Wings Over Scotland

Something tells me that Fulton is in league with London, and that his silly comments are designed to herd people away from the SNP. Classic herding techniques.

Watch that space. Before long, London will ride to the rescue, right on cue, with a proposal to abolish all hate crimes.

Clowns like Fulton shouldn’t be working in tandem with London. He should be concentrating on making life better for Scots. Period.

Of course, these criminals are not actually transgender. They haven’t transitioned, and in case, “Isla Bryson” he only decided to identify as a woman after being charged, as many of them do.

The creation of the “umbrella” is a crime against transsexuals as well as the rest of us, because it lumps them in with fetishists and perverts.

It is extremely disturbing and outrageous that a snp mp can state through ANY broadcast media that “hate crime is a major problem across Scotland”, which “wreaks havoc on individuals, on communities and on families”.Without being asked to provide ANY evidence that that is the case

It is grotesque and disengenuous in the extreme, that a supposed politician is determined to justify through any means possible that the introduction of this reviled freedom destroying bill is warranted

As a 73 year old Scotsman I am absolutely horrified and outraged that this person is portraying Scotland and Scots on a national broadcaster as participating in horrendous acts of hateful conduct requiring the intervention of draconian laws

Police Scotland have stated that due to their inability to attend every reported incident certain incidents will no longer be investigated or pursued as live incidents, surely that is an ENCOURAGEMENT to criminals to determine what crimes will not be actively pursued and then base their activities and profits on THOSE activities

This CRUSADE by certain members of our politicians was forced on voters without agreement or correct consultation

It’s a Scottish version of the Anti Defamation League, used to chill all debate.

“a red line around her torso area”. – maybe that was his C-section scar

He must be one of the Umpa Lumpas.

Can someone archive/link this as I don’t support this rag getting hits…but it’s an interesting and timely read. (I’d do it myself but wouldn’t know how to start).

link to scottishdailyexpress.co.uk

I would have expected to hear of ‘transwomen’ being attacked when their date/hook-up discovered they had a lady penis.

@ Robert Knight at 6.53

link to archive.ph

Here’s how I did that: I right-clicked on the link you provided, chose “copy link”, then pasted that into https://archive.ph, and clicked “save”.

@ Robert Knight and Dan

Correction and apologies:
Archiving it via right-clicking only saves a picture-free version that ends part-way through with a “continue reading” button.

This is the correct archived link:
link to archive.ph

Unfortunately I had to visit the Express site to do that; I now see Ruby also posted the WEZaV link.

Not a single transgender person is ever recorded as having been murdered in Scotland in all of the nation’s history, while around 15 women a year are. Women are excluded from the protected categories in the Hate Crime Bill.

There are issues with bigotry and hate in Scotland that we just refuse to deal with, one of which is the endemic misogyny in our society that sees women murdered by their partner or someone known to them at least once a month as well as countless reports of women being assaulted & raped. Then there’s the reports never made, not to mention how many women are locked in abusive relationships now who probably won’t escape til they die.

Then there’s sectarianism, which is as bad now as it has been in decades. We’ve taken a massive step back in trying to eliminate it & yes, at one point it did seem like the SNP were trying to do something but now they, like the rest of Scottish culture and society they just begrudgingly accept it.

And there’s a real issue with racism that you really notice when you’ve been away from Scotland for some time & return to see casual bigotry thrown at non white people, but there’s still a real anti English sentiment, especially in the extremes of the independence movement.

We are in short, a society that fools itself in regards to bigotry & it’s a massive issue that this law will do nothing to solve. It focuses upon Transgenderism while excluding misogyny or even the homophobia the Trans movement is rife with so I’m not shocked in the slightest that there’s so few incidents with Trans people. Essentially white, mainly heterosexual able-bodied males are not a part of society that suffers even if they do wear dresses or have a castration fetish.

The fact that in a few days time this could be seen as a ‘hate crime’ is insane. As said, it isn’t going to solve the very real issues in Scottish society, nor will it make the lives of people suffering from actual hate any better. All it’ll do is weaponise the police for a core of activists to make people’s lives miserable because they hate them. Sure, cases will be thrown out in court but as Stu constantly reminds us, the process is the punishment.

One more thing, seeing the Scottish commentators in the arts, culture and politics who emerged a decade ago during the referendum who were pushing Scotland then as an enlightened place who now fall in line with the SNP to push this illiberal, authoritarian law depresses me. This is not what we were hoping for in an independent Scotland a decade ago & it isn’t something we want now, unless of course, you’re one of those people who’s mates are in power or your job relies on sucking up to those people.

It struck me that what this person is really saying with regard to “hate crime” being “a major problem across Scotland”, was that it will be once this law comes into force. It is a sleight of hand referring to the future, not the present, because yes, once you criminalise perceived hate with boundaries as woolly as an Aberdeen Angus and with a remit that invades your own home, then you potentially criminalise many people, who to that point were guilty of no crime.

@ Twathater

” It is grotesque and disengenuous in the extreme, that a supposed politician is determined to justify through any means possible that the introduction of this reviled freedom destroying bill is warranted ” .

That was my first ( enraged ) thought when I saw that lump of amorphous greyness mumble fckn slander – unchallenged – about our country . What kind of person thinks it’s acceptable to give a totally warped perception of his own country , just to toe the line , when the line is the thing that is warped and in order to justify bringing-in laws to oppress/suppress the people of his own country ?

Answer : Every member of the SNP..ie.. MPs , MSPs , Party Members & anyone who intends to vote for them . They are all culpable .

I better go , I heard screams outside , no doubt another vicious attack being perpetrated on a poor * trans * super-victim .

The reporting of statistics on trans-committed crime is totally reversed. They are not the victims. Quite the reverse.

Much like the race crime. Blacks are not the victims they are the overwhelming perpetrators. Overwhelming, it is not even close…

No one actually gave a shit about them, the trans genders. Until all this ideological poison was rammed down out throats.

The only significant violent crimes against them is when they fool someone into thinking they are a real woman / man. When he / she then finds out… they are humiliated and enraged and they kicks their heads in. This makes up the vast majority of trans ‘hate’ crimes.

Whereas the crimes committed by transpeople is off the scale.

The stats are of course well obscured but apparently the crime rates and especially of a sexual nature for the trans community are enormous. Fra beyond the base population.

And it is because they in really most cases are mentally ill.

Thanks folks!

I know of one incident that happened to a trans identifying man in Maryhill Glasgow. He was getting on his bike at the canal and some youths verbally abused him. As luck would have it 2 policemen were behind him at the time and witnessed this so it went to court. I’m unclear about the details and outcome but know it happened. I could make further inquiry if you need to know more. Let me know if you need his name.

Journalism at its best Rev.
So SNP are just making up stories and not troubling themselves to check on the credibility of their fantasies being fact checked.

So now we know this for a fact can this clown retract his claims and can SNP Abandon the Hate Crime bill as we hate being lied to by the incompetent.

