Pinned
Just going to leave this excellent podcast episode here. No particular reason.😂
But worth a listen tonight, because the person in the office is only part of the problem.
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Ruth Fox
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Ruth Fox
@RuthFox01
Director @HansardSociety, working to make Parliament more effective.
🎧 Co-host of the Parliament Matters podcast: buff.ly/3WbeSiY
- Watching @bbclaurak and @grantshapps has just said @LabourLordsUK have a majority & control the @UKHouseofLords. This isn't true. The Conservatives are the largest party with nearly 100 more Peers than Labour.
- Ministers have talked a lot during this crisis of deploying ‘world leading’ measures to tackle the pandemic. Ironically, the #virtualparliament is world leading and yet today they want to scrap it
- Lots of discussion today about whether the length of #prorogation really matters given the upcoming party conference season. But conference recess hasn't been agreed. So we’ve crunched the numbers and yes, the length matters! (thread – 1/17!)
- In advance of the parliamentary debates next week on the introduction of a means test for the Winter Fuel Payment, the @UKHouseofLords Secondary Legislation Scrutiny Committee has published its report on the regulations and does not pull its punches! 1/
- 🧵I despair that the political editor of a major news channel thinks these ‘radical solutions’ are the answer to the problems at the heart of our political & parliamentary system. Where to start…..1/Robert Peston lays out how he would fix Britain. His first step? Reduce the number of MPs by two thirds and raise their wages to £250,000 per year. Listen to the full interview on Times.Radio from 6pm 📻 @Peston | @ayeshahazarika | #TimesRadio
00:00 - *If* David Cameron is going to Lords & @FCDOGovUK then it will raise critical questions about how Cabinet Ministers in Lords can be scrutinised by MPs. We last wrote about this @HansardSociety in 2021 re Lord Frosts appt.David Cameron as foreign sec, and James Cleverly to home office?
- Voila, @DExEUgov has just published the Delegated Powers Memorandum on their website along with some other docs you don't get on the Parliament site bit.ly/32AxslS
- From one of our major political parties this is constitutionally illiterate. I may be pedantic but it's not yet a law & the PM doesn't sign it. It's a Bill (a proposed law) presented to Parliament. It will become law if both Houses assent to it (after debating/amending it).🚨 HERE WE GO 🚨 @RishiSunak confirms signing of new laws that put fans first and clean up our Beautiful game.Readers added contextThe Football Governance Bill has been introduced in parliament where it will be debated and become law if passed. The Prime Minister has not signed this in to law. Additionally, In the UK the PM cannot sign a law in to affect. This function is reserved for the Monarch. gov.uk/guidance/legis…
- The Govt is trying to amend the law by Statutory Instrument to do something that Parliament has already said 'no' to in a Bill earlier this year. Whatever your thoughts about the laws on the right to protest, this case raises serious questions about our parliamentary democracy.⬇️A huge amount of controversy surrounds the Govt’s draft protest regulations. How are they being debated ‘again’ having previously been rejected? Why does the Govt have the power to do this?… Confused? Join us on 9 June to find out exactly what’s going on: hansardsociety.org.uk/events/webinar…
- How can Lords amendments to a Bill be undemocratic? The very purpose of the Lords is as a revising chamber to the House of Commons, to ask you to reflect on possible changes. You may not like the amendments, but they are not undemocratic. They are parliamentary democracy at work.My constituents expect me to do everything I can to stop the boats and end the evils perpetrated by the criminal smuggling gangs. I am pleased to vote down the undemocratic Lords amendments. The Home Secretary has my full support to back this Bill @SuellaBraverman.
- This degree of media attention on parliamentary ping-pong for a Bill is unusual. So important to stress that it is a standard, normal part of the legislative scrutiny process. What is unusual (historically, tho not in recent years) is the Govt's intransigent attitude to amdts.
- Replying to @RuthFox01The Committee is "unconvinced by the reasons given for the urgency attached to laying these Regulations" & notes "It is generally regarded as poor practice to implement major policy changes during a Parliamentary recess". (the regs were laid on 22 August). 2/
- Replying to @RuthFox016/ For the majority of us that don’t earn £86K per year, never mind £250K, the idea that we’ll only get a Parliament of competent politicians by paying such salary levels is frankly offensive.
