Shall we have a Scotsnet general election thread?

[JennyLake]

This WILL be interesting. Even if it doesn’t rid us of the SNP from Holyrood, it will provide a good barometer of public opinion on the recent exploits of the SNP.

Farewell Blackman and Black!

Exactly…it’s the same principle as a shoplifter offering to pay after they’re caught stealing

Is anyone hoping for a campaigner to turn up on their doorstep so they can challenge them on trans shite?

I do blame Nicola for this - if she’d listened to the debate and allowed some protections for rape centres, dealing with under 18s, and same sex spaces due to the obvious threat of male violence this debate would not be so toxic. CCTV being rolled out in the shared spaces of mixed toilets for example - how many of us have seen that rape conviction they managed as perpetrator was caught dragging the woman around on CCTV?

some sensible policies to beef up protections against abuse of these laws would’ve taken the heat out of a lot of this debate.

My Labour candidate, Joani Reid came canvassing and was great. She was clear that the gender ID was wrong, and apologised for labour’s part in it. She talked about putting resources into things that actually matter to people to try to make their lives better: mental health services; education; family support services, etc. I was impressed and will vote for her.

Im pleased, as hopefully she can defeat the SNP here, but I can vote positively for once!

What’s the point though if the party themselves support a different view?

Well I don't think I'll get the SNP round as I'm on Daddy Bear's "list" 😂😂

There’s always a point in challenging…I get where you’re coming from, but to not challenge means to accept, and I will NEVER accept this shite

I suspect there will be a major bit of back pedalling from Labour over the whole 'transwomen are women' nonsense following the Cass Review.

You do realise that free prescriptions came at the expense of mental health and elderly care budgets that were raided to pay for it? I'd personally prefer to pay as I can afford to.

I'm a mental health nurse and the NHS has been reduced to worse than a 3rd world service under 17 years of SNP rule

Because I want people in parliament who will speak out on these issues

There’s no such thing as free prescriptions,etc. All these things have to be paid for

Except that demanding women share safe spaces with people who claim to be female but are not is just not acceptable. Considering how very small the ratio of transgender people is in the entire UK population, there have a significantly high number of sexually violent offences commited by them.

I'm sure the majority of people have absolutely no issue with people who wish to identify and live as the opposite sex, but this should not mean that the rights and safety of biological women is ignored.

I did say that you may not have benefitted but some people have. I agree there should be better funding to mental health budgets. Whether that support should come at the expense of free prescriptions in the current climate I am unsure. The cost of means testing prescriptions may be prohibitive and means testing always leaves some people who don’t meet the criteria, but are struggling, out. I would worry in a cost of living crisis that those squeezed would have to decide between heating, eating and medication. I have seen it posted on here by English posters that they cannot afford their prescription. This will include medication for mental health reasons. Whether to take medication should be a question of medical need rather than whether you can afford it.

Of course it may be that if the labour or Lib Dem manifesto claim that better funding will be made available for mental health support by scrapping free prescriptions, and that is a policy you support, then there would be clear reasons for you to vote for them. If the tories say it I’m not sure I’d trust them given the decimation of mental health services in England.

I've already commented on the cases in my area where criminals claimed to identify as women in order to access women's facilities and the women's prison estate.

When someone pretends to be another gender, it absolutely matters.

I'll add that in the Dolatowski case, the one "obsessed with genitalia" was clearly Lennon Dolatowski. It's a disgrace that he was allowed anywhere near female facilities of any description.

He's a good man. I used to live in his constituency and contacted him over a family matter. Got an immediate response from him.

From my area alone: Peter Laing/Paris Green. Lennon/Katy Dolatowski. Andrew Burns/Obi Wan Kenobi/Mr Mighty Almighty/Mitzababy/Tiffany Scott.

Burns obviously latched onto the cunning wheeze of claiming to be a woman after he heard about Laing and others - he was already in prison when he had the revelation that he was trans.

This is why we need decent safeguarding procedures with medical certification, not self-ID.

I want a party that

1. Does not support genocide but respects the rights & status of Jews.
2. Believes in sex as a category distinct from gender
3. Thinks Brexit has failed and would seek closer ties with Europe, especially FOM for young people and creative industries in particular.
4. Does not have a history of sleaze, dodgy procurement, and burying the Russia Report etc, etc,
5. Accepts the urgency of the climate crisis.

I think this is a bland position, but actually there’s no single party that ticks the first two, let along the first three. So I’m politically homeless.

However, my constituency MP is a good, solid hardworking woman, so I’m happy to vote for her. She happens to be SNP; and Westminster still needs more women in it

I'm all for the tactical voting to get the SNP out. I had previously voted for tories. Last election I didn't vote as I wldnt vote labour under corbyn, didn't want to vote for tories again as fed up of them, and I'll never vote snp.

I think I'll likely vote labour as I'm sure they are the closest to snp in my constituency but last time it was pretty much about 40% to snp and the other 60% split between labour/tories.

My thoughts exactly! I’m voting for a good hardworking candidate too.

I’m not sure if the general population understands that Israel helps keep the West safe . Nothing Stephen Flynn says will resonate with Israel so he’d be better focussing on Scottish issues .

I’ll be voting Tory as we are fighting to keep our oil industry and they seem to be the only party that has a grip on this although was not happy with keeping the extra tax on for another year . I also believe that Rishi given 10 years would sort this country out . He’d get rid of the dross and slowly start rebuilding . He’s a man able to solve enormously complex problems but short terminism is a problem . Conservatives also not afraid to say exactly what a woman .

Ive had a Canadian friend staying and they seem to have all the same “ cost of living “ problems we have .

no bedroom tax

Which means the absolute wa-hoo next door to me is in a 3-bed house with a big south-facing garden she's run derelict and overgrown.

Ern, you do realise that person you will vote for is worth £651 million and would probably die from laughing at your comment re him being here for 10 years. He couldn't care less!!!