3 years tonight lockdown was announced. 16 days later my wife died. 21 days later we had her funeral. Even in the open air, no Mass, no more than 15 to follow the hearse. Even then only 1 at a time to throw earth on the coffin. Certainly no wake before or purvey afterwards.
At the time, I thought these rules necessary. In hindsight, perhaps not so much. But hindsight is not the point! We followed the rules and I still think them made in good faith.
Point is Johnson made the rules. Then ignored them. Then lied about ignoring them. May he rot in Hell.
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On identical facts from today, had the GRRB not been blocked, once it was in force, there would have been no way to remove a future self IDing rapist from a women’s prison. Even if “she” raped other inmates once there. That is what the SNP Government specifically proposed.
I say SNP Government advisedly because the SNP MSP Michelle Thomson proposed an amendment, with support from other Nats, to precisely rule out sex change while awaiting trial. So it wasn’t all of the SNP. The Government voted this down on “human rights” grounds.
So, Sturgeon, just over a month ago, believed that anybody who declared themself to be a woman should be entitled, unconditionally, to be treated as a woman. Well, the rapist has declared themself to be a woman. “Obviously I didn’t mean rapists” might be her position today
Wee thread in lieu of a blog. Firstly, why have I stopped blogging? Mainly because I blogged mainly about the demerits of Scottish Independence. But Scottish Independence is no longer a thing.
In 2014 it managed to scrape together a semblance of coherence. But it still lost. Now, nobody even advances such a pretence. What currency would Scotland use? Don't know. How could we be in the EU and still have an open border with England? Don't know.
How, now, that on any view, we couldn't rely on oil, would we deal the the public spending deficit? Don't know. How do we even get to a referendum against UK opposition? Don't know. What else could we do? Don't know.
Have read all the Salmond evidence twice. First of all, since it is careful to identify no complainers, huge questions should arise now about the intervention of wholly SNP publicly funded "Third Sector" organisations who demanded it not be published. Without apparently seeing it
But it is also a legal tour de force. The final paragraph of page 10 would be hugely defamatory if untrue. Except truth is, of course, a complete defence to defamation.
It also leaves Sturgeon in a very difficult position before her evidence on oath after Salmond. Does she continue to lie hoping it would be impossible to prove otherwise? Or does she cash in her chips and go down the "I made mistakes" road