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Today's "Christmas Repeal" launches Monday
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The 2006 Today programme vote is to be The Christmas Repeal.
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This year the 91Èȱ¬ Radio 4 flagship news and current affairs
programme's annual poll is asking listeners to suggest laws which they think should be
scrapped.
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The search to find Britain's least useful or most damaging piece of
legislation starts on Monday 11 Decembee.
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To enter the competition listeners are asked to send in ideas via bbc.co.uk/today or by writing to the programme at
Room G630, TV Centre, Wood Lane, London W12 7RJ.
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On Wednesday 20 December a panel of politicians and legislation experts will get
together to sift through the nominations and arrive at a shortlist of six.
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That shortlist will go to a vote and on New Year's Day the programme will
announce the winning - or, more accurately, losing - law.
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Today Editor Ceri Thomas said: "As ever with these polls we hope to fuel
debate. But who knows? Perhaps we'll end up with the views of Today listeners
being discussed in the House of Commons?"
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Last year the programme asked its listeners to
vote on the question Who runs Britain?
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The aim was to find the individual
who listeners thought had most power in or over the nation. The majority went
to Jose Manuel Barroso.
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In 2003, when listeners were asked to suggest a new
law, 26,000 people voted to authorise homeowners to use any means to defend
their homes from intruders.
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