27-04-2025
- Politics
- The Herald Scotland
Swinney's pantomime summit attendees represented the worst of Scotland
The venue was kept secret from the prying eyes of voters.
Mr Swinney later said that Scotland's shared values were facing a 'huge threat' from disinformation being spread by the 'hard right'. Aye right.
Those pictures which the First Minister allowed to be released into the public domain showed him flanked by some of the most reactionary and intolerant people in Scottish public life.
There was Patrick Harvie of the Scottish Greens whose gaslighting of feminists and lesbians proclaiming the truth about sex has been malevolent and insidious.
His public smearing of his parliamentary colleague Kate Forbes in Holyrood last year alongside Ross Greer, the Bearsden Bolshevik, was sickening to behold.
This outfit believes in the medical castration of vulnerable young people by prescribing them with puberty blockers.
Anas Sarwar was there too. This man had earlier claimed he'd always supported single-sex spaces. Yet he had whipped his hapless MSPs into voting for the SNP's ruinous and sinister GRR legislation.
Even after the UK Supreme Court, later backed by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, had unanimously decided what the rest of us know to be true – trans women aren't women – none of these political leaders can yet bring themselves to speak that truth.
Now, you might consider that Reform UK, who were excluded from Mr Swinney's summit, are indeed a threat to democracy.
But in the last 10 years, no individuals have done more to undermine democracy and decency in Scottish public life than Mr Swinney, his puppet master Nicola Sturgeon, and the Scottish Greens.
I'm told, too, that at least two journalists attended this event in some kind of official capacity.
Don't they know that they're supposed to be scrutinising these people and holding them to account: not participating in their worthless pantomime?
Get a grip of yourselves: these roasters are not your friends.
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The weak ahead
REPRESENTATIVES at Mr Swinney's Teletubbies summit represent the very worst of Scotland: duplicitous, cowardly, dishonest and weak.
They do serve one purpose, however.
Those of us feeling depressed about underachieving at work or falling prey to our worst instincts can perk up by watching them in action.
You might be suffering issues with your self-esteem, but you'd have to
go some distance to reach the levels of incompetence and failure of this shower.
Bashing the Bishop
MY agents tell me that among those attending this convocation were several faith leaders. Sadly, these included a Catholic bishop and his assistant. I'll spare him the further embarrassment of naming him.
I've only one question to ask of you, my Lord Bishop: what in the name of Jesus, Mary and Joseph possessed you to attend a gathering such as this?
Let me spell it out for you: these people don't like you and loathe what you represent.
None of them are your friends either. All you've done by attending this ridiculous assemblage is become complicit in their malevolence and ineptitude.
Please tell me you didn't add your name to that meaningless parchment drafted to confirm your foolish complicity.
And tell me something else, my Lord Bishop: do you intend to provide a full account of these proceedings to the members of your own flock? And if you did sign up to their dishonest agenda, will you tell us why and answer questions about it?
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Supreme being
In the interests of fairness, and being faithful to the public record, I'm happy to report that the Catholic Church in Scotland has finally provided its response to the Supreme Court's judgment on the correct interpretation of the Equality Act.
Curiously, the Bishops' Conference have had very little to say about a matter of crucial importance to the nation, save for a statement three years ago.
Last week, a spokesperson for the Scottish Bishops sent me the following statement which was rather overtaken by the Pope's death. It's a good one.
'The Catholic Church in Scotland welcomes the judgment of the Supreme Court. Gender based on biological identity has been a constant belief and accepted fact of the patrimony of humanity.
'God created them male and female, equal in dignity and complementary.
'As Pope Francis has said: 'Cancelling out our differences means cancelling out our humanity.' An ideology based on choice alone that seeks to override the established balance of sexual identity is detrimental to our society.
'The Church also acknowledges the pain and isolation of those who struggle with their sexual identity and lovingly respects and supports them through its pastoral ministry.'
It would be interesting to know if the Bishop drawing the short straw to attend John Swinney's summit made these views known to all those there pushing the gender ideology lie.
