{"id":475590,"date":"2022-01-19T11:23:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T11:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecanary.co\/?p=1543997"},"modified":"2022-01-19T11:23:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T11:23:25","slug":"dont-get-too-excited-about-the-police-bills-defeats-in-the-lords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/19\/dont-get-too-excited-about-the-police-bills-defeats-in-the-lords\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t get too excited about the Police Bill\u2019s defeats in the Lords"},"content":{"rendered":"
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You might get excited when you read stories in the mainstream media stating that the government has suffered a “series of defeats in the House of Lords<\/a>” over the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill<\/a>. It is true that we have had a minor victory. And if it wasn’t for the relentless protesting and campaigning by the Kill The Bill movement over the last ten months, we would be facing a much worse bill. But don’t get too carried away with optimism.<\/p>\n

For a start, most of the measures chucked out by the Lords were the additional amendments to the bill: these were added at a later stage by the Lords themselves. There’s still a raft of laws that weren’t challenged, and there’s a number of measures that, even though thrown out by the Lords, can still be added again when the bill goes back to the Commons.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday, the House of Lords scrapped a number of significant amendments to the PCSC bill. <\/p>\n

Here's a brief explainer: pic.twitter.com\/WMmr7VEAOU<\/a><\/p>\n

— Article 11 Trust (@article11trust) January 18, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n