EXAMPLE of how delegation of legislative authority could be abused. A party with a parliamentary majority wants to do something grossly unethical, something that could not be openly debated in Parliament, aiming perhaps to covertly eliminate the minority opposition or some racial demographic, so it grants a delegation of vaguely defined emergency powers to manage a flu pandemic to the health minister, whom the said party controls. Once the bad deed is done, perhaps under the guise of a mandated medical intervention, the health minister is to be used as a scapegoat, denounced and publicly rejected by the party as incompetent, perhaps even prosecuted, and thus the reputation of the controlling party would not be tarnished, plausible deniability would be preserved, and the criminal objective covertly accomplished.
EXAMPLE of how delegation of legislative authority could be abused. A party with a parliamentary majority wants to do something grossly unethical, something that could not be openly debated in Parliament, aiming perhaps to covertly eliminate the minority opposition or some racial demographic, so it grants a delegation of vaguely defined emergency powers to manage a flu pandemic to the health minister, whom the said party controls. Once the bad deed is done, perhaps under the guise of a mandated medical intervention, the health minister is to be used as a scapegoat, denounced and publicly rejected by the party as incompetent, perhaps even prosecuted, and thus the reputation of the controlling party would not be tarnished, plausible deniability would be preserved, and the criminal objective covertly accomplished.
Well thought out, explained and completely logical, but if governments were run logically there would be no function for politicians.
Can we demand a restoration of logic to our bloated behemoths? I certainly hope so, but I will also be prepared for the inevitable collapse.