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The Scottish Greens are going on strike.

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ArabellaScott · 30/01/2023 22:58

twitter.com/MaggieChapman/status/1620033736661401605?cxt=HHwWioDQ3bSGwvssAAAA

'Scottish Green MSPs will not take part in parliamentary business on Wednesday in solidarity with striking workers. We will not cross virtual or physical picket lines, and hope that others will join us in that.

We will always defend the rights of workers.'

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CosyMushroom · 31/01/2023 22:13

I’m a former member of the party. I still occasionally get sad at how unrecognisable it is compared to how it used to be. Like a previous poster said, losing Andy Wightman was awful.

I left after being called... guess what... a transphobe for having the temerity to suggest that self-ID would attract predators. Feel quite vindicated now.

hryllilegur · 31/01/2023 21:12

ditalini · 31/01/2023 21:08

I guess they're self-identifying as not the government.

Cool, cool.

Shame they can’t do that all the time.

ditalini · 31/01/2023 21:08

I guess they're self-identifying as not the government.

Cool, cool.

ImpulsiveFlake · 31/01/2023 21:05

What arseholes. I am gutted that I have absolutely no one to vote for in Holyrood.

hryllilegur · 31/01/2023 21:03

Chapman is an idiot. A dangerous one.

The greens utterly failing to understand that they are the fucking government. So they should show solidarity by turning up and making things better for the striking workers.

Even if they weren’t the government, their way of showing solidarity is to turn up to parliament and argue the case for the striking workers. That’s how elected representatives show support for industrial action.

It’s like the realise they should be nowhere near political power, so their instincts are to hang around the picket lines offering ineffectual support. Because that’s the level of influence these people should have on anything.

I hope the people on the picket lines took the opportunity to tell the members of the Scottish government in their midst exactly what they needed to hear. Except I’m sure they choose nice, friendly pickers where no one is going to challenge a useless MSP.

RhannionKPSS · 31/01/2023 20:56

Ahh The Scottish Greens : no to hormones in meat & milk, but fine to pump into your children...🤬

IcakethereforeIam · 31/01/2023 09:37

Best strike since Cormoran!

JanieAllen · 31/01/2023 09:35

Yes could they make it a permanent strike?

TheABC · 31/01/2023 09:34

Could they stay on strike? The country might be productive as a result.

nilsmousehammer · 31/01/2023 09:30

pissing off home and buggering off
and bravely they are throwing in the sponge...

Mochudubh · 31/01/2023 09:18

Oh dear, what a shame, never mind.

IcakethereforeIam · 31/01/2023 09:17

It's actually consistent with their logic, men are women, green means stop.

LaviniasBigBloomers · 31/01/2023 09:15

It's our voting system. The transferable vote isn't for a person, it's for a party. The party chooses who goes to the top of the list. The party has eaten itself and so we get who we're given.

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ArabellaScott · 31/01/2023 09:11

Rainbowshit · 31/01/2023 07:48

Scotland would be a much better place if they just fucked off for good.

How did we lose Andy Wightman and still have vile fuckwits like Chaoman, Slater, Greer and Harvie?

Yes, how did the environmental movement lose its best fighters and end up with the bunch that are in power today? It's completely defanged, distracted and useless at best.

See also Shahrar Ali, Emma Bateman, etc, in GPEW.

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Rainbowshit · 31/01/2023 07:48

Scotland would be a much better place if they just fucked off for good.

How did we lose Andy Wightman and still have vile fuckwits like Chaoman, Slater, Greer and Harvie?

LaviniasBigBloomers · 31/01/2023 07:42

Shelefttheweb · 31/01/2023 00:45

But aren’t they part of the government that is failing to put an agreeable settlement to the strikers? Isn’t it rather insulting to virtue signal support for striking rather than ensure their own government agrees and funds a decent pay settlement? Where is the collective ministerial responsibility that Sturgeon was so keen on with Ash Reagan?

Valid though the other thoughts are, this.

You're either in the government or agin the government.

It's not environmentally friendly to have your cake and eat it.

GettingMarriedAgain · 31/01/2023 07:39

PastMyBestBeforeDate · 31/01/2023 00:36

Somebody please follow Chapman around with coconut shells for horse hooves

😂

ResisterRex · 31/01/2023 07:16

🎶 The FM went full TERF on Monday
Died on her arse on Tuesday
I shat myself about Wednesday
I'll hide on Thursday and Friday and Saturday
Hope they don't find me by Sunday... 🎶

NicolaSturgeonsSOGIbottom · 31/01/2023 00:55

Gosh.

That’s a convenient bit of timing!

Shelefttheweb · 31/01/2023 00:45

But aren’t they part of the government that is failing to put an agreeable settlement to the strikers? Isn’t it rather insulting to virtue signal support for striking rather than ensure their own government agrees and funds a decent pay settlement? Where is the collective ministerial responsibility that Sturgeon was so keen on with Ash Reagan?

PastMyBestBeforeDate · 31/01/2023 00:36

Somebody please follow Chapman around with coconut shells for horse hooves

Shelefttheweb · 31/01/2023 00:33

Calyx72 · 30/01/2023 23:07

This!

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The greens have form for running away: www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/lorna-slater-flees-holyrood-chamber-28998841

FactsAreNotMean · 30/01/2023 23:55

Party of semi government downs tools in solidarity with workers who feel they are not paid enough by said government...

Aye, sounds like green party logic

Can we manage to woman a permanent picket line round holyrood to keep those nutters the fuck away from political decision making?

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ArabellaScott · 30/01/2023 23:32

I wonder what they're going to do on Thursday.

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PacificallyRequested · 30/01/2023 23:28

Why, when they could just identify as striking workers and sit in parliament anyway? Confused

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