Is it Time to Call for Shami (Again)?

Nicholas

As she represents an organisation that campaigns for everything that New Labour has undermined and threatened in this country it would require a fantastic abandoning of principles to join them.

Civil liberties champion to fascist gauleiter? Can't see it happening.

DavidDP

Hmm. So she can join the party of the minister who insinuated she was giving sexual favours to David Davis? Yes, I can see how that would be attractive.

Annre Wotana Kaye

What is the attraction of stories about members of the legal profession and cleaners? This one involving Lady Scotland, is nothing to that of the aged, randy judge and the lovely Brazilian cleaner. There was even a female lawyer, to make up the menage de trois. Law I hear, is a popular csreer xhoice!

Submariner

Nicolas
Have you forgotten that Harriet Harman used to be legal officer for the NCCL (as Liberty was called back then)?

Nicholas

sbmariner; no.

Edmund Burke

If Ms Chakrabarti was as concerned about democracy as she is about the various civil liberties she is paid a great deal to prattle on about, she would reject a seat in the Lords and stand for election to the Commons. Funnily enough, she never has.
The fact that, even so, she has more power as the leader of a self-selecting pressure group than any elected representative does tells you all you need to know about the state of democracy. The sheer illegitimacy of self-appointed "experts" claiming to tell the rest of us how to live and how to think ought to be a major scandal, yet somehow it isn't.

Guy Herbert

Edmund Burke,

I'm not sure your pseudonym is chosen wisely since it comes from someone less enthusiastic about untempered democracy. You are free to ignore Shami Chakrabarti (or me) as the spokesman of a pressure group. You aren't so lucky with the prescriptions of parliamentarians - which means their parties, these days.

If Shami was offered a government job, she will have had before her the example of her predecessor at Liberty, a very capable thorn in the side of government who was neutralised by drawing him into quangoland. It would be a riskier idea to give anyone independent-minded a peerage, while peerages are for life.

Martin Bright

"LIberty" is a pretty one sided hammer of government, like its broadcasting arm, the BBC, it only criticizes from what passes for a
Left position.
There is an elephant in the room with this suggested appointment
for the nation's most powerful legal officer.
Why does no one mention it ?

David Nally

Martin Bright, I agree with you but any organisation that looks after the welfare of those big cuddly things called bears deserves....................oh ****.

Philip Walker

Strange how someone posting under the moniker Edmund Burke should be so negative about a little platoon. Does everything have to be conducted through arms of the state, Ed?