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[Roland Perry]

In article 
<CAJkBBXX+A7f18Y_zczqqbdpOX+1y3Leb0T+EeR+iiGisCDwvuw at mail.gmail.com>, 
John Wilson <tugwilson at gmail.com> writes
>This thread on Twitter by David Allen Green discusses this point
>https://twitter.com/davidallengreen/status/1185820413718421504.

I like this comment best:

       Repeal the Benn Act because it interferes with Boris Johnson's
       Article 1 Right to Life. Legislation cannot force someone to die
       in a ditch.

>On Sun, 20 Oct 2019 at 18:52, Roland Perry
><lists at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:
>>
>> In article <20191019223750.GA76551 at davros.org>, Clive D.W. Feather
>> <clive at davros.org> writes
>>
>> >He wrote it but didn't sign it. Then wrote another one saying "delay would
>> >be a mistake".
>>
>> On another list, people said a week or two ago that sending two letters
>> would be a "breach of the Padfield principle (Padfield v Minister of
>> Agriculture [1968] AC 997) which means that the government cannot
>> exercise its powers in order to frustrate a statute"
>>
>> But I haven't followed that up to see if such a principle would in fact
>> apply (although I think he *is* exercising a power by writing both the
>> 2nd and third letter).
 >>
>> Roland Perry

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Roland Perry