duke_aldhein (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} duke_aldhein) wrote,@ 2006-04-09 16:14:00 |
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save parliament
This is really important - if the tediously-named Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill goes through, ministers will be able to rewrite the law and create new crimes without consulting parliament. So Charles Clarke could just wake up in the morning and decide that the rest of you have to grow beards - or get banged up for two years.
It ain't much of a democracy, but it's the best one we've got - don't let New Labour do away with it in the name of "cutting red tape"!
This is really important - if the tediously-named Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill goes through, ministers will be able to rewrite the law and create new crimes without consulting parliament. So Charles Clarke could just wake up in the morning and decide that the rest of you have to grow beards - or get banged up for two years.
First they came for the shaven-chinned,Seriously, though, check out the Save Parliament! website. If you write one letter to your MP this year, make it about this.
and I did not speak out, for I was not clean-shaven...
It ain't much of a democracy, but it's the best one we've got - don't let New Labour do away with it in the name of "cutting red tape"!
