For Bill(')s Sake!

I counted 105 Bills in the Lords and Commons in 2006/7. How much more law do we need... for Pete's sake?

As a mature democracy it's interesting that we continue to add new laws at such a rate... and it's a problem for Interactive Democracy because, unlike professional politicians, the public are unlikely to want to consider so many new laws. But do we really need them? Or are they just a symptom of having a political elite justifying their existence or reacting to media concerns? Would it really be a problem if we only had 24 new laws a year?

Alternatively, if all 105 Bills were presented to the public is it really a problem if not everyone votes on them: the people directly involved certainly would.

Parliamentary Bills

This link shows the "Business" of parliament. I counted 105 Bills in total, in the Lords and Commons. Is that too many for the public to decide on? Very probably. So the issue is how to decide which go to a public vote... or do we accept that if they all do, only a small percentage of the population will vote on any one issue?

In my opinion the latter is not such a problem as it will be the people that the decision impacts that are most likely to have their say.