The media leaks ahead of the Queen's Speech seem to have started, as one has come to expect of NuLabour's contempt for Parliament.
According to the London Evening Standard:
"Blair steams ahead with 40 new Bills
By Joe Murphy, Evening Standard
12 May 2005
A mammoth Queen's Speech containing 40 controversial Bills was agreed by the Cabinet today as Tony Blair set out to prove his leadership has not run out of steam.
The 18-month programme of new legislation is being seen by ministers as a "virility test" of Labour's reduced Commons majority of 67.
Downing Street strategists believe the plans, topped by ID cards and a new clampdown on costly red tape, will herald a series of set-piece confrontations with Left-wingers hostile to Mr Blair's leadership."
Rubbish ! The NuLabour Government's ID card and centralised biometric database plans are the epitome of expemsive, bureaucratic, big government red-tape !
The aim is to demonstrate that the Prime Minister's authority is intact by defeating those who are agitating for an early transfer of power to Gordon Brown.
40 Bills ! This implies the usual NuLabour tactic of rushing through legislation, which even their own supporters have to concedem is usually full of badly draughted clauses, which do not get debated or amended properley by Parliament. Presumably they will continue with their usual contempt for Parliament by withholding letters, reports and documents, relevant to the heavily curtailed debates, from Members of Parliament, until the very last minute, perhaps even only releasing them during the debates themselves, as was done with the Mental Capacity, the Identity Cards and the Prevention of Terrorism Bills.
The full list, which was being set out at the first Cabinet meeting since the general election, will be unveiled in the Queen's Speech on Tuesday. It is set to include:
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