Our intrepid team of journalists have been wading through the 388 page CASS Report – Update: we are now ten pages in! (We would be reading faster if it were not for team members breaking down in tears at the thought of what has been done to our young people.) We feel we have to interrupt this import task to ask our readers if they would support The Notional campaign to Repeal the Gerbil Recognition Act 2004.
We are aware this is a controversial topic with strong feelings on both sides.
In the yellow and green corner (those really do not go together guys!), we have those who claim gerbils are cute and cuddly; anyone should be able to identify as a gerbil if they want; and in increasingly loud voice shout: why are you such a gerbilphobe!
In the red and blue corner (we get mixed up over which colour represents which political ideology mainly because at least half our news intake comes from over the pond and they do things awfy backwards over there.), we have those concerned about how gerbils escape and get into places they just should not be; the huge cost of veterinary bills – which for some strange reason are passed onto taxpayers; whether it is healthy for young people, and adults, to identify as an animal.
In the interests of full disclosure, some of our staff here at The Notional have previously identified as animals, though never gerbils, when we were five.
If you share our concerns over the GRA, would you write to your MP and MSP and consider petitioning the UK Parliament to do something useful for a change. We found this petition is still live, for a few more days, could we get this to 10,000 signatures?
#RepealTheGRA