I presume you mean (as one commentator puts it) the "The Protection of Corporate Lobbying and Silencing of Legitimate Debate bill" which I posted about a few weeks back. This was originally known as the 'lobbying bill' and was meant to limit the activities of corporate lobbying and in fact part 1 of the bill does address that, honestly, no really, actually the bill protects in-house corporate lobbying operations from any kind of official scrutiny, meaning that a cloak of secrecy will still shroud their influence upon politicians but its the second part of the bill which is the real bastard. This is clearly designed to silence critics of the government such as charities, voluntary organisations, protest groups, trade unions and religions. One example of where this bill would now come into play is when IDS made his tirade against the Trussell Trust over foodbanks, the charity now would not be able to make those claims. I suggest that people also look at another bill which the coalition passed last year, the Justice and Security (Secret Courts) Bill. Basically this means that the defendant, which could be you, can be found guilty in a courtroom that they are not allowed to enter, on charges that they are not allowed to know, based upon evidence that they are not allowed to see.
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