Sometimes it does seem that governments can be the biggest security threat:

The bill aims to speed up the process by which redundant laws are changed and allows them to be amended on ministers’ orders, without parliamentary scrutiny.

The Commons Regulatory Reform Committee said it was “the most constitutionally significant bill” for some years.

“[The bill] provides ministers with a wide and general power that could be used to repeal amend or replace almost any primary legislation”
Andrew Miller MP

It is pressing for the power to monitor all laws amended by ministers, so it can veto any it decides need further parliamentary intervention.

The committee also wants certain laws protected from the changes.

Red tape law ‘must not be abused’ BBC, 6 February 2006

In the U.S. we supposedly have such protections, written into the Constitution and its amendments. Continue reading →