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[–] livus@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like good grounds to challenge it. This thing of having Lords put through a bill that Parliament rejected would set a terrible precedent.

The change, through a statutory instrument in the Lords, came after the chamber rejected the same change, proposed months earlier in a heavily debated and scrutinised new public order act. Peers do not by convention normally vote down statutory instruments.

[–] peter@feddit.uk 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They'll just keep pushing it through until it gets by. I don't wanna be cynical but we're running out of options for stopping them

[–] livus@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

That sucks. We have had a similar problem here (NZ - parliamentary democracy with only one House) where they increasingly use "under urgency" to avoid debate and scrutiny.