From handing over the Chagos Islands to changing the law to put Gerry Adams in line for compensation, from clamping down on tweets to going after Israel, Keir Starmer has consistently made decisions that owe more to the tendentious theories of human rights lawyers than sensible politics and the national interest. Behind many of these bizarre decisions is his old chum Richard Hermer KC, a human rights lawyers of some three decades whom Starmer parachuted into the Lords to serve as his Attorney General, and whose doctrinaire Leftist legal advice is now shipwrecking his Government. The Telegraph‘s Gordon Rayner has more.
Sir Keir, it was said, trusted him to give unbiased opinions rather than trying to please him with favourable interpretations of the law. But that long career in human rights law also meant Lord Hermer had accumulated a collection of clients and cases that would not always sit comfortably with his role as a Cabinet Minister.
As we know, they included Gerry Adams, the former Sinn Fein President, whom Lord Hermer represented when he was sued by victims of IRA bombings.
Mr. Adams is now in line for taxpayer-funded compensation after Sir Keir decided to repeal a law that blocked him from claiming damages for internment in the 1970s.
Lord Hermer was acting for Mr. Adams in a private case in 2023, which was unrelated to Sir Keir’s decision to change the law, and Downing Street has refused to say whether he was involved in discussions about the law change.
But his presence in Government has been keenly felt ever since he was parachuted into the job. In accepting the role of Attorney General, he became the first person since 1922 to take on the job without ever serving in Parliament.
He was soon pressed into action following the riots sparked by the stabbing of three girls in Southport last July.
It was he who advised Sir Keir that it would be lawful to charge social media users with stirring up racial hatred online, which led to controversial prison sentences. He later said people could not “hide behind a keyboard” and would find themselves in a cell if they incited racial and religious hatred online. …
But it is Lord Hermer’s involvement in decisions about foreign policy that have the most far-reaching implications.
He was deeply involved in the decision to withdraw the U.K.’s objections to arrest warrants being issued against Israeli officials by the International Criminal Court, and was instrumental in the decision to suspend some export permits for weapons to Israel last year.
He also said Britain had an “obligation” under international law to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, even though an International Court of Justice advisory opinion on the matter was in no way legally binding.
Although he has never been an MP, Lord Hermer has staunch Left-wing views that have not wavered since his student days. …
Critics believe he has become too powerful in Government. He has issued instructions to lawyers in Government departments to “stand up for the rule of law” and send him “full and frank advice” on the legality of Government decisions.
This, Dr. Yuan Yi Zhu, a senior fellow at Policy Exchange, said in the Spectator, is a sign that the Attorney General effectively held a veto over policies and that lawyers were giving directions to elected politicians, rather than the other way around.
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Send Marco Silva camping to Greenland in winter, see if he thinks there is a climate emergency then.
Billionaires encouraging Hollywood to depress children and young people even more than they are already with doom laden messages about having no future.
Great idea.
As if Hollywood [eg. Disney] has not learned yet the lessons of go woke, go broke.
Will the heroes be the ones to save the world by getting everyone to live in caves with no heating or power?
The clock is ticking for the billionaires to frighten everyone but not in the way they want us to believe we should be.
If green targets like net zero continue to be relaxed and the climate catastrophes do not occur, will the scare tactics fail or will they continue to promote them?
The parasitical elite using propaganda to fear monger the sheep. Nothing much has changed since the Nazis and Communists except the great enemy is humankind in toto, which has deranged the weather. A more anti-reality, anti-science message is hard to find, until you run into the Rona and flying viruses of course.
We are surrounded by criminals, evil, demons and sheep. This propaganda will fail, because the reality of real weather and real climate will contradict the claims. When I grew up I was told the Ice age cometh and that New York would be under water by 1995. I am still waiting.
It is the power of guilt, isn’t it? Many of these foundations are for the children and grandchildren of billionaires. They didn’t make the money, feel they ought to “do good” with it. And perhaps a few of the original billionaires feel guilty, perhaps sub-consciously, as well. There is something in human nature that needs guilt in an evolutionary selection sense. It drives religions, which stick successful groups together, out-competing single questioners. If DS is to get anywhere against this mindset it needs to come up with something better.
No, it is the intoxicating power of control of the masses and enacting deranged ideologies like eugenics.
I agree.
The people pushing eco nuttery are certainly not motivated by guilt. Greed yes, control yes.
Good Energy, based in Chippenham, was a firm I used for a year or so a while back, but soon took my trade elsewhere. They were advertised in another journal I see from time to time, but with me being a Feed-in tariff customer, they had a habit of delaying payment by a few months on the one hand, and borrowing (in effect) on the other, with average monthly direct debits. Their trading system looked a bit amateurish, as well.
Not just “climate change” either, also immigration: NAABP (National Association for Advancement of Billionaire People) buys Gang of Eight, by Steve Sailer – The Unz Review
The climate is failing to heed their propaganda.
If there really was a crisis they wouldn’t have to bother promoting their messages.
Disney’s already been wrecked by woke. Now it looks like they want to destroy the rest of LaLaLand.
Oh goody.
