Civil servant muppets

So, is the resurrection of a clause giving Ministers the powers to change Parliamentary Acts in the draft constitutional reform bill cock-up or conspiracy? The text revives a clause which was successfully lobbied out of the 2006 Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act, having been originally flagged by Tim Worstall. This time around it's SpyBlog who gets the spotting honours.

Neither cock-up nor conspiracy is particularly attractive. Either Jack Straw and Gordon Brown think it would be a wizard wheeze to have another go at undermining the very basis of parliamenary democracy (and give Cammers a wiiiiiide open goal in the process), or some bureaucratic muppet was a little too free with the copy-and-paste command. Which means our fundamental democratic rights can be kicked around on the basis of a keystroke. Ah, it's a brave new world. And why is it only bloggers who read parliamentary bills anymore?