Do not remove trial by jury

Background

The Justice Secretary announced that trial by jury would be scrapped for crimes with sentences less than 3 years. We want the government to not do this, since it is a threat to democracy and to human rights.

Additional details

Removing trial by jury would threaten democracy if a government were to come into power that arrests people for simply disagreeing with them. Trial by jury protects the human right of right to a fair trial by introducing unbiased members of the public. Additionally, the reason of the "backlog" can be solved by more funding to courts/judges, and should at least have an end date if that were the reason, which is not present in the reforms, which is especially dangerous for the reason above.