tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17934023.post8819723486092382851..comments2024-03-20T12:28:00.031+00:00Comments on Liberal Bureaucracy: House of Lords Committee slates the Public Bodies BillMark Valladareshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15773193846795037711noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17934023.post-42447435430369037492010-11-05T12:18:40.372+00:002010-11-05T12:18:40.372+00:00Glad someone has picked up on this. It's not s...Glad someone has picked up on this. It's not so much a Bill as a bundle of ministerial order-making powers to do whatever they want with a very long list of public bodies (most of which have their own enabling Acts etc) set out in the schedules.<br /> <br />I can't help thinking that in another era, current Government Ministers (both ours and Tories, but libdems especially) would be shouting 'abuse of power' and 'executive takeover' from the rooftops if anything like this came before Parliament (think of the fuss over the Regulatory Sanctions Act for example by Howarth et at all). <br /><br />But we live in strange times!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com