@Tootsweets23
That Laura Waddell article...
more evidence that there isn't the intellectual heft in the SNP to manage the current devolved government let alone begin to manage the process of setting up an independent country.
Her attitude and that of her side of the independence movement is why independence is still a ways away (or forever). The notion that independence isn't worth winning unless the resulting state is a far-left nirvana is not only preposterous, it's alienating many so-called "soft no" voters who need to be persuaded for any new referendum to be won.
An independent Scotland would have the policies and politics of all of its electorate, not just the far left.
And the opposing argument to Laura not wanting an independent Scotland where vulnerable minorities are not protected (in this case actually that means privileged over women) is that most of us do not want to live in a state where women's sex-based rights have been abolished.
Since I started campaigning to uphold our existing rights, I've lost count of the number of hard-core independence supporters I've met who told me that if it comes to the decision between a UK with the Equality Act and an independent Scotland without, they will choose the former. And they are bloody furious about being forced to make such a choice.
And as it is these women who do most of the grunt work (as in most political campaigns), that army of unpaid, dedicated female volunteers who are the backbone of the movement, you piss them off at your peril.
Because what Laura is saying is that unless self-id is realised, she doesn't want independence. And what she doesn't count on is the majority of us who say: then let's not be independent. At least then we're not erasing women's sex-based rights.