Trans Green Party candidate with no British visa elected to Holyrood

He not her and if you want to use his preferred pronouns that would be they/them
Now to the point in question he is a foreign national only here on a student visa with a work limit of 20 hours and a ban on employing anyone else. The role of a MSP is a full-time job with a requirement to hire and employ consultancy staff therefore he is not eligible for the role and should never have been on the list.
He is applying for a graduate visa which he wont have by tge time he will need to be sworn in so if he takes office he will automatically be in breach of his visa rules and liable for deportation.
Even if he already had a graduate visa it only lasts for 3 years and cant be extended.
He claims he will get a global talent visa after his graduate visa but being a MSP is not covered by it nor does he fit any of the other criteria.
All of that is before we discuss whether someone without indefinite leave to remain or citizenship should be able to be a member of parliament or not

"Swindle the system" - how is this not a personal attack clearly against the Mumsnet talk guidelines?

You may not be bothered but you also seem to be unaware of the controversy regarding Commonwealth visitors to the UK being able to vote in UK elections. This is a legacy issue which is not reciprocated and which is past its sell by date. Australians would be horrified if UK citizens were able to vote in its elections for example. It means that there are more potential votes outside the UK than in it! But this is an odd quirk which has only recently come to light for the UK. The idea that someone can now aslo stand as an elected representative without indefinite leave to remain in the country is just weird. What if they don't get a visa because they don't meet the criteria? How can they extend a student visa and also be working? This looks to me like someone trying to swindle the system.

I find it hard to be bothered by this. And I don't see why people should be bothered by her getting paid for doing a job, plenty of people on visas do that and presumably she's going to get a visa in order to that - according to this story she was allowed to stand under the current rule. Some people might not like that rule, but she's done nothing wrong. Non-story nonsense from the Telegraph.