TOM ARMSTRONG
I was thinking of writing a piece on how all the senior members of this grievous government are weirdos, cranks, fanatics, and halfwits who hate their own country and are doing their damnedest to destroy it. But to do each of them justice, this article would need to be five times longer than it is, so I thought I’d settle on one to use as an example. Obviously, my mind first settled on Mad Ed Miliband, but I decided that he’s too far-fetched and therefore too easy a target. And so I settled on one, just as damaging, but who until recently had kept below my radar. Ladies and Gentlemen, without further ado, I give you Richard Simon Hermer, the barmy baron battling to bash Britain back to the bone age.
There is, of course, a long tradition of arrogant government ministers exposing their ignorance and contempt for the people in spectacular fashion while thinking that they cannot possibly be wrong about anything. But fierce as the competition is, few come close to Lord Richard Hermer KC, the UK’s Attorney General, especially in terms of sheer, dangerous ideological zealotry.
Hermer isn’t just another inexperienced technocrat parachuted into high office. He is a walking embodiment of the worst traits of Britain’s legal-activist class: globalist in worldview, obsessed with supranational legal structures, hostile to British sovereignty, and utterly contemptuous of ordinary Britons who dare to challenge the system.
Behind his silk robes and courtroom credentials lies a far-left ideologue who treats his supposedly impartial office as a political pulpit to preach a doctrine of globalist subservience, anti-British hysteria, and a justice system weaponised for ideological ends.
In a recent interview on Radio 4’s Starmer’s Stormy Year, Hermer let the mask slip and confirmed the worst fears of millions of us who believe the justice system no longer serves them equally. Reacting to growing public concern about double standards in policing and prosecutions, Hermer lashed out with characteristic arrogance, branding accusations of a two-tier justice system as “frankly disgusting” and “wrong,” claiming that such criticism “poses dangers” to the UK’s “essential institutions” – such as himself.
“I think it’s offensive to our police. It’s offensive to our crown prosecutors… It is offensive to the courts,” Hermer fumed, conveniently ignoring the experiences of ordinary citizens watching the justice system fester under ideological pressure. But the more Hermer protests, the more obvious the rot becomes. Consider the disgraceful case of Lucy Connolly, prosecuted under Hermer’s direct authority for a single offensive tweet, a speech crime pursued with ruthless efficiency, while leftist extremists, radical activists and Islamist fanatics walk free for far more serious offences. The Times recently exposed how Palestine Action, a soon-to-be proscribed extremist group, openly boasts about lenient treatment from the courts. In a secretly recorded online meeting, their organisers admitted that “we’re seeing people not get charged with the things that they should get charged with,” and that serious offences are quietly dropped or diluted by sympathetic prosecutors. Meanwhile, radical marches calling for the “globalisation of the intifada” and openly supporting terrorism and the killing of Jews are not just tolerated but actively protected by police. Counter-demonstrators peacefully waving Israeli flags or condemning Hamas? Arrested. If that isn’t a two-tier justice system, what is?
Yet Hermer, with all the smug condescension of Britain’s legal elite and general establishment, dismisses these concerns as dangerous nonsense, arrogantly declaring that we have “one justice system” and demanding the public “get behind it.” No, no Dickie lad, not on your nelly: blind obedience to a system riddled with double standards is not a civic duty, let alone patriotism — it is complicity in tyranny.
Hermer’s warped legal philosophy is rooted in an unwavering, near-religious devotion to supranational institutions and globalist ideology, no matter how much they undermine British democracy or the rights of ordinary people. Take his recent, disgraceful speech at the Royal United Services Institute, where Hermer compared supporters of national sovereignty, including Nigel Farage’s Reform UK and Kemi Badenoch’s Tories, to Nazis. Yes, you read that correctly. Britain’s top legal adviser publicly claimed that those advocating withdrawal from the European Court of Human Rights were adopting the legal theories of Carl Schmitt, the notorious jurist of Hitler’s Germany. It was a grotesque, slanderous comparison for which Hermer was rightly forced into a humiliating, reluctant apology. I put it to you that the only difference between Hermer and Schmitt is that Schmitt was a National Socialist and Hermer, like Stalin, was an International Socialist — equally murderous ideologies.
His globalist credentials don’t stop there. Hermer also played a key role in the handover of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, citing Britain’s supposed “obligations under international law” despite the fact that the International Court of Justice’s opinion on the matter was purely advisory and non-binding and that it made no sense at all. Time and again, Hermer has shown that, in his eyes, British law and sovereignty come a distant second to appeasing unaccountable international bodies and fashionable leftist causes.
But it’s not only our sovereignty this absurdity of an Attorney General hates, it’s also our prosperity and history (though, truth be told, he has only the halfwit Leftist understanding of it). Hermer advised Caribbean nations seeking ‘reparations’ from us for slavery. The treacherous fool worked with the Caribbean Community (Caricom) when they drew up demands for payments from Britain, according to legal sources. Now, the chief legal adviser to the Government is reported to have helped human rights lawyers a decade ago to prepare a legal case for slavery reparations that Caribbean nations could bring against the UK: a claim for vast amounts by people who have never been slaves and are better off than most in the countries that sold the slaves in the first place (no claim that way, though) to be paid by folk who have never owned slaves and who led the world in abolishing the evil slave trade.
The claim for ‘reparations’ was partly inspired by a 2013 case in which the British government was successfully sued by Kenyan ‘victims’ of alleged and dubious torture during the 1952 to 1960 Mau Mau emergency. Guess who acted for the claimants after being engaged by human rights law firm Leigh Day? Right first time.
