Those of you in Scotland who will insist on voting for a party that supported independence, please make it Alba. As much as anything else, that party shows signs of recognising that if Greens were peddling junk science about sex and gender, then they might be peddling junk science about other things, too.
But in the struggle for economic equality, the leading role belongs to the working class, and in the struggle for international peace, the leading role belongs to the working class and the youth. Unity must therefore be maintained within and between the working class and the youth, including against any separatist tendency in England, Scotland or Wales. If you must vote for Scottish independence, then vote for Alba. Much better, though, not to vote for Scottish independence at all.
The two Labour MSPs who voted against the Gender Recognition Reform Bill broke the whip to do so, but that may or may not be a sign of things to come at Westminster, because there is no indication that the Government intended to introduce legislation to override this. For monitoring and other purposes, the whole of the public sector and its contractors are already practising gender self-identification every day, a situation that has arisen entirely since the end of the Coalition, so that at least in England, the Conservative Party is solely to blame for it.
Thankfully, we are heading for a hung Parliament. To strengthen families and communities by securing economic equality and international peace through the democratic political control of the means to those ends, including national and parliamentary sovereignty, we need to hold the balance of power. Owing nothing to either main party, we must be open to the better offer. There does, however, need to be a better offer. Not a lesser evil, which in any case the Labour Party is not.
A similar bill was rejected in England by Boris Johnson’s Conservatives. This is a devolved matter so they have to tread carefully but they haven’t ruled out intervening if this would affect England and hopefully they will.
ReplyDeleteKemi Badenoch would have made the announcement immediately upon this predictable result if she had been planning to do anything. For all practical purposes this is already the law in England, and she is already doing nothing about that.
DeleteEvery Scottish Conservative voted against it bar three while Labour, the Lib Dem’s and Greens voted with the SNP as usual.
ReplyDeleteIt is not the law in England thanks to the Conservatives, and therefore I think there’ll be an announcement once its legal effect on England has been clarified.
In the middle of next year, there would be an announcement of nothing, if they even bothered with that. Anything else would have happened yesterday.
DeleteAcross the public sector and its contractors, fanning out through everyone who had ever done any kind of course of education or training, this is already the law in England for most or all practical purposes. That situation has arisen entirely under the Conservatives.