STURGEON IS QUITTING

Identifies as a SNP MSP...

I saw that picture and he looks better as a woman! Would the TRAs accept him?

This popped up in my FB feed

Learning nothing from the independence referendum then. IIRC the big swing against was thought partly due to people being too afraid to say how they'd vote

Yes it's a poisoned chalice. Who wants that job.

Sturgeon was a good talker but a practical failure. She has left them in it, with policy messes and no independence.

She just used to talk around it and high standards she had for herself, everyone else and Scotland. And that those standards were better than Westminster. A finger wagger.

What did she actually deliver in policy terms? I don't mean easy stuff like baby boxes, free prescriptions or the like. That is just spending money and easily arranged.

A lot of people seem to be ruling themselves out. Is following Sturgeon and knowing they are beholden to the Greens going to be seen as a poison chalice by many?

BBC saying swinney isn't standing.

ArabellaScott · Today 09:45

We'll be needin ... Shetland...

You've put me in mind of the Shetland joke about the Welshman with a sick pigeon.

Did da doo dee, Dai?

A group of gender woo supporting men were discussing Sturgeon, this was one of the comments....

A good indication of how out of touch they are eh?

me, too!

There was someone at the Holyrood Protest against men in female prisons that was handing out flyers about the petition. I took a handful to distribute in my area. Is there anyway to get more of them? I have a couple of friends who might be able to help get them out in their areas too.

I was being mildly facetious.

This one, Scrolling?

www.mumsnet.com/talk/petitions_noticeboard/4722618-petition-to-update-the-equality-act-thread-2

We can link to the petitions board link, no?

<bristles at conflation of Lallans with Scots>

We'll be needin Teuchter, Shetland, Highland versions, and a Glesga one, too. Ye'll have had yer North British, I expect?

Bilingual posts would be very inclusive.

Scots* version first, obviously, with explainer "This post is bilingual. Scroll down for the English version".

*Unless you're amongst those who prefer the term Lallans.

Please go to the petition board to sign the petition to update the Equality Act, if you have not already. It has done so well but definitely might fail at the last hurdle of getting the last 18,300 signatures before 20th April as it has slowed down.

Nicola may have gone but there is still confusion around ‘sex ‘ meaning biological sex when interacting with ‘legal’ gender sex, that needs to be made explicitly clear especially since the unchallenged Lady Haldane judgement.

I cannot link as it isn’t allowed.

Apologies, I can translate for readers south of the border if needed. 😃

Not looking at you in particular Mike Russell, except I am, you flaredy-nostrilled fannybaws.

And someone questioned whether people on this thread were Scottish?! 😂

And/or when they are so utterly arrogant that they see any dissent as a personal affront to their sovereignty, and disagreement is impossible to countenance because they and their beliefs are superior in every way.

Not looking at you in particular Mike Russell, except I am, you flaredy-nostrilled fannybaws.

<Gets popcorn in. Sits back to watch the left flail around desperately trying to hang on to their belief that the electorate MUST be done to as their betters insist, and push the policy that the electorate just threw Sturgeon out for and turned them into a laughing stock>

Because the political answer to something gone hideously wrong is almost always that they must do more of what fucked things up!

Boldly going forward 'cos they can't find reverse. Etc etc. This is what happens when allthe top layer of politicians are professional ones who did the university/ advisor/ top post route without ever leaving the ivory tower, experiencing no contact with reality and actual life experience, or ever having a broad social experience on the way.

What an enjoyable article. Is this what they call schadenfreude.

Well the SNP are going to have to decide- do they want the support of The Greens (who obviously care too much about protecting men to ever be any credible help with the environment) or the voters.

On what basis were these parties founded? They just both seem to be spending their time pandering to 0.3 ish pervert of men rather than a whole population- how the fuck have they got there?

www.theguardian.com/society/2023/feb/16/scottish-leadership-election-leaves-gender-reform-hanging-in-balance?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The Guardian seems optimistic that the SNP will push on with the GRR and the challenge to Westminster. Greens are talking about this being a red line for their continuing support.

What is it with these left leaning single issue parties. SNP are supposed to be about Independence. The Greens about Environment. Both are supposed to care about the issues that matter to their voters.

Oh thank fuck!

Bloody Humza Useless is standing though 😩

news.sky.com/story/timeline-for-snp-leadership-race-announced-with-nominations-to-close-on-24-february-12812760