>It will also help avoid any potential misperception over the absolute impartiality of all Scottish parliamentary staff
I don’t understand, aren’t politicians by their very nature bias? Also who cares about a colourful lanyard?
Seems acceptable to me. I’m sure reddit will hate me saying that. But you’d all be fast to complain if it were a right wing social movement they were advocating with clothing accessories in parliament.
They couldn’t be more unpopular if they wore a turd on their forehead, who cares what they do for publicity
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They’ve also banned “other accessories that show support for social movements”.
Seems fine to me. Either all are ok, or none are. This is just common sense.
“I’m impartial, but my lanyard is a dirty gay”.
Their reasoning makes no sense. You’re a politician, in a political party. You have an agenda by merely existing!
For people that don’t bother reading the article, the headline is predictably misleading since it’s a BBC article about the Scottish government.
It’s not specifically rainbow lanyards that are banned, it’s *any* custom lanyards.
Weirdly though it only applies to government staff and not MSPs or their staff. If anything I think it should be the other way around.
Good. People seriously need to get over the rainbow.
“other accessories that show support for social movements” – does that include things like wearing the poppy too, in which case we have that news story to look forward to when the Murdoch rags need something to report on in November.
Politicians should not be wearing anything showing support of any group, religious, social or otherwise.
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>It will also help avoid any potential misperception over the absolute impartiality of all Scottish parliamentary staff
I don’t understand, aren’t politicians by their very nature bias? Also who cares about a colourful lanyard?
Seems acceptable to me. I’m sure reddit will hate me saying that. But you’d all be fast to complain if it were a right wing social movement they were advocating with clothing accessories in parliament.
They couldn’t be more unpopular if they wore a turd on their forehead, who cares what they do for publicity
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They’ve also banned “other accessories that show support for social movements”.
Seems fine to me. Either all are ok, or none are. This is just common sense.
“I’m impartial, but my lanyard is a dirty gay”.
Their reasoning makes no sense. You’re a politician, in a political party. You have an agenda by merely existing!
For people that don’t bother reading the article, the headline is predictably misleading since it’s a BBC article about the Scottish government.
It’s not specifically rainbow lanyards that are banned, it’s *any* custom lanyards.
Weirdly though it only applies to government staff and not MSPs or their staff. If anything I think it should be the other way around.
Good. People seriously need to get over the rainbow.
“other accessories that show support for social movements” – does that include things like wearing the poppy too, in which case we have that news story to look forward to when the Murdoch rags need something to report on in November.
Politicians should not be wearing anything showing support of any group, religious, social or otherwise.