Liberal Youth Scotland joins the NUS Scotland LGBT Campaign in condemning the knighthood recently given to Brian Souter. We encourage our members to attend tomorrow’s protest at Holyrood Palace.
Vice President Communications Ross Stalker commented:
“Section 28 was a direct attack on the mental health of our LGBT community. It is outrageous that the most prominent financial backer of the policy should be honoured. Liberal Youth have always been committed to eliminating homophobia, and whilst our Homophobia is Gay campaign has been successful in reversing some of Section 28′s effects by making schools face up to homophobic bullying, there is still much work to be done.”
“Brian Souter still promotes the results of his methodologically flawed ‘referendum’ on Section 28 via his website.”
“Besides, I am not sure that Brian Souter’s use of anti-competitive practices to drive local operators out of business should earn him any sort of award for ‘service to transport’, let alone a knighthood.”
