Free Our Bills - Must Do Better

The Wardman Wire has a post about MySociety's campaign for easier access to forthcoming legislation. A good idea but it doesn't go far enough.

Apart from the fact that I believe there should be a limit on the amount of legislation parliament can pass in a single year (that would mean quitting the EU, of course, since most legislation comes down from them) I think all major news and tv channel should be compelled to issue a summary of the major points of every piece of legislation being proposed. On the news, that is, at six o-clock, and in everything from the Times to the Sunday Sport (or whatever).

Until government is compelled to makes its actions known directly through the media that the general public use regularly we cannot rely on it to be truthful with us. Putting stuff up on government websites is easy - it's just that your average citizen is not going to look there.

And it will make the media do something bloody useful instead of cosying up to politicians all the time.