Under new laws, “bad character” evidence related to a victim’s past sexual history or abuse will no longer be allowed, unless lawyers have evidence to suggest a complainant has previously lied. Previous compensation claims for experiences of crime by victims will be banned under similar conditions.
The changes will make it easier for prosecuting barristers to introduce “bad character” evidence about defendants in domestic abuse cases. New legislation, expected to be put before parliament next year, will mean a domestic abuse offence of any type – even if against a different victim – will be admissible in court.
Very unbalanced in fact. Past actions cannot be considered, past actions can be considered.
Hmm.
Clearly not enough men are being locked up; therefore apply the thumb…
It appears Lammy is doing his level best to destroy the English justice system.
He’ll need to get in line behind the judiciary themselves!
Lammy is lucky that he could go to Harvard when it was in the grip of “affirmative action” to allow idiots in if their skin colour was the right shade. Doubtless that also ensured his mark of 3/10,000 was sufficient to get his degree.
The joys of DIE…
Lammy has built his career on being a quota-filler…
He went to the Kennedy School at Harvard; a notorious right-of-passage for the not very bright, but politically connected/useful. If he was smart, he would have been at Harvard Law.
Just another attack on the country’s judicial system…
I’d allow the feminists and their misierable Vichyite accomplices in the judiciary this moment of triumph. Sharia Law views things rather differently they will find.
We do live in a softish dictatorship now, don’t we?
Would anyone be totally amazed if it gets a bit harder over the next few years, such that there was a series of dawn raids carried out to arrest the top 1,000 ‘far right’ figures, who were then held on remand for 12 months before show trials at which maybe 10% got off, 40% got fines and confiscation orders and bans from public life, and the remaining 50% got jail sentences ranging from a couple of years to say twenty years for ‘conspiring against the people’ or some such?
And if that happened, what sort of outcry would there be? I reckon 50% of the social media reaction would be glee.
All of the precious constitutional protections which we flattered ourselves gave us some protection from the state are like a bog roll roof in the jungle rainy season.
The country is irredeemably broke (and broken), and the incoming inflation and poverty are going to create an inexhaustible demand for scapegoats, and I don’t think the targets will be the politicians and bureaucrats who have fucked us.
I think as always you have it surrounded. This government reminds me of the stories I heard around SS activity in Bohemia/ Moravia at the end of World War II – knowing they were doomed and likely to be killed by the vengeful population they decided to go hell for leather on a killing spree – a Wagnerian ending. I doubt these people are motivated by anything other than their own survival but the collateral damage could be considerable.
I can’t even get my Mum to stop fedposting on Facebook under her full name. I’m not sure you’re grokking the vibe shift that started last year – normies have finally found out about the stuff we knew about 25 years ago, and they’re angrier than a shitting sow. Can’t jail em all. This is going to have consequences, and trying to censor their internet won’t work either.
For all of my adult life, the Left has been able to weaponise its nasty intolerance and our sense of fairness and decorum against us. How many times have you heard some idiot confidently braying their retarded textbook lefty opinions at a social or other event where it’s inappropriate to discuss politics? The sneering unspoken assumption that you’ll either agree or you’re a social and intellectual Morlock.
Well, that’s gone now. All the energy, passion and fury is now with the Right. Chin up.
Here’s one I came across today
https://www.westmercia.police.uk/news/west-mercia/news/2025/november/man-jailed-for-possessing-and-distributing-extreme-right-wing-material/
Jalled for 40 months for having recordings. WTF?
Rhoda K, proud to be a morlock.
I wish you were right Steve but you don’t need to jail them, all. Ask Admiral Byng, and M. Voltaire.
People are basically herd animals. Yes, sure, they can all turn one way. But you don’t need many sheep dogs to make a flock of sheep think twice.
That’s why I picked a nice simple number – 1,000. True, they can’t jail 250,000. But how many of the 250,000 will shut the fuck up once they see the 1,000 dealt with?
In the long, long term, people can turn, as Ceaucescu and others have discovered.
But the animals in charge of western countries have learned a lot of lessons from the demise of scum like him, and they have far better and more sophisticated methods of dividing and ruling, and monitoring, and communicating than their predecessors ever did.
Would anyone be totally amazed if it gets a bit harder over the next few years…dawn raids carried out to arrest the top 1,000 ‘far right’ figures… etc…
Yes, I would. After ‘ear-wigging’ many comments in my local pubs (including a Wetherspoon’s), so many people are so angry that I doubt any foreseeable UK government would get away with that. Rather, liberty will die the death of the thousand qualifications.
