It could break your heart
About that dog’s breakfast at the Scottish Parliament…
25 years ago I joined the team putting the law in place to establish the Scottish Parliament, and then I led the team putting in place the arrangements for the first elections. At the time, it felt like the privilege of my life.
— Lucy HunterBlackburn (@LucyHunterB) November 22, 2022
There were bright spots – some MSPs trying to salvage something like a decent process from the ashes of one which has burnt to the ground the ambitions of the many people who campaigned for Holyrood exist.
— Lucy HunterBlackburn (@LucyHunterB) November 22, 2022
Whatever sort of victory the government achieves here, it won't be a moral one.
Or one for the Scottish Parliament, which emerges tarnished from this process.
And it could break your heart.
— Lucy HunterBlackburn (@LucyHunterB) November 22, 2022
Trudeau in Canada and Sturgeon in Scotland were two of the leaders I actually had some respect for on the world stage, but man are they ram-rodding all of the trans agenda through their countries’ respective Parliaments with no time to hear debate.
I don’t normally like to think that it’s all about money, but I think that Jennifer Bilek has that tiger by the tail with all that she reports at the 11th hour blog.