Darius Barney

@AngusBMacNeil Because there aren’t enough trains to carry fans there.

#GreatMysteriesOfScotland 😁 Why when the train line goes past Murrayfield isn't there a train station at the stadium?

@KarlTurnerMP Well they could take the view that the legislation is incompatible with the Human Rights Act and make a declaration of incompatibility. That would raise an issue of what happens until Parliament considers it again. Of course it won’t happen though. Even fanciful.

This fella gets himself on telly as some sort of political and legal commentator on GB News et al. He mostly spews unadulterated shite. He is a gobshite. He now thinks if Parliament legislates judges are actually in a position to just ignore the laws handed down to them. Idiot!

@Zaphod2042 Not sure it’s Butlins anymore. It’s Britannia, I think.

Indeed. On the left, The Grand Hotel, Scarborough, is a dirty, crumbling ruin, prone to Norovirus, owned by Butlins. The poor layout hampers fire safety On the right, The Park Plaza Waterloo. The interior is modern, clean and serves its purpose, of being a four star hotel, well

@GregBaldwinIroh Some grated cheddar. Some Worcestershire sauce. Some Tabasco. Garam masala. A poached egg. Black pepper. Kashmiri chilli powder. Smoked paprika. Mix and match - not all together.

British blokes…. I’ve purchased several “tins” of Heinz (British) beans because the idea of beans on toast intrigues me. I eagerly anticipate a tasting. Other than toasting bread and heating beans… Are there any other steps/ingredients?

@jo3hill The concept of joined in administration started in the Blair/Brown years. The idea that everyone had a role in achieving a policy objective. So e.g. I as a lawyer had a performance objective of addressing teenage pregnancies.

The Government don’t have good theories of how to change the State. But they aren’t the only ones - the same criticism of “siloed working” and idea of using “taskforces” to cut through the quagmire were all the rage under the last Conservative government. We need to ask whether these ideas actually hold up. Why do you have to work around the ‘usual processes’ to get anything done in Whitehall? Was the value of those processes at all. I think siloes are underrated. Whitehall became a bit too focused on how everything relates to everything else, and allows complex policy systems to overwhelm it. Instead, the kind of radical focus of action we called for in Everythingism must be the alternative. @martha_dacombe’s post is a good read on Labour’s struggle to grip Whitehall. dacombe.substack.com/p/three-layers…

@Tony_Royle Look at their business model. There’ll be huge debts. The assets have probably been sold off or separated to a profitable holding company to be replaced by huge rents. And it’ll probably be taken over by the same ultimate owners while being relieved of outstanding tax and debts.

I see NCP in the UK has allegedly folded. There has to more to this than meets the eye ... this outfit owns land and buildings on prime sites in every major city in the country and charges a fortune to park ... and it's often impossible to find a space; doesn't add up.

@BBCr4today Someone who’s been an MP for less than 2 years.

More than 100 Labour MPs have warned that failing to pass assisted dying legislation would undermine trust in politics. Peter Prinsley, who co-ordinated the move, says the House of Lords - where the bill is currently being debated - should not 'impede' laws. Opponents warn the bill is flawed and any attempt to push it through would be unsafe.

@Joanna__Hardy @Jebadoo2 And the Sentencing Council’s role will therefore be made even more influential since their guidelines will be important in determining how people are tried.

Hello, there 👋 Have you heard David Lammy MP and Sarah Sackman MP talking about people stealing bottles of whisky and swiping mobile telephones as examples of people who should not get jury trials? Well. I’d like to tell you a story. 🪡 🧵

@RhonddaBryant Most SIs don’t. And most guidance doesn’t. And if they have a majority, legislation won’t be a problem unless the Lords reject the Salisbury convention.

I can’t wait for him to discover that the UK is governed by the role of law. And that requires legislation.

@SashaSwire @WilliamJHague The solution is to remove their expenses to finance a local office. Perhaps they just need a secretary.

Never were truer words said @WilliamJHague

@labourlewis @CrimBarrister If you had voted the bill down, the government could have come back with an another bill in the soon to be new session. What you have done is give the government more time to work on the MPs and make minor changes which will be accepted but jury trial will still be largely gone.

