The Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill

This is begining to panick a lot of people: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200506/cmbills/111/06111.1-4.html

What is to be made of this?

A letter sent into the Herald today which has been published on citystrolls reads:-

The Revolution's Here

Dear Sir,

If the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill (currently before the Westminster Parliament) is passed: 'A Minister of the Crown [eg: an English minister] may by order make provision for...amending, repealing or replacing any legislation...in any way that an Act might.' Furthermore, such an order '...may make such consequential, supplementary, incidental or transitional provision (including provision amending, repealing or replacing any legislation or other provision) as the Minister making it considers appropriate...[and] may bind the Crown.'

At a stroke the West Lothian Question will be given a definitive answer which relegates the Scottish Parliament to an even lower status than that it currently occupies, the supposed independence of Scots Law will be abolished and the Crown deposed. Worse, the arbitrary authority of London ministers will be erected in their place - effectively unbridled by any democratic accountability whatsoever. The endeavour to enact this bill amounts to nothing less than an attempted coup d'etat. Thus is the essentially fascist nature of the New Labour project revealed in all its naked glory.

This must be opposed, before we are all (including the English) enslaved and our new ID cards are equipped with transponders so that our masters can determine the whereabouts of their units of production every time any of us should happen to pass a bus stop. It is time to forget about rude cartoons. We have more important matters to consider.

Yours sincerely,

Brian D Finch