Only a few weeks to save parliament --- LRR Bill

[uselesseater]

Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill

"The third reading of the Bill (the last vote in the Commons) will be
sometime after Easter; it's not been decided exactly when, but it looks
like we've only got a few weeks at the most before the Commons vote
themselves out of existence. "



Does anyone else find this very worrying?

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/constitution/story/0,,1715467,00.html

[andrewwatson]

Yes,very. I suggest we all lobby our MP and anyone else known to us in the world of politics or public affairs.

At the time I cheered the government on when they divested the Lords of their power. Now I am not so sure.

[paul wright]

For those of us who scan stuff and have only short attention spans, a synopsis of what lies behind this concealing parliamentary gobbledygook would be most useful

[ian neal]

In a nutshell potentially one huge step towards fascism

http://bill111.wordpress.com/

Campaign site

http://rightlinks.co.uk/linked/modules/AMS/

Articles and info on the Bill

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/constitution/story/0,,1715467,00.html

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1072-2049791,00.html

http://www.bloggerheads.com/archives/2006/03/_the_legislativ.asp

http://www.spy.org.uk/spyblog/2006/02/legislative_and_regulatory_ref.h tml

[uselesseater]

Thans for the links. I joined the campain and emailed everyone in my address book about it.

What I cannot beleive is the abject faliure of the bbc to allocate even a fraction of the deserved time to an issue of 'highest constitutional importance'. I heard a 30 second peice on Today a week or two ago by Ken Clarke and that's all.

Seems like the emasculation of the BBC with the removal of Greg Dyke has make them New Labour laccies.

[Andrew Johnson]

From: Save Parliament [mailto:info@saveparliament.org.uk]
Sent: 23 March 2006 08:36
To: info@saveparliament.org.uk
Subject: Save Parliament Bulletin, 23 March

Hi everyone,

First of all, we'd like to say thank you for signing up, and welcome to
the Save Parliament campaign!

This is the first email bulletin we've sent out. We'll be sending more
as things happen, so you can expect
to be contacted on a fairly regular
basis in the coming weeks.

The third reading of the Bill (the last vote in the Commons) will be
sometime after Easter; it's not been decided exactly when, but it looks
like we've only got a few weeks at the most before the Commons vote
themselves out of existence.


Representations to the Cabinet Office
-------------------------------------

http://www.spy.org.uk/spyblog/2006/03/cabinet_office_minister_jim_mu.h tml

On Tuesday, in the House of Commons, Jim Murphy said that he'd only had
50 representations made to him
about the Bill, with no mention of
whether they were for or against it.

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2006-03-21a.152.0

50 doesn't seem very many to us, considering the widespread opposition
to the Bill. Many more people have
written to their MPs about the Bill
through the Save Parliament website, and we have had LOTS more than 50
people sign up for the campaign in just three days.

So, we reckon it's time to show Jim Murphy the true scale of the
opposition to his plans. We'd like to ask
you to contact the Cabinet
Office and voice your concerns. Keep it polite; abusive emails or
letters will only hurt our cause.

Mr. Murphy's address is:

Jim Murphy MP
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Cabinet Office
70 Whitehall
London SW1A 2AS

Spy Blog says that his cabinet office email address should be:

jim.murphy@cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.uk

Alternatively, you could send your emails to his standard MP address,
which is:

jimmurphymp@parliament.uk

There are many more contact details on his website at:
http://www.jimmurphymp.com/ViewPage.cfm?Page=8412

There are also general contact details for the Cabinet Office at:
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/contact_us/index.asp


Media contacts
--------------

We're trying to raise the profile of this Bill in the media; if you
could help us with this in any way,
please let us know. Alternatively,
if you know anyone who could help, please send them the website
details
and ask them to contact us if they are interested.


Raising awareness
-----------------

We will only beat this Bill by raising public awareness, so we'd also
like to ask you all to keep sending
the website to your friends,
family, colleagues, in fact anyone and everyone. The more people that
know
about the Bill, the better chance we have of stopping it.


Latest Links
------------

The LRRB made the front page of Slashdot this morning:
http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/06/03/22/2036208.shtml

Also, the BBC Radio 4 programme "Law in Action" had a piece on Tuesday
afternoon (it starts around 20 minutes in):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/shows/rpms/radio4/lawinaction.ram

Murky (from Murky.org) has set up a LRRB-related blog aggregator on
Squidoo, which will show you the latest news from across the anti-LRRB
blogging community:
http://www.squidoo.com/saveparliament/


Again, thanks for joining up, and keep up the good work! We're getting
the word out, and we WILL beat this
thing.

cheers,

James Smith
Director, Save Parliament
http://www.saveparliament.org.uk

[uselesseater]

I know this thread isnt stictly relevant to 911 but could it be made a sticky or moved to another forum.

I don't think this can have enough exposure.

[Graham]

and theres easter again......

[uselesseater]

Has anyone had any luck out of the email address at the bottom of this page http://www.hansardsociety.org.uk/Legislative_and_Regulatory_Reform_Bil l_seminar

I just get the usual failiure notification.