THE rule of law is part of the bedrock of civilisation.
But in modern Britain, rule by lawyers represents the very opposite.
The domination of our civic landscape by a swelling army of judicial activists is a menace to our national integrity and democracy, with public policy increasingly decided not by the ballot box, but by the ideological whims and cynical self-interests of an unelected, unaccountable courtroom elite.
This contempt for our democratic freedoms is shared by eco-demonstrators like the mob from Greenpeace who invaded the Prime Minister’s residence in Yorkshire last week.
Brimming with arrogant zeal, they think they have the right to harass, disrupt and intimidate in the name of their cause.
What makes this alliance of woke lawyers and green campaigners so terrifying is the power it will hold if Labour wins the next election, for Sir Keir Starmer’s party is tied by ideology, money and personnel to both wings of this left-wing pincer movement.
That was epitomised yesterday by this paper’s revelation that Alistair Strathern, Labour’s candidate in the forthcoming Mid-Bedfordshire by-election, is linked to Greenpeace and once played a zombie in one of the group’s tiresome stunts.
In addition, his partner is a political officer for Greenpeace. As Cabinet minister Grant Shapps put it: “One minute they are climbing the PM’s house, the next they’ve got a Labour rosette on.”
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