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A Jackdaw’s Nest, a Curate’s Egg, a Tinkerer’s Charter and Winston Churchill’s Pudding: Health and Safety in the House of Lords: Part 1 - Roderick Abbott, 1 Chancery Lane

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12/04/13. Question: Which is the odd one out? Answer: The first one; all the others were used by peers to describe the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill at its Second Reading in the House of Lords. There is no doubting the Bill’s breadth. Everyone could agree on its heterogeneity: detractors called it a “hotchpotch”, a “patchwork”, “piecemeal”, “ragbag” and “incoherent”; proponents accepted it was “complicated and complex” and had “a wide-ranging bandwidth”.

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