Is it a “Hate Crime” to cite statistics that refute the whole justification for the “Hate Crimes Act?”

As of April 1, will we now have Hate FACTS, with truth no longer a defense against a HCA prosecution?

In the last days of the the third Reich it was reported that in the Fuhrer bunker the atmosphere went from neurotic laughter to manic crying. There was also the smell of pish.

Great Post with evidence.
I hope you can survive Useless new hate bill.
Surely he won’t last long now.

Here’s how it’s going to be from 1st April 2024 in Bonny Scotland:
Officer I’ve been attacked with a knife,
Officer say’s just get on with your life!
I’ve just had a report of a crime of hate,
So i’m afraid i really can’t investigate!
I’m dealing with a woman with a hairy cock,
She’s hysterical about the gender bill block!
She claims Alistair Jack has caused her harm.
And she’s too far away from the mushroom farm!
The sex shop is closed and the library too.
And she’s not even allowed in the ladies loo!
Humza and Harvie love scooters and bikes,
They love the Trans but hate gays and dykes!
So from April the first if you want to do time,
Watch as your innocent words become a crime!

@ Robert Hughes 7.42pm If only there was some way to hold these liars to account, oh wait! a people’s assembly might work, aw naw Scots are too stupid fur that according to the USUAL suspects

The dogs bark but the caravan moves on.

I was pleased to hear a Scottish voice on Classic FM News this morning, even though it was some talking head announcing that Scottish assisted dying is the next big thing.

Great, I thought. I wondered where oor pretendy FM HY was going to find the hooses to accommodate his million New Scots, but as we are all finding out, he’s thinking of everything.

As the talking head bloviated about how “poll after poll” had expressed support for assisted dying, I wondered if there was anything else dear to the hearts of the Scottish people that “poll after poll” had shown majority support for.

Anything? Anybody?

C’mon Ted, there must be something.

The message from ScotGov to this Sovereign Scot seems crystal clear this morning.

Fuck off. And die.

As an agnostic it is getting more and more difficult to deny that we are currently under a judgement of the almighty.

(Oops trying again with a couple of modifications)

Alexander Bortnikov, director of Ru$$ia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), has publicly stated that the US, the UK and Ukr@ine were behind the Mo$cow terror attacks.

I think it is safe to say that as far as the Ru$$ians are concerned the gloves are coming off.

Britain’s role in all of this is peculiar. Apparently of all the actors involved we are the most rabid for war. Which is strange as our armed forces are gutted.

If it kicks off big time the UK is as good as gone. That is is your Union dividend right there.

@Mac 7.44am

It’s a strange conceit that the usual suspects BTL here have that any more than a handful of fringe nutters agree with their woo-woo conspiracy theorising. Nothing will convince such folk that their faith based positions are baseless of course, they’ll still insist that their secret insider knowledge allows them to confidently assure us black is white.

So “the West” is behind the recent attacks in Moscow, just as country 404 downed flight MH17 years ago. There’s no international crisis that can’t somehow be bent to their twisted logic. Meanwhile ordinary folk gie them side eye and try to avoid them in the street.

We all know a few of the tin foil hat wearers: that woman at work whose default response is that any black swan event was caused by the Illuminati, or George Soros or “interntional finance”, or the guy down the pub who knows Mossad was behind 9/11 and chem trails are CIA plot to poison us all.

If it weren’t so sad it’s be comical that a wee basket foo’ of a handful of deplorables has brought BTL discourse here to such a place. 🙁

These terrorists are not jih@dis. They are just mercenary thugs of rather low intelligence it appears. One of them held up ‘The One’ sign (the index finger pointed up) but he did it with his left hand… so very doubtful they are even Mu$lims.

The attack was planned for a week before the ru$$ian elections but was postponed as security was too tight. Crazily the Ukr@inians (at least) decided to go ahead with it even though the main reason for doing it no longer existed and the elections had already happened.

The ru$$ians have stated that believe the terrorists would have been killed by the Ukr@inians as the prearranged meeting point had they made it across the border. Thus eliminating all the loose strings…

But it did not work out, as these guys were not so bright, they even fled in the same very distinctive car they arrived in. So now you have loose strings every fucking where, it looks like when of those mops there are so many. These people are all apparently blabbing, crying etc… It is like they did not realize what they were getting in to.

I think it will turn out they were very low IQ people who were intended to be disposable after doing their mission.

The ru$$ians are going to find out. Already have i guess as the director of the FSB would not be saying it to journalists otherwise.

“Literally no one in Scotland talks like this you fucking cretins.”

Maybe they’re from Gurro.

John Main @ 6:55 am

“The message from ScotGov to this Sovereign Scot seems crystal clear this morning. Fuck off. And die.”

Yes, well, it is a colonial administration, efter aw, wha’s main function is tae haud the fowk doun in order tae keep the racket and plunder going. Whit dae ye expect? Here the state gies itself lawful authority tae pit fowk doun, much like an animal, ane wey or anither. We do not need to look very far into the past, or present, to see how that ends.

In a colonial society “colonization is legitimate in every sense and with all its consequences” (Albert Memmi), and where even “the most absurd prejudices are explained and justified; and, as if by magic, the moon is turned into green cheese” (Cesaire).

We are so lucky to have a Scottish Parliament, so that perverts and foreigners who hate Scots can take away our rights.

#AskAndy
Do farts have lumps?

Stick to subjects you understand.

It has become patently obvious the labour infiltrators who have hidden in the SNP for years are achieving their aim (along with the greens who have ambitions to work with them in the uk).

Introduce laws that nobody has a mandate for that will destroy their support base. Its classic divide and rule is it not.

Pete wushart wants to be speaker Ian blackadder wants his rotundity
Planted on a bench keeping cosy in ermine. It’s aww coming to fruition. vote I4I if you have one.

Duncan , you surely mean Pete Washout?? He’d make as bloody awful a speaker as a Scottish independence MP. As for the other one , what can one say?

Republic of Scotland 8.25

Nobody will stop this going ahead because it helps to destroy the snp. This is a planned destruction in my view. No sensible political astute party would do this to themselves. We know many in the snp are numptys and place people but there are leaders and acolytes bending them to their will. In terms of how to destroy and powerful political force and make it look like their own fault it takes infiltration and policies that the electorate will hate. They joi Ed themselves to the Greens who have helped to destroy snp enormously

Mac
Yup. The Anglo/Americans don’t want Pan-Arabist leaders to succeed.
Religious pot stirring is the weapon of choice.
Hussein and Gaddafi were keen to deal in other currencies than the USD for oil, which would wreck the US economy.

General Wesley Clarke said that, after 911, the plan was to take out 7 countries “starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.”
They seem to be behind schedule.

Zionism is integral to keeping instability in the region.
Always follow the money.

(trying again as I forgot the usual tweaks)

Johnlm, the fact they were dancing in celebration as they filmed 3,000 people being murdered in horrific circumstances, dozens of whom jumped to their deaths rather than be burned alive, definitely raises some ‘interesting’ questions.

