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Thread #168430   Message #4110580
Posted By: DMcG
18-Jun-21 - 11:46 AM
Thread Name: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics
Subject: RE: BS: Brexit & other UK political topics
Not really. The delay in setting up the commission is almost certainly covid related, so does not need much more commentary.

When Gina brought her case, there is not the slightest doubt that the Government would have stopped the proceedings if they could. The paragraph is in the manifesto, in my opinion, to ensure that if any similar situation arose, they could do so. I can see no other reasonable explanation why it is present.

I feel little reassurance in the promise of a Commission where the Government selects who is a member and whose report is quite possibly only advisory, leading to some Bill that gives Parliament or a Government appointed body the power to stop cases that are felt to be "conducting politics by other means".