The crazy scheme was approved by Holyrood as part of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014, but an appeal against it was mounted by charities and individuals. Their campaign was successful when, mercifully, this grotesque Marxist scheme was thrown out the windows of Holyrood.
When it reached the Supreme Court, some 12 months ago, the seating judges said specific
proposals about information-
Let us not forget one other claim which the judges made. They said that Scotland has been saved from a totalitarian curse. In their own words: ‘The first thing that a totalitarian regime tries to do is to get at the children, to distance them from the subversive, varied influences of their families, and indoctrinate them in their rulers’ view of the world. Within limits, families must be left to bring up their children in their own way.’
Let these words forever echo and reverberate loudly in the ears of politicians at Holyrood: families must be left to bring up their children in their own way. One truly wonders what our children would be like if they were left to be brought up in the ways of the Scottish Government. The very scary thought belongs to the dustbin, the brown one at that. We thank God for His timely intervention.
Donald J Morrison
85 Old Edinburgh Road
Inverness
Letter: “Big Brother proposals a shambles”
21 August 2017
Sirs,
The proud Scottish Government will be the last to concede defeat in any plan they propose – even their most bizarre and ridiculous – so let us do it for them. Yes, they have finally brought forward new legislation after its Named Person proposals were declared unlawful by the UK Supreme Court in July 2016. It is very unlike what they initially thought up in the corridors of power.
No, they will never declare the reality that their original draconian Big Brother
proposals were a complete and utter shambles. Under their radical proposals, every
child in Scotland was to be assigned a state guardian to monitor their ‘wellbeing.’
This constituted a state-