Scottish Greens find a candidate more electorally suicide than Sparkles

Don't worry a lot of us are not like this whatsoever. And totally, totally horrified by the Scottish greens. If this got ANY mainstream press attention the general public would be horrified. Most Scots are no nonsense type people. This just breaks so many safeguarding and just generally moral/societal norms it is awful.

An ill thought out plan on which millions have been wasted, where have I heard that before in connection with Scottish politics?

😂

Deposit Return Scheme. Millions wasted.

Because the SM's voted for it, they also voted to increase their numbers by 36, I think it was, even though the turn out for the last election was only 45%, 25 years and they've failed to make themselves relevant to the people of Wales. Though to be fair I might have got it wrong, I've been trying to understand what the changes they're arbitrarily inflicting on us pan out as, but it's really confusing, and the above was what I think they're up to. All I know is next year will be casting votes for parties not people. ????

English so still don't know what it is. I know what Aldi is though 😀

That's a case of careful what you wish for. I'd long wanted a PR system.

And now we have one, the drawbacks become more apparent. In some ways it's good as it does more accurately represent voters overall intent. And coalition government can arguably be better for democracy.

In other ways, it gives us the Scottihs Greens, and apparently no way to get rid of them.

Very interesting point. The same batshittery of the religious Puritanism of Breaking the Waves but where gender ideology is the new religion, and all questioners or disbelievers cast out of the dour community as happens to the Emily Watson character.

We have been following the increasing crazy of the Scottish Greens in recent times on this thread.
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5313420-scottish-greens-being-sexist-again

Running Wadhwa would be insane for any other party. For them it makes sense.

The interesting question is if any of this will actually backfire electorally in 2026. On the other hand fear of Reform, disillusion with SNP and Labour may push a bunch more people to vote for them unless something is done.

Obviously most Scots, even pro indy Scots, are increasingly wary of the Greens. As coalition partners they were a train wreck for the SNP - very bad as ministers, but also hilariously completely failed to get the SNP to focus on environmental issues. They eventually brought down an SNP administration. If unionists were to invent people to make indy look bad the Scottish Greens would be it.

The Scottish Greens are lucky because outside the right wing press or certain online circles the dodgy predator stuff is not being discussed. It is possible though 2026 could be the time when the spotlight falling on the Greens finally really makes them look bad.

It seems in 2026 the Scottish Greens will be doubling down on the crazy and I suspect one of their "gender" candidates will be exposed as a predator/violent again which would make at least the fifth time it has happened.

Especially as the SNP have good reasons to attack them more now as well. One aspect could be a JKR tweet pointing out some of the crazy in the campaign and it could get very messy.

A key role in how this plays out can be played by pesky Scottish women saying things not just online, but turning up at hustings and generally being pro-women in the Greens vicinity. This could cause them to double down on the sexism. Which in turn could get a lot more sunlight.

I am sure Mumsnet will be doing its bit.

How can this be allowed? The individual is as much or more important than the party?!

They're positively proud and flaunting.

Irn-Bru?

The advertising photos I saw on X of Wadha made him look younger, feminine and friendly. Must be filtered as he normally looks like a fed-up man in a cardi.
Some voters may be fooled into feeling he has a warm outlook. Really it will be the me, me, me show with him.

I think that's the same system they're about to impose on us in Wales, next year we will no longer get to vote for a person, we'll just vote for a party and the party will then decide who our SM is. It's outrageous but there's nothing we can do to stop it.

That will suddenly make an appearance in their election campaigning (which will also completely fail to mention who the list candidate is). Unfortunately it only takes 6% of the electorate to be taken in by this to get a list MSP elected. Their name isn’t mentioned on the ballot.

Ah, a wee bit of Shaunyboy on the Scottish Greens -

https://x.com/shiny02/status/1694278066892099773

(Going by my form tonight, I've probably misspelled something in this too)

You'd think that given the planet is fucked, the party that sells itself on the basis that it can save it might pull itself together and concentrate on the issues that actually matter.

But planet be damned, according to the Greens the most important issue facing Scotland is how best to kowtow to a select group of whinging men.

On top of everything, it's quite a, as they used to say, scathing indictment of the party list system, isn't it? But I don't imagine Scottish voters like that much anyway.

And I've just realised that I have misspelled Andy Wightman throughout. 🤦‍♀️

It beggars believe that such sordid, despicable people could be hiding in plain site. 🤯

It's the very tip of a bizarre, very dispiriting iceberg. There's an interesting theory where countries which were historically batshit and repressive try to go too far the other way and become, well, just as batshit and repressive.

Speechless. By this entire thread. What do they put in the water in Scotland?

Thanks Arabella I mentioned that LOVELY detail earlier but couldn't remember the exact title. Poor wings over Scotland did a deep dive into the rainbow greens and found this info. Probably needed to have his eyes bleached afterwards. I also reiterate Arabella's content warning. Read at your peril. 😱

That’s what will happen

Just reading either of those WOS links Arabella provided upthread (and I knew a lot of that stuff, but not all; there's so much!), it just beggars belief, doesn't it? How the hell does a political party in the 21st century get to be infested with these loons?