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And of course it's a Statutory Instrument which means these amendments to the Investigatory Powers 2016 Act will be implemented with little or no opposition. Pa
by teh_klev 10y ago
And of course it's a Statutory Instrument which means these amendments to the Investigatory Powers 2016 Act will be implemented with little or no opposition. Parliament doesn't get to debate SI's and in the past 20 years they've been abused by both Labour and the Conservatives to pass legislation with little or no oversight.
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_instrument_(UK) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_instrument_(UK)
http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2015/01/14/a-war-on-democracy-how-statutory-instruments-replaced-acts-o http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2015/01/14/a-war-...
- eponeponepon 10y agoMore to the point, they've already made plain that the EU repeals will be done by statutory instruments in their thousands. Doubtless this one will find a hiding place among them.
- teh_klev 10y agoI know, it's madness: http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2017/04/11/great-repeal-bill-anatomy-of-a-brexit-power-grab http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2017/04/11/great-repeal-bill...
- eponeponepon 10y agoI wish it was madness. It's terrifyingly rational. It is being done deliberately.
- dmix 10y agoWas the UK ever really much a beacon of democracy in recent years? It's seems like they have just gone open with it and now have the opportunity to rule by decree explicitly. Back to a monarchy for the Brits... > [..] the great repeal bill is a very good name for it, because what this thing does is provide government ministers with extraordinary new powers to change or eradicate nearly half a century of law with almost no scrutiny from the press or parliament. It is shaping up to be the single biggest executive power grab in Britain's post-war history.