Scotland’s highest court has ruled the U.K. Government acted lawfully by vetoing Nicola Sturgeon’s self-ID gender laws in a humiliating defeat for First Minister Humza Yousaf. The Telegraph has more.
The Court of Session said Alister Jack, the Scottish Secretary, was within his rights to block the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill, despite it being approved by MSPs.
The Bill would allow Scots to change their legal gender by simply signing a statutory declaration, dropping the requirement for a formal medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria.
It would also drastically lower the time period in which someone must live in their “acquired gender” from two years to as little as six months and allow 16 and 17-year-olds to obtain gender recognition certificates for the first time.
Mr. Jack made an order under Section 35 of the Scotland Act, which created devolution, to prevent the Bill getting Royal Assent – the first time this power had ever been used.
He argued the legislation undermined U.K.-wide protections for women, including sanctity of female-only safe spaces.
There was a huge public backlash against the reforms after trans predator Isla Bryson was initially sent to a women’s prison in Scotland after being convicted of two rapes.
Humza Yousaf, Ms. Sturgeon’s successor as First Minister and SNP leader, pressed ahead with a petition for judicial review of the decision despite legal experts warning he had little chance of success. The case was heard before Lady Haldane in September.
Meghan Gallacher, the Scottish Conservative deputy leader, said of the recent ruling: “This is a humiliating defeat for Humza Yousaf and the SNP, who have once again squandered taxpayers’ cash on a self-serving but doomed court case.”
Yousaf, however, said inevitably: “Today’s judgment confirms beyond doubt that devolution is fundamentally flawed. The Court has confirmed that legislation passed by a majority in Holyrood can be struck down by Westminster. The only way to guarantee we get true self-government is through independence.”
Because self-government is doing so well for Scottish schoolchildren.
Worth reading in full.
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“We get true self-government” says a Scot-hating Pakistani.
“We”
He’s a “wrong un” on every level ! Perfect for rubbing our noses in the new normal !!!…
Would it be fair to say that Scottish, Welsh and Irish “nationalist” politicians are really globalists exploiting the mindless anti-Englishness of the thicker elements of their populations?
That seems a fair assessment.
“Yousaf, however, said inevitably: “Today’s judgment confirms beyond doubt that devolution is fundamentally flawed.”
Well Useless got that bit correct.
Indeed. Scotland can get lost if it wants, as far as I am concerned, as long as they don’t keep taking English money. I feel sorry for sane Scots though, of which I am sure there are many. They should all get sanctuary in England – win win really – we lost a pesky region and gain lots of sensible people. They must be livid though, but then England is not much better.
Yes can I seek Asylum if the SNP keep winning up here?
Once Labour get in you might not want to come!
How many governments do we need all costing an arm and a leg to achieve what? ——Putting men in our daughters toilet?
reform
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“Reform” is perhaps a misnomer here.
Neil Oliver…..”Gathering round the Air source heat pump at Christmas just doesn’t cut it for me”…..Great stuff. His videos gives me an idea of what his Saturday monologue will entail.
Is Humza Yousaf part of a fifth column intent on destroying the West or just stupid? (Nick v Toby question).
Both
“Yousaf, however, said: “The Court has confirmed that legislation passed by a majority in Holyrood can be struck down by Westminster.”
So we are meant to believe that Mr Yousaf, the presumably highly constitutionally aware First Minister of Scotland suddenly realised after this court ruling that the clear terms of the Scotland Act 1998 – which provide the entire basis and highly restricted nature of the devolved Holyrood Parliament plus his own position – were not a figment of the collective imagination…
I now hope and pray the SNP voters back Labour. ———-I never thought I would ever want anyone to vote labour but I so desperately want rid of these parasites. Or as the old saying goes. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”
‘Because self-government is doing so well for Scottish schoolchildren.’
Well worth a read (and weep).
The silver lining of Blair’s hilariously thick devolution (gerrymander) plan was that the socialist fascist governments thereby enabled would show England what not to do.
With regard to education in Scotland and health in Wales, so it has proved.
‘Scotland (since 1999) used its new powers to reject the parent-choice agenda. When Tony Blair and later Michael Gove developed self-governing academies, schools in Wales and Scotland remained under local authority control. Then the curriculum reform came.’
‘PISA tests cannot be gamed. The maths results showed that England’s pupils have kept steady over the years, in spite of lockdowns, but since 2015 Wales has dropped 12 points (equivalent to six months of learning). Northern Ireland fell 18 (nine months) and Scotland dropped 20 points.
While England and Wales saw improvement, with their maths scores reaching highs in 2018 (before lockdown reversed the trend), Scotland has been on a continuous downward slope since 2000 – falling 11 points (six months) in reading and seven points (four months) in science in just the last four years.’
What does the next labour government plan for England’s education?
Reform of the bits that still work: private schools and grammar schools.
You think things are bad?
‘You ain’t seen nothin’ yet’ (Bachman Turner Overdrive)
Westminster says “black” and the SNP/GREEN pincer movement says “white”. —-Westminster say “up” and the SNP /GREEN pincer movement say “down”. Can you see a pattern here?——————- The Scots are led to believe that rejoining the EU will bring them “Independence”. But why don’t we ask the Greeks or the Portuguese or the Poles who get fined half a million Euros a day for daring to keep burning coal feel “Independent”? ———-Notice that the SNP/GREEN pincer movement say “We want to be an Independent country within the EU”. ————-This is like saying we want to be in a fridge but not feel cold. In the EU no country is “Independent”. ———–Surely these people don’t hate the English that much that want Germans to be dishing out their orders instead do they? ——-Well actually I think the Scots are really just Germans anyway when you listen to them talk —–“it’s a braw bricht moonlich nicht die nicht”
Hamza Yousaf is a humiliating defeat for Scotland.