NationStates Jolt Archive

This Bill very nearly passed earlier this year, but was finally withdrawn, to be re-written in April.

I didn't see anyone protesting in the streets.
I didn't see it plastered over the front cover of newspapers or all over TV news.
In fact, but for a few journalists and most of the opposition MPs (the ones who actually turn up to parliament) its attempted introduction passed without comment.

Admittedly, this was just one bill ('a bill too far' some might say) but it is only the most audacious of series of legislations passed by the Labour government.
Although, with this failure, Labour's legislation has still to reach the level of the US, this would have taken us way passed it.
It's not just that Labour tried to pass it but that there was so little coverage or outcry that scares me.

So, to my question:-

What actions would it take to persuade you to exercise your right to protest (only in the government sanctioned protest places of course)?

Don’t know really protesting seems sort of crappy when I could be sitting at home warm looking at pictures of the Queen

Though if the government ever pisses off the aristocracy again there will be blood in the streets and all over parliament the last time that happened it was because of banning fox hunting now imagine if they ban horse racing!

What bill are you talking about? You don't even say what it does? I've never even heard of it...

I expected more opposition, too. But the devil with the 'Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill' (Sounds like something out of Nazi Germany, I know...) is in the detail. Since the government didn't announce that it was giving itself the power to create criminal laws without Parliament's consent and the fact that it was apparently designed (or disguised) 'to cut red tape' (from Labour, of all people) most people probably simply didn't know.

We'll have to see what happens in April. But this coming from the Party (and opposition that partly supported it) that bans public protests because of one lone protestor and from a country with no constitutional bill of rights, doesn't give me much hope.

What bill are you talking about? You don't even say what it does? I've never even heard of it...

http://www.saveparliament.org.uk/

What bill are you talking about? You don't even say what it does? I've never even heard of it...

It was a Bill that would essentially give total legislative powers to the Government without the need to consult Parliament at all.

It was a scary Bill. What was worse is that it almost slipped through unnoticed.

Sucks for you guys...:p