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!

#politics #protest #TrialByJury

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yrlpem3d4o

"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. ... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared."

- Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

You can call these "extrajudicial killings" - the Trump regime acting as executioner without any trials for the accused.

Or you can put it simply: this is murder. Multiple murders.

And the regime doesn't even seem to know who they are murdering.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/16/airstrike-venezuela-trinidad-us-death-investigation

It's hard for some of my fellow Europeans to understand why Trump is sending the military to US cities.

It's hard for me to understand why some of my fellow Europeans support Trump wannabes in the EU & UK.

Politics based on imagined threats of internal enemies always heads in this direction: toward state violence against innocent people.

How can anyone look at the descent of the US into authoritarian mass violence & think, "yeah, that's what my country needs, too?"
https://www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgq044n72po.amp