The End Of Law
This really is the most extraordinary statement.
The short version is “We’re going to keep breaking the law every day while we think about whether we want it to apply to us or not”.
And the really depressing thing is that that’s very much par for the course in the world of the Scottish establishment. We already knew that if you’re powerful and/or rich, you can publicly admit a crime and the police and Crown Office will just look the other way.
We knew that the aforementioned Crown Office can preside over a malicious prosecution costing the country tens of millions of pounds and absolutely nobody will face any consequences for it, with those responsible simply carrying on until they walk off into lucrative retirement.
We knew that the head of the Crown Office can be found to have maliciously prosecuted someone, yet that person can have no legal redress whatsoever under the Scottish judicial system – a state of affairs which openly breaches European human rights law – and rather than accept a judge’s ruling and fix the law so that the Lord Advocate is no longer above it, the Scottish Government will appeal it to a friendlier judge so that Scotland can keep flouting the law and justice can be denied.
We knew that the head of the Civil Service can conduct a grotesquely crooked and unfair persecution against an innocent man and not only face no sanctions but have her contract extended.
We knew that those well-connected to the Scottish Government can commit even the most flagrant level of demonstrable, indisputable perjury in a serious criminal trial and see the matter quietly kicked into the long grass indefinitely, even though there is only a single fact to investigate, and it’s already known what the truth of that fact is because it was established in open court more than half a decade ago.
And we’ve known for many years now that none of this can be challenged because the Crown Office is legally answerable to no-one and its head can simply do whatever the hell he or she likes, because even if they hacked the First Minister to death with an axe live on national television, all anyone could do would be report it to the police who would then pass on the decision about whether to prosecute to… the Crown Office.
But even knowing all THAT, there’s something breathtaking about the Scottish Prison Service being the subject of an excoriating, unequivocal judgment that it is breaking the law, and then breezily announcing that “Sure, judge, like that’s YOUR opinion or whatever, but to be quite frank we’re just going to carry on doing the unlawful thing for as long as we want because who’s gonna stop us? The government? LOLZ! The whole thing was their idea!”
And why wouldn’t they? The Scottish Government has after all spent years, vast amounts of legislative energy and millions and millions of pounds on its policy of putting male rapists in women’s prisons. It’s clearly still committed to that policy, since it fought this case, despite the fact that it was blindingly obvious in the wake of the Supreme Court judgment that it would lose – yet again – to For Women Scotland, who it continues to refuse even the basic courtesy of a discussion despite pledging to do so more than a year and a quarter ago.
Meanwhile it continues to hurl large sums of public money at organisations who spend that money on openly urging people and organisations to break the same law that the Scottish Prison Service has just been found in breach of.
So what are the chances that it’s going to call in the SPS and say “Look, we’ve had a lot of fun but you should probably do what the Supreme Court says now”?
That’s a rhetorical question, obviously. Because our wee country has been stolen by arrogant gangsters and there appears to be nothing we can do about it.
Our courts are a blunt knife. They’ve got all the guns AND all the badges.
“the admissions practice remains in place”
What? What are you talking about?! This is unbelievable – why can’t they just follow the law like everybody else? I cannot fathom the iron-like hold the Trans Lobby has over the Scottish Government….
I think, we should start voting for Tories…until SNP start clearing out the rats on the ship…
Could this article be placed as an advert in the press? I know the MSM won’t write the proper story [re COPFS and the Lord Advocate’s immunity] themselves but they might want the advertising revenue…
Linda Pollock is under the delusion that those who work in the prison service share her values.
The third last word of the third last paragraph of SPS Chief Executive Linda Pollock’s ‘NEWS FOR STAFF’ is clearly a knowing signal:
“This reflects our shared values as individuals and as an organisation—one l am very proud to
lead.”
Errr, ok. This is utterly bizarre.
This broken and corrupt state is a law unto itself.
Shouldn’t the ruling be overseen by the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Justice, Neil Gray MSP? Shouldn’t he make sure that the Sypreme Court ruling is upheld in the Prison Estate?