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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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 Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:19 am Post subject: ID cards Bill returns to Commons |
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This is good news. The Lords are thinking well - in fact doing the job of the Commons.
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The Identity Cards Bill is due to return to the House of Commons after a third defeat in the House of Lords.
Peers insist it should be voluntary for people who apply for new-style biometric passports to have their details entered on a national database.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4811610.stm
The government can still use the Parliament Act to force the bill through to Royal Assent and coming into force, and probably will. But we will have been reminded again of the necessity for a second chamber.
(For those who may not know, Blair set out on a series of reforms to abolish hereditary peers (Lords), and in principle this was a sound move. However, he simply replaced most of them with government nominees. This was not an improvement. ) |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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No worries.
The elitist bastards will keep flogging it until they get what they want  |
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Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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| I think you may have missed my point. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Wangja wrote: |
| I think you may have missed my point. |
I don't believe so.
Did you get mine?  |
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