You would think the British (in)justice system had embarrassed itself enough at this point, what with charging peaceful protestors under terror law for objecting to a genocide, alongside a farcical trial involving Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh and a piece of apparently terrifying yellow cloth. However, it’s the collapse of the latter trial – rather than its absurd existence in the first place – that has irked Shadow Attorney General David Wolfson.

The unelected House of Lords life peer – who Britons will subsidise with £371 per day plus expenses until the day he kicks the bucket – has decided to waste public money by using his time to encourage senior legal figures to piss away yet more of Britons’ cash on resurrecting the failed proceedings against the West Belfast band member.

Writing to current Attorney General (AG) Richard Hermer, Wolfson raged that the technical errors leading to the prosecution falling through had:

…undermined confidence in the administration of justice.

The failure to make an example of Liam Óg aka Mo Chara was due to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) not gaining consent to proceed from the AG prior to the expiration of a six-month deadline. The alleged offence, involving the display of a Hezbollah flag on stage, was committed on November 21. The Lebanese resistance group are a proscribed organisation under British anti-terror laws. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) authorised the police to press charges on May 21, but did not receive approval from the AG until the next day, by which time the deadline for consent had elapsed.

Incompetence, ‘hard left’ ideology or…common sense?

In an irate tweet, he asked:

Why was the most senior law officer in govt not across a high-profile terrorism case? Lord Hermer has either displayed breathtaking incompetence or his hard left politics have influenced his conduct. He brings fresh embarrassment to the Government every day.

Questioning Hermer in the letter, Wolfson’s queries seem to further imply his belief in the above, as he asks:

On what date and time was your office first asked to give consent to prosecute Mr Ó hAnnaidh under section 13 of the Terrorism Act? And on what date and time did you provide consent?

He goes on to demand either an appeal or a retrial take place:

Do you intend to support the CPS in seeking an appeal to the Divisional Court or an application to the Court of Appeal Criminal Division of venire de novo so that the case can be brought back before the courts? If not, please explain why, bearing in mind the serious nature of the alleged offence and the public interest.

A reminder – the “serious…offence” alleged was a flag being waved around. It’s hard to imagine anything more destructive to faith in the “administration of justice” than a shadow AG who expresses more concern about an apparently errant bit of cloth than he does for the real support of terrorism. Or, perhaps own party’s backing for so-called Israel’s genocide in Gaza would do it.

Wolfson also proudly displayed his letters to Stephen Parkinson, DPP and Anthony Rogers, Chief Inspector of the Crown Prosecution Service. Parkinson was asked whether the CPS had become aware of the offence “close to the time limit”, and whether they’d done anything to:

expedite matters so that consent could be obtained at short notice

The reality is that no interest had been taken in Kneecap’s prior antics until Zionist fulminating over their support for Palestine started to reach fever pitch. After their Coachella performance attracted the fury of Gaza genocide enthusiasts, the same ghouls began trawling through old tweets and videos of the hip-hop trio. Footage emerged of a November 2023 gig, where they said:

The only good Tory is a dead Tory. Kill your local MP.

While the above might be an effective cost saving measure against the likes of David Wolfson, frugality was not foremost in the minds of Kneecap’s detractors. Further searches dredged up the flag footage, and it was at this point that prosecutors started to take an interest. So a politically motivated witch hunt, but was it ended by opposing ideological interests in the form of AG Hermer?

Zionist rag rails against basic decency

The Jewish Chronicle certainly takes a dim view of the man, which is about as ringing an endorsement as any civilised person might hope to receive. The Zionist rag rails against the current AG for giving his backing to local councils having the right to boycott the pseudo-state squatting on Palestine. They go on to accuse him of endangering Jewish people by backing ICC warrants for war criminals Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, and for backing cessation of arms exports to the Zionist regime. The only endangering of Jewish people going on here is the Chronicle’s anti-Semitic conflation of that population in general with the butchers of the Israeli genocide forces and their leadership.

We may never know if Hermer’s late consent was incompetence or ideology. Perhaps a third possibility exists – that he sought to save the British legal system further humiliation, and allow it to focus its attention on actual criminals, rather than those backing the benighted people of Palestine.

Featured image via YouTube screenshot/Steven Winston

By Robert Freeman

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