But the fact they were there filming for the FIRST plane to impact raises a lot more.

Ir@q, Syri@, Liby@, Afgh@nistan, Leb@non, Ukr@ine… drooling at the mouth for Ir@n. What is happening in G@za is just the latest installment of a truly monstrous project.

The level of suffering inflicted on these countries is difficult to comprehend it is so vast. And their complete indifference to it, indeed their seeming lust for it, makes it impossible to understand, as it is inhuman.

This is a word just a few years ago I would never have used but now I think it is almost unavoidable. We are seeing Evil.

That expression about it taking religion to make good people do bad things applies even more so to ideologies, especially supremacist ideologies. It totally consumes them and converts them into (exceptionally dangerous) monsters. As we can see…

It is a real problem for the whole world at this point. And they see us all as various shades of ‘Palestini@ns’ be absolutely sure of that.

After no charges being brought let alone prosecutions in the two unprovoked assaults which were carried out against me where I live I approached several lawyers and on hearing the location in which the assaults took place and the demographic of the people who attacked me they declined to become involved. In my opinion this is because the people who attacked me are now the bread and butter of the legal profession. Take a walk through Govanhill and count the amount of lawyers which now operate in the area and read their own signs for what they specialise in.

Immigration
Sex Crimes
Crimes Of Violence
Weapons Offences
Traffic Offences

As I mentioned in the past Dentons purchased a law firm in Glasgow a few years back. The grooming gang made up one hundred percent of people either granted or seeking asylum which was operating at the Four Corners area of Glasgow city centre have all been granted lifelong anonymity and we have no idea who defended them in court. This took place whilst Michael Matheson was Minister For Justice and the Hate Crime Bill was announced just as details of this started to leak into the public sphere whilst Yousaf was Minister For Justice.

If you believe that things are bad now buckle up because they are going to get far worse. In my opinion in twenty years time Glasgow will be completely unrecognisable and it will spread out from there, nowhere will be spared from the purge.

A bit insulting to ALLScots to state that hate crime is rife accross Scotland. Perhaps SNP & Green MSPs could make speeches on the wickedness of the people they want to vote for them.That will go down well.

Amnesty International,

Gender Discrimination that deny Women and Girls their Rights to excercise rights of control over their own body and enjoy protection from “Harassment” and demand gender equality.
Governments around the World ( Scottish Devolved Government) openly support policies, laws and customs that subdugate and suppress Women,

Amnesty international do not define LGBTI as actual women, but gives them a status of their own groups.
The Scottish Devolved Government is subjugating “women and girls Rights” to a lower caste of humans in Scotland with their “Hate Crime Bill”
that is Discriminating to Women and girls in suppressing their ability to have freedom of speech in all areas, victimising women and girls in particular as a target for Harassment and abuse if they attempts to complain,
Stickers taken down, protests and voices of women and girls is now under a sub-heading of LGBTI Rights first and Scottish policing over “Women’s and girls rights” is secondary in nature when it involves privacy Rights and automony of their own female gender bodies, when they cannot enjoy their female Human rights and voice, other other legal basis because of a unjustified distinction in policy that is about to become law on the 1st April2024 in Scotland.
This Hate Crime bill suppresses and victimises women and girls rights of freedom, and places them under oppressive policies.
Going against all Amnesty International policies on Women and Girls.

If all and sundry are allowed to invade female only spaces will that mean that Muslim women will no longer be able to enjoy the swimming baths which had women only days? And does that increase or decrease the ‘popularity’ of you know who??

O/T: INDEPENDENCE

The only fairly quick way to regaining independence is by the existing political system.

We therefore need people who are passionate about the goal to be elected as MPs and MSPs.

This means supporting every initiative that such people are engaged in – Indy 1st, Independents for Independence, Schemes for Indy, Independence for Scotland Party, and perhaps Alba.

To this end I have just donated to Indy 1st, being the newest and therefore the most in need – they have a donate button and bank account details [sort 873763, account 00047141] on their website indy1st.scot.

Anton Decadent wrote on the 28th of March 2024 at 11:56am:

If you believe that things are bad now buckle up because they are going to get far worse. In my opinion in twenty years time Glasgow will be completely unrecognisable and it will spread out from there, nowhere will be spared from the purge.

That’s been coming for a long time… I feel a bit of a rant coming on!

I grew up in the Red Road… moved back to the flats in ’84-85-ish when I’d completed my training with Thames in London. – Set up on my own from a back bedroom in my flat back in ’86. Left the city (for what turned out to be for good) in 1990. From late ’99/ early’00 I started commuting back to the city to lecture at Stow and (for a while) Springburn/North Glasgow colleges… both gone now of course; a symptom of the city’s various cancers.

So I’ve seen the tide flow in and flow out of the place…

I resigned from Stow in 2012 after a period of work-induced illness… But of course by then, the city of my birth was already unrecognisable. Travelling back to the place for work purposes became increasingly infrequent; and the ‘morphing’ more obvious – the corruption on the part of those that occupy ‘Castle Numbskull’ (the city chambers) less hidden and more flagrant.

How do they get away with it? Dogger Mathieson with his ‘little Nero’ plans to blow down the Red Road for ‘sport’ and stautes in carefully gentrified ‘magenta square’… The plight of Jaconellis and the already run-down community with its now non-legacy. Hazard-County style traffic schemes to keep the poor (i.e. most ordinary folk) out of the city etc. etc. etc… The Balornock and Barmulloch I grew up in razed and the barely-adequate housing replaced with reduced numbers of opportunity-limiting hutches; clearly designed to be tomorrow’s slums. – a strategy which has worked well in Glasgow since WW2 to keep the politcos in backhanders and the (well connected of course) developers in public money!

If you’re born into Glasgow (and I suspect many other places in Scotland) as an ordinary working-class gadgie; then you stand a good chance of trying to survive rather than live a life – and you will be no more than a rag in the political spin cycle to those that hold the reigns!

Multi-culturalism specifically isn’t about incoming groups setting up their own exclusive (by dint of which they are inherently racist) enclaves to undermine the established population. – And yet; that does seem to be what has been enabled and encouraged by the corrupt and dishonest people who have been running our towns and cities (not just Glasgow) for many decades now… There is no ‘melting pot’, no integration… no progress; quite the opposite in fact; they’re resistant to that!

Try (for example) being a white boy who falls for a girl from certain Asian communities. I had a student once who literally lived his life in fear of his kid’s mother’s brothers. One day two of them literally walked into a class I was running and tried to sneak in at the back… when I told them to get (the eff) out they started feigning ‘no speeky inglish’; obviously thinking I was as thick as they were.

Multi-culturalism has been engineered to become a misnome.

Now, for ‘cards on the table’ clarity, I am all for integration. My (late) eldest daughter was of what some would call ‘mixed race’. Her (also late) Mother was born in the Rottenrow and brought up in Clydebank (My daughter’s maternal grandparents came were from Hong Kong and Shanghai; arrived here in the 60s)… and while you will undeniably find pockets of racism among the nominally-‘Chinese’ community such people are generally seen as regressive dinosaurs. – Because that group of people which came here to settle back then did so to make a new life in a better place; not to wallow in contempt for the communities that found space for and welcomed them.

