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Happy Anniversary

Posted on April 16, 2026 by

It was exactly one year ago today that the Supreme Court delivered its judgment in the case of For Women Scotland Vs The Scottish Ministers, a judgment which has still not been implemented by the Scottish or UK governments, so it was quite bold of the SNP to choose it as the launch date for their manifesto.

The judgment (which the SNP are in fact still fighting in court) is not referenced in the document and the phrases “women’s rights” and “single-sex” do not appear anywhere in it, although it does say “We are committed to upholding and protecting the human rights of trans people as far as possible within our powers and we will do all we can to ensure that trans people’s identities are recognised and respected”.

So, y’know, more of the same to come for the next five years.

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  1. Shug says:

    They are slow learners arent they

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  2. sarah says:

    Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. What utter and complete b…. they are. Never going to get my vote until there is a complete clear out of personnel. My husband says the same.

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  3. sarah says:

    Is that a gravy escalator they’re on?

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  4. Hatey McHateface says:

    There’s a lot of practical uses for a cured and varnished TERF skull.

    Most people already have a spurtle, a shortbread tin, and a tea towel with weird Scots words printed on it.

    Selling TERF skulls could provide a much-needed boost to tourism revenues. If international travel is gonna be as affected as the experts are predicting, we’ll need new pull factors to get the English holidaying here.

    Relax pearl clutchers! They needn’t all be genuine skulls. The Covid Spreaders will knock out as many realistic plastic facsimiles as we need, at prices we won’t be able to resist.

    [Anybody unaware that the Covid Spreaders already make about 95% (by volume) of all Scottish tourist souvenirs? How TAF did that ever happen, eh?]

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  5. Alf Baird says:

    On a positive note, postcolonial theory predicts the co-opted national party acting as a ‘calcified’ colonial administration eventually ‘disintegrates’ (Fanon).

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    • TURABDIN says:

      FANON might agree that the disintegration needs coordinated third party action, especially when ballot boxes are filled with sand.

      Reply
  6. sydthesnake says:

    Why do they still get so many votes????

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  7. 100%Yes says:

    When I look at that photograph I think ("Tractor" - Ed)s and redcoats everyone of them.

    This election is the opportunity for women to defend themselves and their. So vote for anyone other than the greens and SNP, don’t vote for these party’s because of Independence Independence isn’t on OFFER.

    Where’s the Independence horse cart? This SNP will say and do anything for THEMSELVES.

    .The SNP has no interest In Scotland, its people, or Independence, this is a fact. Even if the SNP got an outright majority, and then went and asked for a section 30 order, England couldn’t afford to say YES. People have to stop believing they have to say yes, because that’s undemocratic, well so was taken Scotland by force in 1707.

    John Swinney will ask for a section 30 order and it will be turned DOWN by the UKG and the SNP wont challenged it. The SNP’s backup plan will be to look to a Westminster election and state, vote only for the SNP and if we win more votes than all the Unionist parties put together the UKG can’t refuse a section 30 order, nut the will again. No Country including England are going to make themselves poorer by losing Scotland. People including this panel have to waken up, it isn’t the UKG who are denying democracy it’s the SNP. The Leadership of the SNP keep making rules regarding Independence which are unachievable and they are doing this to feather their own nests and for their own ends.

    There isn’t one of yous who get elected that will have a hope in hell on changing the constitutional question while the SNP is hell bent on the Union. I’m afraid Scotland will still be in the Union in 2031 and then we cannot be arguing again on the question of Independence simply because Independence isn’t going to happen until the SNP is destroyed.

    Its the SNP who keeps blocking Independence, they’ve done it again with the Holyrood election by telling everyone to give two votes to the SNP knowing that by given two votes to the SNP reform will win 20 seats and that will be all due to the SNP. The SNP has also made the election about a super SNP majority knowing for any party to get a super outright majority it’s impossible and it will fail and fail it will, but it didn’t have to fail if the SNP opted for an Independence majority by telling people to vote for the SNP on the first vote and any other independence party on the second vote, but they haven’t. it’s going to be the same in the Westminster election only vote for the SNP to win more votes than all the unionist this is impossible to achieve but the SNP knows it.
    The SNP and its leadership aren’t acting like an Independence party and from their actions there is something sinister happening with the SNP and its refusal to move Independence forward and if you asked me Sturgeon is the sole reason behind it.

    I can’t and will not be voting for the SNP or Greens.
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    Where’s the Independence horse cart? This SNP will say and do anything for THEMSELVES.

    .The SNP has no interest In Scotland, its people, or Independence, this is a fact. Even if the SNP got an outright majority, and then went and asked for a section 30 order, England couldn’t afford to say YES. People have to stop believing they have to say yes, because that’s undemocratic, well so was taken Scotland by force in 1707.

    John Swinney will ask for a section 30 order and it will be turned DOWN by the UKG and the SNP wont challenged it. The SNP’s backup plan will be to look to a Westminster election and state, vote only for the SNP and if we win more votes than all the Unionist parties put together the UKG can’t refuse a section 30 order, nut the will again. No Country including England are going to make themselves poorer by losing Scotland. People including this panel have to waken up, it isn’t the UKG who are denying democracy it’s the SNP. The Leadership of the SNP keep making rules regarding Independence which are unachievable and they are doing this to feather their own nests and for their own ends.

    There isn’t one of yous who get elected that will have a hope in hell on changing the constitutional question while the SNP is hell bent on the Union. I’m afraid Scotland will still be in the Union in 2031 and then we cannot be arguing again on the question of Independence simply because Independence isn’t going to happen until the SNP is destroyed.

