Leading Labour peer Lord Glasman has said Attorney General Richard Hermer is an “arrogant, progressive fool” and called for him to quit. The Telegraph has more.
In signs of a deepening split in the party, Lord Glasman, who founded the Blue Labour group which focuses on socially conservative values, said that Lord Hermer has “got to go” as he believes that “law is a replacement for politics”.
It comes after a series of conflict of interest rows that have engulfed the Attorney General since it emerged that Gerry Adams, one of his former clients, could receive compensation for his detention during the Troubles.
The Telegraph revealed on Monday that he has previously advised Caribbean nations seeking reparations for slavery.
Lord Glasman told the New Statesman: “He’s got to go. He is the absolute archetype of an arrogant, progressive fool who thinks that law is a replacement for politics. … They talk about the rule of law but what they want is a rule of lawyers.”
There have also been reports of Lord Hermer strengthening guidance to tell lawyers that they must advise ministers if they think policies could be unlawful, prompting accusations that he is delaying Government work.
Sir Keir Starmer appointed Lord Hermer to the role, with the pair having been personal friends since the Prime Minister’s days as a barrister.
Lord Glasman was the only Labour figure to attend the inauguration of President Trump last month and expressed frustration with the Government’s handling of the Chagos Islands deal.
Nigel Farage has called for Lord Hermer to be sacked over the deal, which would see Britain hand over the archipelago to Mauritius, as he accused him of prioritising international law over the national interest.
The Attorney General signalled that he welcomed a fight with his critics in an interview with The House magazine last month.
He told the publication: “If they are criticising the Government because it wants to comply with international law, if they want to pick a fight with the Government because it says international law is important and that we want to uphold international law, then that’s a fight I’d quite look forward to.”
He added that compliance with international law is “absolutely essential for peace and security” and “allows markets to flourish with certainty”. Lord Hermer was contacted for comment.
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Stupid is as stupid does.
Vaccination has become a bit like global warming, an article of faith and religion rather than fact
The cock up theory: bureaucracy moves slowly, once you put in regulations they’re hard to dismantle, politicians are spineless and incompetent.
The bad actors theory: global governance enthusiasts like Macron are holding the line, trying to lay the foundations for a social credit system, central bank digital currency, general enslavement of the population.
(I refuse any longer to refer to the non-cock up explanation of things as a conspiracy theory. The WEF and its intentions to promote world government are public and well known. The ambitions of Bill Gates to vaccinate and track every human on the planet have been stated by him openly on numerous occasions and his influence through GAVI and the WHO are plain to see. Central bankers have announced the development of CBDCs. The admiration of the Chinese social credit system by many western policy makers is real. The ambition of subjecting the world population to unprecedented control by a very powerful few is real and uncomfortably close to being realised. And those who refer to any of that as a conspiracy theories are the delusional ones.)
Well said. And to add to that, anyone who clings to the idea that there is anything benign about certification schemes for vaccines that demonstrably aren’t vaccines, is mentally ill, dangerous, and needs help. My own sister is one of them, she has a PhD and the level of delusion and cognitive dissonance is breathtaking.
W*nkers.
But I’ll just continue to play them with my self-administered aka no physical contact swab done in a national pharmacy chain for 20 quid, and then drive around all the Schengen countries regardless of their rules.
Just worked fine last month.
And the French customs agent in Folkestone didn’t even look at the test sheet. Even they now know it is and treat it like a farce.
Can you be more specific about the self adminsitered no-contact swab thing? I’m very interested in swabing my dog.
The pharmacy I use lets you do it yourself, oral or nasal, while they fill out the form.
No need to touch your gum when you stick it in your mouth, just doing an air swab.
I am reliably informed that dog slobber will provide the necessary result and also, rather than repeatedly paying for so called tests, keep the original negative result on file and use pdf edit to arrange the dates to suit your travel needs. As mentioned above, the French border police/douanes don’t care. (I believe the burden of ‘proof’ lies with the carrier anyway).
Well there goes our driving trip to Greece.
Macrony just cant stop helping the globalist cause.
Can you just say you’re driving through? Belgium is sensible. Not the most scenic route perhaps though.
‘The spike in the number of cases has occurred in spite of the vaccination rates in the country.’
‘In spite of’? Try ‘because of’.
Remember when, if everybody gets vaccinated we can all get back to normal?
And yet they won’t admit they were wrong and still insist people get booster doses despite overwhelming evidence that vaccination is driving increased infections and increasing the risk of hospitalisation and death from CoVid and a significant risk of injury or death from the vaccines themselves.
Just how much longer can they keep this up?
But the vaccines have saved 20,000,000 people because Neil says so.
Until the sheeple wake up ‘they’ can keep this going forever.
Hang on. I thought it was about a virus!! Funny how crack downs come after G7 meetings. Perhaps we should ban these get togethers?
FFS.
Les morons.
What’s worse are the countries that don’t let the unvaccinated in at all (though they’re all pretty stupid, as all the measures are bollocks).
I think we need to abandon all hopes of this thing going away. Sorry.
What a depressing but most likely true comment
Hmm I was planning to spend the ski season out there next year. Not if it means I have to have another booster. Time to find another country.
>would have to show proof they are immune [sic] to COVID-19.
My head is wobbling so much at this that I risk it falling off. The most ludicrous comment from a government in a long time.
“Have none of them noticed that vaccination does not prevent infection or transmission?”
Of course the do
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Macron a WEF member/puppet. What did you expect?? Despite the fact that EVERYONE knows these experimental biologicals don’t work, cause adverse events and deaths and repeat infection…..France continues its vaxx entry requirements
“The bill comes following a vote in the European Parliament last week to approve an EU Commission proposal to renew the EU Digital Covid Certificate for another year.”
…and in May 2023, the Etias visa waiver scheme comes into being, whereby passport and health details have to be input online to apply for the waiver to visit Europe. More tracking and surveillance…
https://www.etiasvisa.com/etias-news/etias-role-protecting-public-health