There seems to have been very little coverage of what is a very significant event that affects the whole of the country.

The Legislative and Regulatory Reform Bill may sound like a really dull and dusty bit of legislation, but that is far from the truth.

A monster is being created which will join other infringements in the New Labour Government's attack on democracy and the rights of people.

The Bill threatens to shatter the centuries-old democracy in this country, allowing Government ministers to create law without consulting Parliament, thereby replacing a system of checks and balances with despotism.

This will effectively allow Government ministers to amend, repeal or replace any legislation without consulting Parliament, and even to create new offences, with penalties of up to two years in prison, without any democratic scrutiny whatsoever. This Bill is dangerous to democracy and it is vital that it be opposed.