    Its the SNP who keeps blocking Independence, they’ve done it again with the Holyrood election by telling everyone to give two votes to the SNP knowing that by given two votes to the SNP reform will win 20 seats and that will be all due to the SNP. The SNP has also made the election about a super SNP majority knowing for any party to get a super outright majority it’s impossible and it will fail and fail it will, but it didn’t have to fail if the SNP opted for an Independence majority by telling people to vote for the SNP on the first vote and any other independence party on the second vote, but they haven’t. it’s going to be the same in the Westminster election only vote for the SNP to win more votes than all the unionist this is impossible to achieve but the SNP knows it.
    The SNP and its leadership aren’t acting like an Independence party and from their actions there is something sinister happening with the SNP and its refusal to move Independence forward and if you asked me Sturgeon is the sole reason behind it.

    I can’t and will not be voting for the SNP or Greens.

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  8. 100%Yes says:

    Angela Constance is my SNP MSP and to be honest I received a leaflet from her and it states Independence in three different areas. She help us on more than one occasion, I like her but I can’t vote for her because of the SNP.

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  9. 100%Yes says:

    When I look at that photograph I think (“("Tractor" - Ed)’s)s and redcoats everyone of them.

    This election is the opportunity for women to defend themselves and their rights. So vote for anyone other than the greens and SNP, don’t vote for these party’s because of Independence Independence isn’t on OFFER.

    Where’s the Independence horse cart? This SNP will say and do anything for THEMSELVES.

    .The SNP has no interest In Scotland, its people, or Independence, this is a fact. Even if the SNP got an outright majority, and then went and asked for a section 30 order, England couldn’t afford to say YES. People have to stop believing they have to say yes, because that’s undemocratic, well so was taken Scotland by force in 1707.

    John Swinney will ask for a section 30 order and it will be turned DOWN by the UKG and the SNP wont challenged it. The SNP’s backup plan will be to look to a Westminster election and state, vote only for the SNP and if we win more votes than all the Unionist parties put together the UKG can’t refuse a section 30 order, nut the will again. No Country including England are going to make themselves poorer by losing Scotland. People including this panel have to waken up, it isn’t the UKG who are denying democracy it’s the SNP. The Leadership of the SNP keep making rules regarding Independence which are unachievable and they are doing this to feather their own nests and for their own ends.

    There isn’t one of yous who get elected that will have a hope in hell on changing the constitutional question while the SNP is hell bent on the Union. I’m afraid Scotland will still be in the Union in 2031 and then we cannot be arguing again on the question of Independence simply because Independence isn’t going to happen until the SNP is destroyed.

    Its the SNP who keeps blocking Independence, they’ve done it again with the Holyrood election by telling everyone to give two votes to the SNP knowing that by given two votes to the SNP reform will win 20 seats and that will be all due to the SNP. The SNP has also made the election about a super SNP majority knowing for any party to get a super outright majority it’s impossible and it will fail and fail it will, but it didn’t have to fail if the SNP opted for an Independence majority by telling people to vote for the SNP on the first vote and any other independence party on the second vote, but they haven’t. it’s going to be the same in the Westminster election only vote for the SNP to win more votes than all the unionist this is impossible to achieve but the SNP knows it.
    The SNP and its leadership aren’t acting like an Independence party and from their actions there is something sinister happening with the SNP and its refusal to move Independence forward and if you asked me Sturgeon is the sole reason behind it.

    I can’t and will not be voting for the SNP or Greens.

    You can delete the previous one, thank you.

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  10. TURABDIN says:

    if the may elections are not about the massive existential question of the Scottish nation’s place in the world then just stay at home and draw up plans for the «revolution», which we all know must come. The object is cracked, worthless and beyond repair,
    Nothing else matters in this fractured world of muscular bully boy dickhead politics and its piteous actors,

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    • 100%Yes says:

      Both the SNP and Greens singing of the same hymnbook when it comes to Independence, “we need to persuade more people to vote YES” how can this be achieved when both these party are turning the people who would vote for Independence but now won’t vote either Greens or SNP.

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  11. Karen says:

    But, but, but they will cap the price of eggs! The paucity of ambition is staggering.

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  12. Northcode says:

    Why are colonialists, generally as a ‘species’, so physically unattractive?

    Could it be that God has marked them in such a way that they might be more easily identified as enemies of true Scots – His favourite folk on this Earth – and therefore more easily avoided by them?

    Or could it be that hideousness is a requirement for MSPs under the terms of the Treaty of Union?

    Or could it be that MSPs were, as children, forced by their deranged guardians to beat their own faces with an ‘ugly stick’ after brushing their teeth before bedtime?

    Or perhaps colonialism is like syphilis – the more advanced the grip of this terrible disease on a colonialist the more unbeautiful they become.

    I doubt we handsome and gorgeous Scots who wander this place (unionists excluded) will ever know the truth of it, but one thing has been made clear to us… the main reason for the Scots not to vote at all (unless their vote is for the ATLS) in May’s Westminster’s quinquennium Scottish pantomime is that its MSPs (bar those of the ATLS, of course) are just so damned ugly.

    Scotland is a colony, of that there is no doubt, but can’t her pretend ‘Scottish’ representatives at least be pleasing to look upon, like the indigenous Scots they are meant to represent?

    Because I will tell you this, my fellow scrumptious darlings… in no universe can it possibly be said that any of those faces that curse the image shown above represent either my stunningly ornate self or my beautiful people.

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  13. Mark Beggan says:

    They keep it on their desk because it’s the only thing that keeps them elite. The New Elite are just normal everyday grifters without it.

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