Something similar seems to be true of many other ‘immigrant’ groups… of which I am part myself; descended from what Molly Weir cited as being called ‘the dirty Irish’ back in her day – in our native Springburn; both sides of my family having arrived here in the 1840s-60s.

Truth is… there have been immigrant communities arriving and settling on these islands for hundreds of years; arriving and integrating. …And that’s fine. The positive contributions to our wider culture and nature are generally welcomed. The eventual natural death of the negative and regressive aspects too. By this means we move forward.

Perhaps it is just my naive perception and lack of knowledge; but from what can be observed it does appear to be the case that the issue of non-white racist enclaves is a relatively new phenomena (perhaps only 40-50 years at its roots); springing primarily from groups that originate from a particular place…

” Take a walk through Govanhill and count the amount of lawyers which now operate in the area and read their own signs for what they specialise in.

Immigration
Sex Crimes
Crimes Of Violence
Weapons Offences
Traffic Offences ”

If Glasgow didn’t have enough problems with plazzy gangstas it does seem to have imported and enabled a new breed.

But FWIW Anton, back in the late 90s into the 2000s there were ‘grooming gangs’ being run here in West Lothian – particularly in a place which Widow Twankey (Angela Constance) defended as a ‘hard working community’ while there were old men with ‘church of Scotland connections’ openly overseeing wee lassies of 12 and 13 being plied with drink and then dragged into bushes to be abused. – All in plain site with the tacit endorsement of the ‘community’. – When reported both the local police and council tried to bury the story – it wasn’t ’till a dozen years later that the ringleader was caught and jailed! – and not a deep suntan in sight!

Frankly, it’s corruption that sits at the heart of the problem here… politician and council officials that are as bent as four-pound notes; and maybe in more ways than one. – Issues of ‘orientation’ aside; how many politicos and officials are sex-obsessed bent shots of one kind or another? You could reasonably form the opinion that being susceptible to some form of ‘Kompromat’ or another was an essential qualification for the job!

Racism is a useful tool in all this, but just one of many. Racism (like politics) isn’t a one-way-street, but a chaotic, corrupt, laneless, shambolic superhighway with no barriers or agreed direction; and the sewers discharging straight into it! Not all racists are white!

– Try ‘reasoning’ with the academically-challenged middle-aged no-mark chicken-chopper who habitually calls you ‘Gweilo’ and your Mrs ‘Banana’! Or for that matter the over-privileged racist abusing a position of power to further promote an already over-represented minority on the basis of their skin colour and/or ethnicity!

White! white! white! is it Humza? My response to him is that he’s a bent! bent! bent! classist parasite and racist to boot!

I didn’t ask for my skin colour or my ‘Fenian’ surname or to go (by default) to catholic school; but as a result of that experience I damn-well know better than to abuse others just for the colour of their skin or the religion they had foisted upon them by circumstance! …And with my non-posh eduction, realised there is something better to do than become just another plazzy gangsta; a big fish with vested interests in the small pool of pish they swim about it.

And there’s the rub. At the heart of the matter is the fact that these people – politicians and so-called ‘public servants’ of all shades and grades – are fundamentally dishonest people. – Trying to target one group plays into their hands because it keeps attention to the wider problem divided; that’s what they want!

…At the end of the day a plazzy gangsta is a plazzy gangsta; and the fact that they’re enabled and supported by dodgy politicos is nothing new or surprising either. Worrying,yes; that this is what we know have in high office… but when was it different, really?

So Great- Britain parliament and the Monarchy now has Scotland Catagorised and labeled with restricted freedom of Speech under the Scottish Hate bill compared to England, Wales and Northern Ireland,
Territorial Extent. Scotland.

Why has the Monarch given royal assent to restrict the Scottish nation?

Racism adapts and changes over time, and can impact different communities in different ways,
Racism includes All laws, policies, ideologies and barriers to prevent people from experiencing Justice, dignity, and equality, because of their racial radical identity, it can come in the form of,
Abuse,
Harassment,
Humiliation,
Violence,
Or intimidating behaviour.
However Racism also exists in Systems and Institutions that operate in Ways that lead to inequity, and injustice,

Australian Human Rights Commission.

Rab Clark @10:52am

Love it.

Presumably his accuser thought he was being cruel to cats (& police Scotland were obliged to agree)

Bigger issue might be his (or his advocate’s, or indeed Police Scotland’s) conflation of the mutually exclusive concepts of “common law power(s)” with “no requirement for evidence” (when discussing the hate crime national guidance in section 3 of his letter) – unless and to extent he (or they) are limiting the conflation to a policeman’s right to use common sense.

In that respect (common sense), a positive spin on the new law can be drawn directly from its primary definition:

Hate crime is the phrase used to describe behaviour which is both criminal and based on prejudice.

That being that it can (presumably) be used to liberate Julian Assange, and interrogate his persecutors, as early as next week.
🙂

Which SNP’s pushed for the hate crime bill.

Name them

Ali Clark says: 28 March, 2024 at 2:47 pm

“Matt,

Your ‘rant’ makes more sense than most BTL folk’s ‘considered opinions’.”

Thanks Ali. …If only I could improve my typing/spelling (cringes). Sadly; no opportunity to edit out typos, and the ‘input window’ we’re stuck with is something of a barrier – I happen to be dyslexic you see.

Sven,
I mean who drove it forward, the ministers responsible. They gave to be plants

The rest are lobby fodder

Matt Quinn @ 2.18

Excellent post , Matt .

My background – Irish descent/ Catholic ( not so much ” lapsed ” as collapsed ) , working class Glaswegian – is similar to your own ; likewise , I surmise , in age . Also like you , I haven’t lived in my home city since the early 80s .

I never had a problem with any of the various ethnic groups – very different to our own – that lived in Glasgow in those days eg Chinese , Indian , Pakistani etc : neither though did I have any friends from these demographics , outwith as a customer in shops and restaurants run by such . They – particularly the Chinese – ” kept themselves to themselves ” ; fair enough , I knew plenty of * natives * who done the same .

What’s happening now , though , is something completely different to the , let’s say… ” organic ” influx of people/s to our cities hitherto . It seems much more like a ” strategy ” , a deliberate , politically motivated attempt to undermine the cohesion and sense of commonality , shared values and ” ways of seeing ” that create national identity and mutual understanding.

It’s worth stating again ….. Globalism in it’s ” you shall all think , act and consume as * WE * demand ” aspect sees National Identity – the Nation State itself – as the last remaining obstacle to it’s total dominance , and it’s commitment to eradicating this obstacle is total . Let there be no doubt about that . Why else have literally millions of people from various parts of the world been able to stroll unhindered into the U.S via it’s Southern Border in the last few years alone ? And why despite all the pro-Brexit-related shite about ” taking back control ” eg of our borders has nothing of the sort occurred ?
I read the other day immigration into the UK has increased to record levels . All the faux-outrage & faux-efforts to ” address the situation ” re..eg.. deportation to Rwanda is mere smoke n mirrors : the FACT is more foreign people are entering the UK than ever before .

