Nicola Sturgeon shouts “shame on you” to Tory MSP who mentioned last week’s demo

I used to rate Sturgeon and wished we had a party leader like her in England, now I am just disillusioned and exasperated with them all.

Sturgeon is such an inspiration!

She is, to MRA's.

Sturgeon is such an inspiration!

You have very low standards

Hopefully soon women and girls in Scotland can enjoy male sex offenders in women's spa facilities too - just like the progressive utopia of California.

Yay Nicola. You go gurl!

Sturgeon is such an inspiration!

crikey, you're inspired by politicians who refuse to listen to reasonable debate? I should raise my standards if I were you

oh look, when hard questions are asked certain posters make a run for it.

I was hoping @CatherinaJTV would explain to us why it's OK to lock women up with rapists. I (and y'all) will have to wait until another day for an explanation

There needs to be far greater scrutiny of Mr Murrell, sadly I don’t think the largely impotent Scottish media will do it.

I say it every time, but i'm sure money has changed hands in some way. it's the only way I can rationalise the SNP's behaviour
Isn't her husband being investigated for a financial scandal?
I'd suggest that the SNP is pretty much entirely bought by whoever has the most cash. The Labour Party in Scotland were the same when they had the overwhelming majority of the vote too. Scottish politics has always been pretty murky.

Sigh, the discussion is about the reaction of the SNP First Minister of Scotland to a demonstration by Scottish women about women’s rights.
To be clear, I don’t hate anyone.
You have no idea about my background.
What I hate is lack of transparency, deceit and dismissal of people with real concerns.
Especially when the SNP plays the moral superiority card at every opportunity.

1. The Tories have advanced many policies that disadvantage women
2. Nicola Sturgeon is not listening to women and shows contempt for women expressing concern about self-ID as this exchange showed

Both these statements can be simultaneously true.

We expected more from someone who self describes as a "feminist to her fingertips". She is nothing of the sort.

Ooh, @CatherinaJTV is here! Has anyone seen her answer this question yet?

'Cast your mind back to 2018, in England and Wales, when the Government Equalities Office launched a consultation on the Gender Recognition Act. This was an action taken by a conservative government, and IIRC it was spearheaded by Amber Rudd (a Tory). Your position is that it is unethical to work with Conservatives, because of their destructive policies that wreak havoc on women’s lives. Presumably, for this reason, you would have opposed the reform of the Gender Recognition act because it was conceived, sponsored and brought to life by a Tory Government.'

Y'all? Is the first language Texan?

Y'all

ffs

Y'all are such a gift to misogynists

There’s nothing wrong with me but there’s something absolutely rotten at the heart of the SG.
I’m trying to understand why women are being treated so badly.
There is a female First Minister who appears to be putting the hard fought rights of women like me at the bottom of the pile and I’d really like to know why.

That's why I was so angry that those Tories were allowed to stand with the WWW crowd.

Oh come off it, you weren't angry, you were delighted and haven't been able stop trying to leverage accusations of bigotry since.

Unfortunately for you, most grown ups can recognise what actual bigotry looks like, and it isn't people who have different political points of view actually working together on some issues.

I’ve heard all the rumours about her marriage, Peter Murrell’s preferences etc etc but to dismiss women like this ?

Seriously? What's wrong with you? I cannot wait for the GRA reform to be passed, so this hate can stop.

She really is awful. She should be properly grilled on her proposals and be made to spell out exactly what her definitions of women and trans are. What her position is on female sports, prisons, refuges and single sex spaces.

Here we all know what she thinks but I really think she needs to be made to own it using very clear language for the Scottish public.

Probably won't happen as she'll deflect and dodge any opportunity anyone has to do that.

I think part of the problem is that she’s so far down the road now she has no way back. I mean how can she turn around now and say “oops I was wrong”? She can’t, she’s thrown everything behind it. There’s no way back so she has to go on

Absolute madness