The Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill - third reading

I was preparing an expose of the sheer lack of respect for Parliament shown by this Labour government yesterday when they crammed the whole of the report stage and the third Reading of the Criminal Justice and Immigration Bill into just one day of debate, then I came across John Redwood's piece and suddenly I lost the will to wade through Hansard. So go and read John Redwood's article instead and wonder at how Gordon Brown is turning out to be even less of a fan of democracy in the UK than Tony Blair was.

As John Redwood concludes his article: "Mr Brown said all the right things at the beginning of his term as PM, claiming he wanted to rebuild trust in Parliament and politicians, and wanted parliament to have a more central role. This week, yet, again, by his actions in stopping debate on what we want to talk about and inviting debate on what he wants to talk about he has shown he does not want a stronger Parliament, but a poodle Parliament."