Career judges, generally selected from the upper classes, are far more inclined toward criminal punitivism (enemy Criminal Law) and adherents of legal neoliberalism (Civil Law dominated by the bias of protecting property and profits as usual), two things that ordinary jurors eventually reject.

Did Starmer remove the last vestige of the English Common Law tradition that could protect the local population from growing neoliberal authoritarianism? We shall see...

That makes sense. In the 1970s and 1980s, the US transitioned from a traditional empire of military bases governed by statesmen to an Empire of Financial Bubble Spectacles led by actors. Now that the spectacle has become a permanent horror story, the US is governed by vampires disguised as clowns.