Because if the AG Hermer decides by himself that it’s in the public interest, a civil case becomes a criminal case.
Unlike independent judicial appointments, the UK AG is selected for political loyalty and changes with governments. AG Hermer attends cabinet meetings and makes political speeches supporting radical woke left-wing ideology.
It is supposed to be bipartisan, but Hermer, like AG Goldsmith—another Labour-appointed AG who supported Blair going to war on false evidence.
In an unprecedented move, Starmer created a new “shadow” role and installed Jeremy Corbyn—the former Labour leader who had been suspended from the party in 2020 and sat as an independent MP—as de facto political enforcer inside the Attorney General’s Office (September 2024).
Corbyn never held the formal title, but Cabinet Office minutes leaked to The Times (12 Dec 2024) show he was given sign-off power over all CPS referrals involving government critics.
Corbyn’s effective takeover of the AG’s office in late 2024/early 2025 is now the single worst example of the role becoming an explicit arm of the ruling party, dwarfing even Goldsmith’s Iraq capitulation in its day-to-day weaponisation of the criminal-justice system. Legal historians already call it “the Corbynisation crisis”.
Of course, Corbyn’s since been dismissed, but the dogma remains.
Turning a civil case into political prosecution is exactly what they did to
@TRobinsonNewEra. Jailed for contempt of court, normally fines and being told off.
Turning civil cases and procedural matters in to criminal changes the sentencing goes from fines to jail.
Now the government of the day decides what hurty words, and more importantly, who said them, are worthy of jail time.
It becomes a political prosecution and therefore, if jailed, a political prisoner.
All Owellen in nature.
Joey Barton was prosecuted by a KC?
Why on earth did the state burn taxpayer money on the most expensive lawyers to prosecute hurty bloody words
Not murder. Not Gang Rape. Hurty bloody words.
This is an absolute joke - Nasty & Incompetent