Thursday, 26 September 2019

A unanimous decision challenged


Subject: A unanimous decision challenged 

It runs to the deep seated crisis as to who we have become in the 21st century when, by a unanimous decision the Law Lords place their collective minds together and make a decision, the tabloid press openly contest the decision. Years ago it would be unheard of to go head to head with the judiciary, it was instinctive that the balance of power in the country wouldn't be served by whipping up opposition and resentment. 
The Law of the land was held to be technically watertight, a fine tuned assessment of previous rulings based on the opinion that law was, in part like ethics and morals, a set of assumptions which had been tested to destruction down the years and was the best basis on which to secure democratic government. The idea that editors would let their dogs loose and write headlines designed to raise the public into a frenzy of opposition to a legal judgement was unheard of.
This morning the Sun runs with the headline " Our readers slam the proroguing farce and 'Oh you are lawful but we don't like you'" aside a picture of the chair of the Law Lords.
The Express goes with "Unlawful wats lawful about denying 17.4 million Brexit voters".
The Daily Mail splashes its headline "Boris blasts 'Who runs Britain"
These papers are deliberately vilifying the decision of the highest Court in the land and urging their readers to do the same. 
In olden times this would be seen as treason but it's the state of this country today that the editors and owners think it's perfectly ok and of course profitable to stoke up resentment amongst their readership and the wider public. Of course many people will have their own ideas about the decision based on their notion of what they want the outcome of Brexit to be but it's unconscionable to openly provide a platform for revolt on this cherished symbol of what makes a state civilised.
Without the acceptance of law you have anarchy and the harm you do to the fabric of a society rooted in the acceptance of its courts is unacceptable. 

The Tower would be an acceptable place for these media ragamuffins to cool their heels but we can't do without the income of the tourist flocking through the gates. Perhaps a flogging on Tower Green or at least time spent in the stocks with cheap rotting veg to throw at them (preferably taken from a truck held up at Dover) as an alternative to Watching East Enders.

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