Make of that what you will . Personally , I don’t feel threatened by that ; maybe because I live in small ( though getting larger ) community in the Highlands , where by far the biggest influx is from England . If trends carry on as they have been that could well change . Again , that possibility doesn’t worry me .

Overall though , present Immigration trends will impact significantly on Scotland . Not , necessarily , negatively ; but the example of areas like Govanhill doesn’t fill one with optimism that this * experiment * will be productive of positive outcomes either .

” Melting Pot ” or ” Ball of Confusion ” ? Time will tell

Shug @ 16.26.

Sorry Shug, my bad. As to who was behind this rotten Act, my guess would be that it’ll be like the Ferries fiasco. An absolute bourach, but no one knows whose responsibility it is. This present administration are so unfortunate in how all these events just occur without any individual being able to say how they happened.

James Che: “Didn’t the tories think the Scottish Hate crime was a good idea too in Scotland?
Along with all the other parties that allowed this to go through the Scottish parliament,”

Reality: The Tories were the only party to vote AGAINST the act. And the Scottish Conservatives continue to denounce the act. See, for example, link to twitter.com

As is often the case, James Che (or his AI comment generator) asserts the exact opposite of the truth.

It’s obvious to us on here that Fulton MacGregor (SNP) was either lying through his gums on Newsnight, about “hate crime” being “a major problem across Scotland”, or he was actually referring to something else he hasn’t got the spine to say?

Perhaps it was “religious bigotry”, a fancy way for cowards to say “hate crime”. But just like everyone before him he’s too much of a coward to say so? I think he needs to be clear on what “hate crime” he was referring to and i think he needs to be revealing his source(s) if he is stating this as a fact.

So, C’MON Fulton, or any other coward in the SNP-Green marriage, Stuart Campbell has put his facts out for scrutiny, can you lot say the same? And utter shame on the British Bullshit Corporation if they did not adhere to proper journalism and ask him on what was he basing his “major problem across Scotland” on? Where did he get his information etc?

I managed to force myself to listen to that video excerpt at the top of this threads article, did anyone else notice Fulton’s Freudian slip? LOL! He says that “hate crime is a major problem across Scotland” then rather peculiarly he adds “and across the country.” That’s what Unionist presenters say on everything from documentaries to news bulletins on tv & radio when referring to a particular part of the UK and then the UK as a whole.

Cat’s oot the bag, Fool-ton, you’re a BritNat and therefore a liar by default. LOL!

There are a lot of Tory# apologists popping up on here.
Disturbing, they should not be excused anything but exposed for the corrupt, lying, warmongering bastarts that they have always been. And they hate the Scots. Fcuk them.

‘Lower than vermin’….them were the days.

(Also; #RedTory)

@Matt Quinn says: 28 March, 2024 at 2:18 pm

parasite and racist

It’s worse than that, Jim.

The process that put him in place was a flawed and fraudulent one. Just ask Ash Regan. She knows.

But then the HR troughers went ahead and rubber-stamped it anyway. I conclude they don’t think Scotland needs a real leader, and thus a box-ticking, pretendy one will do just fine.

@Republicofscotland says:28 March, 2024 at 2:26 pm

The Great Satan (US) has apologised for a number of Palestinians drownings

Ah, the well-educated Scots of yesteryear would be able to tell you that the sea in that part of the world has always been at the beck and call of the Zionists.

Campbell Clansman
Ignored
says:
28 March, 2024 at 5:16 pm

Reality: The Tories were the only party to vote AGAINST the act.

link to player.stv.tv

Adam Tomkins was on Scotland Tonight on Tuesday sounding very supportive of the bill.

The SNP should have asked him to appear on the BBC instead of Fulton MacGregor.

Adam Tomkins voted against the bill only because complaints could be made in private (ie at the dinner table)

@Willie 6:58pm
I agree with your post. Operation Banner in Northern Ireland had over 300000 soldiers serving over the timescale of the troubles. I am speaking from personal experience when I say control of the population during that Operation was impossible. If they don’t want it they will resist in anyway they can. There is 650 armed police officers in Scotland. A tiny force in comparison. See the demise of the RUC, 3 days they lasted without Army intervention. Complacency amongst our Institutions including Police Scotland is a worry.

Robert Hughes;

Spot on, well said. Tell #AskAndy and his wee pals.

@willie says: 28 March, 2024 at 6:58 pm

Jim Sillars has already declared that he will take no notice of the Act in relation to the culling of free speech. And no doubt whatsoever there will be more

Of course.

What proud, patriotic, free-born, Sovereign Scot is ever going to scrape and cringe before a ludicrous law set on them by pretendy, fraud Yousaf?

FFS, all Yousaf would have to do to get half Scotland out on the streets is self-id as English. But because he won’t, and he isn’t, looks like masses of us are just gonna wheesht.

Scotland the Numpty Nation finally proven beyond doubt to be true.

People need to perform the simple thought experiment of trying to imagine a second-generation Christian Scot, fraudulently elected by a fraction of a percent of the people, running Pakistan and telling the proud, patriotic citizens of that fine country that they must trash their traditions and their freedoms.

It’s an unimaginable picture.

Yet its reflection will be the law here on Monday.

I guess thanks to the Yoon Transgeneder ("Tractor" - Ed)s in the SNP we are all about to be criminalised.

To the Yoon ("Tractor" - Ed)s that now control teh SNP – There are only two genders. there taek that down and use it in evidence against me. At least I will get fed and watered three times a day. What do I care as we arent going to get a Referendum or aUDI any time soon from those Scot haters at te SNP.

Oh and anybody who tells me we should vote for the SNP in the useless and pointless fothcoming Brit Election can go and fuck thesmselves. It will be a spoiled ballot for me if ALBA aren’t standing in my Constituency. A Constituoency that has had its boundaries gerrymandered by the Ruling Brit Tranny Junta by the way.

I guess the only Hate Crime not considerd a Hate Crime now by the Brit Tranny Junta SNP is to be an anti Scottish Bigot. The Brit State has nothuing to fear from such reptiles.

@ Ian More at 8.53pm: There are two SEXES. Gender, inasmuch as it’s a thing (it is merely a human construct), is a continuum.

@John Main 9:09pm
I was looking after my grandchildren today. They got away with everything, as it should be. Isn’t that what Grandparents are for?. A couple of years ago my wife and I seen this coming so we embarked on a relocation exercise. We had a great time selecting possible locations. Spent a lot of money but agreed on the location of the last chopper out. I have over the years been an advocate of non violence. Many of my comments to support that statement on WoS. Alas an Islamic Republic of Scotland has got the relocation back on the agenda.

