In message , at
16:12:19 on Tue, 26 Oct 2004, Mark Thompson
remarked:
By nope I mean it's harder to get dodgy legislation through the Lords.
They tend to amend out many of the more silly bits.

Oh, sorry, I thought we were discussing some future government that was
going to ride roughshod over established principles.

Getting a law through that refers to a bit of existing legislation is going
to be easier than introducing the dodgy bit of legislation with every law
that you want covered by it.

New laws don't refer to RIPA, RIPA refers to them (by only being active
when a crime has been specified as being serious enough).
--
Roland Perry