I cannot believe how little comment this measure has attracted. It is a massive regression of rights that stem from 13th century. It needs to be vigorously contested. I can understand that there are issues during complex fraud cases but surely juries are essential for quotidienne crimes like shop lifting , theft or murder where the fundamental elements are straightforward. I am really disappointed in this government and shocked if they seriously pursue this. There has been alot of publicly over the course of last week about the delay in processing shop lifting cases. It was quite interesting with the conclusion that prosecution is not effective and takes top long. As the prisons are also full , prosecution is difficult to enforce. I find it fascinating because we have reached a situation where it is too expensive and protracted to prosecute and there is nowhere to put the people found guilty of crimes. Am I alone in thinking that it is pointless pursuing criminals and that the endemic of shop lifting should be stopped by wealth distribution or reducing prices so shoplifting is no longer 'logical' for some? On a wider scale , dispensing with juries will allow greater political control of the courts. It needs to be contested. The clauses of crime is the thing the government needs to address.
I don't see why, really. They're not intrinsically less polluting than low emission petrol vehicles; batteries are a problem, electricity isn't particularly clean energy as things stand, and electric cars are most unlikely to be the future of motoring.
