Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Tories slated for 'watering down' Companies Bill
The bill has at least 655 amendments.
My understanding is that this bill is to be the biggest bill ever put to the Parliament of little old England. In fact it is nearly 6 feet tall. The Tories should not be making it unnecessarily longer . Even worse, Julian Oram of ActionAid says 'The Conservatives are trying to weaken a bill that could serve to improve the lives of poor people around the world. The Tory position on the Companies Bill is at odds with its new compassionate credentials. Cameron has said he doesn't want to be a mouthpiece for big business, but these amendments make him just that.' Labour MP Jon Trickett said: 'At precisely the same time that the Conservatives are asking the British public to "Vote Blue, Go Green", their MPs are demanding that businesses be given a legislative blank cheque to ignore their impact on the environment.'
IMO: I hope that all this stuff is at least easily and cheaply available on CD. CDs only cost pennies and are easily copied. And I suspect it is true that as they say in Sierra Leone it is 'dog na dog', that is the habits of a dog will not change and we still have the same bad old Tory party. We can only hope that there will in future be a lot of scope for computerised judgements and that lawyer's fees will get less, and the legal process made cheaper and more easily accessible to the general public. There are plenty of horror cases around already. I recall one business case where a small businessman destroyed the company vehicles and made heavy threats against a much larger competitor and when the matter came to court, far from being reprimanded by the judge, was apologised to by the judge as he could be seen to be made a victim of the existing ponderous process. (This was not a very public interest matter or a green matter, just a commercial one where he was being unfairly squeezed by the larger firm). Bad law can lead to violence and computerisation should help.
My understanding is that this bill is to be the biggest bill ever put to the Parliament of little old England. In fact it is nearly 6 feet tall. The Tories should not be making it unnecessarily longer . Even worse, Julian Oram of ActionAid says 'The Conservatives are trying to weaken a bill that could serve to improve the lives of poor people around the world. The Tory position on the Companies Bill is at odds with its new compassionate credentials. Cameron has said he doesn't want to be a mouthpiece for big business, but these amendments make him just that.' Labour MP Jon Trickett said: 'At precisely the same time that the Conservatives are asking the British public to "Vote Blue, Go Green", their MPs are demanding that businesses be given a legislative blank cheque to ignore their impact on the environment.'
IMO: I hope that all this stuff is at least easily and cheaply available on CD. CDs only cost pennies and are easily copied. And I suspect it is true that as they say in Sierra Leone it is 'dog na dog', that is the habits of a dog will not change and we still have the same bad old Tory party. We can only hope that there will in future be a lot of scope for computerised judgements and that lawyer's fees will get less, and the legal process made cheaper and more easily accessible to the general public. There are plenty of horror cases around already. I recall one business case where a small businessman destroyed the company vehicles and made heavy threats against a much larger competitor and when the matter came to court, far from being reprimanded by the judge, was apologised to by the judge as he could be seen to be made a victim of the existing ponderous process. (This was not a very public interest matter or a green matter, just a commercial one where he was being unfairly squeezed by the larger firm). Bad law can lead to violence and computerisation should help.
# posted by uv : 7:03 PM
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