{"id":519,"date":"2006-03-31T04:38:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T08:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffjon.s423.sureserver.com\/?p=519"},"modified":"2006-03-31T04:38:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-31T08:38:00","slug":"do-you-like-living-in-a-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=519","title":{"rendered":"Do you like living in a democracy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xhtml\">Well, enjoy it while you can, because it might not last much longer if the UK government get their way according to an article here.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill&#8221; is going through Parliament virtually on the nod.<\/p>\n<p>This bill gives Ministers and their lackeys the ability to amend, replace, or repeal existing legislation without reference to Parliament and even worse can create new new criminal offenses as long as the sentence is not more than 2 years.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;More worryingly, the minister involved can amend <em>any<\/em> existing legislation; nothing is protected. So, as was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,59-2042165,00.html\">pointed out<\/a> in The Times by 6 law professors from Cambridge, a minister could abolish trial by jury, suspend <em>habeas corpus<\/em> (your right not to be arbitrarily arrested), or change any of the legislation governing the legal system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/i>Never mind Jim Murphy MP says<i> <span class=\"quote\">&#8220;I give the House clear undertakings, which I shall<br \/>repeat in Committee, that the orders will not be used to implement<br \/>highly controversial reforms.&#8221; s<\/span><\/i><span class=\"quote\">o thats all right then!<\/p>\n<p>Join the campaign here<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Rend for link.<br \/><\/span><i><span class=\"quote\"><\/span><\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, enjoy it while you can, because it might not last much longer if the UK government get their way according to an article here. The &#8220;Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill&#8221; is going through Parliament virtually on the nod. This bill gives Ministers and their lackeys the ability to amend, replace, or repeal existing legislation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geoff-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}