Sunday 26 May 2024

What Made It Through Friday?

Rishi announced the General Election on the Wednesday and Parliament was prorogued on the Friday which meant that the Members of Parliament only had two days to vote in any new laws so they abandoned the 'harder' ones that would have struggled to have have made it through and voted in the 'easy' ones everyone agreed on and could be fast-tracked through Parliament so what was ditched and what made it onto the law books?
Out went the Tobacco and Vapes Bill which would have banned anyone born after 2009 from buying cigarettes and the Renters Reform Bill which would have banned no-fault evictions. The Football Governance Bill which would have set up an external regulator to look into Football teams going into financial bankruptcy was booted into Row Z joined by the Criminal Justice Bill which would have given police powers to move rough sleepers, creating an offence of causing death by dangerous cycling and banning sex offenders from changing their names.
Laws to ensure annual licences for oil and gas projects in the North Sea, a replacement for the EU data protection regime, banning public bodies from boycotting Israel and a new law for whole-life sentences for the worst murders also fell by the wayside so what did they vote through?
The Post Office Offences Bill quashing the convictions of sub-postmasters convicted in the Horizon scandal was waved through as was compensation for victims of the infected blood scandal as was the Bill which makes online stores from adding additional fees to an item once the customer reaches the checkout and foreign governments are now banned from owning UK newspapers.
Also through are higher jail sentences for people stealing cats and dogs, the British Nationality Bill which makes it easier for Irish nationals to register for British citizenship and a tweak to an existing law making it easier for pubs to stay open later if England or Scotland reach the semi-finals or finals of the Euros.
The Rwanda plan is already law so couldn't be dropped even if Rishi has admitted that no flights crammed full of illegal immigrants will be taking off for Africa before the election and as Labour have said they will scrap it straight away of they get in, you do have to wonder if we get the £240m we handed over to the Rwandan President Paul Kamage who must be thinking wow, and they say we are a backward nation.

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