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| Thread ID: 61822 | 2005-09-17 23:31:00 | So what sort of government will we have? | Strommer (42) | PC World Chat |
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| 389043 | 2005-09-18 07:35:00 | When we get a written constitution, it would be nice to have an entrenched clause which requires that every new piece of law must come with the repeal of some other piece of law. If the new stuff removes any right, it should remove two other pieces of law. A curious idea Graham but I know what you are getting at. I think Geoffrey Palmer proposed that every new Act had a 15 years sunset clause, which meant Parliament had to review that law or it lapsed. The Law Commission already exists for the purpose of reviewing legislation and recommending new laws to the Government. What happens in practise is that Ministers are so busy ramming through pet projects that the Law Commission is left on the hind teat. |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 389044 | 2005-09-18 07:39:00 | The new Government? Lame duck, possibly short term, and the perfect excuse for Labour not to carry out election promises because they'll say the others won't support them. Having said that, Italy has prospered for decades with governments lasting only 9 months. Life goes on. :thumbs: |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 389045 | 2005-09-18 09:18:00 | The new Government? Lame duck, possibly short term, and the perfect excuse for Labour not to carry out election promises because they'll say the others won't support them. Having just watched 3 woman sit down and discuss co-operation and compromises I like them. That male on the other hand just demonstrated he still thinks it was all a competition with the winner in charge. Typical. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 389046 | 2005-09-18 10:30:00 | ... and the perfect excuse for Labour not to carry out election promises because they'll say the others won't support them.: That would be rather worrying. :( |
vapo (5203) | ||
| 389047 | 2005-09-18 23:03:00 | Just in : the German election results. (news.bbc.co.uk) Doesn't their predicament sound familair? A |
andrew93 (249) | ||
| 389048 | 2005-09-20 09:32:00 | There's some good analysis in this thread and my opinion as to what sort of Government we will have? Assuming the special votes don't change the outcome, then it will be a 'lame duck' government. "All bark and no bite" - which might actually be a good thing. With an impending economic slowdown, hindsight may reveal this was a good election to lose - whoever loses this time will have a much higher party vote next time around. And as others have stated it won't last 3 years, and my money says there will be another election in 18-24 months (assuming we don't stalemate in the next month). Yet again Winston holds the key...but then he always does given he holds the 'middle ground'. A More of the same then |
Twelvevolts (5457) | ||
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