I am sure you will all be shocked to learn  that  I understand we are about to go into urgency, again, for the sixth parliamentary week in a row. As I said in my post on this last week, urgency has been used by all governments, but it certainly feels like it has been far more often. David Farrar has given us his spin, but if we look at the actual percentage of hours spent in urgency, it is revealing as to just how much time has been spent in urgency this term.

 In addition what these figures do not show is the percentage of bills that have not been referred to a select committee under National.  There has been an excessive use of urgency this term, and a greater use under previous National led governments. Such excessive use is inevitably going to lead to bad law, and it is anti-democratic. The use needs to be reviewed.