WE’VE always had black Schnauzers. Niamh was our first dog. She was a giant. We chose her partly because we then lived in rural mid-Argyll and…
Why are politicians wasting time on attempting to legislate for crimes that are already illegal, asks Andrew Tickell
This somewhat defensive introduction is intended to establish my credentials as someone very much on the side of our four-legged friends and their owners. I know what pets mean to us. I understand why folk baulk at the suggestion that we should weigh their lives in terms of their market value, treating them as characterless property like a lifted luxury telly or a stolen car.Because animal companions are family, company, and history to us.
This isn’t a new impulse – nor is a pathology peculiar to Scottish politics, but the devolution settlement certainly aggravates the tendency. In 2021, Holyrood made it a criminal offence to assault or threaten retail workers. Every MSP of every political stripe voted in favour of the proposals. Every MSP agreed these were bad things the criminal law should do something about. But in terms of the detail, the proposal was – if anything – more crackpot than Golden’s.
If there’s to be a special kind of assault for police officers, why not retail workers? If retail workers, why not teachers, journalists, or law lecturers? Proposals like this inevitably result in an auction of public concern.
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