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Originally Posted by jfman
Not attempting to excuse the SNP - who have blazed a trail in this regard with taxpayer money - similarly MPs at Westminster proposing to reject the EHRC guidance. As you rightly say - it's not creating law which is already there, and ruled on by the SC.
MPs who disagree with it should push to change the primary legislation rather than be (often wilfully) ignorant about the status of guidance. Or better, put it in a manifesto, have people vote on it, then see where they go from there. (I suspect we both know, but that is the process).
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I quite agree, EDM240 is the most egregious piece of performative student union politics to disgrace the Commons in many years. We’re lucky in that Westminster has so many more members that it’s functionally very much more difficult for this sort of groupthink to become endemic. Holyrood has an awful lot of power which can be marshalled on the votes of just 65 people.
Nadia Witless and co are of course signalling their progressive virtues with an early day motion precisely because they know there isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell of them ever successfully campaigning to change EA2010.