MidScot234

[MidScot234 @MidScot234]

@andrewlearmonth HIS says it doesn’t design service changes, but at the same time it promotes its self-titled “Scottish Approach to Change” to help boards do exactly that. What practical support is HIS offering NHSGGC? Is its own approach actually being used, and if not, why not?

[Geoff Norcott @GeoffNorcott]

Say what you like about the Tories, at least their coups were entertaining.

This is like a slow-motion car crash between two milk floats.

[Pat Kane @thoughtland]

The most interesting Scottish election commentary yesterday from @ailsa_henderson. Some good pointers for what the “independence majority” should do, at least in terms of tone, next:

“I’m not talking about the rights and wrongs of holding a referendum or of independence, but just how people react to the issue.

And we pick up in the data frustration about the way in which the constitutional issue has pushed other issues off the agenda. We absolutely see that in the data.

But one thing we also see is that the Scottish electorate is much less nostalgic than the English electorate. And the same is true in Northern Ireland as well.

And the thinking is that by having these important debates about our constitutional future, yes, they may well crowd out debates about how to improve education or how to improve health.

But they also do shift our temporal focus from thinking about the glory days that we used to have to thinking about how can we build a different future.

And regardless of what side of the constitutional debate you’re on, that shift in temporal framing does change the mindset.

As a result, the Scottish electorate is also much less angry than the English electorate…”

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

The Sandie Peggie employment tribunal is currently exposing, as perhaps no court case to date has, the issue of class as it relates to the top-down imposition of gender identity ideology in the workplace.

'Diversity officer' Isla Bumba has now admitted in court that she didn't bother consulting the 1992 regulations guaranteeing single-sex spaces when she told a trans-identified male, Dr Beth Upton, to use the female changing room at the hospital where he was working. Bumba justified this decision with comments that I assume sounded really clever and convincing, inside her own head.

'I don’t know anything about Beth’s body. I didn’t at the time. I don’t now. I don’t need to know. But it wouldn’t be something that I would ever have the information of exactly what she is made of, biologically.'

Kate Searle, a consultant in emergency medicine, backed Bumba up, expressing outrage on the witness stand that anyone would be so insensitive as to ask about Upton's chromosomes.

‘I could only imagine how upsetting and invasive a question that would be for Beth, and also not relevant to a colleague to ask another colleague. Beth identifies as female, and it does not matter what her chromosomes are to her.’

In Bumba and Searle's world, a belief that gender identity trumps biological sex is proof you're intellectually and morally superior to women like Sandie Peggie, so I'd imagine it's come as a shock to discover, in a blaze of public and press scrutiny, just how idiotic and cruel they appear to people outside their dinner party circle.

When Upton, a 6' tall, 28-year-old ex-rugby playing male, claimed that a petite 50-year-old female nurse was making him feel 'unsafe', his word appears to have been taken as gospel. Searle, Bumba and management fell over themselves to coddle the middle-class doctor who shared their voguish post-modern views on gender. What did Sandie matter? She's just one of those ghastly uninformed bigots who still thinks sex is real and important - so embarrassingly gauche and simplistic! Whisper it - she probably drinks red wine with chicken, too.

According to @tribunaltweets, an emotional Searle blurted out on the stand 'I am kind.' This is not something genuinely kind people need to say. Genuinely kind people don't find themselves compelled to explain in court why they helped whip up a witch-hunt against a woman whose only crime was wanting to change her clothes without a man watching.

Well, the nurse who was supposed to shuffle off in disgrace wasn't having it. Sandie Peggie refused to be sacrificed on the altar of elitist ideologues who believe themselves to be higher and better than she is. She fought back, for herself and for every other woman who's currently being silenced, persecuted and punished by a smug management class that preens itself on its virtue while imposing rampantly misogynistic policies on its workforce.

Sandie Peggie is a heroine. The woman NHS Fife thought they could treat abominably without any consequences to themselves has succeeded in shining the brightest spotlight yet upon the brain rot and compassion deficit suffered by supposedly intelligent people when they embrace gender identity ideology. Women everywhere owe her a debt of thanks. Whatever the outcome of this tribunal, Sandie Peggie has already won.

[Mattie Watkins @thepeaklady]

“If a bunch of old queens want to sit around a table and use the word ‘tr4nny’ I will not be told off by someone who wasn’t fucking there”

(Of course my first attempt to post this was censored)

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

This is absolutely beyond hilarious.

Whilst it takes aim at Scotlands new ‘Hate Speech’ laws, I’m sure it will resonate with anyone & everyone who’s sick of the ‘mind virus’

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[Professional Judy @ProfessionalJu2]

Queer, a homophobic slur popular with straight people.