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Can you name a recent prime minister who wouldn't have been found guilty under this law? We have already argued for Blair and Boris. Cameron was bombing hospi
by Closi 5y ago
Can you name a recent prime minister who wouldn't have been found guilty under this law?
We have already argued for Blair and Boris.
Cameron was bombing hospitals so he’s going to go too…
It wouldn’t be manslaughter, but what about the windrush scandal? Maybe we could get May for that too.
Brown might be safe, is that it? All others behind bars?
In terms of COVID being worse than the Second World War for civilians I think this takes a very rosey perspective of the Second World War - for instance you are only counting “civilian” deaths but let’s not forget that there was a mandatory draft so the soldiers were effectively civilians with guns, and millions of our civilians were forced into the battlefield (but I guess we did have to sit around in our underwear and watch lots of Netflix). While each death is also a tragedy, I also think we have to take age into account, and appreciate that those young men in the battlefield had a lot more life left in them than the average COVID death.
- pasabagi 5y agoI'm not really proposing a new law - just the application of existing laws about manslaughter to people who, historically, do a lot of it. Just because there are a lot of prime ministers that have fallen well short of any reasonable standard when it came to decisions that cost lives does not mean that we should continue to give governments carte blanche. What you are describing is not a dysfunctional idea, but rather a dysfunctional system where there is no accountability. Boris Johnson can break the rules on donations (for example), pick an investigator for an 'independent investigation', and nobody will even mention the fact that it's a complete farce, because all the journalists are afraid of losing access.