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Originally Posted by Gayle
it could save thousands of pounds of parliamentary costs
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...and that's the be all and end all with New Labour, isn't it? A government that knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing. Of course it will save money in parliamentary costs - after all, ministers will be able to whisk amends to legislation right through without all those tiresome debates, late-night sittings and awkward questions in the House. But will British democracy - already something of a poor, sickly creature - be all the more impoverished for it?