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Originally Posted by Chris T
When you see all of these listed together it's quite chilling - it looks like a concerted attack on our basic freedoms.
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And if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, & quacks like a duck...
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Originally Posted by BBKing
They're basically the premise for the film Taking Liberties, along with a few more. There are some, like the Inquiries Act, which bans any inquiry with any power from operating independent of the Government and the Civil Contigencies Act, which allows all sorts of things (banning of free movement, repeal of nearly any law, forcible taking of possessions) at the stroke of a pen by a Government Minister (who doesn't even have to prove who he is). Nick Clegg is to be commended for being about the only high-profile politician who's made a list and a fuss about it.
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Ah, the
Civil Contingencies Act.
Goes quite well with the "Enabling Act", erm, I mean "
Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006".