{"id":2613,"date":"2019-09-26T16:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T16:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2019-09-26T08:40:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T08:40:13","slug":"another-historic-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/?p=2613","title":{"rendered":"Another Historic Date"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I write this on Tuesday\n24th<\/sup> of September\n2019. This day has just become a date to note in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lady Hale delivered her\nconcluding speech of the trial as I sat at my workbench and listened\non radio Scotland. As she talked I started slowing in my work till I\nfond myself sitting engrossed. One of the UK\u2019s top lawyers and I\nwas understanding what she was saying. Well delivered using words the\nnon-lawyer could understand. I still find it difficult to believe\nthat all 11 judges agreed and came down on the side of democracy.\nMany of you, like me, might have thought at the start \u2018they\u2019ll\nall stick together\u2019<\/em>. I started to hope when\nI listened to Joanna Cherry last week when coming out of court she\nsaid that there was still some hope that the proroguing of parliament\nwould be ruled unlawful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think I may have been\nbeing negative due to all the extreme right-wing attitudes and our\nseeming inability to do anything about it. There was a feeling that\ncertain people felt they could behave and speak as they liked and\nwould never be held to account. Thank you to everyone that was\ninvolved in bringing about this ruling. It has slightly raised my\nhopes that the people are not being ignored. It has also made me\nraise my opinion of the judiciary. I just googled judiciary and found\nan article that says Lady Hale has made a career of breaking barriers\nin the judiciary that was perceived as being male, white and public\nschool. A tough woman to take on that lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goodness knows what the\nrest of the week will hold, or indeed the weeks to come. Being found\nguilty doesn’t seem to have sunk into the Boris yet. He still thinks\nhe can carry on with his plans. Will the opposition MPs be able to\npersuade Corbyn to do something constructive? We wait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moving positively\nForward<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is what I had looked\nout to mention today. Fiona Hyslop presented a prospectus for\ncooperation, knowledge-exchange and policy partnerships between\nScotland and the Arctic in Orkney on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those of you who followed the series of films produced by Lesley Riddoch on the Nordic countries and how they run their affairs may want to go over to the website and read this prospectus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/publications\/arctic-connections-scotlands-arctic-policy-framework\/pages\/2\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I write this on Tuesday 24th of September 2019. This day has just become a date to note in history. Lady Hale delivered her concluding speech of the trial as I sat at my workbench and listened on radio Scotland. As she talked I started slowing in my work till I fond myself sitting engrossed. One of the UK\u2019s top lawyers and I was understanding what she was saying. Well delivered using words the non-lawyer could understand. I still find it difficult to believe that all 11 judges agreed and came down on the side of democracy. Many of you, like me, might have thoughtRead More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2615,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions\/2615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scotsindependent.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}