Caricom hired Leigh Day for advice on how to bring a similar case, and it is understood legal advice was offered as part of this process by Lord Hermer, who in a 2020 podcast recalled “representing Caribbean nations on a potential reparations case.” An updated list of demands is likely to be put to the UK again by a delegation of Caribbean officials who are set to visit London this year, as former colonies seek up to £18 trillion in compensation. Concerns over conflicts of interest seem reasonable but will no doubt be dismissed as ‘disgusting.’
Hermer has eagerly reinvented his post as a platform for partisan moralising and globalist cheerleading. Whether it’s smearing critics of supranational law as Nazis, denouncing legitimate public concern over justice double standards, or pushing Britain into legally dubious international concessions, Hermer behaves less like a legal adviser and more like an over-promoted student activist intoxicated by the sound of his own voice and given the key to government. The role of Attorney General is meant to be one of quiet, impartial legal guidance , not that of a grandstanding political buffoon shooting his mouth off on every ideological hobby horse.
And the consequences are plain to see. We have an emboldened activist class operating with impunity and ensuring that ordinary citizens are silenced and criminalised for wrongthink. We have a justice system manipulated to serve ideological interests, not equal fairness, and national sovereignty sacrificed on the altar of a mythical international law. It should be clear to all that Hermer’s deep-rooted ideological bias and willingness to use his office to impose it makes him a very dangerous man indeed.
Hermer’s sneering dismissal of the two-tier justice reality is not an isolated incident. It is symptomatic of a broader sickness within the British state: the preference for convenient lies over uncomfortable truths. This is the same state that covered up the mass rape of working-class girls by grooming gangs to protect multicultural illusions, a crime in which Hermer’s mate Starmer is deeply implicated. It is a state that criminalises British veterans for battlefield decisions while tolerating extremist agitators in our streets, and smears opponents of mass migration as xenophobes while housing illegal migrants in taxpayer-funded hotels. It is also a state that ludicrously and desperately blames Russia for the small boats crisis, rather than face up to self-inflicted pull factors of free housing and lax enforcement. Hermer, far from being an impartial legal shield against this rot, is a willing enabler of it and is a key figure in perpetuating the lies, silencing dissent, and using legal mechanisms to crush those who resist.
Britain does not need another legal-activist grandstanding for globalist approval while ordinary citizens suffer under an unequal, ideologically corrupted justice system. We need an Attorney General who upholds British sovereignty, applies the law impartially, protects free speech, and defends the rights of all Britons — not one who sneers at national democracy, slanders his political opponents, and presides over the dangerous charade that is the UK’s two-tier justice system.
Hermer has chosen his side: the side of globalist institutions, far-left activism, and ideological legal warfare. It’s time the British people choose theirs, and demand the return of real justice, real sovereignty, and real accountability.
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.Lord Hermer’s denial of two-tier justice is a disgrace
The Attorney General has put his foot in it again
This week, Lord Hermer was asked by the BBC about two-tier justice, the idea that the British state treats ethnic minorities more favourably than the white working class.
This perception, so corrosive to faith in the rule of law, has become widespread since the crackdown on the Southport unrest last summer. Never one to read the public or political mood, Starmer’s lawyer ally simply issued a blunt and contemptuous denial.
Such claims are “frankly disgusting”, he said, and indeed “offensive” to police, prosecutors and courts. He added that instead of criticising the British justice system, politicians “need to get behind it, not seek to undermine it”. (Perhaps he should have a word with the justice secretary, Shabana Mahmood, who earlier this year had to intervene to block sentencing guidelines which she herself labelled “two-tier”.)
It’s a woefully tone-deaf performance, suggesting that Hermer doesn’t even understand why the Government’s response to the Southport unrest gave rise to charges of unfairness. He argued that people were wrong to compare the policing of London Gaza marches, often awash with anti-Semitism but “not producing violence”, with the Southport unrest, since this saw attacks against police officers.
No one would say violent rioters shouldn’t be treated robustly. But what Hermer ignores is the way the state dealt fiercely with white, working-class Southport rioters in a way it never does with more favoured groups.
Just weeks before, when rioters in ultra-diverse Harehills, Leeds, overturned a police car and set a bus on fire, the police reportedly ran away.
Meanwhile, days into the Southport unrest, when armed Muslim mobs formed supposedly in order to protect their local communities, the police let them have free rein. In Birmingham on August 5, the result was a pub being attacked, with a man outside it suffering a lacerated liver, amid other disorder.
Even more than this double-standard though, it is the punitive crackdown on online speech that has caused outrage.While there were many who found themselves charged and remanded in custody for social media posts, the most high-profile is Lucy Connolly, imprisoned for 31 months for a single nasty tweet (which she later deleted) on the night of the Southport murders.
As the Telegraph disclosed earlier this month, Lord Hermer personally approved the prosecution of Mrs Connolly for stirring up racial hatred, despite having the constitutional power not to. Hermer has also declined to seek to review lenient sentences for gang grooming offenders – but in his political judgement, it was in the public interest for Connolly to face up to seven years in prison over one nasty tweet. Former Attorney General Suella Braverman says she would not have consented to the charge.
“We don’t have a two-tiered justice system”, insists Hermer. We have an “independent justice system”. But can anyone really look at the state response to Southport and claim it “independent” from politics?
Sir Keir Starmer politicised the justice system the moment he claimed all of those involved were “far-Right thugs”, who had come from out of town to cause chaos. In reality, subsequent analysis of the arrest data along with a recent report by the police inspectorate have poured cold water on those claims.
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