The erosion of legal rights should not be decoupled from the economic - it is an attack on all fronts. Savage cuts to Legal Aid, the re-engineering of welfare benefits, the forced migration of the jobless from their homes, and now trailed as a softening up process, cuts to the rights to jury trials. Throw in mass surveillance, secret courts, the tiering of health and education and the conformity of the political class to the austerity agenda - a class which is also in thrall to big finance. These are the years of repression.
