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Sir,

It is now official: the draconian ‘named person scheme’ drawn up by the menacing and undiscerning Scottish Government is completely unlawful.  The recent, and unanimous, ruling of five judges in the Supreme Court, against this silly and contemptuous piece of legislation, is nothing less than a victory for common sense.  While most ordinary people, across Scotland, already knew this proposed law was wrong we now all formally know: it is wrong, wrong, wrong.  

And just in case the Scottish ministers at Holyrood, who devised this illicit ‘big brother’ spying scheme, are still asleep let them now hear what the Supreme Court judges are loudly telling them: it is ‘wake up and dump your ridiculous proposals.’  In other words, the whole plan has either to be ditched forever or completely overhauled – and no wonder.

This is the first time the Supreme Court has prevented a major piece of legislation passed by the Scottish Parliament from coming into force.  Mercifully, the Court has acted to stop a major conflict with our date protection laws.  Under the proposals, every child in Scotland was to be assigned a state guardian to monitor their ‘wellbeing.’  This constituted a state-sponsored intrusion into family life – directly undermining the parent-child relationship, and was due to come into force on 31 August.  Not now.  And in the Highlands, where it has already been subtly enforced, it must now be withdrawn.

In reaching their decision the panel of 5 Supreme court judges claimed that…wait for it…Scotland has been saved from a totalitarian curse!  Their words make for deeply disturbing reading, when they said: ‘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.’  These words are not only numbing and shocking, they are also downright scary.  The judges wisely, and rightly, added: ‘Within limits, families must be left to bring up their children in their own way.’

In their ruling the judges concluded that the powers granted to named persons to share private information about the children for whom they had responsibility were ‘incompatible with the rights of children, young persons and parents.’  The legislation therefore lay outside ‘the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament.’   The judgment further states that the information-sharing provisions of Part 4 of the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 ‘may in practice result in a disproportionate inference’ with the right of children and their parents to a private and family life.

How indeed thankful we ought to be that the SNP led Scottish Parliament are not allowed to appoint a ‘named person’ to monitor each and every child in Scotland!  We are deeply thankful to God for His timely intervention.  One really wonders what sinister and secret agenda our socialist, out of touch with the people, Government in Edinburgh had up their sleeve with this grotesque Marxist policy.  What we do know about their so-called ‘named person scheme’ is that it is sinful and intrinsically wicked.  Shame on them for imagining it up in the first place.  

What a miserable indictment on them also for thinking that Scotland’s parents are just not ‘good enough’ at raising their own children!  It is these very politicians who are not ‘good enough’ for Holyrood and who need beside them – more than anyone else – some professional ‘named guardian’ to help them properly and sensibly run Scotland.

Mr Donald J Morrison

85 Old Edinburgh Road

Inverness

Letter:  Draconian named person scheme

13 August 2016