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Times: Sunak preparing to block Scottish gender reform bill

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ResisterRex · 13/01/2023 22:11

Sunak preparing to block Scottish gender reform bill

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c845bae2-9377-11ed-beb4-99fcdfa7645c?shareToken=217d9586d687af757742096583505820

"Rishi Sunak is poised to block Scottish laws that make it easier for people to change their gender, in an unprecedented move that will provoke a constitutional row.

The Times has been told that new legal advice will pave the way for the government to stop Nicola Sturgeon’s gender recognition laws from getting royal assent next week.

The advice states that the legislation will have an adverse impact on UK-wide equality legislation, enabling ministers to block it. The government will make its case on technical and legal grounds but ministers have repeatedly expressed concerns about the potential impact of the Scottish legislation.

Sunak will make a final decision with Alister Jack, the Scotland secretary, next week on invoking section 35 of the 1998 Scotland Act, which will prohibit Holyrood’s presiding officer from submitting the bill for royal assent. The Times has been told that they will follow the legal advice."

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YouTarzan · 14/01/2023 00:09

This is fantastic news!

Thesonglastslonger · 14/01/2023 00:06

I think Nicola may have shot herself in the foot here. She forced the vote on this through, knowing that the Tories would have to move to block it (because it’s a power-grab). Then she wants to point to the Tories and say ‘see: evil Westminster is obstructing the will of the Scottish people’.

But she bullied, threatened and forced colleagues to get the Scottish vote through. Scotland does not want it: it does not represent the will of the Scottish people.

So Nicola is now in major danger of the Tories being seen by her electorate as riding to the rescue, interjecting some sanity and proving that Westminster still has a useful role to play.

Slow handclap for Nicola…

onyx12 · 14/01/2023 00:00

I will sleep better tonight knowing this

Leafstamp · 13/01/2023 23:50

MrsOvertonsWindow · 13/01/2023 22:42

Hopefully this will be the start of the political realisation that self ID is not compatible with child safeguarding and the rights of other protected groups, especially women.

Please, this, please.

Nothingandnowhere · 13/01/2023 23:45

Yes. Exactly that Boiled Beetle.

Boiledbeetle · 13/01/2023 23:35

I'm remaining pessimistic about this.

I'm optimistic though that my pessimism will be misplaced.

🙃

beastlyslumber · 13/01/2023 23:23

It's just not tenable for Scotland to have self ID without being an independent country. I can only assume this is why they've pushed so hard for it. But I sincerely think it will backfire and the SNP will lose whatever credibility it has left. Good.

ArabellaScott · 13/01/2023 23:19

Sorry, misattributed. Quote from Lord Keen of Elie, ex advocate-general for Scotland.

ArabellaScott · 13/01/2023 23:18

'“Such concerns were voiced during the passage of the bill in the Scottish parliament. It is therefore unfortunate that the position of the Scottish government has remained opaque and at times contradictory.”'

No shit, Rishi.

MrsOvertonsWindow · 13/01/2023 22:42

Hopefully this will be the start of the political realisation that self ID is not compatible with child safeguarding and the rights of other protected groups, especially women.

Igmum · 13/01/2023 22:37

Good. I've been desperately worried that we would get self-ID via the back door.

SirChenjins · 13/01/2023 22:20

Let’s hope they do - the madness of Queen Nicola has to stop.

AnyFucker · 13/01/2023 22:19

@NotRightNowNo you have it spot on

Nicola Sturgeon is happy to throw women and children under the bus to get what she wants

I feel sorry for the Scottish people

ArcaneWireless · 13/01/2023 22:18

She can claim all she likes.

She has got more chance of convincing me she is a Fiat Punto.

NotRightNowNo · 13/01/2023 22:16

Interesting, thanks for sharing. Sturgeon will make the most of the opportunity to push her independence agenda of course, whilst still claiming to be a feminist.