In 2018 I published a book on how politicians have broken our criminal justice system.
In 2020 I published a book on how politicians lie to us about the law.
Still didn’t foresee this. The PM blaming us - the ones keeping the system running - for the state of criminal justice.
In 2020 I published a book on how politicians lie to us about the law.
Still didn’t foresee this. The PM blaming us - the ones keeping the system running - for the state of criminal justice.
https://twitter.com/Femi_Sorry/status/1313431609291530240
For years we have worked ourselves into ill-health, forsaking our families each weekend and late into the evening, for free, to keep the criminal justice system hanging together. Because @BorisJohnson’s party has destroyed justice and we, unlike some, feel a sense of public duty.
We have sat with distraught victims of the most serious crimes, having to apologetically explain that there is no justice for them, because @BorisJohnson and his pals have slashed the court budgets, the police, the CPS, probation - every part of the system. We pick up the pieces.
We have watched as the waiting list for justice has grown from months to YEARS. We watch guilty people game the system and innocent people trapped in a neverending hell
Because @BorisJohnson refuses to fund the courts, and prefers to make #FakeLaw boasts about “tough sentences”.
Because @BorisJohnson refuses to fund the courts, and prefers to make #FakeLaw boasts about “tough sentences”.
Today, if you are falsely accused of a crime and then found not guilty, you can be bankrupted. The state can refuse you legal aid and refuse to pay for your private legal fees.
This is the deliberate choice of @BorisJohnson and @pritipatel.
They choose to penalise the innocent.
This is the deliberate choice of @BorisJohnson and @pritipatel.
They choose to penalise the innocent.
Our prisons as they currently function serve only one purpose - to make damaged people worse.
Overcrowded hovels of self-harm, violence and death. There is no rehabilitation and no redemption. Because @BorisJohnson cares only about filling the prisons. Not making us safer.
Overcrowded hovels of self-harm, violence and death. There is no rehabilitation and no redemption. Because @BorisJohnson cares only about filling the prisons. Not making us safer.
Meanwhile, criminal barristers and solicitors toil 80-hour weeks for pay that can fall below minimum wage, as we are painted as fat cats by the porkiest moggies ever stuffed around a Cabinet table.
We don’t ask for sympathy. We just do our jobs, upholding the rule of law.
We don’t ask for sympathy. We just do our jobs, upholding the rule of law.
So I agree with @BorisJohnson - the criminal justice system is hamstrung.
But not by us.
Not by the people turning up every day to prosecute and defend criminal cases, in the face of impossible odds.
By you, @BorisJohnson and your colleagues.
Take some fucking responsibility.
But not by us.
Not by the people turning up every day to prosecute and defend criminal cases, in the face of impossible odds.
By you, @BorisJohnson and your colleagues.
Take some fucking responsibility.
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