Tag Archives: demonstrations in the vicinity of Parliament

Why demonstrate?

Lord Norton 26/09/2008 – 9:38 pm

When people demonstrate outside Parliament, they tend to congregate in Parliament Square.  It has space for large demonstrations and it faces the Commons' end of the Palace of Westminster.  Some groups, however, demonstrate by the George V statue opposite the Lords' end of the Palace.  As I mentioned in my previous post, I get a good view of them from my office.   When demonstrations are […]

Lord Falconer puts the boot in

Lord Norton 24/05/2008 – 2:33 pm

Much of the evidence we have taken in the Joint Committee on the Draft Constitutional Renewal Bill has tended to be useful and rather worthy.  There has been some disagreement, as for example over whether Parliament's powers in relation to a decision to commit troops to action should be vested in statute or a parliamentary resolution, but nothing too explosive.  That changed on Wednesday when we […]