Lammy continuing to decimate our historic Constitution, now the right to appeal is going
The latest hammer blow to the worlds most renowned justice system raises even more concerns that miscarriages of justice will be the result
The signals were there very early on. During a press conference on August 4, 2024, Starmer stated that those involved in the Southport violence after 3 children were massacred at a Taylor Swift dance party, would be ‘arrested, held on remand, charged, and convicted’. Critics, including some legal observers, argued that by declaring individuals would be ‘convicted’ before they had even been tried, a former Director of Public Prosecutions who now has even more influence on the entire government machine being Prime Minister, was undermining the presumption of innocence and prejudicing future trials.
Freedoms continually eroded
From this point it’s got so much worse and it feels to millions like we are living in a police state for regular citizens. Increased monitoring, surveillance, Digital ID without mandate, thousands of extra staff checking our social media comments, fights with Apple over giving access to all our photos and messages, changes to Home Office definitions of terrorism, police visits in the middle of the night and more arrests for voicing an opinion than in Russia. Democracy and freedoms are being diminished whilst, allegedly, as Starmer said to Trump ‘We’ve had free speech for a very, very long time in the United Kingdom, and it will last for a very, very long time.’ which by the growing mountain of evidence, is simply untrue.
Most recently was the removal of the right to jury trials which Lammy said in his own report was a ‘success story’ that acts as a ‘filter for prejudice’ and a vital safeguard for public trust. This decision provoked outrage across society from regular citizens to the Bar & Law Society who described the move as taking a ‘wrecking ball’ to justice, arguing that underfunding, not juries, was is the cause of the backlog.
Prisoners on the run
When it came to mistaken prisoner releases Lammy recently implied twice in interviews that mistakenly releasing prisoners started and spiked in 2021 under the previous administrator, which was wholly untrue. There was no spike in 2021, in fact the figures were reducing. The spike was in 2025 because of his harebrained schemes of releasing people early causing chaos with a number of these still on the run.
Not only are they still on the run, but thanks to a whistleblower at the Home Office that was highlighted in the Commons recently by Rupert Lowe MP, we also know that another 53,298 illegal migrants have breached immigration bail or escaped detention and whose whereabouts are unknown.
If all this still isnt enough, 736 foreign criminals including those convicted of serious crimes such as rape and murder have also absconded after being released from prison before they could be deported and again the Government have no idea where they are.
Supreme Court decisions ignored
The law is also not being enforced nor decisions recognised across swathes of the UK with the supreme court ruling on gender being the most blatant. They ruled that sex is based on ideology (as if that needed to be clarified in the first place). One women’s prison still has 5 convicted men given unsupervised access to women only spaces. Womens spaces are for women only, it’s as simple as that. Other institutions including the NHS and Police Scotland are still not complying with the Supreme Court decision.
Miscarriages of justice are a certainty
So we learn that the Labour government are removing the right to appeal where defendants convicted by magistrates will no longer have an automatic right to a full re-hearing in the Crown Court. They must instead apply for permission to appeal. Appeals will be also be limited primarily to points of law rather than a full factual re-trial.
The move follows recommendations from a review by retired judge Sir Brian Leveson, who suggested a permission stage to improve court efficiency. However, the proposal has faced significant backlash.
Data shows that approximately 40% of appeals from magistrates’ courts are currently successful (rising to 44% for sentencing appeals). Removing the automatic right WILL lead to miscarriages of justice based on this data. This will ruin peoples lives and innocents will be convicted.
Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick and several rebel Labour MPs have also urged David Lammy to pause the plan, arguing it erodes fundamental legal safeguards, on top of removing right to trials by jury.
The principles of Law & Order in the united Kingdom are being eroded and innocent people will be incarcerated. Labour will be held accountable.
