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Show Notes
Labour broke the courts by underfunding them, and now wants to use that damage to strip one of the public’s last checks on state power. Right, so Keir Starmer’s government is trying to cut jury trial rights, and the first thing to ask is who gets the better deal once ordinary people start getting pushed out of the room. Because this bill would take a whole range of criminal cases away from juries and put many of them before a judge sitting alone, which is a very different room and they know it. And it doesn’t seem unreasonable to me to ask about those pushing these reforms such as they are, which is being met with such dramatic outcry either. Sarah Sackman, the courts minister helping front this, has declared membership of the Jewish Labour Movement and has been reported as having worked at Israel’s Supreme Court in Jerusalem. David Lammy, the Justice Secretary above her, has declared membership of Labour Friends of Israel. Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister carrying the government pushing this through Parliament, has spent years publicly courting Labour Friends of Israel. Zionist without qualification. So these optics are not subtle are they? They are not made up. They are sitting right in the middle of it while Labour tries to move verdicts further away from juries and closer to the state. So should we be worried about some kind of Zionist intent behind this, or is it just coincidence? Starmer’s government has already pushed this bill through second reading in the Commons by 304 votes to 203, so the bill has moved forwards.