1.Tory MPs threats to shops feeding children & saying food vouchers are used by poor for brothels & crack dens - claim their EXACT word are ‘taken out of context’. When did ‘context’ become an Orwellian concept of ‘double think’ where we are to pretend opposite of what’s said?
2. There is no other “context“ or surrounding framework set out in the original tweets by Tory MPs. threatening shops providing food for children for free, with hostile treatment from HMG. Nor for the quite dreadful slur on poor that they use food vouchers for brothels or Crack.
3. For the record in my work as a criminal lawyer I have never known food vouchers exchanges for Brothels or crack.
The real context is that this generation of Conservatives, with a few exceptions are far nastier than those once complained of by Mrs May as the ‘nasty party’.
4. I suspect the offending MPs who said that use things worst crime in the eyes of colleagues is that they were indiscreet and revealed the true nature of modern conservatism. It is only the uproar in public condemnation that prompts some distancing and possibly a U-turn.
5. It may take a little while for public perception to absorb the essential truth about this administration and its callousness. But it is beginning to happen. The public uproar in support of Marcus Rashford’s simple request to feed hungry children at Christmas suggests a change.
6. I hope there will be a growing ground swell of antipathy and shame among the public for this lot in power now they have seen beyond the the PR & smooth reassurances of Tory spokesman. Like the Wizard of OZ revealed behind the curtain Tories exposed & found wanting.

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9 Oct
Great letter in the Guardian from His honour Michael Heath.
Lawyers are “made of stern stuff. Unlike politicians they do not crave popularity. Johnson will take them on at his peril. That he appears to contemplate doing so shows his lack of judgement.”
We need to make him pay.
I wonder whether the next Tory MP charged with an offence will enjoy the thought that a jury may regard his or her defence lawyer as a “do gooding lefty lawyer”whose advocacy they should dismiss because of the lack of credibility after attacks from the PM and Home Secretary?
If the rumours are true and I will not say any more about it here we may find out soon enough if the damage done by the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary has in fact hamstrung the criminal justice system. It is this government which is a threat to justice not lawyers.
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6 Oct
I think we should withdraw all professional cooperation with the government at every level until we receive a public apology. I think @TheLawSociety @thebarcouncil @TheCriminalBar @CrimeSolicitors @lccsa etc should demand an immediate clarification of PM’s & Home secs comment
2/ Apart from anything else withdrawal of cooperation and further action will focus public attention on the lies being told by the government about lawyers. We need to fight back and make them sorry they came to this fight. I’ve had enough of them. They underpay us & insult us
3/ I know we’re going to hear now from the “what’s the point of the public don’t care brigade” but we are advocates and well-connected and we can make the government pay in adverse publicity at least for their disgusting & dishonest utterances about lawyers. We have to fight NOW
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6 Oct
1/ Mr Johnson has launched another attack. This time on criminal Lawyers. lawgazette.co.uk/news/johnson-o…. He said he wanted to stop ‘ the whole CJS from being hamstrung by what the home secretary would doubtless and rightly call the lefty human rights lawyers and other do-gooders.’
2/ My whole career, along with many other dedicated lawyers has been dedicated to ensuring that people are properly represented and to ensuring only the guilty are convicted whilst the innocent go free. We have done this whilst being grossly under funded. I say that Johnson’s
3/ his remarks are even more unfair and discreditable than those of his strange Home Secretary. I have at times been placed at personal risk in doing my duty. See this previous article on the dangers of public denigration of criminal Lawyers. mintedlaw.wordpress.com/2019/01/29/vio….
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18 Sep
How disgusting it is that Tory MP,s are cutting & pasting an utterly false equation of Parliamentary sovereignty in the Miller Supreme Court case with UK’s obligation to obey the law especially as many disagreed with the SC at the time. Here @thatginamiller puts them straight.👇
2/ Which is exactly what I have been hammering on about for days now. The @neill_bob backstop amendment has nothing to do with parliamentary sovereignty - it is all to do with providing political cover for existing illegality. It is too late by then because if the IMB is passed-
3/ by that time the IMB is already existing evidence itself of the UK’s illegal behaviour because it breaches a negotiated treaty obligations recognised in international law under articles 4:2 & 5. The Rubicon to illegality will have already been crossed by our pound shop Caesar.
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16 Sep
Article 4. 2 of WA
‘The UK shall ensure compliance including as regards the required powers of its judicial &administrative authorities to disapply inconsistent or incompatible domestic provisions, through domestic primary legislation.’ How does parliamentary lock deal with it?🤷‍♂️
2-Article 5 WA Good Faith’:
‘They shall take all appropriate measures, whether general or particular, to ensure fulfilment of the obligations arising from this Agreement & shall refrain from any measures which could jeopardise the attainment of the objectives of this Agreement.
3- With all respect to those Tory MPs who seem to think that a Parliamentary vote (lock) on the bill solves the problem just reading the WA articles 4.2 & 5 reveals the Bill with or without a lock contravenes the WA. This seems indisputable to me and hardly good faith.
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31 Aug
1/ We must not fight the right on their ground. We fight on our ground by exposing the ‘vast complex of lies and those that sell them’. How do we?

The right's culture war is no longer a sideshow to our politics – it is our politics | Nesrine Malik theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
2/ How do we harness the many thousands of decent people in a fight against the right wing culture war lies and the liars that lie them? They have much MSM Press & a sophisticated SM operation dedicated to mislead people. It is a modern version of the Goebbels nazi playbook.
3/ The decent truth loving moderates whether left centre or moderate right need to be brought together in a way that operates as a huge popular rebuttal unit. Relying only upon fact & truth to counter the lies wherever they are identified. Reliable fact checking unleashed! How?
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