…..and no, I am not talking about self-flagellation!!

Ever since the GRA Bill was passed at Holyrood certain MSPs kept repeating the phrase ‘ there was an overwhelming majority from across Parliament supporting this Bill ‘ with Monica leading the fore!

Technically that is correct, but what would have been the reality had members not been whipped by both SNP and Labour?

What does ‘whipped’ even mean?

This is what Party Politics is all about and it can get very dirty indeed. But not all succumb to these threats, there are a few who we saw who are willing to stand by their conscience.

You might be saying that there has to be Party discipline, in the main I would agree but there also has to be in some circumstance room for individual conscience.

Or have we come to the place in Scotland where for instance Faith, whatever Faith has been dumped for the sake of Party Politics and bad Law?

If you have to be ‘whipped’ into doing something against your will then the result of that vote can never be an overwhelming majority in favour of it.