‘Completely ludicrous’: Scotland’s new ‘impractical’ hate crime laws slammed

Writer and broadcaster Esther Krakue says Scotland’s new hate crime laws are “completely impractical”. The Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021 sets out in Section 4 the characteristics protected by the act, which include: age, disability, religion or cultural group, sexual orientation and transgender identity. The matter of sex was omitted from the act, with a separate bill to address misogyny to be proposed in Scottish parliament at a later date. “Who defines a hate crime is now at the hands of a small group of people who no doubt pander to these activists,” Ms Krakue told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “I don’t understand how the Scottish government thinks it’s a good idea when there are real problems in Scotland to be dealing with. “It is completely ludicrous.”