CONSTITUTION: Support a UK-EU Customs Union
HEALTH:
ABORTION: “Treat abortion as a healthcare issue, and give MSPs the opportunity to vote on decriminalisation.”
PALLIATIVE CARE: “Supporting hospices to provide essential palliative and end-of-life care, enabling them to pay doctors and nurses in line with NHS salaries and giving children’s hospice care a fair deal; Giving people of all ages living with terminal illness a legal right to palliative care.”
ONLINE SAFETY: “Supporting Liberal Democrat proposals to protect children online through film-style age ratings for social media platforms, restricting those that use addictive algorithmic feeds to users over 16 and rating 18+ those that host extreme content.”
EQUALITIES: “Respect and defend the rights of people of all sexual orientations and gender identities, including trans and non-binary people, including: Banning all forms of conversion therapies and practices, working in partnership with the UK Government to achieve this; Working towards a four nations consensus on addressing the shortcomings of the gender recognition process; Restating our commitment to inclusive education around LGBT+ issues in schools.”
YOUNG PEOPLE: Smart-phone free schools + “End long waits for diagnosis, support and adjustments for people with neurodevelopmental conditions”
JUSTICE: “Expose and confront stereotyping, demagoguery and hate speech in public life and the media that inflames hatred and leads to spikes in hate crimes”
TRANSPORT: A Ferries Bill + A9 dualling
17If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.
28 God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.’
