Joe Abraham
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If that means I'll end up in prosecutions, it means I will end up in prosecutions.
Sometimes I think that that's what's needed.
J.K.
Rowling, they brought in a law.
She breached a Scottish law.
I can't remember it.
To do with transgenderism.
So the Scottish government brought in some law to do with transgenderism.
J.K.
Rowling, if I remember rightly, breached it straight away.
reaching it straight away they never criminally prosecute her but then they go after the small fish they still they still use use the law to go after certain people um most of these laws are about installing fear and i don't know if you've seen what they've done now where they've removed that that what the labor government intend to remove the jury service so at the minute you can be what does that mean it means that you can be taken to court in the uk and this
You can be taken to court in the UK, and if they drop it to a low charge, you do not get a jury.
So whilst you hear I've been in prison lots of times, I've never had the opportunity to have a jury, which is 12 members of my peers who decide my fate.
I've been criminally prosecuted so many times by the police, but they always limit it to you go before a judge, so you do not get a jury.
And that means that they can only give you 12 months in jail or 12 or 24 months.
So it's limited to how long they can give you because you do not get the opportunity to get a jury.
You just go before a magistrate judge.
Now, they're changing that.
They're changing it so you can get four years.
So the Labour government are scrapping jury trials and they're using the reason that the court backlog is so long