And all pivots on the result of the next GE. Reform can’t win if the Tories split the right-of-centre vote. And, in a hung Parliament, the likelihood of a (chaotic) Labour/LD/Green is quite high…
We live in a world full of humans who did nothing as their neighbours were carted off to concentration camps, or gulags, a world in which everything from outright civil war to inter tribal murder raids has been essentially the norm.
It’s also a world of sheep, not wolves. I’d like to think the Chinese would have cast off the CCP, or the North Koreans the Kims, or the Iranians the Ayatollahs, or etc etc, but it doesn’t very often happen.
Why would TPTB bother? As I said, “liberty will die the death of the thousand qualifications”. Or did you miss that?
I’ve been involved, in the sense of day after phone call involved, in a couple of episodes of ‘wake up next day’ rape accusations. One of them I was out with an ex friend late at night and she voluntarily left the pub with a bloke. Next day I had to go to Plod, as the last person to see her before the alleged incident to hand over my phone and answer all the questions about what I could remember (not much). Case got dropped, went nowhere. Just as well, my honest testimony if I were asked about previous behaviour would probably not have helped her case. Quite frankly, I didn’t even believe her. Not that I said that, although I never really knew. Under these rules, who knows?
I don’t do that sort of thing anymore. Drinking is something to do at home with friends.
I had a friend who was working in a County police force and dealt with alleged sexual assaults. She said a lot of the accusations came from the same person on numerous occasions as part of a series of domestic bust ups, often with multiple partners – no way of proving the accusation either way and as a result the cases went nowhere but to appease the feminist lobby (arguably on a par with the race lobby as the primary source of evil in the country) they are duty bound to log each one and do a full investigation. There’s a good reason so few prosecutions go through despite the CPS being well to the Left of North Korea by all accounts.
As for Lammy he is among the ten worst ministers ever to hold office in the history of Parliament. To reduce the backlog the first step might be to repeal and simplify the amount of legislation on the statute book and arguably one of the first tasks of a Reform government, following Franchise Reform to reintroduce income based voting rights and plural voting for the private sector is to start repealing swathes of legislation. As the great Steve says – you need to hit them hard in the fashion of Trump, giving them no chance to respond – much like Blair/ Brown did in 1997.
Franchise Reform should be a simple absolute adult citizen franchise. Not a citizen and want to vote? Become a citizen. Not an adult and want to vote? Become an adult.
Women lose a lot of their sense of inhibition after excess alcohol. They become much less picky.
So, they wake up the next day, sober and think there’s no way they’d have shagged that bloke.
Yeah. In this case I probably should have intervened, I’d done it other times (get his number, you’re going home) but I was busy trying to pick up my own shag. Which didn’t happen, unfortunately. Or possibly I dodged a bullet there. Still ended up at the cop shop for a statement 🙁
You’ll notice I said ex friend, this sort of thing happened one time too many.
As Nanny Ogg said: always get the young man’s name and address.
You’re reminding me of the Lehrmann/Higgins case in Oz, that’s going on and on and on.
The bloke Lehrmann seems to have been deemed guilty, but Higgins’ argument that female members of the Liberal party tried to cover it up means the defamation cases are dragging out indefinitely.
Yeah, the Higgins saga is a joke Boganboy. It was obvious from day one that it was two people behaving stupidly. Oh well, her lovely pay-off will be gone soon, she’s apparently on the verge of bankruptcy. Serves her right for what she did, smearing two women who genuinely tried to help her. Heads should roll at high level in the ALP but I suppose that won’t happen.
Lehrmann? Well, civil judgement not criminal, it wasn’t exactly being held down in a park with a knife to her throat territory, but he was an idiot. As we all are sometimes I suppose.
OT and tangential but this made me spill my tea:
https://archive.ph/npwqZ
It’s not so much the concept of a girl’s plane spotting club, it’s their names, and the daft shit they come out with. Where’s WB when you need the analysis?
Norman,
..and me spill my coffee. “When I watch planes, I can feel the beauty of God,” says Hanna, a mother from South London.”
What else is she on?
Simply dreaming about that man with the big stick between his legs (or maybe little stick at the side) and the languid tones “This is your Captain speaking”.
But then, as a former fast jet navigator, I’m prejudiced…
I do confess that I initially read your final line as “as a former FAT jet navigator”. Many apologies.
No worries…I find myself increasingly making similar slips as the years go by.