Michael Laing
says:
28 March, 2024 at 9:30 pm

@ Ian More at 8.53pm: There are two SEXES. Gender, inasmuch as it’s a thing (it is merely a human construct), is a continuum.

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I was having a rant and when I rant I get mixed up. The Wokist Mind Virus causes me to fulminate and gives me rabies. We now have Wokists as in Jules Hardy at the BBC calling for the genocide of White Male gamers who do not share thier sick Creepy view of the World.

@ Stoker at 6.24: “Personally I thought it was the best bit of positive Scottish political news I’ve heard in some time. …Don’t get disheartened.”

Cheers, Stoker. I must say that listening to the panel on Through a Scottish Prism lately everything they say chimes with my thinking and feeling. The party system has us in their corrupt grip and it is the same nearly everywhere round the world.

So it has to be dedicated independent people elected who will state their principles and stick to them. And then when they have won we need a constitution that makes the people truly sovereign over any politician and over the elements of the establishment which currently have the whip hand over us i.e. judiciary and police.

@ George Ferguson: “Support legislation to balance the odds by subsidising Independent candidates and capping the expenditure of mainstream political candidates.”

Yes, I agree with that, definitely.

As for funding independents meanwhile, remember how much was raised for the Orkney Four against Carmichael. From memory that was over £400,000. So if we can do that again that’s enough to fund 20 candidates.

Can you imagine …..English, English, English or Bastards, Bastard, Bastards.

That’s the type of rant we want from the most senior politician in Scotland. Bastard, Bastard, Bastard, it’s the language of our First Minister

@Sarah 11:00pm
The money raised against Carmicheal was a lot less than that. And who got voted at the next GE?. Carmicheal. And who will be
Voted in at the next GE Carmichael. And if
you had to vote on an Island Ferry you would vote Carmicheal as well. Local politics great place Orkney. Unrepresentative of Scottish Politics. The Central Belt will be lost to Labour. Labour cannily supported all the unpopular legislation to trip the SNP up. Worked a treat. Meanwhile their will be no country left for Labour to enjoy.

Genocide John

“404 has managed to get its grain exports back up to around 5 million tons per month, despite the best efforts of the Orcs to kill those exports at source, and starve millions throughout the third world.”

Ever wonder why it went to the 3rd world?
It’s not up to EU standards.

“Prior to the attempted re-assimilation of 404 back into the Russti imperium and the world’s largest open-air prison camp, 404 was exporting about 6.5 million tons of grains per month.”

Still peddling propaganda I see. Ruskies never wanted 404 as clearly set out in their peace agreement that BoJo went on to tell them to reject.

Stick to yer own country’s constitution.
No NATO membership.

Simples.

BoJo has been his usual *how to make things infinitely far worse than they are* just like he did with Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.

He’ll be in the dock for war crimes. Prolonging an unnecessary war that’s seen thousands more die & this time territory will most likely be secured given the additional threats of blowing up bridges, Nordstream & the latest terrorist attack.

404 was conducting ethnic cleansing since 2014 & the coup. Targeting Russian speakers. You always like to gloss over that tho.

Just as you gloss over Genocide in Palestine with yer two state, both sides pish.
Palestine is already a state under international law.
It’s already been recognised by the UN.
It’s already been voted on by the UN & into LAW.
It already exists.

Guess who doesn’t accept it? It’s wee yappy neighbour & armchair generals.
They also carried out a terrorist attack on a mosque a week prior to the 7th of October but yer wee propaganda channels drop that important point too.

You crack yerself up cause yer insane.

Anton: “advocating violence against me”

You were the one that introduced and legitimised the issue of provocation when you said attacks on you were unprovoked.

Matt Quinn: “The failure or refusal to integrate. – The opposite of the melting pot; the opposite of an inclusive, diverse society.”

Assessments like that were made of Irish immigrants to Glasgow not so long ago. Actually, in many respects the Irish got it worse. Of course, being of Irish descent, I would expect you to know all about that.

Do immigrants of today have more choice in where they live than Irish immigrants had in the second half of the 19th century when they were crammed into and associated with slums? Generally speaking, I doubt it.

But there’s plenty of integration; it happens in the background, without fanfare and fuss, like a sort of magic. In 10 years we will be cheering when lads of Romanian descent are scoring for Scotland. Who knows, maybe one of them will show us how to achieve independence…

Logically, though, the issue of integration can’t be meaningfully discussed or distinguished in isolation of the question of how immigrants are received. I am surprised that I need to point things like this out.

It’s hard to integrate with people the shun and hate you, of course.

@Hatuey says: 29 March, 2024 at 2:04 am

Logically, though, the issue of integration can’t be meaningfully discussed or distinguished in isolation of the question of how immigrants are received. I am surprised that I need to point things like this out

Again, the history books are our friends.

We have but to look at our very own Scottish diaspora, the emigration of millions of Scots, and thus by definition, the immigration of millions of Scots, from the perspective of the original inhabitants of their destination lands.

And it’s a mixed bag.

On one hand (USA), we have the descendants of Scottish immigrants routinely running the country (Trump) while the indigenous inhabitants are very largely absent from the political process. Name one First Nation North American leader, of any vintage, since the Indian Wars? Anybody?

On the other hand (India), the descendants of Scottish immigrants have long since been expelled at gunpoint.

So there we have the verdict of history plain to see, and no prism of Scottish Exceptionalism is needed.

Expulsion or subjugation.

Ah, but, but, that was then, and that was colonialism and exploitation and oor immigrants come here cos they love us and they really do just want to wipe oor erses when we get old.

You reckon? Two words – Humza Yousaf.

I am surprised that I need to point things like this out

Yeah, well, I’m dealing with Hats here, so blank incomprehension is the order of the day. Alert readers have to reach their own conclusions on just why Hats is so pro-immigration when the historical record is so crystal clear.

Happy Crucifixion of Jesus Day. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

So as a result of the terror attacks the president of Ru$$ia is now saying it is no longer a ‘special military operation’ (SMO). Now he is saying it is war. All long term observers will know Vl@dP especially is meticulous in his use of language. This will have very serious consequences now for Ukr@ine.

War versus a special military operation. I am not sure what that will mean but I can guess. Big escalation coming.

Because of the saturation anti ru$$ian propaganda in the West most people here do not realize that Vl@dP is astonishingly moderate by ru$$ian standards and is holding back forces in Ru$$ia that want to really go for it, especially after the terror attack, they really hate us at this point and this is a big sea change in ru$$ia.

Whoever it was who ordered that attack has pretty much finished Ukr@ine. Those people have been completely fucked over. It is very sad to witness.

It’s impossible to tell when Main is joking or if it’s something he heard on his beloved BBC.
He believes 19 Arabs with box cutters conspiracy theory. Bless !

fun fact

0sama bin Laden was never indicted by the FBI for the events of 911.

I’m just wondering if anyone ever comes across someone in “real life” who is a rabid fluffer for Uncle Vlad other than the usual suspects who soil the BTL comments in here with their pro Orc propaganda?

