#Starmtroopers are tough on fair trials, and tough on the causes of fair trials.
UK #LabourParty #MP #KarlTurner loses the party whip for opposing David #Lammy's restrictions on #TrialByJury.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg54v6p98rjo
Morgan #McSweeney has been ousted, but the bullyboy tactics in Downing Street continue.
#TrialByJury is not an English invention. #JuryTrial is a medieval English adaptation from Nordic & classical precedents.
But the result is one of the greatest protections against injustice. Yet after hundreds of years, the Injustice Secretary #DavidLammy wants to severely restrict juries.
#GeoffreyCox's contribution to the debate is one of the great #Commons speeches. A former #AttorneyGeneral, Cox's booming voice politely shreds the government case.
If you want to understand the underlying reason that the Govt. (in the person of David Lammy) wants to restrict trial by jury, don't take the claims it will resolve the courts backlog too seriously (even Lammy admits it will have only a small effect over time), look at what juries often do.... which is not just take prosecutors claims at face value!
Yup, they're unreliable in the exercise of political repression & so need to be removed!
Horrifying.
#Starmer & #Lammy Removing your rights as fast as they can.
Out with #TrialByJury in with #TrialByPoliticalAppointee
#StarmersBritain
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