The Queen has read out Tory Bleugh's carefully written speech, I wonder how much of it she agrees with? Anyway, that's another matter.
One thing that I find interesting is the reform of child contact, something that is important to me as you will know from my previous posts. It appears that the government have resisted the attempts of Fathers 4 Justice (F4J) and on the face of it they appear to be proposing a marginally better system although only time will tell.
On the old English front things aren't quite so rosy. In the whole Queens Speech England was mentioned a total of ... 0 times. That's right, the biggest and most populouse part of the United Kingdom had no mention whatsoever in the whole speech which sets out the governments plans for the next 4-5 years. The only hope for those people fighting the blatant and rampant discrimination of English people by the government is the mention of an Equality Bill which will establish a new Commission for Equality and Human Rights.
Finally, the House of Lords is coming under the spotlight again with the government formally announcing their plans for an elected House of Lords as part of a Constitutional Reform Bill. Not content with removing the hereditary peers (unchosen by the government) for a system where the government gets to appoint their own cronies, they now want to have them elected so they are virtually guaranteed of a majority in the House of Lords. This isn't democracy, it's a shamocracy.