Monday, May 23, 2005

Read the Bills Act

Spy Blog thinks we should have a "read the bills act" which would mean that members of parliament

"must sign a sworn affidavit, under penalty of perjury, that he or she has attentively either personally read, or heard read, the complete bill to be voted on."

What a good idea!

The response to the sensible MP's complaint that they couldn't possibly read all that lot would be - don't pass so many new laws, then. New Labour invented something like 661 new criminal offences in their first six years in office. Are there really more than a hundred new crimes created every year that are not caught under the current vast umbrella of criminal justice legislation?

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