It’s a real phenomenon: when have you ever heard anyone you meet talk about the war in Country 404 and make the kind of excuses and allowances these hard of thinking Kremlin assets routinely come out with here? I’ve never hear a single individual do so other than in here: not a single person in any walk of life, whether at work, neighbours, socially, out on the bus.

Uncle Vlad’s consulate is just a few streets away from here: I’ve seen plenty of people demonstrating against them and leaving pro Country 404 messages, but nary a one supporting the extinction of Country 404.

The reason of course is obvious: Mac, Geri, RoS and the like are, if not out and out paid assets of Uncle Vlad, definitely the kind of fringe cranks people used to shun in the past who would loudly voice their support for the crushing of Solidarity in Poland, or for the intervention against the Prague Spring.

It is of course something of a mystery why they have chosen this particular place to vent their pro-Kremlin agitprop: doubtless the fact Stuey has a famously hands off approach to what is posted BTL helps explain it, as does his determination not to routinely read the contributions. Can’t say that’s all that surprising given the low quality of the contributions from the usual suspects of course.

I see Leasky has been having another pop at WoS over on X/Twitter. Much as I’m convinced that there is something of the night about Mr Leask, it’s difficult not to agree that the effluent of the usual suspects on here does nothing to advance either the cause of independence more broadly, but in particular to convince ordinary undecided Scottish voters that the movement isn’t actually represented by these carpet biters and tin foil hat wearing conspiracy nutters.

Wee Johnny Balrog Main out his cave at the crack of for another long day of being a minor irritation n hoping to catch some unsuspecting passersby in his web of pish .

BEWARE THE BALROG !

Well , no need to ” beware ” of it , really , turns out it’s not real , just a type of narcolepsy-inducing hollow gram ( sic ) being projected on the dank walls of a cave .

A Shadow Puppet Show meant to scare the kids into obedience but in actuality just makes them laugh n mock the amateurishness of the production .

I hear wee Johnny was involved in that other rip-roaring recent * success * ..ie .. the Willy Wonka Experience , yes , what an ” experience ” it was too .

I understand his next venture will be themed around Stepan Bandera , a hero , apparently of wee Johnny and definitely of the country he loves most , that veritable Shangri La of E Europe , you know the one .

We wish him as much success in this venture as he had in the W.W.E .

No date as yet for this promised extravaganza – he had hoped for a premier on April 1st , alas , another clownshow had booked that day ; also , rumour has it he’s having some difficulties getting backers to ” show him the money ” .

Maybe his other great mate – Netan The Yahoo would help him out with few shekels .

Mac @ 8.28

Your comments about the potential for escalation are timely. Russia cannot stand by and take the US / UK attacks. The terror shooting in Moscow was ordered and facilitated by someone and I suspect the Russians know too.

There will be reprisals. There has to be. Indeed, and whilst I do not know, the Baltimore bridge strike looked as intention as the twin towers aeroplane strikes.

Baltimore would certainly fit the notion of a message being sent. Indeed the incident has caused huge economic impact way beyond a demolished bridge. This was a huge export hub shifting man many tens of billions of goods.

The US are playing it down but the economic impact is huge and it shows how vulnerable countries actually are.

Indeed, in an escalated war it doesn’t take to much imagination as to how vulnerable we could all be from strategic economic attack.

As a young child you used to hear children chanting we one the war, ee aye adio,we one the war. Too many think the same today. Britain still rules the world, doesn’t it?

The Claim of Right 1689 says:

“That the causeing persue and forefault persones upon stretches of old and obsolete lawes upon frivolous and weak pretences upon lame and defective probation as particularly the late Earle of Argylle are Contrary to law”

Anybody with an average IQ can conclude that without very specifically defining the boundaries of what is understood by “hate”, and by deliberately making this “hate” only punishable when directed to SOME protected characteristics plus other manufactured additions, specifically leaving out the protected characteristic of “sex”, this immediately becomes a piece of bad legislation which, under a frivolous and weak pretence, seeks to forcefully suppress freedom of thought and freedom of expression in Scotland. It is imposing toxic thought and compliance to an assault on females’ rights and self-imposed silence by force and by stealth under the threat of prosecution and economic ruin.

I am of the opinion the wastes of space sitting in Holyrood left it deliberately vague with this purpose.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission says:

“‘Article 10 of the Human Rights Act: Freedom of expression’
Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers”

“Article 10 protects your right to hold your own opinions and to express them freely without government interference.

This includes the right to express your views aloud (for example through public protest and demonstrations) or through:

published articles, books or leaflets
television or radio broadcasting
works of art
the internet and social media
The law also protects your freedom to receive information from other people by, for example, being part of an audience or reading a magazine”
From the Equality and Human Rights Commission, accessed 29 March 2024″

I am no lawyer and have an average IQ, but I can read. In line with the above, this disgusting hate law is a direct interference and assault on the people of Scotland’s human right to freedom of expression. And in my opinion deliberately made so.

I do not give a damn nor accept lectures from some pro-SNP, pro-Green, or covertly acting on behalf of the British state lawyer, no matter how senior, telling me that the intentions behind this legislation are pure or that they put enough safeguards in place. Because I can read, I can extract my own conclusions, and, because I can read, I do not believe them.

And if they are lying to us so blatantly about this, what else have they been lying about?

Who gives Yousaf, all those sitting in Holyrood and those advising them the right and the mandate to deny the people of Scotland this fundamental human right? Who do these people think they are to make the people of Scotland second rate citizens in this political union? Who/What are they working for?

And isn’t the denying to the people of Scotland this fundamental human right by repurposing some obsolete law under such a weak and lame pretence, also a direct assault on the Claim of Right?

Why are we tolerating this assault on our fundamental rights?

To all those MSPs who attacked Scotland’s human rights and sought to make the people of Scotland second rate citizens in this union by voting for this aberration:

You are a disgrace. You are an embarrassment to Scotland and to the world. Your actions are an insult to the trust the people of Scotland put on you to represent them and protect their interests. You are a stain in the concept of democracy. You were elected TO REPRESENT the people of Scotland, not to ABUSE your positions of power to stab the people of Scotland in the back, while forcefully seeking to silence them to stop them holding you, your bad policies, your disgraceful behaviour, your contempt for Scotland, and your deliberate pursuit of toxic causes to hurt the people of Scotland for the sake of lobbyists, donations to your party or a globalist agenda, to account.

I hope your disgraceful actions come to bite you really hard in the arse and that history treat you all as the disgraceful embarrassment to Scotland you have become.

The obvious conclusions from your actions is that you appear to seek the people of Scotland to reject their own parliament. According to the Scotland Act, Holyrood can only be closed down if the people of Scotland votes for it. It seems to me that this is what you are seeking. Your actions do not point towards protecting Holyrood, but rather towards doing everything in your power to make it disappear. You appear to be trying to reproduce the actions the tractors sitting in the 1706 Parliament of Scotland did to ensure Scotland’s parliament ceased to operate. In the big picture, it is obvious your actions are pointing towards the exact same outcome. Why? Are you trying to ditch our parliament in preparation for the UK acting as the lap dog of USA once again in another of its neoliberal wars to protect the hegemony of the dollar?

