THIS paper’s series of articles that illustrate “Independence is Normal” is a useful and factual confirmation that independence is indeed the…
Even that incoherence is better, however, than lying – and regrettably it is lies that Keir Starmer seems now to depend upon to save his Labour Party from the consequences of fishing in the shark-infested waters of Tory populism.No-one could doubt the thirst that Starmer has for power. It is understandable and given the disastrous consequences of 13 years of Tory misrule, even slightly creditable.
It is harder, though, to get away with lying about things that are written down and incontrovertible, like laws, or constitutions, or standing orders – and here is where Starmer came a real cropper on his visit to the Rutherglen by-election seat, on being questioned about the Scotland Act Section 35 order that is shortly to be before the courts and which nullifies the Scottish Parliament’s Gender Recognition Act passed last December.
That is what Section 35 does and that is what its words say it does, including the actual word “prohibiting”.
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