Sunday 6 January 2013

Coalition Report Card at Half Term Stage.....

Apparently the Coalition is going to release a report card setting out what it has achieved tomorrow.

I thought I would give them a helping hand so far as constitutional reform is concerned:53% achieved at this 1/2 way stage is not bad..................


5 year fixed term Parliaments
ACHIEVED
Referendum on Electoral Reform
ACHIEVED – although Lib Dems essentially lost referendum and there has been no actual reform
Power of recall of MPs
NOT ACHIEVED - Coalition is reconsidering this.
Committee to bring forward reforms to House of Lords by end of 2010
ACHIEVED – although proposed reform will not happen
Implement wholesale reform of Commons
ACHIEVED to some degree
Reduce Electoral fraud
NO IDEA
Reform Parliamentary privilege so that it is not misused by wrongdoers
NOT ACHIEVED – but then the Court have ensured that nobody has misused it.
Cut the Perks and bureaucracy associated with Parliament
SOME ACHIEVEMENT
Consult with IPSA over ending MPs final salary pensions scheme
ACHIEVED – i.e. they have consulted – but not ended the scheme
200 Postal Primaries for MP selection
NOT SURE – don’t know what happened to this interesting idea.  Torries appear to gone off it given independent nature of the MP for Totnes chosen by this method.
Parliamentary Petitions
ACHIEVED - and working well
Public Reading Stage in Parliament
ACHIEVED  - http://publicreadingstage.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/ 
Improve Civil Servants
HOW DO WE TELL?
Limit SPADS
NOT ACHIEVED  - number of SPADs has increased
Reform Civil Service Compensation Scheme
ACHIEVED
Further Referendum in Wales on devolution
NOT ACHIEVED
Establish a Commission to examine the West Lothian question
ACHIEVED - to report in Spring 2013

1 comment:

  1. But surely they shouldn't have equal weighting?

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