alt Hacker News> Recovering this power is why Brexit was so important. With it we can build the green infrastructure we need as we built the railways - via dictatorial Acts of Parliament that brook no opposition.
Like, for example, the High Speed Rail (London-West Midlands) Act, which passed in 2017 and was pootling through parliament from 2013? i.e. almost entirely before even the Brexit referendum, and definitely before Brexit?
Have you skimmed through the Act?
It was passed, deliberately, with thousands of pages of legalese, riders, caveats, opt-outs, etc…
Very different from a one page Act that would delegate supreme power to some HSR committee with the power to destroy anyone who resists.