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I seem to have missed any press coverage of it, but Nick Clegg's "YourFreedom" site was launched yesterday. It asks you to list and vote on laws that you would like altered or repealed, in order to better restore and/or preserve the freedoms of the UK people.
http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk/
Okay, it's easy to mock the coalition government as having "so few ideas it has to ask us what to do", but I think this is a huge improvement on New Labour's attitude to governance, which was more "we'll tell you what to think — and you'd better like it". So let's get on this site and let Nick know what we want. If it all comes to naught, then at least we gave the coalition government the benefit of the doubt.
http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk/
Okay, it's easy to mock the coalition government as having "so few ideas it has to ask us what to do", but I think this is a huge improvement on New Labour's attitude to governance, which was more "we'll tell you what to think — and you'd better like it". So let's get on this site and let Nick know what we want. If it all comes to naught, then at least we gave the coalition government the benefit of the doubt.
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Our legal system is devolved. As in, criminal law; dudes with silly hairdos. But in this context when I refer to "laws" I mean acts of parliament (either Scottish or UK). The Digital Economy Act 2010, for example, is a law which applies to England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. This, apparently, not being a devolved matter. (Why? Why not? I dunno.)
Of course, in ambiguous contexts you could refer to the former as "statutes" and the latter as "acts", but where you don't need to distinguish between the two, then it's valid to describe either as "laws".
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