In which we see, again, how the founders of this country got it right,

and those Stalin wannabes in (formerly Great)Britain want to keep such horrible things from continuing there.  Y'know, like jury trials.
Justice Secretary David Lammy is proposing to massively restrict the ancient right to a jury trial by only guaranteeing it for defendants facing rape, murder, manslaughter or other cases passing a public interest test.
(such as 'You have committed a non-criminal hate act and insulted our new lords and masters')
An internal government briefing, produced by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) for all other Whitehall departments, confirms plans to create a new tier of jury-less courts in England and Wales.

As a guy noted at INsty,
What is most frightening is that this effort to ban jury trial is aimed at the heart of the British middle class. It is set up precisely to impact the cases where one only faces months in jail. It will apply to “crimes” that are passed to control the population through…