The consultation on the ConDem’s’ Grand Repeal Bill is here.
You need to register, but you only need to give an email address, username and password & there’s no email verification process.
There are already lots of good ideas for things to repeal or amend, from the smoking ban to section 44 of the Anti-Terrorism Act.
Browsing through, there are even some things I didn’t know existed, let alone needed repealing, such as this one:
Reintroduce the HORT/1 "Producer"
Under the current system the Police National Computer Database is assumed to be correct with regard to insurance. This is not always the case and unfortunately innocent motorists can be fined or have their vehicles impounded on the spot. I agree with the sentiments of the law but there should be a period where innocence can be proven which the HORT/1 provided. At the moment guilt is assumed which contravenes the basic understanding of British law.
Errr.. so if you drive cars on a trade policy, or on an ‘any car’ policy, hence the registration plate isn’t listed on the database, they can impound your car on the spot? Unless you always carry all of your documents with you at all times?
I’ll vote for that change. You can rate each proposal 1-5 stars like at the bottom of my blogposts.
Some other things I’ve asked for in the past from the government include:
- Curtail powers of entry
- Repeal the equality bill
- Neuter the Digital Economy Bill
- Scrap the e-Borders system
- Prevent DVLA from selling details on their database to third parties
- Bring ACPO into public ownership, or force it to disband.
- Scrap PCSOs and stop handing police powers (detain, fine etc) to civilians.
- Scrap NHS Summary Care Records
- Repeal the hunting ban
- Abolish the Health & Safety Executive
- Scrap the Barnett formula
So get over there and make your voice heard, or sacrifice your right to complain in the future.
Now!
AJ
UPDATE: Old Holborn has a more comprehensive list of suggestions. And a link to (possibly) the definitive reference on the liberties we’ve lost.
Al Jahom's Final Word 
AJ – I’m painfully aware of the new insurance database laws. I have had one car impounded because my insurance wasn’t on the database. I had to walk home and It cost me £117 to get it back the following day. The insurance company wouldn’t pay up because apparently it takes up to 5 days for your policy to appear on the database.
I was stopped later on in the year and had my documents with me. Again I wasn’t on the database. It appears that my reg no had been entered with a zero that should have been a “o”. They didn’t impound me that time because it was not the traffic cops that stopped me; they phone my insurance company and verified my insurance. They did tell me that if it had been a traffic stop, my car would have been impounded, regardless of the fact that I had my documents because they could have been fake. They also said that the traffic cops wouldn’t even have made the phonecall, they would have just taken my car and left it up to me to prove I had insurance.
That is un-fucking-believable.
Eye. I think that day I got my car impounded was the day I lost all my remaining respect for the British police.
I think I’ve lost mine too now, just reading that!
Al:
http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk/repealing-unnecessary-laws/make-a-false-accusation-of-rape-a-punishable-offence-name-the-accusors-in-public
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