Maggie Chapman MSP slanders Supreme Court

She has a degree in zoology and a master in environmental management.
You'd think she knows a little bit about biology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggie_Chapman

The two people sitting behind NC seem to be the same who sat behind her in Sandie Peggie's trial (and I think she once asked in this trial that visitors should not be able to see her monitor & notes).
Are they somehow trailing her and taking notes? These don't seem to be part of her team, just to clarify (because what I wrote above).

Wow, they don't mess around, do they. Good on them.

The Green Party's raison d'etre of net zero, climate change and so on must have transitioned into the women's toilets.

Maggie Chapman to face vote on continued equalities committee membership
https://www.holyrood.com/news/view,maggie-chapman-to-face-vote-on-continued-equalities-committee-membership

https://www.writetothem.com/

I wonder if that motion was added AFTER the FWS response???

For Women Scotland received a letter from the Equalities Committee. Their reply is stark.

Call To ACTION

@GinaDavidson

NEW: Equalities, Human Rights & Civil Justice Committee meets next Tuesday - first thing on the agenda: Motion to remove a member of the Committee Comes in the wake of the dep convener Maggie Chapman's remarks about the Supreme Court. Committee make up: 3 SNP, 2 Con, 1 Lab, 1 Grn

Chance to reduce Chapman's powers. If we get the Scottish Labour and one SNP member to vote to get Chapman out we can win this. Get writing to your MSPs folks.

Remember to compare Chapman to Trump in her attack on the independence of the Judiciary and discuss her condemnation by the Faculty of Advocates:

Members of the Committee

Karen Adam
Convener
Scottish National Party

Maggie Chapman
Deputy Convener
Scottish Green Party

Dr Pam Gosal MBE
Member
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

Marie McNair
Member
Scottish National Party

Paul O'Kane
Member
Scottish Labour

Evelyn Tweed
Member
Scottish National Party

Tess White
Member
Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/committees/current-and-previous-committees/session-6-equalities-human-rights-and-civil-justice-committee

https://robinmcalpine.org/the-madness-and-the-mediocrity/

McAlpine is always worth a read.

'The condemnation of Chapman’s actions has been so universal that I was just going to leave it. But what startled me today was looking at the comments below the line in The National. I never look at comments to see what real people think but it’s useful to see what defences politicians are prompting their supporters to make for them.
And the Green activist position (according to these comments) seems to be ‘how dare a judge think they have the power to clip the wings of a politician elected by the people?’. The idea that politicians are above the law is not meant to feature in ‘progressive’ politics. It is literally Trump stuff.
If I’d said what Chapman said I’d have instantly realised that, even just for cynical strategic reasons, I’d have to walk it back rapidly. Forget morality for a second; just for basic political survival I’d have been knocking together an ‘in the heat of the moment…’ climb down.
But Chapman doesn’t think that is necessary, and neither do her supporters. That is extraordinary. Or it is for me in my profession. It now seems the case that we are all in completely isolated tribes and anything that is fine with the people in our tribe is just fine, no matter what. If you only see ‘your people’ saying ‘good on you’ and ‘the other lot’ calling you names, that proves you’re right.

Archive

https://archive.ph/VpTVn

Well-expressed and enjoyable to read.

It's very unlikely I'll be up there in the run up to the elections and I don't have a vote anyway. It's also probable that even the SNP and the Scottish Greens recognise that their chances of votes on an island at the heart of the ferry scandal are vestigial, so won't bother. They had an abysmal showing in the last local elections for that very reason. However, if by some miracle I did get a chance to speak to a canvasser, I'd enjoy it.

Thank you, that was an absolutely fabulous demolition job. I haven't listened with the sound yet. Will save that up as a post-run treat for later.

Maggie Chapman skippers Team Idiocy.
I sniggered reading this.

With the Scottish system it's unlikely that the Greens will go out entirely though. I hope I'll get some canvassers, I have stuff to talk about.

Thank you very much once again for the share token, @Igneococcus. Love this article.

If Somerville captains Team Pusillanimous, Maggie Chapman skippers Team Idiocy. ...Yet Somerville’s statement returned time and time again to the alleged fears and vulnerability of trans people while never once nodding towards the women the Scottish government wronged. Sex doesn’t matter but feelings do. This is a government prepared to apologise to women executed for the crime of witchcraft centuries ago but that cannot, will not, apologise for redefining “woman” to include biological men today.

Just over a year till the next Scottish Parliament elections. A lot can happen in a year. I'm still hoping the Scottish Greens will be wiped out and the SNP will do very badly. I don't live in Scotland but my Mum does so I'm up there regularly. My country could really do with a competent government. Fingers crossed.

Putting this here, thought it's not just about Maggie Personperson:
https://www.thetimes.com/article/6b46871f-5063-4b81-85c9-0116578a0e1f?shareToken=a45adc2c9d6a35dc5c7c032e7589b523

Another hilarious article

Unhinged Malady

Yesterday the Scottish media gave Scottish Greens MSP Maggie Chapman what she’s never willingly given anyone else – a platform on which to make her case.

Particularly impressed by this revelation:

Because Amnesty’s lawyer was Lui Asquith, who identifies as both trans and non-binary.

https://wingsoverscotland.com/unhinged-malady/

I often find the local papers take a different slant to the nationals 😁
Such a satisfying read. There's a man who does not fear the Thought Police.

That article from Jim Spence:

'Columnist-podcaster-Broadcaster-former Law Lecturer-and BBC Sport Journo-former Dundee University Rector.'

What an article! I am glad I now subscribe to the Courier, I don't live in Fife but their courage and journalism deserves support

100%!

"In Scotland the far right is like the Loch Ness monster – sightings are regularly claimed but without much supporting evidence"

😆

A useful bogeyman indeed.

From disastrous net zero policies to their antagonistic stance towards most women on single sex spaces, Holyrood – with some honourable exceptions – is out of touch with huge numbers of voters.

I’m not familiar with SG net zero policies, but climate change science has to be taken on trust because most people don’t experience it as something that tangibly affects their every day lives. It is so damaging for it to be linked to activists like Chapman who seem to live in a fantasy world.

Oh, that is an excoriating belter of an article, thank you!

Don’t worry, JKR has done it for you!

https://nitter.poast.org/jk_rowling/status/1914701963620471282#m