Maggie Chapman MSP slanders Supreme Court

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Maggie Chapman has publicly accused the Supreme Court of transphobia. Any lawyers know if this is contempt of court?
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She always looks as confused as the words that come out if her mouth.

Is that all?!!!!!!

Thank you. The glorious , thoughtful, articulate Naomi Cunningham and then you have Maggie Chapman who I don’t have the vocabulary to adequately describe

She's like the toddler that asks for cutted up pear and then throws a wobbly for getting cutted up pear. Her next act is to lie down on the floor screaming while everyone around her ignores the tantrum

There's a lot of cutted up pear heel drumming about at the moment.

It’s not just that this has nothing to do with green issues, but that it actively undermines their claim to be talking authoritatively about any science related subject - e.g. climate change.

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/opinion/5227503/jim-spence-maggie-chapman-holyrood/

Has anyone asked how green hormone treatments and gender-affirming surgeries actually are? What exactly is the carbon footprint of converting your gay son into a girl?

Don’t worry, JKR has done it for you!

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

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

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.

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.

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

That article from Jim Spence:

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

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.

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/

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

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.

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, 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.

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.

Archive

https://archive.ph/VpTVn

Well-expressed and enjoyable to read.

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.

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

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