During a debate on the UK government’s recent decision to abandon the notion of gender self-ID, SNP MP Anne McLaughlin told the Commons chamber that it was still the Scottish Government’s “strong commitment” to go ahead with highly controversial reform of the law BEFORE next year’s Holyrood election.
But that isn’t what Scottish voters were told earlier this year.
Senator Claire Chandler is a Liberal Party member of the Australian Parliament. Some recent experiences she’s had send a very serious warning about the likely outcomes of the Scottish Government’s wildly unpopular new Hate Crime Bill. She’s graciously allowed us to publish this column she wrote on the subject.
Early this month I received a letter from Tasmania’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner directing me to attend a compulsory “conciliation” conference with somebody offended by my comments about the need to protect women’s sport and women’s toilets and changerooms. You can watch them here:
Ironically, the complaint against me was about an opinion article I wrote about free speech. You can read it here and make up your own mind whether bureaucrats at the Anti-Discrimination Commission should be able to censor any Australian citizens for this kind of public policy discussion.
It seems to be becoming apparent to the SNP’s aggressive woke wing that they badly overreached themselves with last week’s trainwreck of an NEC meeting. The backlash from ordinary members has clearly been severe, with senior party figures lining up to distance themselves from the decisions made, and one of the two contentious moves (the effective deselection of James Dornan) has already been reversed, although the one regarding Joanna Cherry still stands at the time of writing.
Yes-supporter social media was aflame last night as Stirling MP Alyn “Daddy Bear” Smith pulled an unexpected move in which he basically threw most of the Twitler Youth members of the NEC under the bus in an attempt to save himself.
To save you straining your eyes on that tiny text, key highlights follow below.
The Wings Over Scotland Twitter account was – whether coincidentally or otherwise – banned very shortly after it made this famous quote from “1984” its pinned tweet:
So it was only ever a matter of time until a trans activist went there:
That’s an MSc in maths, an MA in statistics and a PhD student in statistics at Harvard University there, readers, publicly calling for the flexible redefinition of the meaning of the number 2 so that two plus two can sometimes make five. Humanity is doomed.
Especially alert veteran readers will recall that this site, too, has had its advertising removed from a railway environment for being “political”, on the flimsiest of grounds. We doubt whether excessively-named feminist activist Kellie-Jay “Posie Parker” Keen-Minshull will be overly distressed about this turn of events – our experience was that it generated far more publicity than the adverts themselves could ever have hoped for, PLUS we got all our money back. Win-win!
But it’s still a disturbing occurrence for all sorts of obvious reasons.
The Huffington Post published a poll today, to the great delight of the likes of Stonewall Scotland, which seemed to fly in the face of every previous one on the idea of gender self-identification, a policy which appears to have been dumped by the UK government but is still very much in favour with the Scottish one.
That the poll had been commissioned by trans uber-fundamentalist website Pink News immediately set off alarm bells, especially as the site had previously asked a similar question, found dramatically different results and swiftly disappeared them.
The rapid regression of civilisation continues apace, readers.
Because it ought to be noted that it’s not the concept of homosexuality that’s being deemed offensive there, nor the word itself, but specifically the definition of it.
In other words, a dictionary just said “some people are offended by facts”.
I still don’t like JK Rowling, for reasons I set out earlier this week. I certainly never in a million years imagined I’d ever find myself in a position where I respected her 50 times more than I do Nicola Sturgeon.
This site is not terribly inclined towards sympathy for popular children’s author Joanne Kathleen Rowling. We’re still waiting on an apology for her donating a crucial million pounds towards ensuring Scotland stayed ruled by Tories and got dragged out of the EU against its will, on the bonkers premise that voting No would magically put Scots in a position of unprecedented popularity and power within the UK.
As a smart piece of analysis it’s right up there with “They couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance”, and it would have been nice if at some point in the last six years she’d held her hands up and gone “Y’know what, I called that one really badly wrong. Sorry about the whole Tory/Brexit thing, everyone. We all make mistakes”.
We lost a few quid to Graham Linehan at poker this afternoon and we needed a wee bit of cheering up, so God bless the SNP Twitler Youth for coming to our rescue.
