Re: Boris Johnson plots 'Revenge'
Originally Posted by
shropshiregirl
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Look out! Boris Johnson is planniing ‘’revenge’ on the Judiciary.
Apparently.he used the Queen’s speech to announce plans for a shake-up by introducing a ‘’constitution, democracy and rights commission’’ aiming to ‘’improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the criminal justice process’’
In plain speak, Boris is seeking to get even with the ‘’Remain elites’’ in the Supreme Court after being humiliated in September by their ruling against his prorogation as being unlawful, thwarting his Brexit plans.
Spider woman, Lady Hale,said in her farewell speech as outgoing Supreme Court President, that ‘’Judges have not been appointed for party political reasons in this country since at least the Second World War’’ Hmm. perhaps she and her cohorts, who were originally set up by wannabe King Blair to work alongside the EU, should have thought of that before making their ruling!!?
Looks likely they will in future be chosen politically rather than by recommendation to Parliament and the Queen.
The BBC’s Newsnight quoted a Whitehall source as saying changes to the way the Supreme Court works will be at the heart of the reforms.
Also, Anti Brexit wreckers such as Gina Miller will no longer be able to use the courts at every opportunity in order to thwart Brexit, as she threatens to do.
Your thoughts on this please...
I'm very pleased, and relieved, to hear that Boris is doing something about unelected judges trying to overrule Parliament.
I understood that Parliament was sovereign in our democratic country. In other words, our elected government is entitled to create laws, assuming they have a majority agreement in the Commons.
Recently, the Supreme Court attempted to overrule such decisions.
I'm not sure about judges being 'chosen politically', though. Does that mean that the government should be free to choose judges?
I'd prefer judges to be elected by the people, just as our MPs are. Perhaps a similar frequency of five years, or maybe less. In addition, a record should be kept of trials and sentences for each judge so that the public can see who has been over-lenient, just as we occasionally see reported in the press.