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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Roger Scruton described the USSR lasting for so long as the software of Bolshevism ossifying into hardware. Russians started each day with the sole determination to survive that day. To do so meant going along with things ‘to get by’, ‘reading the script to fit it’.
Peter Hitchens observed that when communism collapsed in Russia the waste bins in the streets were filled with party membership cards being burned. Whether the owners had read Marx and understood the theories or not, their allegiance was just performative; a necessity to survive.
Katie Lam read the transcripts from the court hearings to a largely empty House. The expressions on the faces of the other MPs was as if they had been passengers on the Titanic and had been informed that a cold sea awaited them, not the bright lights of Broadway and the expensive shops of Fifth Avenue.
Julie Bindel can write her articles on the phenomena of white girls used as prey animals until the sun turns red but they will always be the same. Just cut and paste, Julie, to save your time and ours.
If Reform UK or any other political organisation is used to represent a ‘white community’, both merely become part of the system of governance known as diversity. It would, along with the demonstrable fact that, as Ben Cobley says, everyone just knows the rules of how they must fit into being governed, proves that the software of diversity has ossified into hardware.
Those who are troubled by the way in which so many of the most vile crimes have clearly been swept under the carpet by so many for so long should contribute to They Knew. It is clear that the current government have every intention of doing all they can to keep the truth hidden, only legal action by the people for the victims can bring it to light.
How odd of God to choose liberal social science of the ungodly West to advance the fortunes of a religion of late antiquity.
Alternatively, if like Darwin one didn’t believe in a deity and substituted evolution for the historicism of the religion, this fusion of two things that would never have met in the natural world would be like the way in which the x Cupressocyparis leylandii was created.
Reversion – becoming a ‘revert’ – is the premise behind the assertion that Britain is a nation of immigrants.
A person’s ancestors may have been in the territory, in the polity, for centuries, but their descendent living today has just ‘forgotten’ that they are an immigrant. Believing that they are indigenous is ‘false consciousness’. They must just revert in order to become as one with all other immigrants.
Alternatively, that reversion might be called ‘reverse assimilation’. Unlike some colonial expats in the British Empire, they do not need to leave the shores of Britain to have ‘gone native’, as the Victorians called it.
The simplistic DEI mantra, in its current form, is a form of control. Akin to a divide and conquer strategy. It starts off as a mix of minority groups vs the white ethnicity, sexually straight, majority. However, as the minority groups rise in size, they start squabbling among themselves and massive discriminations across these groups become visible, as the tensions of the world replicate themselves within British society. One example of this is eg South Asians in Britain going on about racism and discrimination but anyone who has worked in such nations of origin already knows that those cultures are near the top of the global list for blatant racism, discrimination, exploitation, and injustices. Funnily enough, this is hardly ever discussed in Britain, which provides clues as to what is really going on here. The technical terms to describe this are opportunism and corruption. This phenomenon has become more apparent but, based on the current trajectory, it is going to become much worse, with a looming risk of societal disintegration.