The SNP hasn’t realised that ‘socially conservative’ is actually normal

May 1, 2024 by Jill

by Allison Pearson, Telegraph:

As part of his pity pageant, Humza (you’ve only got) Yousaf (to blame) posted a photograph on Twitter of himself reading a bedtime story to his small daughter. The caption read: “Today of all days, remembering and being grateful for all the blessings I have in life.”

Nauseating. Does the departing First Minister of Scotland really think he was doing the right thing for little girls like his own by pursuing gender identity policies which, if the SNP had its warped way, would have allowed children to carry on taking puberty blockers before proceeding to mutilation? That’s the thing about the advocates of “progressive” politics like Nicola Sturgeon and Yousaf. They accuse anybody who dares to oppose them of racism, misogyny and homophobia, while being the worst, most authoritarian bigots going.

Kate Forbes, who came second to Humza in the leadership contest, is one senior SNP figure who deserves some credit for standing firm against Scotland’s appalling gender self-ID “reforms”, which would have allowed people to change their legally recognised sex faster than you can say, “Sorry, that rapist showing his willy in pink Lycra leggings really doesn’t belong in a women’s prison.”

Yet, since Yousaf stood down, it is Forbes, a member of the Free Church of Scotland, who has been under attack for being “socially conservative”. (Or reflecting the views of the majority of Scots still in possession of any moral sense, as it’s also known.)

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