@Lox

Accountable to the courts? For how long? Until (under the new Bill) some Minister "considers" that such a process is "a burden" and removes it. That's how long. Oops.

Even if that doesn't happen immediately, you'll only be able to challenge any changes to the law on an individual case basis, assuming you have the time (i.e. years), money (i.e. at least tens of thousands) and willpower (i.e. practically unlimited) to mount a case against the Government. Even if you win your one tiny little case, it won't stop other Ministers from changing other laws at will and all the Government will need to do to get around your victory is to play around with semantics and get what they want by another means.

No parliament may bind itself or any future parliament and no court will uphold any attempt to undermine that principle.

You reckon? And who appoints the judges which sit over those courts? Oops.

I'm worried now. I picked this info up on a pro-cannabis forum and have posted it in forums for folkies, sports car owners, theatre workers and street skaters. I would have thought / hoped that such people would be among the more freedom-minded, independent types; but no. Even where people have bothered to reply, it's mostly been "Ho-hum... Yeh... Whatever... Bollocks... It ain't gonna happen".

The words "lambs" and "slaughter" somehow spring to mind.

Maybe when they start banning folk clubs and festivals as being racist / sexist / sources of dissent or whatever, THEN you'll finally wake up and smell the coffee; but by then it will be too late.

Prevention is better than cure and what we have here is one last chance to prevent what is about to happen. Ignore it at your peril.