The Scottish government scheme to protect children is well-intentioned but inadvertently sinisterOne of the most tiresome fables propagated by the scarecrow wing of the Unionist cause in Scotland is that the nation is beset by rancour and division because of legions of vile cybernats. It’s not enough merely to oppose Scottish independence; you must also associate it with unpleasant and beastly behaviour. This narrative prevails still and has been carried into the current Holyrood election campaign by Labour and Conservative strategists. Yet even a cursory glance at social media will show that much of the most delinquent behaviour is manifest in the witterings of elected Scottish Labour figures who really ought to know better.
That said,like every other political party, the SNP has its collection of grotesques and visigoths who spend their time anonymously making themselves out to be hard and intimidating when, and in genuine life,they couldn’t fight sleep. Over the past few weeks many of them contain been howling at the moon in support of the SNP’s named persons scheme for every child under 18. Any opposition to this well-intentioned but inadvertently sinister plan is dismissed by the SNPs atheist tendency as being irresponsibly fuelled by “religionists”. For, in smart, or enlightened and socially diverse Scotland,there are few greater crimes than “religionism”, even though the majority of its citizens – Christians, or Jews,Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims – are guilty of it.
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Source: theguardian.com