Gaslighting of the day

Magna Carter : "NO Freeman shall be taken or imprisoned, or be disseised of his Freehold, or Liberties, or free Customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or any other wise destroyed; nor will We not pass upon him, nor condemn him, but by lawful judgment of his Peers, or by the Law of the land. We will sell to no man, we will not deny or defer to any man either Justice or Right".

This section of Magna Carter remains active in British Law.  It has been watered down over the years by concepts such as Fixed Penalty Notices and non-indictable offences but it remains a major inconvenience to successive governments.

David Lammy : "Magna Carta was a protest against state failure. If its authors saw the delays in our courts today, they would not urge us to cling rigidly to tradition. They would demand action.*

Well, that's a whopper, innit.  Magna Carter was not a protest against state failure.  The Barons we'rent protesting that public services weren't as good as they used to be.  They were protesting against unchecked executive power.

The fact is the government's many political prosecutions often against protestors across the political spectrum fall apart time and time again because when it's cases get before a jury they're not having it.

The solution to the backlog in the justice system is not the abolition of the justice system in favour of Kangaroo Courts or Star Chambers, it is the reversal of decades of underfunding.