Guilt Free Railing 18

[WouldBeGood]

Will it ever end?

I'm another who's horrified at the idea of withdrawing dyslexia support 1 in 10 kids and a fair chunk of them are brushed under the carpet left to struggle along with their own devices.

How many people drowned last summer in scottish rivers and lochs?

Hungry kids?

Aye we'll put the weans first - not!
From a very grumpy dyslexic mama bear 🐻 who was very much left to my own device and who's struggling to get any extra support for her bear cub!

PS I also am degree educated. Got there with a unbelievable stroke of luck landing a part-time course so slightly slower paced than the f/t course and technology (spell / grammar checker)

That's appalling...swimming, food and dyslexia support, they should know better.

And that's a positive lft for me today, whoop whoop.

That’s really shocking on the proposed cuts.

💐 @mapleleavesreturn and hope you and yours feel ok

Dyslexia supports pretty much non existent as it is!

So going back to yesterday's discussion on the statement face masks need to stay in school because cases in under 15s are rising, that woman Gillian Evans from nhs Grampian was on radio today talking about cases rising in the unvaccinated under 11s.
I assume they in fact form the bulk of the under 15s group

Boris V Blackford cake war today. The pot bully and the kettle belly exchanged words and now it’s a headline. Squirrel media🙄

Please don't let them start banging on about unvaccinated under 11s.

@Lockdownbear

Please don't let them start banging on about unvaccinated under 11s.

I think they'll offer vaccination to 5-11 group in the spring

Ah! That will be why they’re starting this! Vaccinate them filthy little kids

@OnceUponAWhine

Boris V Blackford cake war today. The pot bully and the kettle belly exchanged words and now it’s a headline. Squirrel media🙄

As much as I hate Borris I did chuckle when I heard it on the radio today! 😂

Actually swearing at the TV........

John Swinney and Scortish government want to make some covid legislation permanent allowing them to enforce lockdowns in "public health" situations......wtaf!!!!!

They never want to relinquish the power of the pandemic!
So England removed aspect from law whilst the SG wish to make powers permanent........

WTAF @Scottishskifun??!!

But apparently only Westminster is power hungry eh?

And meanwhile the EHRC (that well known trumpist group) has something to say on gender legislation - shocking nobody that it's poorly thought out and worse than the current situation:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-60141382

@WouldBeGood

WTAF *@Scottishskifun*??!!

It was reported on the news in passing article here though

www.lbc.co.uk/politics/scotland/scotland-coronavirus-bill-permanent-power-grab/

Jealous of England having their second freedom day today!

Yep and meanwhile on the permanent power bill we get....

Deputy First Minister and Covid recovery minister John Swinney said many temporary measures in place to respond to the pandemic had already been lifted, and those in the Bill were "pragmatic reforms" which had "delivered demonstrable benefit" to Scots.

So them closing schools, forcing children to wear masks all day and forcing wfh as well as stay at home are beneficial .....(blood starts to boil)
Pretty sure the research has shown lockdowns are the opposite and severely detrimental!

This is all so depressing.

And yes, @runningpink, I got an ad yesterday saying no more masks, massive sale on them…

ScottishSkiFun - they had put that forward as a bill that was to be drafted last autumn, and I couldn't understand why there wasn't more outrage then!

It's completely nuts I had seen the consultation but thought surely they wouldn't go ahead with it......

It's so depressing they will auto get this through are the greens even allowed to not vote yes......
It's disgraceful they can overstep the mark so much! Talk about totalitarianism!

They’re now calling the EHRC “compromised” snd any opponents of the GRA “transphobes”.

When will this end?

The permanent powers thing is depressing. I remember (and responded to) the consultation last year. To be fair to them many of the changes were in fact potentially reasonable... Things like allowing various hearings to take place remotely, permitting digital rather than wet signatures on some forms and so on. Though those things could also have been dealt with by changing the original legislation rather than permanentising (not a word, I know, but I need coffee) the Covid stuff I'd have thought.

However, the school closure power was just in there as well, and seemed totally out of kilter with the rest of it, and much more worrying. From memory the argument was that at the moment their powers (to close ALL schools/ colleges and not just state schools) were tied to the UK coronavirus legislation so they wanted the power to do it separately from that legislation which would likely expire or be revoked at some point. Which hardly bodes well in terms of four nation approaches etc! I kind of hoped that the consultation responses would suggest that that aspect was separated from the rest of it, which would probably have made it much less controversial. But, hey, when have they ever paid attention to consultation responses??

And Yy to the GRA thing. Sounds like "being led by science/ experts" only applies if the experts are saying what they want them to say. Fine example of policy based evidence making.

Doesn't it terrify you that the SNP can trash any group of independent experts that don't agree with them? The experts in EHRC have spent a lifetime working on human rights. But nah, the SNP and greens know better.

"It's so depressing they will auto get this through are the greens even allowed to not vote yes......
It's disgraceful they can overstep the mark so much! Talk about totalitarianism!"

This is the most sinister (and frankly scary) thing about this to me. Our (Scottish) parliamentary system was never designed to handle the level of power they now have, and is completely without checks and balances. There is no second chamber and no independent judiciary. Couple to that an SNP that doesn't allow backbench dissent and a deal with the Greens that means they have to support them, we have a situation where the SNP can quite literally do anything they want, and there is no mechanism to challenge this. We are stuck to relying on public outrage to keep them in check, and this is no way to run a country!

No party should be allowed free reign the way that the SNP describe, but they certainly shouldn't given their track record of very poor decision making and playing politics at every opportunity. Throughout the pandemic they have routinely made questionable decisions and repeatedly refused to justify these with evidence, claiming it was just a 'judgement call'. I would argue that until/unless proper checks and balances are in place the SG already has too much power, rather than needing more.

Scotland really needs some sort of second chamber or have all pieces of law go via HoL
There seems to be a lack of opposition and we are being run by a shower of muppets who are very good at propaganda so somewhere else to keep the think sane makes sense.