Northcode on A matter of class: “The only folk surprised by all this ‘stuff’; this “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” stuff; this “Independence Day” stuff; this…” Dec 19, 18:50
Hatey McHateface on Contempt Of Government: “Animals have “norms” through the functioning of instinct. People have instincts too, far more so than we want to admit.…” Dec 19, 18:48
Ken MacIntyre on Contempt Of Government: “Anarcho tyranny defined: ‘the combination of oppressive government power against the innocent and the law-abiding and, simultaneously, a grotesque paralysis…” Dec 19, 18:40
100%Yes on Contempt Of Government: “I willing to be a well cooked sausage that Bridget Phillipson has banged on over the years while she been…” Dec 19, 18:35
panda paws on Contempt Of Government: ““She is only the SNP’S Minister for Education so ‘m dubious she’s even bothered to try.” Bridget Philipson is the…” Dec 19, 18:28
twathater on Contempt Of Government: “TBQH is anyone surprised at Philipson she has previous for supporting the woke lunacy as does her whole party and…” Dec 19, 18:20
Aidan on The Idiot Rodeo: “Here here CC, well said. How a scumbag bottom feeder like James gets to look down on anyone is beyond…” Dec 19, 18:15
twathater on A matter of class: “Thank you for this post Gethin , And YET all this evidence about their conjecture allied with the obvious myriad…” Dec 19, 18:15
PC Foster on Contempt Of Government: “Maybe they should take up competitive Fencing or Boxing or some other sport- then they will see that you are…” Dec 19, 18:05
Mark Beggan on A matter of class: “DEI. We need to weed the garden. After all weeds are just flowers in the wrong place.” Dec 19, 18:03
Hatey McHateface on Contempt Of Government: “Announce you’re trans (stay intact, no desperate measures!) and live the life full time. Ladies bogs, getting naked in your…” Dec 19, 18:02
Aidan on The Idiot Rodeo: “You’re right Northcode, any time spent engaging with you is a losing endeavour” Dec 19, 18:00
Hatey McHateface on The Idiot Rodeo: “Aw, CC, leave James alone 🙂 His eyesight is too weak for him to hold down a job, owing to…” Dec 19, 17:56
robertkknight on A matter of class: “But despite everything, Judge Kemp is an honourable man; So are they all, those witnesses for NHS Fife, all honourable…” Dec 19, 17:56
Lee Floyd on A matter of class: “Pervy men and their collaborators. Totally bemusing to normal men and women everywhere….” Dec 19, 17:48
Lee Floyd on Contempt Of Government: “My wife and daughters are completely relaxed about this trans bullshit. I’m not. Who’s wrong?” Dec 19, 17:43
Mark Beggan on A matter of class: ““Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” I was thinking more Thelma and Louise.” Dec 19, 17:37
Hatey McHateface on Contempt Of Government: “Carrying a bit of a torch there, Bob. Does Mrs knight know? Maybe she encourages you to have an “outside…” Dec 19, 17:35
Captain Caveman on The Idiot Rodeo: “Awww, Fatso. Your little geriatric octogenarian friend Northcode has entered the fray to hold your chubby little hand, I see.…” Dec 19, 17:32
Morgatron on A matter of class: “Great article Gethin. Without doubt one of the biggest stitch ups, smudging and smearing of facts I’ve witnessed in many…” Dec 19, 17:31
Hatey McHateface on A matter of class: ““The tribunal heard she reduced him to tears” Good. It’s bloody obvious there’s a whole raft of others (not trans)…” Dec 19, 17:30
Hatey McHateface on The Idiot Rodeo: “Careful, James, dinna be mentioning dugs aroond Northy. He’ll be thinking you want tae sniff his erse.” Dec 19, 17:26
joolz on Contempt Of Government: “The whole point of the supreme court ruling is that IS male exclusive ????. Deliberately. To protect women’s spaces. My…” Dec 19, 17:06
Mark Beggan on Contempt Of Government: “Se acerca la reforma aprende a nadar o te hundiras como Una piedra.” Dec 19, 17:05
Mark Beggan on Contempt Of Government: ““Colonialism is a hoax” Well it certainly had you fooled.” Dec 19, 16:53
James on The Idiot Rodeo: “I’m bored with you now, wee Unionist Tory man, I’ll leave it to Northcode to slay you; “…James, I meant…” Dec 19, 16:43
Alf Baird on Contempt Of Government: ““making knowingly false declarations.” The Act of Union comes to mind, which although so often declared in being was never…” Dec 19, 16:07
James on The Idiot Rodeo: “Northy; HoHo, you made me chuckle….” Dec 19, 16:03
Northcode on The Idiot Rodeo: ““As I’ve mentioned before …” Aye, and don’t we aw know it. Give it up Aidan, you lost – accept…” Dec 19, 15:56
Northcode on The Idiot Rodeo: ““…a shower of condescending bastarts.” I think you deserve the satisfaction of adding an “intensifier”, James. Allow me to do…” Dec 19, 15:36
