Grant Karte sentenced for threatening Joanna Cherry with sexual violence

Why is Cherry sticking around? She hasn't a hope of being re- selected. She could resign from the SNP and sit out her tenure as an independent.

I think she might want to force the SNP to show its hand to her. As she's shown, people trip up eventually and she's got the law on her side when they do.

If the SNP force her out, I think she wants to make them do it publicly.

Off topic, I can’t believe people don’t find that telling your pronouns thing incredibly patronising.

Why stop there?

Boris Johnson could demonstrate his support for diversity by saying ‘My pronouns are he/him, I’m white and I went to Eton and Oxford.’

The moderation of comments on The Times article is really quite something. All comments are subject to checking.

Interesting to see the appointment of the SNP Complaints Officer and his interactions with Cherry.

Looking at Ricky Taylor's own twitter feed I see he is one of those pathetic, loathsome "any one but England" separatists. His comments during the Euros are hateful.

mobile.twitter.com/joannaccherry/status/1421351589437116417

Why is Cherry sticking around? She hasn't a hope of being re- selected. She could resign from the SNP and sit out her tenure as an independent.

OTOH it was probably hard for them to find a candidate for the job that hadn't....
It seems like only the TWAW chanting crew get the nod in the SNP & the cross over with misogynistic bastards seems significant

I also see the new SNP complaints officer is a man who’s called JC transphobic.

I recently re-read the Strange Death of Liberal England. The Liberal Party won a landslide election victory in 1906 but was destroyed by 2 issues which split the party - Irish home rule and Women's Rights. Will the SNP's epitaph be TWAW rather than RIP? Everything is impossible....until it happens.

I think people on this thread are being very mean about Ofpeter. She’s quite busy helping Commander Murrell work out what to do about all the missing donation money you know. Obviously she had the time to tell us all her pronouns in that special video but she hasn’t the time to condemn rape and death threats against the wrong sort of SNP member. Under his eye / under his aye.

Love how the scardy bear get to hide his face. Who's the big man now Grunt?

So Marion Millar is standing trial with the prospect of jail for tweeting a photo of a ribbon while he gets community service for directly threatening an MP with rape and violence. Words fail me.

Ridiculous sentence. At the same time, Marion Millar faces a TWO YEAR prison sentence for tweeting a photo of a RIBBON???

From that piece

In 2020 Sturgeon attacked the misogyny of “keyboard warriors”, highlighting the case of Rhiannon Spear, the Glasgow councillor standing as a Holyrood candidate in the following year’s election. She had tweeted: “Disagreement is what democracy is all about — vile, toxic abuse is not. And on the subject of calling it out even when it’s on my own ‘side’, disagree with @RhiannonV as much as you like, but leave out the misogynistic abuse.”

Where is our feminist to her wee fingertips sturgeon not speaking out about this

Like that video she made about transphobia

Shouldn’t she make a video that sexual and violent threats to women politicians shouldn’t be accepted in inclusive Scotland

Cmon sturgeon. Do it. Do it

Even if you have to grit your teeth and squeeze them feminist finger nails into your palms.

Just one or two words. Cmon

Glad that he’s been convicted. There needs to be a big, strong statement that threats of violence and abuse on social media towards women in politics will not be tolerated in the SNP, and it’s very depressing that the delay in this appearing is probably because making the statement will upset too many people who think Cherry had it coming

What a dismal mess Scottish politics is in.

Acht you know full well she's too busy being "feminist to her fingertips"!

Keeping it at arms length and touching it gingerly?

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/1abe7340-f14e-11eb-8f01-2c678acbb979?shareToken=f21fe40767d93a80f5e0ddb4297b2013

So he threatened to f* her up has a criminal record for possession of a knife but he's not a violent man (according to his lawyer)🤔
They should have thrown the book at him and Nichola Sturgeon should be personally condemning all threats against women especially towards a member of the SNP, but we all know she won't.
I do wonder if JC is sending a rather public shot across her bough with her comments about the equality act and maya forstater judgment. I would definitely support her should she take it to court

A community payback order supervised for 15 months, 160 hours of unpaid work in the community, and he can't contact her for 5 years.

And that’s supposed to deter him from threatening women with violence? What a farce.

Joanna Cherry is heroic. But what a bunch of wimps surround her.

She added: "I am very disappointed that no one in the SNP hierarchy has acknowledged or condemned Grant Karte’s threats towards me despite his criminal conviction.

"His name was removed from the roll of party members after his offence was publicised, so I can only assume that his behaviour has been recognised as reprehensible, yet no one has said so publicly on behalf of the SNP and I have not received the same support as other women who have suffered abuse, often a good deal less serious and falling short of criminality."

Absolutely disgraceful.

He should never be able to contact her again. I don’t understand why there’s only a five year limit been imposed.

A man who sends a message to a woman threatening to rape her is a threat to all women.

The only photo of him shown is him wearing a face mask. There should be maskless photos of him included in the news articles to help others avoid him.

I’m a Nicola Sturgeon supporter and she needs to speak out against him and what he did. There’s not a strong enough stance against misogyny in our society.

Is Nicola Sturgeon seriously not going to say anything about this? WTF?!