When even Wings Over Scotland has serious concerns about what could happen from 1st April, you know it is no joke.
We aim, and fervently hope, to still be here after April Yousaf’s Day. But we also hope readers will understand that in the grotesque, intolerant, dystopian Scotland now being created by the SNP, we need to be sure.
The Hate Crime Act is nothing short of truly frightening to say the very least. That such an act can happen in our colony which once had a proud legal system just shows how much we have all fallen asleep at the wheel. You will be able to report alleged offences at a sex shop, and a (magic)mushroom farm, obviously places frequented by our SNP/Green Politicians in Edinburgh.
The law criminalises threatening or abusive behaviour which is intended to stir up hatred against someone who possesses, or appears to possess, certain characteristics. They are age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity and variations in sex characteristics sometimes known as being intersex.
The new law also provides for stiffer sentences for offenders convicted of crimes deemed to be “aggravated by prejudice,” — in other words if they demonstrate malice or ill-will towards their victim based on the protected characteristics listed above, with the addition of a category for race, colour, nationality or ethnicity.
“This new law leaves women unprotected from hate crime,” the Scottish National Party MP Joanna Cherry KC told me. (BBC Scotland)
Stupidity and Sturgeon written all over it, while members of all parties voted for this travesty of freedom of speech let’s be clear this is SNP/Green all the way.
What this means for new media bloggers is frightening, basically we are going to have to be very very careful what topics we cover, and how we express our opinion, not because we are bad people full of prejudice but because there are a lot of people out there, along with the British State in the colony, parties that were once serious independence parties, that will use this 1984 legislation to keep us down, to keep the cause down.
It really is beyond belief, this is where we find ourselves in 2024.
We can send a clear message, though, at least to the SNP / Greens in the English Parliament Elections. We can wipe them all out, not just a feeble 30, let’s take them all out by not visiting the ballot box. Let’s make them pay for the Hate Crime Act, the Ferries, the Salmond case, Covid, the imprisonment of Craig Murray, the prosecution of Mark Hurst, the failure to protect women and girls, the abandonment of independence.
If most of the yes movement who are not carrot eaters don’t vote in the English Election then they are gone, what do we have to lose? Independence is generations away because of Sturgeon and the SNP gender warriors. Let’s start to clean house by giving them a big kick in the ballots, once we are shot of these charlatans we can start to re-build, get back to the cause of ending our colonial status by ending their political careers.
I don’t know if I will continue to blog after 1st April. I will need to seriously have a think about it as I don’t have the skills, or the resources, that others have, but it might be that if I do continue to blog it just can’t be in the same bluntly honest way that it is now. This won’t make the colony a less prejudiced place, the Hate Crime Act just makes our colony a more frightened place, a place where the state, and its arms such as Police Scotland, all become the Ministry of Truth.
grumpyscottishman.wordpress.com 
The Hate Crime Act is an act of repression and censorship. They will be suspending Habeas Corpus next.
Duncanio
It really is frightening that this is where have gotten to, how long will we allow these people to remove our rights little by little. It is time for a revolution and to use our not voting to end them as politicians, we need drastic action before we can start to build again, these people cannot be allowed any role in that journey.
Thanks for commenting.
Bruce
AFAIK Habeas Corpus is long gone
As a currently infrequent blogger myself (a story still to be told), I have all the same concerns. I agree with all you’ve said except I would take issue with your attitude on the English election.
While I have no intention of voting for the SNP or any other unionist party, I will vote for any party or individual who actually supports independence, whether or not they have any chance of winning. In the absence of one of those, I’ll write some pithy comment on the ballot paper telling the candidates what I think of them and their parties.
Probably, I really need to find out before that if comments on ballot papers are covered by Hate Crimes legislation.
AW
The only thing with spoiling the ballot is they don’t get to report the comments only the number so it’s kept quiet. I just don’t think spoiling the ballot works anymore, I get why you would for an independence candidate but if we all approach the election with different strategies we still lose but the message also gets lost also. It’s just my opinion on it. A boycott of the election in large numbers sends a very clear message to the colonisers and the politicians who have sold us out.
I don’t know if I’ll keep going to be honest as one stupid complaint for a unionist for say a house jock comment and there goes all your tech etc that you will never see again, plus there is no legal aid worth speaking of now so I don’t think I’ll bother or if I do it won’t be the same as honesty and freedom of speech end in the colony on April 1st.
Thanks for commenting.
Bruce
Is it not bad enough that anyone who seeks independence for Scotland is now classified as an “Extremist” because Michael Gove stated ““Extremism is the promotion or advancement of an ideology based on violence, hatred or intolerance, that aims to negate or destroy the fundamental rights and freedoms of others” or “undermine, overturn or replace the UK’s system of liberal parliamentary democracy and democratic rights”.
That last phrase definitely applies to me! So, I’ll be expecting a knock on the door anytime soon.
On top of that we have another wee gem from the SNP/Green coalition government to look forward to with their Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform Bill that has just had it’s Stage 1 at Holyrood extended by 4 weeks until next month.
