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   HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 20:59:42 JST HebrideanHecate

   https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14653315/STEPHEN-DAISLEY-Maggie-Chapman-political-horror-embarrass-parliament-worthy-name.html

   I have spent longer than I care to remember documenting the ineptitudes and inadequacies of the Scottish Parliament.

   Years upon years given to gathering evidence of the sundry ways in which an over-sold institution has under-delivered — and then some.

   Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of columns marshalling my case that devolution was a historic error and that, far from closing the ‘democratic deficit’, it has rent open a new chasm between the Scottish public and a remote, unaccountable elite at Holyrood.

   A life’s work.

   And along comes Maggie Chapman and makes my job obsolete.

   Because who needs me to point out the absurdity of a parliament to which Chapman is capable of getting elected?

   Who needs to be told that Holyrood’s committee system is weak, ineffectual and unfit for purpose when Chapman is not only a member of the equalities, human rights and civil justice committee but its deputy convenor?

   Chapman is not some oddity who wandered in off the street. She is the living, breathing, rainbow-lanyarded embodiment of devolution and its elevation of a class of self-righteous mediocrities and self-deluding cranks who believe they can solve world peace when they can’t even solve A&E waiting times.

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     BILLSan345 (billsan345@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 20:59:42 JST BILLSan345

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     @HebrideanHecate Maggie Chapman: bigotry on stilts.
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     Sherri_Ingrey (sherri_ingrey@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 20:59:54 JST Sherri_Ingrey

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     @BILLSan345 @HebrideanHecate someone on fecesbook said there's a law against praying even in your home within x feet of an abortion clinic or something? Only in Scotland.
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     HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 20:59:56 JST HebrideanHecate

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     • BILLSan345

     @Sherri_Ingrey @BILLSan345 This is the problem, as per usual Scot Govt, being the useless clowns they are, went OTT in the legislation, and now it has been sized upon by everyone in a rage about the piss off and don't hassle women outside the clinics law. Yes, some crap re re the boundaries, so technically if someone was passing an open window which is within the boundary and heard a person within praying or whatever then they could fall foul of the law. How far it could or would be taken is another matter, but trust them to make a balls up of it like that. As opposed to just making sure they are not making a pest of themselves outside the clinics.

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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Monday, 28-Apr-2025 21:02:54 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     • BILLSan345
     @HebrideanHecate @Sherri_Ingrey @BILLSan345 Laws like these tell us that it's not the law and the possible improvements it might make to society that concern the lawmakers, but the ability to control the citizens. Imagine the power you think you wield if you want to limit people's thoughts and words. It's the sort of power that creams the knickers of dictators and tyrants.
     Let's not forget that people went into a voting booth and put their cross by her name.