🚨KEIR STARMER IS SPEARHEADING ONE OF THE MOST SHOCKING ATTACKS ON CIVIL LIBERTIES IN MODERN TIMES

Trial by jury is a cornerstone of our democracy, and an essential safeguard against authoritarianism. Don't just take my word for it. The jury system is fundamental to our constitutional arrangement. Juries being placed by judges and magistrates is effectively the establishment, rather than your peers who live in your community deciding what justice should be. Justice Secretary David Lammy, then Shadow Justice Secretary, making a powerful argument in 2020 for the need to retain jury trials. That same year, Mr Lammy posted this. Jury trials are a fundamental part of our democratic settlement. Criminal trials without juries are a bad idea. And this. Robert Buckland is wrong to consider proposals to limit jury trials for certain offences. The right to trial by your fellow citizens is fundamental to our democracy. In December 2025, now in government and Secretary of State for Justice, Mr Lammy suddenly announced this. I will create new swift courts within the Crown Court with a judge alone deciding verdicts in tribal either-way cases with a likely sentence of three years or less. To justify the government's plan to scrap jury trials in England and Wales for crimes with sentences of less than three years, Mr Lammy came up with this gem. Our reforms are based on a simple premise, triage. In a hospital, if you scrape your knee, you are not seen by a consultant. On the same premise, in a Crown Court case, if you've stolen a bottle of whisky, you should not get a jury trial. Seriously? What even is this bollocks? I suspect most of us would agree that a three-year prison sentence is a little more serious than a scrape on the knee. It would likely destroy your family life and career. If it were you, would you want guilt and possible imprisonment handed down by the state alone? Or shared with ordinary citizens? People just like you, who at least have some understanding of the circumstances of your life. The whole point of justice in this country is that you'd be tried or judged by 12 of your fellow citizens. If it's a judge, then that changes everything. Judges aren't reflective of the population, for a start. 90% of them are white, 65% of them are men. By definition, they've had a university education. That would be justice decided by a certain sector of society. It's unthinkable, isn't it? The right to trial by jury is an important factor in the delicate balance between the power of the state and the freedom of the individual. The further it's restricted, the greater the imbalance. Those are not my words. They are the words of Keir Starmer. Now, Prime Minister, Starmer is spearheading one of the most shocking attacks on civil liberties in modern times. Even though independent analysis shows these changes would make no meaningful difference to the court backlog. And there is no credible evidence it will make justice swifter. In fact, the backlog in our courts has not been driven by jury trials, but by a combination of long-term funding cuts, court closures and staff shortages, to name but a few. And hold on to your seats for this next bit. Keir Starmer co-wrote a report in the 1990s that found throwing out jury trials led to wrongful convictions. And if all that's not enough for you, more than 3,000 lawyers in England and Wales, including top barristers and retired judges, have signed an open letter to the Prime Minister opposing the proposed government reforms that would limit the use of jury trial. The Prime Minister's backbenchers oppose it. His professional colleagues oppose it. And in a previous life, he himself opposed it. And to be clear, the government has absolutely no mandate for this. Labour never mentioned in its manifesto that it planned to undermine and restrict this fundamental cornerstone of our democracy, a move which would place us on a path toward authoritarian justice. But it's not too late for the government to listen to the thousands of voices of victims, judges, barristers, other legal professionals and academics who oppose this blatant act of constitutional vandalism by the Prime Minister. So contact your MP now. Express your concern and ask that they step up to protect this cherished and precious cornerstone of our democracy and essential safeguard against authoritarianism.