Then this would be the perfect time for a self minded producer/director to make a film set in the not to distant future, say 20 years or so, where the antagonists are furious with the powers that where, and are blaming the powers that be, because trillions have been wasted on a non event! Even riots and civil wars are occurring because of the poverty and distopia caused! On top of this global temperatures are actually falling and more likely heading to a mini ice age so co2 production is encouraged to try and avoid a world cold spell!
I’d say a far more realistic outcome if a future had to be predicted!
Excellent film! I’ll go and watch it
You never know, I might even live long enough to witness it!
The billionaires will only get their way if they buy the studios and quickly become millionaires.
It has long been known that “Who pays the piper calls the tune”.——————- We often hear about “Big Oil”, and that “greedy fossil fuel companies” are in “climate denial” to protect their profits, and that they have an agenda. ——But what makes those people saying this think that there is no “Big Green” or that Renewable Energy companies do not have an agenda and seek to make profit? ——–Ofcourse they do. They do this by claiming the fossil fuel companies are destroying the planet and they will save it. To enable this the bought and paid for politicians and Green Energy subsidy junkies need to get this message across and the message appears everywhere, in News Programs, in Documentaries (by Attenborough etc)., from the weasel politicians pandering to United Nations Sustainable Development Politics, and also even in TV Ads, and drama and in film. —–Remember “The Day After Tomorrow” “Don’t Look Up” and hundreds of others. Propaganda is a powerful tool and that is why Politicians and those seeking to make money from the phony climate change scam use it.
Maybe we can all try out luck at becoming the next big Hollywood screenwriter? I wonder what world cinema-going audiences will make of the premise of my new James Bond film, ‘The Man with the Diesel Van’.
Hilarious. ——–Yet not really far from reality.
The irony is that Bond would now be working FOR Klaus Stavro bloschwab, and is cat!
Someone down here said it’s because they feel guilty. They don’t feel guilty, the absurd concept of ‘climate philanthropy’ is a bourgeoise fashion accessory and a scam that happens to make them a huge amount of money.
These days when you’re a fully established member of the Predator Class aristocracy, the amount you scream you care about something is inversely proportionate to the amount you actually do.
The propaganda is done even at the local newspaper level as well. My local paper has virtually turned into a Party Political Broadcast for the Green Party. Every week there are articles of absurdity like not buying a lawnmower and instead borrowing one to save the planet. No concern for the lawnmower shop or manufacturer ofcourse. But this week really took the biscuit when they suggested that pot holes are caused by extreme weather die to climate change. On the issue of climate change you can make any statement whatsoever and you require not a shred of evidence. But by saying everything that occurs is due to climate change relieves everyone of their responsibility because nothing is ever their fault and is all the fault of climate change, and it is allegedly humans that caused the climate change so pot holes are all our own fault. It isn’t the councils lack of spending on roads or their inefficiency . It is entirely due to us who cause the climate change. ———It was us what did it guv.
And don’t forget the good old “scientists say” fall back for any climate catastrophe news!
“Scientists say”? ———–Mostly all funded by government. —-Yet if you are a scientist not funded by government who has a slightly different view or who might think there really isn’t a “climate crisis” then you will be ignored, ostracised or classed as a fossil fuel apologist.
Who agrees with me that, whether you agree or not with what he says, Chris Morrison is one of the liveliest, most eloquent and most entertaining journalists working in England today?
I usually like reading his articles, although he’s sometimes a bit repetitive, eg, the Net Zero command and control economy phrase.
This reminds me of a poster in Caversham Waitrose. It depicts a cabbage and reads (from memory)
Less is more!
By only buying what we need, we can all make a big difference to CLIMATE CHANGE.
I’m pretty sure the sole reason why it’s on the wall is to have an excuse to put CLIMATE CHANGE there so that people don’t accidentally forget that climate change is real and one cannot escape it.
“Don’t Look Up” starring that huge climate activist DiCaprio was a classic example of stuffing climate apocalypse stuff down throats. It compared the non belief in the “climate crisis” to politicians and media not taking an Asteroid on a collision course with Earth seriously. —In other words a hurtling Asteroid that will hit earth in a few months is just the very same thing as the evidence free pretend to save the planet junk science used as the excuse to transform the global economy away from Capitalism.. ——Absurd but no doubt effective.
I just saw Eammon Holmes and Isabel Webster on GB news this Wednesday morning let climate Activist Jim Dale rant on about Climate this and climate that as if it were the only issue of any importance in the world. The discussion was about Farming versus the Climate. ——-Mr Dale insisted that the “World is on Fire” This is unadulterated JUNK yet Eammon and Isabel sit there incapable of asking the most obvious question like “Where is your evidence that the world is on fire”?—“Where is your evidence that storms floods droughts and wild fires are all getting more frequent and more extreme”? —-Because none of that is occurring, and Eammon and Isabel don’t even know that so Jim Dale gets a free ride. He is like hammer that sees everything as a nail. ——–His message to farmers and to everyone else is that no matter what problems you may have my imaginary Climate Change comes FIRST
Question for Jim Dale: Do you think China’s membership of the WTO should be rescinded in view of its published plans to build 42 new 2 GW coal-fired power stations in the next 5 years?
Most of the films made these days have been rendered almost unwatchable because of woke political correctness. Sounds like it’s all set to get even worse. Fortunately once you’ve seen through it they’re good for a laugh!
GeoengineeringWatch.com
manmade weather will be the end of us all.