“THE RIGHT TO PEACEFUL PROTEST MUST BE PROTECTED” – HANVEY
The ALBA MPs, Neale Hanvey MP and Kenny MacAskill MP have today (Thursday) tabled a motion to annul the Order which has been laid by the Home Secretary Priti Patel MP to transfer draconian powers under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 which would allow the police to remove protestors from the Scottish Parliament building and grounds under threat of criminal prosecution. The Order was laid by the Home Secretary on 9 September following a request by the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB). The Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (Designated Scottish Sites under Section 129) Order 2021 (SI 2021, No. 1021) will come into force on 1 October, unless it is annulled. The ALBA MPs are seeking a Debate and a Parliamentary vote on the issue.
In a statement Neale Hanvey MP, ALBA Westminster Group Leader said:
“I addressed a rally outside the Scottish Parliament today where there is growing anger at the prospect of peaceful protestors being removed from the grounds of the Scottish Parliament under threat of criminal prosecution. This attempt by the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (SPCB) to limit the right to peaceful protest in the wider Scottish Parliamentary Estate and to attack fundamental rights and freedoms is unacceptable.
“The SPCB has sought to do this by making a request to the Home Secretary in Whitehall who has no jurisdiction over the criminal justice system in Scotland.
“ I am determined to do everything possible to stop these draconian powers from coming into force. That is why, along with my colleague Kenny MacAskill, I have tabled a motion to annul and effectively repeal the Order laid by the Home Secretary Priti Patel which would bring these powers into effect. This should be an issue which concerns every single Scottish MP. There is absolutely no impediment to SNP MPs signing this motion as their party conference has voted for a motion expressing concern at this move and urging Parliamentarians to call for this Order to be withdrawn.
“The right to peaceful protest must be protected. Therefore I urge all of my Parliamentary colleagues to get behind our effort to have this issue debated and voted on in the House of Commons”.
be very interesting to see if any of them have the balls to stand up to der fuhrer…
This is one more shameful episode in the performance of the Sturgeon Government.
If you are one of those fools who thinks Sturgeon was not involved then nothing I say will convince you otherwise.
Nothing happens at Holyrood or within the SNP without her approval as controlling mind .
She may be silent on issues. She may assign responsibility or blame to others. She may simply be “unaware” as the “brown shirt Wokerati” act to take up the case of their champion.( ask the hundreds who have suffered the social media attacks)
Anyone who suggests she didn’t know that the process was being pursued is deluded.
Anyone who thinks she could not have stopped it or overturned it is foolish.
“There is absolutely no impediment to SNP MPs signing this motion as their party conference has voted for a motion expressing concern at this move and urging Parliamentarians to call for this Order to be withdrawn”
And if they don’t do it then either
1. there is an unseen impediment to doing so and the Scottish government were employing plausible deniability in blaming the SPCB
OR
2. They agree with the order.
I’m not sure which is worst.
A contemptuous political class dominates the parliament. It has sprung up in short time. Bewildering.
One thing that will happen shortly is that Pete Wishart will realise that he has no chance of winning his seat next time out. Why? Because the local people, in particlular those that have organised and campaigned for him, think that he is a sell out. An complete tosser. I know that because I am one of them. That is now feeding through to the general punter. The Tory demographic will turnout and the disenfranchised will do the only logical thing and stay at home.
The man is dripping in cash. Do you really think he cares that much or that he actually needs the dosh? He’s minted. He doesn’t give a shite. He believes in f all. The same with out other hero John Swinney, honest John . They are such a fraud that they rely on the punter not knowing what is going on. in the past the struggle was getting info out there to the punters about what their SNP MP and MSP was doing for them.
Or more accurately what they could do for the punters if we were independent. We do not have these stories to tell anymore.
Maybe we should get back Pete to the hilt and get into the virtue-signalling and sell the snake oil line instead of Independence?.
The point Neale made about the home Secretary having no jurisdiction over the criminal justice system in Scotland should have OUR JUDICIARY up in arms , THIS is just a continuation of the chipping away of any regulations , policies or laws which relate solely to Scotland, what is even MORE REPREHENSIBLE AND OUTRAGEOUS is that we had SUPPOSED representatives of Scots elected by Scots APPEALING to WM to criminalise and penalise ordinary Scottish people for DARING to object or protest something they don’t agree with or are against at their own Scottish parliament that they f#@#$&* paid handsomely for
Every one of these TRAITORS who voted for this should be removed from the parliament and their positions
Harvey is spot on. They have no jurisdiction yet McAskill puts his name to this while also claiming England has dominion over Scotland further subjugating Scotland by treating the English government as sole authority to the treaty. It is clear there are two distinct camps of Scots, those who believe Scotland is nothing more than an English colony beholden to the English government and its establishment and thus powerless to act in its own interests, and those who recognise Scotland’s true status as a sovereign nation state in an international Agreement and equal partner with equal authority to the treaty. It seems McAskill falls in the former camp while Hanvey is in the latter.
Like the majority of the people in Scotland they are afflicted with the colonial subservient mentality.
Did ye think tae hiss ann boo
An shout oot in front o’ me
I’ll get ma big pal Boris
Jist ye wait an see
Did ye think o’ freedom
An ah wid let it pass
Gettin crowds o’ wimmin
Tae gather aw in mass
A’mm yer lord an maister
Dinny think it’s aw blaw
Ah huv aw the backin
Courts wi polis an aw
Remember who’s the leader
Voted fur wan an two
Brainwashed aw the public
Except fur jist the few
The parly’s mine tae dae wi’
Jist see whit ah huv passed
Men ur whit they say they ur
Complain an you’ll be cs gassed
One way of separating the corn from the chaff.
Nice one Neale Hanley. Let’s see if the SNP MPs care what their conference voted for.
Any SNP MP who does not support this should be named and shamed.
Waiting… waiting…
I don’t see this happening. HR should just IGNORE it. It has no validity in Scottish law & Scottish law over-rides English law in legal questions. We KEPT the Scottish judiciary when the ToU was signed. And with that power, Scotland gets to decide what laws we use. If we don’t want to use an English law, we don’t use it! Roddy Dunlop, QC has already said that Scotgov could kick out of touch – if it chose to do so.
Scotgov??? Waiting… waiting…
“We KEPT the Scottish judiciary when the ToU was signed”
That may be one way of looking at it. Another might be that the Scottish legal establishment, in helping to draft the ToU, ensured it protected its own status and privileges within it, and forever mair. And, moreover, it also got to bide in the grand auld pairlament building itsel, whaur it aye sits yet.
Where power and privilege ultimately lies is always a salient feature, not least in a colonial environment.
You’re absolutely right, Alf. I doubt they kept Scots law for altruistic reasons. Those with power aren’t known for giving it up easily. Not even our own (in many cases specially our own!).
But kept/protect it they did, so we should be able to turn our backs on it and just ignore it. Having said that, should someone protest outside HR’s doors, I believe we’d still be taken to court for being a nuisance, based on this law. And God knows, Sturgeon wouldn’t care about saving anyone from court charges.
I’m afraid you are right Katielass, the colonized can expect nothing from a colonial justice system.
Why have my posts on this and other threads disappeared???
They hadn’t disappeared Tony this is a one man blog and today I spent out with my grandchildren, Sorry everything up and approved now.
Cheers Roddy, just wondering.
I get a strange message when I click on your site of Forbidden error 403 or something – it clears every now and then , is there an explanation or am I doing something wrong?
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