"Mr. Robert Marshall-Andrews (Medway) (Lab): It is a pleasure and a privilege, as always, to follow the right hon. and learned Member for Folkestone and Hythe (Mr. Howard). The sentiments and views that he expressed I agree with entirely, and, indeed, it has meant that I can expunge totally from my speech the long passage that I had on intercept evidence, so he has done the House a considerable service.
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The process that I have described has caused chaos in the criminal courts and repeated injustice in respect of victims and the sentencing of offenders. I invite the Minister or the Secretary of State to attend judicial seminars, as I do in my capacity as a recorder of the Crown court. It would be a pleasure to see the Minister there anyway, but I would invite her to appear before the judges, who, even to this day, remain members of the best cadre of such professional people in the world. I would like her to experience their raw anger and incredulity at the byzantine processes, the ludicrous homilies and mantras and the wholly inappropriate sentences that they are forced to wheel out day after day to burnish the Government’s populist credentials.
David Davis: Can we come too?
Mr. Marshall-Andrews: Let me think about that."
Maybe politics is changing and instead or "right" v "left", "capitalist" v "socialist", the real split is "libertarian" v "authoritarian". Time will tell...
Oddly the BBC have decided not cover this story, although the main UK newspapers have covered it. "Tory splits", like "Tory sleaze" is a serious BBC news story and will be given headline coverage. "Labour splits" and "Labour sleaze" will be covered briefly if at all and with as much damage limitation as possible. The BBC's pro-Labour bias is beyond a joke, but what can be done about it?
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