Yesterday was a watershed day.

Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away.

Yesterday.

Yes. Only yesterday – well, yesterday’s yesterday now – it was the day The Prime Minister, The Right Honourable David Cameron MP, inheritor of the mantle of Oliver Cromwell, the Puritan who freed the House of Commons from control by Charles the First, the last true believer in the Divine Right of Kings – He Cameron – did not – yes, did not – not – refer to the law in the same breath as waterboarding, or compensation culture, or some other mark of contempt.

This, it must be said, truly is a watershed.

We, UK Lawyers Inc, should perhaps contemplate uncorking the bubbly – or in these days of austerity, perhaps one of those diddy bottles of Babycham.

My role – solicitor – qualified at the tail end of the era of Herrn Thatchler – has been – what is the word used in modern society – validated? – that doesn’t seem sufficiently narcissistic – not sufficiently wet – not sufficiently 1st world – endorsed – how about that? I’ve been endorsed.

Admittedly not me. Admittedly not directly but by implication. But endorsed. Or some such similarly positive catch-all concept. This is good, isn’t it? Better, anyway, than not being endorsed at all. Better than being the direct or indirect recipient of contempt.

In these days of populist herd-like lynch’em mentality perhaps – perhaps – there is a tiny flicker of a hint that the job of a lawyer might have some social worth. Maybe. I hesitate to go further.

Perhaps even this is going too far. Because – sadly – I did hear Cameron speaking – I heard his tone, not just his words, not just his superficial meaning.

He was talking about the veto question – his exercise of the veto – his exercise – emphasize the word “his” because this is how he speaks – he being the paternalist, he the Prime Minister who owns the entire family silver – who owns GB Inc himself, personally, all his. Cameron.

His declaration is that he’ll protect GB Inc (Cameron Inc) against any Eurozone Interloper Commie-plot. All that spurious equalitarianism. Erh!! None of that.

What he threatens to protect us against is the new fiscal pact which 25 out of 27 Eurozoners are signing up to.

Cameron will not just protect us, he’ll take “legal action” he says. Which is most odd. Most odd, indeed. Devilishly odd, in fact.

Because there is just the vaguest hint of doublethink.

Last week he told the European Court of Human Rights they needed to change, they interfered too much in decisions that should be made solely by GB Inc (Cameron Inc, that is).

Now he wants the lawyers to do his bidding to enforce other Eurozoners to abide by Euro-law.

Now I don’t think this adds up.

Today you want to use Euro-law to protect GB Inc.

Yesterday you wanted to use GB Inc law to fight Euro-law.

That word again – yesterday.

Just listen to how Cameron said he’d use “legal action”. It wasn’t – I’ll get professional advice. Or – I’ll get the best legal minds in GB Inc (or is it Cameron Inc? I forget) to review the legal position.

No. It was – I may even have to stoop down into the gutter to scoop out those loathsome lawyers for a spot drain cleaning.

Don’t bother, Mr Cameron. If it’s that hard, just don’t bother.

Even the NO WIN NO FEE lawyers don’t have to take on the really rubbish cases just to earn a living. Sorry mate. Try down the road, you might find someone whose up for the fight. I’ll just pack away that bottle of bubbly and carrying on sharpening my quill pen. Goodbye, Prime Minister.

John Holtom

The image used for this post is a James Gillray cartoon entitled Politeness borrowed from Wikigalleries – here’s the link

Article posted on Thursday, February, 2nd, 2012 at 9:59 am

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