@lucybrazier It’s the audience that made it unwatchable. It recently got a bit better after the current government was elected. What a surprise! But it’s going back again.

It’s called Question Time. The format is supposed to be that the audience ask questions and the panel answers. Fiona is meant to moderate. Week after week, she interrupts, talks over people and aggressively pushes her own agenda. It’s becoming almost unwatchable. #bbcqt

@____Foxtrot____ Why does the Bank of England have a panel of wildlife experts. They only need to buy a book from TH Jones.

@tc1415 @legalstyleblog … legitimise HL decisions. It protected a link and buy in with the executive and democracy.

I don't disagree The thing we should have done was reinstate the Lord Chancellor into his threefold role. Risk of injustice: unchanged Upsets those who are obsessed with form over everything else: maximised.

@tc1415 @legalstyleblog Constitutionalist theorists just don’t realise that the three headed role and tensions made the system work in a practical sense even though it conflicted with the man made concepts of rule of law and separation of powers. Even the Lord Chancellor sitting as a judge helped …

@KarlTurnerMP @Fox_Claire The Commons will end up approving a compromise that still fundamentally removes the historic right and shifts power to the executive. Labour MPs will claim a victory when it’ll probably be the position that the government intended all along.Once again hopes will be with the Lords

There has been a lot of public debate about todays vote, I want to make clear that abstaining at Second Reading allowed many of us to make clear that we do not support the Bill as it stands, while ensuring it can proceed to the next stage where the real scrutiny happens. 1/3

@KarlTurnerMP I’m sure you know what you’re doing within the Parliamentary/Party system but I fear you’re allowing the government to claim endorsement and the abolition of jury trials will proceed subject to the Lords.

After a frank discussion with the Lord Chancellor, I remain opposed to eroding trial by jury. Today, I will abstain at 2nd Reading and push amendments to remove the worst parts. Today isn’t the day to defeat the Government, but we will win the argument as the Bill progresses.

@BarristerSecret @Jebadoo2 @UKLabour @DavidLammy They wouldn’t just have questions. They’d be full out rage tearing away at their motivation

@UKLabour @DavidLammy Ask yourselves this: If it were the Conservatives, removing the constitutional safeguard which David Lammy’s 2017 report said prevented racial disparities in justice, would you be unquestioningly voting for it? Or would you have some questions?

Today @DavidLammy could enter the history books. He could usurp Chris Grayling as the most catastrophic Justice Secretary of the century, devastating trial by jury based on feels, with no evidence that this will fix the problems in criminal justice. Will Labour MPs enable him?

@DavidLammy So in response you tear to shreds the fundamental basis of the criminal justice system. Shame on you and the Labour Party. I will never vote for you again. I should have learnt from the Brown/Blair government. The world looked better in May 1997; it didn’t last. The same again.

After 14 years of Tory mismanagement, the Criminal Justice System is on the brink of collapse. Around 80,000 cases are stuck in the backlog - expecting to rise to over 200,000 by 2035. These aren’t just statistics, these are people’s lives on hold. Victims waiting months, if not years for justice. Survivors waiting for closure. Families stuck in limbo. Defendants losing their jobs, homes and security. This Labour government will not stand by while working people pay the price of a failed system. The Courts Bill is about fixing a system that has been left to fail for far too long.

@KarlTurnerMP @DavidLammy @UKLabour @sarahsackman @catkinson80 face. No last minute compromise is acceptable. Back to the drawing board.

@KarlTurnerMP @DavidLammy @UKLabour @sarahsackman @catkinson80 apply policy and procedures to avoid fickleness and ensure that all decision makers will inevitable make the same decision. But guilt or not guilt cannot be reduced to that. That’s where the judgement of 12 jurors is valuable. I accept there is a debate that could be had. But

.@DavidLammy why were Society Labour Lawyers told by Ministers that they cannot say publicly what they think of the jury curtailment plans? Why have they been told not to brief @UKLabour MPs on this stuff? Can @sarahsackman throw any light on this? @catkinson80? 🤷🏼‍♂️