This morning there is widespread coverage of the strike by lawyers and solicitors.
I am not surprised by this first strike by lawyers since 1466. I spoke to an experienced criminal lawyer late last year. Four things worried him. The first was pay for lawyers. The second was the quality of lawyer that alleged criminals were getting as a result. The third was the failure within the penal system to provide criminals with the courses and other training they need to earn parole - which he thought would lead to mass rioting (which is happening, today). The fourth was cuts to the probation service.
What worried him most of all was that they were all happening at once. One could, perhaps, be handled. Put them together and he thought the system was near to collapse.
I think he's right. And when justice collapses so too does democracy: the two go hand in hand.
Osborne is promising us more cuts. I hope he has no sinister motive. I hope that's not wishful thinking on my part.
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Of course this is a serious matter but my initial thoughts are to be about as sympathetic as I would be if City bankers went on strike for more money.
Then you clearly have not read about or do not understand the issue
osborne’s motives will be sinister -corporate capture and the erosion of justice -the prerequisites for fascism – don’t mistake this one! Combine this with the vilification of a whole economic group involving their humiliation and systematic demeaning -how can it not be sinister?
It is even more sinister than I thought
This isn’t democracy. Democracy doesn’t come with a functioning monarchy and a sector, banking, which goes effectively unpunished whatever their crime. This, IMHO, as I’ve pointed out here before, is a battery farm. If it goes it’ll be a good thing.