President Simon Davis:
“The fact that a lawyer represents an asylum seeker does not make them a ‘lefty lawyer’. It simply makes them a lawyer. Attacks on members of the legal profession for doing their jobs do our country no credit. Slinging insults at lawyers undermines rule of law in an area where views are already hotly held on all sides & risks leading not just to verbal abuse but to lawyers being physically attacked for doing their job”.
We have written to the Home Office asking them to change the language they are using https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/oct/06/home-secretarys-dangerous-rhetoric-putting-lawyers-at-risk
In response to one comment the Law Society went on:
We are the membership organisation for solicitors, not a trade union and the Solicitors Regulation Authority is the independent regulator for the profession. 53% of asylum applications are granted on initial application, rising to 73% when appeals are taken into account. The Law Society has long called for improvements to the UK asylum and immigration system, which is beset with delays and poor decision-making.
Apart from a single comment every other contributor damned the government and specifically Priti Patel for her hostility and lack of understanding.
A representative from Deutsche Bank no less stated:
‘I am really pleased to see Simon Davis and the Law Society taking this robust and wholly merited stance. Attacking the legal profession in this manner is straight out of the playbook of governing a fascist state or banana republic.’
And a director of Zero Carbon Futures and a CBE stated:
‘I am not in the legal profession but I also heard the words used and I agree they are not acceptable. If we want to stand alone stop copying the Trump administration.’
The warnings have been there for a while:
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Not enough noise has been made about this, anyone highlighting the severity of this, usually met with it has always been that way! IF COURSE it has always been that way two opposite ends of the spectrum, but it’s not been so starkly pronounced that the left are “The Enemy of The State” since it happened in the 1930s!
If you need a reminder “[Corbyn’s] heart is in the right place and many of his policies are sound. But he has allowed himself to be portrayed as a left-wing extremist.” Steven Hawking [Proof of just how stupid “Intelligent” people are]! Look at the Attacks on JC as Far Left from the Right Wing Conservative Party and the even Farther Right Wing New-Labour TORY Party and the EVEN Farther Far Right Wing Zionist Lobby, look at the words used and the barrages of attacks and hollow accusations, impossible to defend in a given time frame as though scripted by Goebbels and Luntz in the Pitch Black Dark Underbelly of Parliament!
So how did the Centre Left UK Labour Party become Far Left Extremists? I believe this happened as planned by the introduction of The New-Labour TORY Parasite Party and their Thatcherite Neoconservative “Centrism/Neo-liberalism”, Centre Left remained where they were and still are and the Centre “SO CALLED Left Leaning” Labour Voters moved so Far Right with Blair, Campbell, Mandelson’s Dedication to the ELITES, their MSM and Pollsters they dragged the sheep, still believing that they are “Centrist/(Neo-)liberals” all the way to the same spot occupied by Thatcher, Blair, Cameron, May and Johnson!
Why!? Like the states we once again have Two Equally Right Wing, Two Equally ELITE Owned and Run Parties one pretending to be Soft Left but in reality are far Harder Right than even Jonson and co! All this to bring Centre/Centrism to the Right and making the Centre Left look like THEY moved to Far Left Extremists and as we know all too well……”First they Came for…….!”