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Consultation on criminalising clients in Scotland
« on: 10 August 2024, 09:36:38 am »
Ash Regan, the MSP who defected from the SNP to Alba complaining that the SNP's deal with the Scottish Green Party stopped her criminalising clients - the Greens want decriminalisation - is at it again.

Her attempt to justify it and trying to get people to show support is at parliament.scot/-/media/files/legislation/proposed-members-bills/consultation-on-proposed-prostitution-offences-and-support-scotland-bill.pdf

Pointing at the facts is not going to change her mind, but there's only one mandatory question ("What is your view of introducing a new criminal offence of paying for sexual services?"), you're never even asked if you live/work in Scotland, and can give whatever name you like.
 
Deadline to respond is September 12th.
« Last Edit: 10 August 2024, 09:43:33 am by xw5 »
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Re: Consultation on criminalising clients in Scotland
« Reply #1 on: 03 September 2024, 11:10:44 am »
Is there an easy link where we can reply to this consultation?

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Re: Consultation on criminalising clients in Scotland
« Reply #2 on: 11 September 2024, 04:14:31 pm »
The idea is that you download the PDF, tick boxes - even just the one saying 'get t'fuck with this' (slight paraphrase) and a name - then email it to her.

I suspect that if you just email her with the 'get t'fuck' response, she won't count it. (I wouldn't if I were looking to demonstrate support for my batshit idea.)
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Re: Consultation on criminalising clients in Scotland
« Reply #3 on: 13 September 2024, 06:26:59 am »
Scotland is becoming more and more puritanical, or certainly hollyrood would like to see it that way. It's genuinely quite disturbing how much control they want over every aspect of people's lives.

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Re: Consultation on criminalising clients in Scotland
« Reply #4 on: 23 September 2024, 10:01:53 pm »
Looking at the PDF rather than a website, I see "All responses should be received no later than 30 September 2024" so if you haven't already done it, you've got another week.
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Re: Consultation on criminalising clients in Scotland
« Reply #5 on: 23 September 2024, 11:29:31 pm »
Looking at the PDF rather than a website, I see "All responses should be received no later than 30 September 2024" so if you haven't already done it, you've got another week.

I tried, but couldn't find any way to fill the form in once I'd downloaded it?

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Re: Consultation on criminalising clients in Scotland
« Reply #6 on: 25 September 2024, 10:39:52 am »
Depends on your PDF reader program.

Xreader 'just worked' here: clicking on a check box filled it in, typing in a text field did that.

Looking, the free 'just show me the pages' reader I use when I have to use Windows (SumatraPDF) doesn't let me do this, but the Firefox browser's built-in PDF reader does.


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