E-reforms cause a stir.

E-initiatives introduced in the recent Budget belie the attitudes of Parliamentary traditionalists who are resistant to any such radical reforms.

Prime Minister Tony Blair loves talking about the information
super-highway and Gordon Brown sees himself as the e-commerce Chancellor,
throwing all manner of tax incentives at small businesses to get wired-up
to the Web in his recent Budget, but Parliament stubbornly refuses to
embrace the 21st century.


Mention electronic voting, and a legislative chamber that can barely cope
when a mobile phone rings, lets out a Luddite roar of hostility.


That said, the reforms introduced so far are generally