Sussex wrote:
Dusty Bin wrote:
Just using the search function to see if anyone had used the phrase fait accompli in relation to the Law Commission's consultation
I'm intrigued as to why you searched those words?
Was just about to use the phrase myself - because that's effectively what a lot of people had been saying - and just wondered whether anyone else had already used it. And of course because it's an unusual phrase it would easily picked up via the search function.
For what it's worth I suspect the LC's proposals are unlikely to change at the fundamental level. Of course, some of the less important proposals could change, and some of the bigger ones might be refined.
There's possibly more scope for revision when the politicians start getting involved. Of course, because it's a coalition then the political dynamic isn't the easiest to ascertain - and I doubt if the lobby journalists and pundits will be eagerly seeking the views of politicians on a cinderella subject like this - so from where most of us are we'll just have to rely on official pronouncements and read between the lines from there. But at a very basic level it's probable that the Lib Dems would have a less deregulatory ethos than the Tories, and to that extent are likely to be more amenable to opposing the LC.
Of course, in view of the time these things take, and given the increasing instability of the coalition, we could well have a Labour government by the time it gets to Parliament, or perhaps a different coalition.
So then it might be a whole different ball game, particularly when the unions start flexing their muscles.
Who knows, we could end up with just the Trans Comm's proposals being implemented, which would enable "taxi transport in the UK [sic] to be held as a beacon to the rest of the world", as the GMB rep claimed recently.