Jon writes:
My point is that judges (the real ones, not the ones who judge talent shows) are political officials.
Then you're just plain wrong.
The world where we can separate off a portion of the government and pretend it isn't part of the government is the world where pigs fly on invisible pink unicorns.
In the UK the judiciary are completely independent of government.
The UK has a different system of filling its political positions than the US, but that doesn't mean that the positions or the process of filling them are any less political.
Aprarently it does.
Really, this shouldn't even be an argument. Why vimesey is so opposed to applying the term 'political' to his judges just baffles the hell out of me.
That would be because judges are not the political appointees of government.
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