{"id":1256,"date":"2006-05-16T18:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/16\/114779945591876038\/"},"modified":"2006-11-28T13:57:40","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T13:57:40","slug":"legislative-regulatory-reform-bill-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/legislative-regulatory-reform-bill-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following my earlier <a href=\"http:\/\/europhobia.blogspot.com\/2006\/05\/legislative-and-regulatory-reform-bill.html\">highlights<\/a>, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spy.org.uk\/spyblog\/2006\/05\/2nd_day_of_the_hoc_report_stag.html\">Spyblog on the second day<\/a> &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If you thought that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm200506\/cmhansrd\/cm060515\/debtext\/60515-0063.htm#06051513000003\">yesterday&#8217;s debates on controversial Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill<\/a> were difficult to follow, then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publications.parliament.uk\/pa\/cm200506\/cmbills\/141\/amend\/60516m01.htm\">today&#8217;s  list of Amendments<\/a> is even more obscure.&#8221;What is clear is that since all the Government Amendments were &#8216;programmed&#8217; or  &#8216;guillotined&#8217; to be dealt with yesterday, somehow, as if by magic, the one Government amendment which we saw as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spy.org.uk\/spyblog\/2006\/05\/a_small_concession_by_the_gove.html\">partial concession, New Clause 26<\/a>, which would have prevented the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opsi.gov.uk\/ACTS\/acts1998\/19980042.htm\">Human Rights Act 1998<\/a> from being amended or repealed , by Order, and which would partially have prevented the new legislation from being used to self-modify itself, has been dropped!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hello? Any proper journalists out there? You guys should be all over this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> It&#8217;s passed. 259 votes to 213. It&#8217;s now up to the Lords and then a united front alliance of the Tories and Lib Dems in the Commons on the third reading. After that, a stroke of a ministerial pen is all that stands between us and dictatorship. Hyperbolic? No, not really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following my earlier highlights, check out Spyblog on the second day &#8211; &#8220;If you thought that yesterday&#8217;s debates on controversial Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill were difficult to follow, then today&#8217;s list of Amendments is even more obscure.&#8221;What is clear &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/legislative-regulatory-reform-bill-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}