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Hermer and Starmer Masquerade as Human Rights Laywers. But in Reality They’re Merciless Authoritarians

Lord Hermer, the Attorney General, didn't just sign off on the prosecution of Lucy Connolly, says Laurie Wastell. He also consented to the prosecution of Jamie Michael and Mark Heath, both of whom were acquitted.

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The way the state went after anyone even tangentially involved in the unrest that followed the Southport murders last year was deeply political, as the Daily Sceptic has been reporting since last year.

The most high-profile casualty of this crackdown is Lucy Connolly, mother and childminder and wife of a Conservative councillor, for whose swiftly deleted tweet on the night of the murders she is currently serving a 31-month prison sentence.

In yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph, I revealed that Lord Hermer, the Attorney General and a close ally of Sir Keir Starmer, personally signed off on the prosecution of Lucy Connolly last summer for stirring up racial hatred. Richard Hermer is quite the character: as well as his reputation as a crusading Leftie human rights lawyer who’ll happily defend the likes of Gerry Adams, readers may recall my investigation for the Daily Sceptic about Lord Hermer's longstanding association with far-Left Searchlight Magazine, which last year called him a “friend” and a “dedicated anti-fascist”. Never far from negative press, it has already been a terrible week for the Leftie lawyer, after Hermer faced calls to resign and was forced to apologise for comments in a speech to a think tank comparing people who want to leave the ECHR to Nazis.

The revelation about Connolly prompted fresh calls for Lord Hermer to be sacked, from both Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch and Chris Philp, the Shadow Home Secretary, while Reform’s Nigel Farage has slammed “two-tier human right[s]

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Old Brit
Old Brit
1 year ago

Never trust a Fabian Socialist. Their motto is a wolf in sheep’s clothing

ACW
ACW
1 year ago

The Ministry of Truth

Fiction by Orwell in his book; 1984

Has become fact with the behaviour of these two thought criminals

Claphamanian
Claphamanian
1 year ago

Unfortunately, Ms Connolly declared her opposition to the progressive doctrine of diversity. At her sentencing, the judge reprimanded her for it.

RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  Claphamanian

She didn’t, at least not in the incriminated statement. She declared her opposition to illegal immigration.

Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

Hermer is a traitorous schmuck. Of course he has to wheel out the predictable and tedious comparisons to Nazis;

”The UK Attorney General has been forced into a humiliating retreat after sparking outrage by comparing calls to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to 1930s Nazi Germany.
Lord Hermer, an unelected Labour peer and close ally of Keir Starmer, triggered fury during a speech at the RUSI defence think tank on Thursday. He claimed that critics of international law—namely Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch—were echoing the “siren song” of Nazi legal theorist Carl Schmitt, who justified Hitler’s seizure of power.

Hermer claimed that rejecting international law was “not a new song,” linking it to the Nazi takeover of legal institutions. He said this mindset was “reckless and dangerous” and would make Britain “less prosperous and secure.”
The backlash was immediate. Reform UK leader Nigel Farage slammed the remarks as “disgraceful,” accusing Hermer and Labour leader Keir Starmer of being “out of touch” with the British public.

“The next general election will see leaving the ECHR at the centre of debate,” Farage declared. “Our national interest is being damaged by dangerous young men crossing… Read more »

RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

Hermer and Starmer are both traitorous liars because what they keep referring to as international law while implying that the UK is somehow subject to it still doesn’t exist. Internationally, there are only treaties between sovereign countries these are free to rescind at any time.

Heretic
Heretic
1 year ago
Reply to  RW

Crucial point!

RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago

A few days ago, when asked a direct question about Lucy Connolly after she’d had her appeal refused, Two-Tier said “he wasn’t familiar with the details of the case.”

That was a clear and blatant lie and someone in Parliament needs to call him out on it: she is clearly his and Harmer’s Political Prisoner ….. a human warning to the white working class that they mustn’t “get uppity.”

There is only one upside to this disgraceful abuse of justice in the UK – and that is going to be the destruction of the Labour Party followed by the dismantling of the “Human Rights for Foreign Criminals and Terrorists” abuse they’ve imposed on us.

Heretic
Heretic
1 year ago
Reply to  RTSC

The destruction of the LibLabCon Uniparty, you mean, who are ALL COMPLICIT in this.

RW
RW
1 year ago

Following the peak of the disorder in August, Lord Hermer described the jailing of individuals advocating for attacks on migrant hotels as “a stark warning that you cannot hide behind your keyboard”.

Publishing stuff on a prominent open internet publishing platform using well-known online personas which can easily be traced back to the real people behind them is the exact opposite of hiding. It’s making a rethorical stand in public.

Jay Arrow
Jay Arrow
1 year ago

Please read Claire Bullivant’s Appeal at “Brexit Facts4EU.Org”. There is still just time to Stop the Chagos Island Betrayal.
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/savechagos

WillP
WillP
1 year ago

We are being ruled over by the psychological perverts of the Left, enabled by inner circle cliques of arrogant filth like the Bildeberg group and the Atlantic Council.

Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago

They fear truth which is not their truth.

Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
1 year ago

And the worst purveyor of misinformation, disinformation and downright lies is GUV.UK.

Lockdown Sceptic
Lockdown Sceptic
1 year ago

Human Rights Lawyers Hate Freedom

Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago

I think they’re demonstrably *anti* human rights, unless they’re pertaining to those belonging to criminals/illegals. These appear to trump those of the law-abiding public in general. And where were they all during the Scamdemic, when people’s basic human rights and civil liberties were being abused left, right and centre?

RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

They’re just bit selective wrt whom exactly they consider human. Refugees crossing the UK border illegally to flee from France are eminently very human. People married to Tory scum who don’t like this not so much. They’re far right instead which makes this a whole different ballgame.

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