Law is the foundation of a state.
And the principle that all are equal before the law is the foundation of democracy.
The Guardian reports:
The Ministry of Justice's budget of £6.8bn in 2014-15 will fall to £6.2bn the following year. Most of the savings appear to come from the courts. The news will dismay lawyers already fighting the latest round of legal aid cuts. That £220m saving in criminal legal aid is included in the chancellor's figures.
But a proposed saving of £200m in the costs of running the courts - through partial privatisation, efficiency savings or rises in legal fees - emerges for the first time.
So now the law is to be privatised and will only be available to those with wealth.
This is the Tory world view - that the UK is run for the rich.
When will people get angry?
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When will people get angry? I’ve asked myself this for years, Richard. The populace appears anesthetised and addicted to a form of self harm writ large. Anger will emerge but only when things get much, much worse. It’s sad
Good golly, I thought you were my old school friend for a mo! But she had an e. People are getting angry – but it’s in all the ‘planned’ directions, ie, just as govt decides, against each other rather than against the perpetrators of the greatest crimes in history!
What are these angry people supposed to do exactly if there’s no redress in law available to them? And as I’ve pointed out before, this has never been a democracy, they just aren’t bothering to pretend it is any more.
For a start, millions could take there money out of the big banks and put them in local credit unions – or even under a matress! Unfortunately, not enough people care – even after the crash of 2008 and LIBOR people have not moved accounts in large numbers.
Remember Eric Cantona’s call:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loAkxdji-G4
Why hasn’t it happened?
Good point and on that subject, anyone know if credit unions are to be subject to bail-ins if as and when they occur? Broadening the subject a little, I’d like to see people develop local banks using local currencies, local farms too. Go indie and self-sufficient all over the country.
I agree with Bill – I think many people are angry already. I’ve been angry since I voted Lib Dem for the first time in the last election (go on, laugh..) and got Tory lick-spittles instead. There is no left-wing political representation any more. The end of this stupid neo-liberal road will be a bad place for the rule of law and us all.
Bill- I do a little voluntary work for a local credit union – they have been limited by legislation for many years – they are, apparently, being encouraged by the DWP, but comments by the ghastly Lord Freud seem to indicate that they are to be seen as the ‘poor persons’ bank rather than real alternatives to the banksters.
Freud’s being against them probably suggests they’re a good idea from the community’s POV. I bet he’s not keen on local currencies either.