Did you mean alleged speaker:Lord Bowness?
Lord Bowness: ...when, according to the policy background in the Explanatory Memorandum, this organisation has been on the radar here and elsewhere since late 2018, arrests were made in the UK and the US, and its alleged leader, a 13 year-old boy, was tracked down in Estonia at the beginning of the year. Furthermore, the organisation has apparently been dissolved, so will we need a fresh order if it...
Lord Bowness: ...Parliament. I suspect that my noble friend is implicitly accusing me of trying to delay the Bill or to stop Brexit, rather than being concerned about the future of our relationship. I refute that allegation, but I entirely accept that I remain very concerned about our future position. I apologise for hesitating slightly here, but my noble friend has rather thrown me—which was, no doubt,...
Lord Bowness: ..., while expressing the will of the people, did not give the Government a blank cheque as to how to implement it. They should also accept that the answer to any question or criticism cannot be an allegation that the questioner is trying to thwart the will of the people and is somehow acting undemocratically. It is neither an answer to the question, nor is it true. Many of us who, this time...
Lord Bowness: ...could happen in such a short space of time. As my noble friend has indicated, there is a danger that the legislation is used for purposes for which it was never intended. In saying that, I make no allegations of bad faith on the part of the Government, but Parliament-and we must all include ourselves-would be remiss if it did not stop this process at a much earlier stage. I do not even...
Lord Bowness: .... It is often an argument deployed by those whose attitudes towards the European Union are less than favourable, but I should have thought that much of what is done by Europe was unknown and allegedly—I stress the word "allegedly"—hidden from the public or Parliament. Therefore, one would have supposed that anything that extended the knowledge would be welcome. However, it is clear...
Lord Bowness: ...policy. I am told that the European Union spends more on office cleaners than on CFSP, so we either have a very under-resourced foreign policy or extraordinarily clean offices, to say nothing of alleged embassies. We need someone to fulfil the role of the European Foreign Minister, or whatever title is given if there are sensitivities about that. We should be able to arrange our affairs to...
Lord Bowness: ...local authority involvement, all in the interests of efficiency—although what, in the light of recent revelations, is known about that in his area of responsibility, we can only wonder. He allegedly wants more local community involvement but his proposals will reduce the involvement of elected local members. Why does he not consider allowing local authorities to run truly local forces to...
Lord Bowness: ...will not see it as an attempt to weaken it by cherry-picking a particular provision. The treaty only gave national parliaments the early warning mechanism, or the "yellow card", in respect of alleged breaches of subsidiarity—although the protocol itself referred to the application of subsidiarity and proportionality. I understand that the COSAC scheme refers to both. That is welcome as I...
Lord Bowness: ...in the past, to apply it to this area".—[Official Report, 7/10/98; col. 450.] Therefore, I wonder what has changed in that time. What are the arguments to justify the boundaries of what are alleged to be democratic bodies—not merely democratic bodies exercising allegedly more than local government functions—while apparently exercising devolved functions of government? These are...