The SNP wants 16-year-olds to be able to change gender. But its own sentencing quango says brains don’t fully mature until the age of 25. How can these both be coherent policies?
Quite a U-turn by Sturgeon today on cutting isolation periods, having originally strongly insisted against it. Her government is all over the place on Covid - spinning, busking, shifting stance. The priority is stirring up cross-Border rows.
No credible reason for Sturgeon to have held off on Covid protocol changes until now - other than trying to justify the existence of her own failing government.
The SNP is looking at scrapping juries for rape trials on the basis that judges know best and are more reliable and modern in their attitudes than jurors. Yet one of them has just allowed a child rapist to walk free.
A whole new level of irony from Sturgeon who’s turned a blind eye to online bile from her own side for years (and is now busy weaponising conspiracy theories about pensions)
The
#SNP
’s John Nicolson says someone who’s under investigation for lying shouldn’t be a political leader. Did he make the same point during the
#Salmondgate
inquiry?
‘Never hate your enemies, it affects your judgment’ is a good political dictum. One that Nicola Sturgeon, at her party’s annual hatefest, has clearly never learned.
#SNP22
A former Justice Secretary is thrown out of
#PMQs
for a foam-flecked rant at the PM about independence, accompanied by an MP who made anti-Semitic comments online. The campaign for
#indyref2
continues apace...
A party at the centre of a major fraud probe, whose chief executive is accused of perjury, wants you to trust it to steer Scotland to independence
#indyref2023
🧨 An MSP is threatening to take legal action against Police Scotland after a tweet he posted criticising the Scottish Government’s transgender policy was logged as a ‘hate incident’
@murdo_fraser
via
@MailOnline
Ruth Wishart says older Unionists are ‘dying off’. She admits it’s a ‘brutal’ statement. It’s certainly candid - but with
#Covid
care home deaths running at more than than 100 a week, it’s also offensive, crass - and deeply telling.
#indyref2
#Sturgeon
to UK Government: ‘The pandemic hasn’t shown the strength of the Union. But if you wouldn’t mind keeping the furlough scheme going, that would be great...’
#COVID19
#briefing
#Woke
backlash:
#university
at centre of row over ‘cancelling’ Scots philosopher David Hume suffers income slump of nearly £2million. Dozens of bequests and legacies have been amended or withdrawn.
At a time when the SNP needs strategic brilliance for an audacious constitutional coup, they’re busy cheerleading a sex pest. Amateur hour doesn’t cover it.
#indyref2023
Why
#SNP
’s farcical transgender reforms could be heading for the scrap heap of other dud laws torn up after approval - from Named Person to the ban on sectarian singing
#politics
#comment
#Holyrood
Read this week’s
#column
here:
Humza Yousaf was in ‘regular contact’ with Police Scotland during the Pollokshields standoff. He lobbied the Home Office to let them go. Wonder what he said to police, and what impact, if any, that might have had on the decision to release the men?
Jenny Gilruth should be sacked for breaching the Ministerial Code after halting vital railway works at a cost of £1million, the First Minister has been told
The formidable business nous of the SNP, snapping up a loss-making airport, leaving taxpayers with a bill of £40-£50M, then abortively attempting its sale during the pandemic. In 2013, Nicola Sturgeon described Prestwick Airport as a 'viable enterprise'...
'At least we're not as bad as England', a time-worn excuse trotted out by Sturgeon week in out, week out. Not much comfort to the thousands languishing on
#NHS
waiting lists.
#FMQs
It’s an obscenity that even a nanosecond is being wasted on the
#SNP
’s
#indyref2
journey into an alternate universe - when there are more than enough problems to go round in the existing one
#politics
#comment
#Scotland
Read this week’s
#column
here:
Fraud probe, perjury allegation, row over a sex pest, leak probe, litigation threat, mounting civil war… welcome to the
#SNP
in 2022
#indyref2
Read more here:
Blackford railing against parliament being misled. Didn’t seem quite so exercised when MSPs on the Salmond committee decided Sturgeon had misled Holyrood.
Sturgeon hasn’t seen comments from the deputy chief constable ruling out border checks in the United Kingdom... sometimes her passion for reading seems to desert her at strategically useful moments.
Humza the master tactician: shackling himself to hated, shambolic legislation - then wasting money on trying (and failing) to salvage it. A humiliating political misjudgment. He should quit, along with the Green zealots who helped to create this toxic mess.
Anyone who remembers Salmondgate will take with a pinch of salt
#Sturgeon
's claim to be a champion of democratic values and institutions. She and her government have shown utter contempt for both.
#indyref2
Swinney demanding more Tory transparency over the Duguid row - and even to see the minutes of the party management board - is jaw-dropping hypocrisy from the former Minister for Cover-Ups
A leader apologises after being caught out breaking their own lockdown laws and hiding behind advisers… Ian Blackford’s attack on the PM. Sounds familiar. Shouldn’t Sturgeon also quit then?
#Partygate
‘Tory austerity’, Brexit, pandemic… all cited by
#Sturgeon
as explanations for the
#NHS
crisis. Nothing to do with 15 years of
#SNP
mismanagement?
#fmqs
🔴 NEW: Scotland is crying out for change but we’re stuck with the sad fantasies of a snake oil salesman First Minister - and the same old broken record about independence. Read my column on
@MailOnline
👇
#SNP
#indyref2
#politics
#comment
#humza
Swinney says X is being used to spread hate - but how many of his own followers and independence supporters are helping to spread it? They turned Twitter into a toxic swill-tub years ago...
Could transgender reforms go the same way as Named Person, the ban on sectarian singing, and the attempted abolition of corroboration... other shambolic laws that had to be rescinded?