It's like the UK read 1984 and took it as an instruction manual instead of a warning.
According to the BBC (which probably loves this move), Deputy Prime Minister and justice secretary David Lammy is very excited about scrapping jury trials for offenses that have jail times of less than three years.
The reforms to the justice system include creating 'swift courts' under the government's plan to tackle unprecedented delays in the court system.
Serious offences including murder, robbery and rape will still go before a jury, and volunteer community magistrates, who deal with the majority of all criminal cases, will take on even more work.
Oh, did I mention that many Brits are being sentenced to three years in prison right now for saying mean words on the internet??
And that the government is releasing criminals to make room for all the mean tweeters?
And the government recently arrested a prominent comedian for mean tweets criticizing transgenderism?
I'm sure that's a coincidence.
David Lammy said the reforms were 'bold' but 'necessary', but the Conservatives described the plans as the 'beginning of the end of jury trials'.
The right to a trial by jury has been the precedent in the UK since 1215 with the signing of the Magna Carta (for 810 years!).
The right is so important that the American Founding Fathers enshrined it in the 6th Amendment.
But because the UK is dealing with so much crime, it's decided that human rights are inconvenient. After all, the UK is arresting more and more Muslims for stabbing kids, and it's arresting lots of Englishmen who are calling the Muslim kid-stabbers mean names!
He added that it was necessary as current projections have Crown Court case loads reaching 100,000 by 2028, from the current backlog of almost 78,000.
This means that currently a suspect being charged with an offence today may not reach trial until 2030.
Six out of 10 victims of rape are said to be withdrawing from prosecutions because of delays.
A wise man might ask what happens when the system you hollowed out for convenience falls into the hands of tyrants (has the deputy prime minister ever read a book about English history??).
Anyway, good luck to the Scots, Welsh, English, and everyone else under the thumb of Parliament.
Remember, freedom is the freedom to say 2+2=4, and that's long since been banned in the British Isles.
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