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congrats all, great turnout even if still so many absent!

MP Mackay, can I add to your Code of Practise post 20 03, our routine & robust wasted costs applications for every opposing agency default, not at legal aid rates but private rates.

Probation Union, yes let's stand together, our client agenda shared: a loud joint day of inaction 1st april, HappyBday Mr Grayling.not!

& Mr Crawford, seemingly a Mr Grayling party sympathiser,
I believe this nationwide criminal defence service share sympathies & concerns with our welsh colleagues, all public services & this our legal aid service, crumbling too.
But don't grab at opportunism, dont blame legal aid overspend, dont make this pure party politic banter.
Legal aid has til now facilitated an equal & as such, a just battle between the individual and the State, including ,perhaps more importantly now , the Welsh with such a crumbling infrastructure as you recount :how else will you call any to account & seek redress if not thro publically funded JR & defence work?

Reactionary blame never helped resolve a crisis but jUst look to Cameron's ideological bugetary priorities & tell me whose interests he holds dear?
Consider just a few, as I have read:
-in excess of £1 billion pa in the "Patent Box" tax breaks to big companies like BT & Gsk which the European Commission decried as truly atrocious public policy, not linked to real economic activity but a store of patents
-£200m fines written off in last 3 years
-g4s & Serco overcharging
-planning tax waivers to developers complaining they cant afford full payment, including £31m reductions on 8 sites from may-sept 2013 which also included £2m on 31 flats in Chapter St by developers Candy.
Can any add to the list?
And I promise,not just gleaned from the Guardian!

Perhaps this is the public reeducation that's needed if legal aid is to be saved, tragic that we still have not as yet lobbied hard enough to gain manifesto concessions or popular support.
Time for embargo me thinks, but widespead loss of goodwill very definately!
What more can there be to lose?

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