bills

At least three bills currently baking their way through Parliament have the provision for the Government to break the law in some way:

1. Internal Market Bill

2. Overseas Operations Bill

3. Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill

The last middle would allow UK Armed Forces to commit war crimes around the world and not be prosecuted. When I joined the RAF, illegal orders and how we could refuse them was drilled into us literally from the day we joined. So, is this where we are as a country now?

There is a level of trust in society, that if the Government obeys the laws, then we will too. And if the Government breaks the law, they would suffer the consequences.

But not now, apparently.

In many policy areas the Government will position themselves outside the law, and at the same time is removing almost all other methods of holding the executive to account.

In any times, this would not be normal. But in these Brexity times, when EU conventions and laws will no longer apply, the Government will remove the checks and balances, and those that remain will neither check nor balance.

We laugh at Trump saying it couldn’t happen here, but it can. And is.

Be afraid.

Meanwhile the Home Secretay and Prime Minister have turned their attention, again, to what they describe as "do-goody lefty activist lawyers", whose appeals for the unlawful deportation of refugees they see as clogging up the court system, rather then their decade long starving of the Justice system of funds so it is on the point of collapse.


Which means that Johnson sees himself and his Government of "do-baddy"?

Lawyers are working to uphold the rule of law, again, to ensure the Home Secretay and the Home Office obey the laws they wrote, and if she and the Home Office did obey the law, there would be need for activist lawyers.

THey are now trning on those who will protect the very lowest in society, how long before they come for you?

It is Prime Ministers and their Ministers who have starved the Law of money, closed down courts up and down the land, sold them off for flats, and those that remain are in a ruinous state. But sure, its the lawyers fault for the backlog.