Much is being made by the tabloids (and that really means all papers in the UK now) of the SNP losing the case against a Christian organisation in the matter of the Named Person legislation. Although it's rather less cut and dried than they have made out, as a glance at Lallands Peat Worrier will tell you, let's not get too cross at the opposition parties for getting all worked up with excitement. It isn't often they have anything to get worked up about, after all.
But for all the bluster, the court only pointed out that the legislation needed refining. Mr Swinney has said they will do that. Barnardos Scotland seems happy with that result.
Update: The BBC has finally changed their story. Maybe some of the Unionists who were making capital out of this would like to apologise.
The Christian Institute, as Lallands point out have won a Pyrrhic Victory.
Just as an aside you wonder at a Christian organisation being so dead set against legislation so likely to be helpful to kids in danger. Don't you?
Anyway, as I said, there was another court case today. This time not perhaps so grand as the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, but the English High Court, and august enough organisation, has ruled that Mr Corbyn has every right to stand for the leadership of the Labour Party without having to be nominated.
Mr Corbyn replied:
So the fight is on. It's Jeremy versus Own.
I wonder if the people backing Owen Smith have wondered where the funding and support will come from in a Labour Party led by the right winger. Possibly not from Unite or Unison it seems. Still maybe Barclays, Lloyds and Mr Murdoch will take over as long as he pursues the "right" agenda.
So, this is the kind of man Jeremy is... Just like the SNP he knows he can't rely on the right wing press to give him a fair hearing.
And he can't be accused, like so many of his contemporaries, of having his head in the sand (as it were) over the Iraq war. He knew what would happen, he predicted it, and he was right.
On the other hand, we have a man who inspires such enthusiasm in his followers that they look either like they have been drugged, hypnotised, or are just plain bored to death!
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| When are the tea and biscuits? That what we came for! |
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| Not sure we could make enough tea and biscuits for this lot though. Still they don't look like that's what they came for. |