When exactly were we asked if we want to take part on this?

It has just been published that the UK economy was in recession last year. Should you have done your job of making Scotland independent after the people of Scotland sent 3 consecutive majorities of anti-union MPs to Westminster, Scotland may not have to endure the consequences of this recession, nor watching how its only refinery is closed down while you sit like cowards on your hands or how we are dragged into another of USA’s neoliberal wars.

As a citizen of Scotland, you disgust me. Your actions do not reflect the mandate you were given by the people of Scotland. Your actions appear deliberately designed to hurt the people of Scotland, rather than to protect their interests and parliament. I think that, as representatives of the people of Scotland, you failed to do your job and have become a stain on Scotland.

I hope history books and generations of Scots to come treat you with the same level of contempt and disrespect you are currently treating the people of Scotland and their parliament with.

And before you rush to hide like cowards behind this toxic law you purposely passed to silence criticism, let me be clear: what I feel for you and your disgraceful actions and abuse of seats in our parliament is not hate. It is disgust at your lack of integrity and principles. It is contempt for the way you are misusing the power you were given to attack rather than protect Scotland and its parliament. It is embarrassment that I have to call you my representatives when you are not even attempting to represent Scotland’s interests. It is disappointment at how you have deliberately wasted the time and pro-independence majorities sent to Holyrood and Westminster to restore Scotland’s statehood.

For all of the above, shame on you all. Here is to Scotland being able to clap in delight and relief while we watch how all of you, one by one, deservedly lose the seat in the upcoming elections.

George Ferguson
says:
28 March, 2024 at 11:36 pm

Labour cannily supported all the unpopular legislation to trip the SNP up.

I was wondering why the Labour & the LibDems branch offices were so supportive of GRRB & HCB and I thought that it was because they were told to by the head offices. Not too sure about their views on HC but they definitely appear to be highly supportive of Gender reform.

If Labour get into power I believe we will have self-id and every ‘trans right’ the trans/ want.

As for the Tories being the only party to oppose the GRRB & HCB I think that might have been a bit a con on the part of the Tories.

Adam Tomkins was on ‘Scotland Tonight’ on Tuesday and he was fully supportive of the act. He thought it was all excellent except for the part where you could be criminalised for something you said in your own home and that was the only reason he voted against the HCB.

I don’t know why the rest of the Tories voted against the bill possibly they follow the Bain principle ie SNP propose Tories oppose.

As for the GRRB it was probably some very small part of the bill that they opposed. There was no indication that they were opposed to sex changes or that they don’t believe ‘transwomen are women’.

Rishi Sunak & Kami Badenoch are fully supportive of sex changes and believe that ‘transwomen are women’ if they weren’t they would oppose the GRA 2004. Don’t let them fool you into thinking they are fully supportive of women’s rights.

You can’t have a law which states a man can legally become a woman and then argue that that ‘woman’ shouldn’t be allowed to enter women’s spaces or compete in women’s sport.

The root cause of all the problems is this idea that people can change sex.

There is only one party in the UK making sense and that is the ‘The Women’s Party’.

Yeah Willie I saw Lara Logan talking about how strategically important this bridge was and that it is highly suspicious.

You think about Nordstream bombing and the bizarre obsession the west has with destroying the Kerch bridge… so the timing of this accident is very curious. Maybe someone is sending a message that two can play at this game… or it could just be an accident.

As to the war I always ask, what exactly did Britain win in WWII? To the victor the spoils they say… we lost an empire and had rationing well into the fifties. Our great friend the US made us pay back every single penny of war debt while they forgave Germany theirs. We only finally paid it back fairly recently. So again what did Britain win? From empire to vassal state… wow that is a stunning victory all right. As for Churchill he was a disaster for Britain…. But yeah we ‘won’ that is the important thing.

Andy Ellis @9.07am.

The majority of Scots don’t do any research on the likes of YouCraine so they are unaware that its national hero is a WWII Natzi enabler sympathiser or that many streets are named after Natzi sympathisers with many many monuments in the country to them as well.

They are also unaware that the country is currently ran by Kneo-Natzis and that the Great Satan (US) brought about a coup of the democratically elected president of the country to install their own puppet president the main goal of the coup was to allow Nato to place nukes close to the RF’s border.

The people of the Donbas weren’t pleased with this (to cut a long story short) and the Kneo-Natzi regime then tried to bomb them into submission in a similar fashion as to what the evil Zionists are doing to the Palestinians, and as the West turned a blind eye to the evil Zionists war crimes against the Palestinians, so the West turned a blind eye to what the Kneo-Natzis of YouCraine were doing to the citizens of the Donbas.

To further hinder Scots finding out the truth, Scotland’s foreign media lies and twists the truth constantly.

They only forgave Germany cause they took control & stripped it bare.
Germany can’t fart without the yanks say so.

Re the bridge. To cut off the Russian navy. It’s always been a yankie wet dream to surround & cut off Ruskies from the EU. Nordstream backfired because Ruskies never needed the EU (much to their amazement). It was the other way around. Now there’s other customers for cheap gas & the car industry. Oh dear. How to crash yer own economy on the say so of their demonic overlords thousands of miles away.

I loved the Ruskies spokesperson when asked about the Ruskies election having no real contenders..

“how many did Sunak have?” LOL

& he’s not even in the middle of a conflict.

I dunno how they don’t choke on their own hypocrisy.

link to archive.is
Will the police finally see sense on ‘non-crime hate incidents’?

link to archive.is
Hate speech policing is Orwellian, warns judge in trans tweets case

Anyone know the difference between the UK Hate crime bill and Humza’s Hate Monster bill?

link to archive.is
Will the police finally see sense on ‘non-crime hate incidents’?

What counts as non-trivial can also be surprising: a person making a remark at a private party attacking a wheelchair user or a schoolchild insultingly referring to another child’s disability in class could still both end up with a police record.

I have referred to the UK Hate Crime bill in an earlier post but I mean the Hate Crime Bill that covers England & Wales. I think it might be called ‘Hate crime, England and Wales, 2022’

The above extract from the Spectator article which refers to ‘Hate crime, England and Wales, 2022’

would suggest that this English bill criminalises things said in private.

Are there any differences between the English/Wellsh hate crime bill and ‘The Hate Crime and Public Order Act (Scotland) Act 2021’?

If you go here
link to hatecrime.osce.org

and click on the green link
Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 (legislation.gov.uk)
it takes you to UK Gov page which states

Changes to legislation:

Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 29 March 2024. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date.

If the ‘Hate crime, England and Wales, 2022’ and ‘Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021’

are exactly the same then the UK Gov/The Tories cannot step in and save us from ‘Humza’s monster bill as some may have hoped they would.

What about Hate Crime in Northern Ireland?

What is that bill like and what sorts of hate crimes do they have in N.Ireland?