So, what does this pearl of wisdom mean for us ordinary mortals who don’t inhabit Cloud Cuckoo Land?
It’s introduction splits the Bill into these parts:
Part 1:
Part 2:
Part 3:
Part 4:
Part 5:
Part 6:
The following is taken from our (Scottish National Congress Steering Committee) submission to the Bill consultation.
“It is evident to us, as to many others, particularly within the Scottish legal profession, that should the Bill proceed in its present form, it would undermine the long tradition of fairness and justice in Scots law and threaten the integrity of human rights in Scotland.
The signatories below further assert that the Bill, if enacted, will place the Scottish Executive in breach of the Scottish constitutional compact and of its own position of public trust:
The Claim of Right Act 1689, which remains law and a “core UK constitutional statute”, deposed a king and a Parliament on the grounds that the monarch, the executive, had wielded an ‘arbitrary and despotic power’ and so “invaded the fundamental constitution” of this nation.
The Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform Bill closely approaches an arbitrary and despotic overreach and, in Scots law, such an ‘invasion’ results in the forfeiture of legitimacy. Although the People of Scotland presently have no mechanisms by which to exercise our sovereignty, no ‘Convention of Estates’ by which to challenge ‘arbitrary and despotic’ action, nevertheless legitimacy may be lost while authority continues.
Whether the Scottish government chooses to be constrained by what is constitutionally lawful in this nation or follows the example of Westminster in assuming the power to alter the fundamental constitution will determine its continued standing in the eyes of the people of Scotland.”
I was one of the signatories and this was just one of hundreds of negative responses to the Bill, many of which came from solicitors, procurators fiscal, Faculty of Advocates etc.
When does this madness end? They have until 2026 to wreak more damage and to heap injustices on the people of Scotland.
SoA
Thanks for sharing all of the above information, we truly are entering a frightening time in our colonial history and we have been betrayed by the politicians, we have got to boycott the English Election and end all of their political careers by not going to the ballot box, it really is the only option in my opinion to allow us to both send a clear message and reset the movement.
Thanks for commenting.
Bruce
for those who’ve been lucky enough to live a life where the authorities haven’t messed you about then ‘well done’ .
operation ‘tranny army ‘ has exceeded expectations and how they laughed when it was suggested.
this is the uk that has always been ruled by private schools and paedophiles.
Our government and military are Charles government and military.
King Charles the third. Mentored by the uk national treasure Jimmy Saville
Anon
Our fears, assisted by our ignorance and stupidity, have brought us to this point. We are even more in serfdom than we have ever been with this act just the latest in the attacks on our rights, so we have to end the SNP asap. I have seen the anger on social media, I wrote about the Hate Crime Act three years ago and what it could mean, I was laughed at by carrot eaters, told that if I wasn’t prejudiced I had nothing to fear, how did that work out. We should all be very afraid.
Thanks for commenting.
Bruce
I have just one thing to add to the article.
If people don’t have a candidate that they can vote for, the PLEASE still go to the polling place and use your vote.
Be part of the groundswell that is repurposing their vote. Don’t waste it.
If you stay at home your lack of participating will be written off by the politicos and the media as ‘voter apathy’, when nothing could be further from the truth.
People want action.
Take the action that is open to you and #RepurposeYourVote !
Unless a genuine Independence candidate appears, I for one am planning to write diagonally across the voting paper “EndTheUnion”
Anon
I believe they can only argue voter apathy if we are split, if the yes movement didn’t vote at all, your are looking at a turn out of less than 50%, that can’t be written off as voter apathy, especially if there was also a campaign of removing the mandate to govern, make it clear this is what we are doing. Of course, it won’t happen as we are a split movement with no strategy so it will be up to the individual to do what they feel is right for them, for myself that will mean not voting as I am just not taking part in the English Parliament Elections any more, I am done with all of that.
Thanks for commenting.
Bruce
I have just one thing to add to the article.
If people don’t have a candidate that they can vote for, the PLEASE still go to the polling place and use your vote.
Be part of the groundswell that is repurposing their vote. Don’t waste it.
If you stay at home your lack of participating will be written off by the politicos and the media as ‘voter apathy’, when nothing could be further from the truth.
People want action.
Take the action that is open to you and #RepurposeYourVote !
Unless a genuine Independence candidate appears, I for one am planning to write diagonally across the voting paper “EndTheUnion”
If ever there was an “I am Spartacus” moment then this is surely it. We need a mass act where thousands of Scots deliberately break the nu law in exactly the same way, and arrange that someone makes a formal complaint about it.
Geoff
I suspect that the act will fall at some point once the first few cases start to be a shambles but only if the other changes to our laws can be stopped like juryless trials which is a disgrace, smaller juries etc. We really are in an 1984 moment so the SNP, and any unionist politician, who supports these acts need to be ended at the ballot box, we have got to fight back. I don’t think enough people would risk mass protest due to the impact that has on their lives and livelihood etc. Sadly we no live in a country where we are controlled by fear, no better than Putin’s Russia or Iran, China. Frightening times.
Thanks for commenting.
Bruce