>Ministers have acted improperly by questioning the legitimacy of judges when they do not get their own way, creating an impression that recent supreme court decisions favourable to the government may have been a response to political pressure, a parliamentary inquiry has found.
>The APPGDC found that, in the last two years, the UK’s highest court made seven decisions in which it had departed from its previous authorities and assumed a position “more palatable” to the government – an “unprecedented” amount that “may have created the impression that the supreme court has been influenced by ministerial pressure”.
Developing nation style stuff. Attacking judges as being politically motivated for divisions you don’t like. Britain is in full reverse gear, proper National decline.
This government is eroding the separation of powers that’s so fundamental to our constitution.
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>Ministers have acted improperly by questioning the legitimacy of judges when they do not get their own way, creating an impression that recent supreme court decisions favourable to the government may have been a response to political pressure, a parliamentary inquiry has found.
>The APPGDC found that, in the last two years, the UK’s highest court made seven decisions in which it had departed from its previous authorities and assumed a position “more palatable” to the government – an “unprecedented” amount that “may have created the impression that the supreme court has been influenced by ministerial pressure”.
Developing nation style stuff. Attacking judges as being politically motivated for divisions you don’t like. Britain is in full reverse gear, proper National decline.
This government is eroding the separation of powers that’s so fundamental to our constitution.
The UK has no judicial independence.