We covered the subjects of crime, cash for peerages and the vexed question of when the Prime Minister will stand down.
Which is, of course all fluff beside the Legislative and regulatory reform bill. I felt sufficiently strongly to write this to the programme teams.
I am normally really impressed by the journalism of Breakfast. However, I am disappointed this morning. Tony Blair was not put on the spot about the most important issue currently before parliament: Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill -which some have dubbed "the Abolition of Parliament Bill". At a stroke this removes our constitutional checks and balances from Magna Carta onwards. We are sleepwalking to a surveillance and police state and our media are letting us down by not drawing our collective attention to it. You're signing the death warrant of a free press deferred to some yet-to-be specified point in the future, because this bill gives the powers for a minister to muffle journalism that s/he does not consider conducive to government aims.
Check it out, please.
I thought that last point ought to get their attention. We shall see.
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