steve Trevethan
    Thanks to Peter Martin and Joe Bourke! Might there be a difference between a « National Deficit » and a «  National Debt »?...
  • Peter Davies
    I would have thought the main reason they don't back the Greens is that they are not green and neither are many of their target demographic....
  • John Hills
    Very interesting Peter. It's busy on the left... I would love to know why activists are drawn towards the creation of new parties - Respect, Left Unity, Worker...
  • Jack Nicholls
    To be very clear, I am personally and individually keen on the idea of a completely borderless world. I am not saying we should unilaterally open our borders, I...