The right to legally challenge government policies will be limited to help bolster the economy, PM David Cameron is expected to say later.
Opponents will have less time to apply for judicial review, face higher fees and will have their chances of appealing halved.
Mr Cameron will tell business leaders this is so “people think twice about time-wasting” to delay developments.
He will call for wartime thinking when “rules were circumvented”.
If that doesn’t send a chill down your spine, you haven’t been paying attention to the relationship that is supposed to exist in a functioning democracy between those who elect (masters) and those elected (servants). Our servant is deciding to limit our ability to challenge his policies and make it more expensive to do so. We should have the absolute right to challenge any policy that government comes up with – not on the whim of a jumped up errand boy.
We are not at fucking war and using that as an excuse is not good enough, frankly.
Stalin would be proud – seeing as the Cameroid wants to draw comparisons with wartime leaders.
Three things make earth unquiet
And four she cannot brook,
The godly Agur counted them
And put them in a book,
Those Four Tremendous Curses
With which mankind is cursed;
But a Servant when He Reigneth
Old Agur entered first….
…His vows are lightly spoken,
His faith is hard to bind,
His trust is easy broken,
He fears his fellow-kind.
The nearest mob will move him
To break the pledge he gave
Oh, a Servant when He Reigneth
Is more than ever slave!
(http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_servant.htm)
More worrying (or at least as worrying) is that he sees no problem with being upfront about this as a plan and there are unlikely to be (m)any objections from those servants of democracy with whom he works.
Self-serving bastards the lot of them.
Soo, father in law must have complained via Camerons wifey about all those pesky local objections to his wind follies, eh? Damned peasants.
XX But green groups said planning laws protected the environment and should not be blamed for economic failings.XX
Moment!!
Why are THEY feeling guilty (rightfully) all of a sudden?
They were not, as far as I can see, mentioned, but obviously feel themselves “spoken to”.
A bit late to develop a guilty fucking conscience, I would have thought.
Bill Sticker has it.
This is to do with getting lots more windmills installed without all those pesky “ordinary people” getting a chance to put their oar in.
They can just shut up and pay for it.