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[mrph]

Brown 1, Human Rights 0.

There are days when I'm quite grateful for the House of Lords. This may be one of them.

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[aardvarkoffnord.livejournal.com]

Oh ARSE.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

There's only one thing to do right now. Well, two, but only one I can do on my own.

Mine's a G&T.

[aardvarkoffnord.livejournal.com]

Both the graphical novel and the film are very much in my mind at the moment.

I forsee a future (I hope one that never comes to pass), when copies of that are banned and passed underground...

[davefish.livejournal.com]

I would have thought that would know better too.
:(

[livingarmchair.livejournal.com]

The house of Lords can be overcome using the Parliament Acts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_Act). And Labour want to basically make the Lords unable to stop legislation.

Why should we be surprised? Labout tried to get an Enabling Act through parliament:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_act