38 Degrees has released a new video about the Government’s proposed Lobbying Bill, which features a range of voices explaining what the bill involves and why it is flawed. One of the people in the video is Paul Staines, or Guido Fawkes, as he is more widely known.
The Lobbying Bill is now so universally condemned that it has managed to unite 38 Degrees, Guido Fawkes, Owen Jones, Labour List, Lib Dem Voice and Conservative Home.
Now that takes some doing…
8 Responses to “Lobbying Bill unites Guido Fawkes and 38 Degrees in opposition to it”
anyoldiron
The legal basis for the enactment of directives is Article 288 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (formerly Article 249 TEC). Article 288
To exercise the Union’s competences, the institutions shall adopt regulations, directives, decisions, recommendations and opinions. A regulation shall have general application. It shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
A directive shall be binding, as to the result to be achieved, upon each Member State to which it is addressed, but shall leave to the national authorities the choice of form and methods. A decision shall be binding in its entirety upon those to whom it is addressed.
Recommendations and opinions shall have no binding force.
henrytinsley
What’s this got to do with the video?
anyoldiron
To Cole The United Kingdom. Lobbying in the United Kingdom informally
began in the 19th century, an example being activism for the women’s suffrage
movement in the 1860s. One of the United Kingdom’s first political consultancy firms,
Watney and Powell, was formed by British Commander Christopher Powell in the
1930s.
The European Union. The European Union had 27 members as of summer 2011.
Lobbying in the European Union began in late 1970s.
You will also read more re Lobbying on the UN Website too. (The World Government EH?)