THERE’S one thing you can be pretty sure of.
If the politicians don’t wreck the country, the lawyers will do it for them. And the great thing is that there are more lawyers than ever to do the job properly.
AvalonLord Hermer has no time for the majority of us who believe we are living in a country with a two-tier justice system[/caption]
PATell that to Lucy Connolly, banged up for 31 months with no parole for tweeting nasty things on social media[/caption]
Few industries have seen such a growth rate as the legal profession.
The number of lawyers and barristers in this country has more than TRIPLED since 1980.
We have far more lawyers per head of population than the European average.
And it is ever more the case that — especially under Labour — it’s the lawyers who make all the important decisions.
Public inquiries are led by lawyers. It’s lawyers who stop us from deporting who the Government thinks we should deport. They are a barrier against democracy.
Appalling decisions
Take Lord Leveson. Now, you may remember him as the man who seemed to have a visceral loathing of the Press when he headed up his inquiry in 2012.
He was in favour of all kinds of ruses which would have had a chilling effect on Press freedom and reporting on what slebs get up to when nobody is watching.
Now Leveson has been asked by the government to come up with a few proposals to unclog our criminal justice system. Our courts are jam-packed with some people waiting four years for their cases to come to trial.
See, the more lawyers you have, the longer it takes to get things done.
Leveson has proposed scrapping jury trials for complicated cases such as fraud and bribery. Much quicker to get it all sorted out by a judge, you see.
But the right to a trial by jury is one of the cornerstones of a free country.
As Manisha Knights, Solicitor Advocate with MK Law, said: “Our jury system is central and pivotal to our justice system. With juries comes diversity whereas the judiciary still very much lacks it.
“The right to be tried by one’s peers should not be removed or be diluted in any way, shape or form.”
I trust a jury far more than I trust a judge. Judges have made some appalling decisions over the years.
They are almost certainly doing so right now in an immigration tribunal somewhere near you. Judges, I’m afraid, are not to be trusted.
Then there’s Lord Hermer. Labour governments always have someone like Hermer around to make fatuous pronouncements. Tony Blair had Lord Falconer, who was in a special place beyond ghastly. And now we have Hermer.
This oaf was heavily involved in the disastrous deal to give away the Chagos Islands to China’s best pal, Mauritius.
He also likened Tory and Reform people who wish to get the UK out from under European legislation to Nazis.
A statement of such stupidity that it seems scarcely believable.
And he has no time for the majority of us who believe we are living in a country with a two-tier justice system. Everything is fine, he insists, there is no difference between the way in which people are treated by our courts.
AFPLeveson has proposed scrapping jury trials for complicated cases such as fraud and bribery[/caption]
My arse.
Tell that to Lucy Connolly, banged up for 31 months with no parole for tweeting nasty things on social media. That’s longer than people get for GBH.
It was a political decision by our courts, urged on them by the Government, to clobber the people who say horrid things about asylum seekers.
Between them, Leveson and Hermer are making this country a slightly worse place in which to live.
And the more we take notice of judges and lawyers, the worse this country becomes.
Doctor’s orders
I WONDER how long it will take the Government to cave in to the outrageous demands of the junior doctors?
They are demanding a 29 per cent pay rise. Either that, or they are out on strike.
We’ll see a surrender by Sir Keir.
Just as we did with the train drivers.
And so soon we’ll be even deeper in debt.
Even now, this seems less like a working government.
And more like a collection of desperate men trying to cling to power.
BELLA SANKEY is the boss of Brighton Council. She has reported me to the old bill for inciting terrorism.
It was regarding a piece where I talked about detonating an atomic bomb over Glastonbury and Brighton.
Brighton Hove CCBella Sankey has reported me to the old bill for inciting terrorism[/caption]
I said we shouldn’t do this because it would be “a horrible, psychopathic thing to do”.
Maybe this was the bit Bella disagreed with, I don’t know.
But I am wondering why this obnoxious woman has not been arrested for wasting police time.
AXEING IS OVER EGGED
IT seems to me a bit rough that Gregg Wallace can be booted out of the BBC after 21 years.
And yet we don’t get told exactly why.
He says all the harassment claims against him were rubbish.
But we are told he used “inappropriate language” from time to time.
Goodness. I suppose by that they mean working-class language.
He was probably a bit ribald from time to time.
Which is why, of course, they took him on. To be a low-bred cheeky chappy.
There are exactly four working-class people in the BBC now Gregg has left.
If I see him down The Den I must remind him to keep his language polite in case his fellow spectators are embarrassed or offended.
Why’s global warming such a hot topic? Surely heatwave is simply summer . . .
GettyThe BBC and others say we’re in another ‘heatwave’ – but I thought it was that thing called ‘summer’[/caption]
WE’RE in the middle of yet another “heatwave”, apparently.
The BBC – and others – keep reporting that we will see more and more of these as global warming increases.
Me, I thought we’d be seeing more and more of them because it was that thing called “summer”.
It’s 19C up where I am. Pleasantly warm. I don’t doubt global warming.
But I am bored of its propagandists laying it on so thick.
MAN UP, LABOUR
KEEP an eye on the nutters in the Labour Party. They’re getting up to their old tricks.
A person called Steph Richards has been put forward to be the women’s officer for the Labour LGBT+ Group.
Steph is a man, natch. Albeit a man in a nice blouse.
It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court says, half the Labour Party is still determined to live in a state of terminal delusion regarding what is a man and what isn’t.
THREAT TO FREE SPEECH
LABOUR is working on a definition of Islamophobia, so that they can stop people saying what they think.
It is yet another restriction on freedom of speech.
In any case, people don’t have an “irrational fear” about Islam, which is what Islamophobia means.
They have a perfectly rational misgiving about certain elements of the religion.
Anyway, the think tank Policy Exchange has been delving into the organisations giving advice to Labour.
One of those organisations is the Centre for Media Monitoring, which is closely allied to the Muslim Council of Britain.
Policy Exchange said of this group: “The aim of this campaign, in the words of its own supporters, is to control and prevent conduct ‘far beyond’ anti-Muslim hatred or discrimination (which all can agree are wrong, but which are already illegal).
“It is to impose ‘appropriate limits to free speech’ when talking about Muslims, and special protections for Muslims.”
Do you trust our government to respect our freedom of speech?
Shortest day in history
APPARENTLY, yesterday was the shortest day in history.
For reasons I do not entirely understand, the Earth speeded up its rotation of the sun.
I dunno, maybe it had taken some ketamine.
It meant that yesterday was ever so slightly shorter than any other day.
A good excuse, then, for not getting things done.
What I want is for the Earth to speed up as soon as I’ve got out of bed and hurry through the next eight hours of work.
And then slow down again for The Chase.
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