UK Labour government to massively restrict right to trial by jury

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/01/ebxk-d01.html

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supamanc@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 246d (1 reply)

FFS. It's like they are deliberately trying to ensure that they will never be elected again. Just handing the country to Farage and Tommy Ten Names.

njm1314@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 246d

I honestly think that's their goal. There is no way to look at their actions and conclude anything else other than them directly trying to get Farage into power. They couldn't do a better job.

deHaga@feddit.uk · 12 pts · 246d

Time to ditch Westminster and the Union, devolve power.

tetris11@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 246d (3 replies)

I wonder how long til Trial By Combat is reinstated.... what the hell does "preparations for war abroad" mean in this context

pandapoo@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 246d (1 reply)

It means they're preparing for expedited show trials for any plebs who protest foreign wars, or the war against the working class.

It doesn't mean they'll use the mechanism, but they want the option to.

It means they think it's about to get a whole lot worse, and if it does, they won't bother to pretend whose side they're really on.

WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 246d

Beyond generic political platitudes and virtue signals (aka lies), do they even bother pretending whose side they're on right now?

No political class whore will ever confess to their corruption or crimes. Putin still claims he's fighting nazis. Even the US fascist regime still continuously claim they're fighting for freedom and democracy. Charlatans will gaslight until their last breathe, as they have no shame, nor integrity.

BakerBagel@midwest.social · 6 pts · 246d

It means that they are gonna tag along to Venezuela with the US, only learning from last time that is annoying when your citizens protest about joining the US in illegal wars

njm1314@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 246d

Is it time to start calling the people of the UK peasants instead of citizens?

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 246d (1 reply)

I cannot grok what Labour thinks it is doing

mannycalavera@feddit.uk · 15 pts · 246d

To be fair they had a plan to out Tory the Tories and they're delivering.

Wait. That's not fair. I shouldn't have said that. They don't have a plan.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 245d (1 reply)

Sounds like Lammy's already backing off.

RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 245d

He's walked it back to 3 years, that's still abhorrent.