@TheGreenParty Will @sianberry and @TheGreenParty please answer these important questions? Voters deserve to know your position on these points.
https://t.co/1zfQhvAx0n
This is a confusing letter @sianberry.
I have some questions:
1. You’re asking for legislative action in response to a non-legislative Code. Assuming it’s the Equality Act you want to change, does it follow that you accept that the Code accurately reflects the Act as it is?
This is a confusing letter @sianberry.
I have some questions:
1. You’re asking for legislative action in response to a non-legislative Code. Assuming it’s the Equality Act you want to change, does it follow that you accept that the Code accurately reflects the Act as it is?
@ForWomenScot@stellacreasy Para 21 of a new judgment in Scotland is highly pertinent: "Nevertheless, the answer to th Council's submissions is that guidance is not the law. The Council has its own duties and powers conferred on it by legislation. The Council is obliged to obey the law, not guidance..." 1/2
She’s worried about losing her seat to Polanski at the next GE, so is performatively pro trans rights to defend that. But she’s known as a feminist so pretends her anti-code position is about “the creeping use of SIs”. She’s trying to triangulate. But you can’t make a triangle out of two opposing points.
I've written the inaugural piece for my legal Substack on this week's attempt by MPs to block the @EHRC Code of Practice:
EARLY WARNING | Are MPs plotting to overturn For Women Scotland and dismantle women’s and LGB people’s discrimination law rights?
https://t.co/D0mxelouWb
This video is an attempt to explain the parliamentary processes being used to give the EHRC guidance legal status and why I think they are a problem in themselves. Am sure it’s not perfect but I hope it’s helpful in trying to navigate the acronyms and actions being taken.
I admit to a certain morbid fascination with people like @stellacreasy and @NadiaWhittomeMP who brazen it out after being caught misrepresenting parliamentary process as it applies to the EHRC Code of Conduct - even after @akuareindorf and @Scott_Wortley have gone to immense lengths to explain, in great detail and with superhuman patience and courtesy, why they have got it completely wrong.
But their betrayal of lesbians and women in general - and their sheer dishonesty in refusing to admit openly they still want to replace all sex-based rights with self-ID - are not remotely fascinating. Just grotesque.
@stellacreasy These points though are irrelevant for the consideration of the ECHR code of practice. The laying of the code before parliament does not make it law. It is not a statutory instrument. The procedure in the Equality Act 2006, s 14 mirrors the negative procedure for statutory
@stellacreasy development of policy.
Your guidance video is misleading by suggesting that SIs are used to amend legislation. That may happen if there is Henry VIII clause but typically with the usual skeletal form it is to give detail to policy that has not been thought out.
@stellacreasy Thank you for your response.
I completely understand concerns about statutory instruments. The excessive use of delegated legislation is an issue which reflects badly on respective governments (and on parliament for allowing it) over the years. The tendency in recent years to