Quote Originally Posted by MadAmster View Post
... but if what was in their manifesto is illegal, shouldn't the HoL point that out and block it?
Not quite sure what your saying here? You stated that HOL should not be able to turf out legislation because they don't like the politics of it, my response was actually they can scrutinise, amend and delay legislation but cannot block any in reality. They cannot block anything that was included in the manifesto the government was elected on.

If a political party adopts policies in the manifesto which are illegal, one would expect the opposition parties to point this out and they would look foolish. In reality, no manifesto would include an illegal proposition, though how that is then enacted may be illegal, in which case the HOL can point this out.

When it comes to enacting such legislation, we are back to what tricky was claiming, that Civil Servants should just deliver what the politicians tell them to, but of course they are obliged to advise them where policies are/would be illegal and suggest how to avoid that.