Legislative & Reform Bill

[scarylady]

Like several other friends on here, I wrote to my MP, Michael Meacher, regarding this Bill.

The letter I received back is singularly brief:

"Thank you for your letter.

The aim of this Bill is to usher in a number of the wide-scale reforms announced in the Better Regulation Action Plan of May 2005.

Yes, I have been looking into this Bill, and I agree its implications are unprecedented and very worrying."

And that's it, that's all I got. I can't decide whether I've just been agreed with or just been blanked.

So I looked up the Better Regulation Action Plan. Apparently this Plan is designed to move away from "the assumption since the first legislation of Victorian times - that business, unregulated, will invariably act irresponsibly." and towards "the better view .. that businesses want to act responsibly."

Yeah right, sure they do.

Comments

[scary-lady.livejournal.com]

I think your right, but I notice that he completely avoids saying whether he's intending doing anything about it.

The response seems to amount to "hmm, yes, very worrying"

[flannelcat.livejournal.com]

Time to write back, aye?

"Thank you for your input. Now, what are you going to do about it?"

Go on. Get all Paxman on 'im. :P