The Scottish Greens are going on strike.

[ArabellaScott]

twitter.com/MaggieChapman/status/1620033736661401605?cxt=HHwWioDQ3bSGwvssAAAA

'Scottish Green MSPs will not take part in parliamentary business on Wednesday in solidarity with striking workers. We will not cross virtual or physical picket lines, and hope that others will join us in that.

We will always defend the rights of workers.'

It's our voting system. The transferable vote isn't for a person, it's for a party. The party chooses who goes to the top of the list. The party has eaten itself and so we get who we're given.

It's actually consistent with their logic, men are women, green means stop.

Oh dear, what a shame, never mind.

pissing off home and buggering off
and bravely they are throwing in the sponge...

Could they stay on strike? The country might be productive as a result.

Yes could they make it a permanent strike?

Best strike since Cormoran!

Ahh The Scottish Greens : no to hormones in meat & milk, but fine to pump into your children...🤬

Chapman is an idiot. A dangerous one.

The greens utterly failing to understand that they are the fucking government. So they should show solidarity by turning up and making things better for the striking workers.

Even if they weren’t the government, their way of showing solidarity is to turn up to parliament and argue the case for the striking workers. That’s how elected representatives show support for industrial action.

It’s like the realise they should be nowhere near political power, so their instincts are to hang around the picket lines offering ineffectual support. Because that’s the level of influence these people should have on anything.

I hope the people on the picket lines took the opportunity to tell the members of the Scottish government in their midst exactly what they needed to hear. Except I’m sure they choose nice, friendly pickers where no one is going to challenge a useless MSP.

What arseholes. I am gutted that I have absolutely no one to vote for in Holyrood.

I guess they're self-identifying as not the government.

Cool, cool.

Shame they can’t do that all the time.

I’m a former member of the party. I still occasionally get sad at how unrecognisable it is compared to how it used to be. Like a previous poster said, losing Andy Wightman was awful.

I left after being called... guess what... a transphobe for having the temerity to suggest that self-ID would attract predators. Feel quite vindicated now.

I love Mumsnetters.

Eh? From what?

🤣👏

Hey what happens if I rock up to the Scottish Parliament and self-identify as a MSP? Do I get to vote?

Is anyone else slightly missing Maggie's videos? They were a little bit addictive in a rubber necking kind of way.

She is one very strange possibly-a-woman.

That's the funniest thing 🤣 😂 😆 I've read in a while surely it can not be true 🤣 😂 😅 😆 😄

Would anyone have noticed if they hadn’t told us?

In solidarity with the Greens, I, too, will not be making any mad laws today.

I will not be crossing the virtual picket-lines of my mind.

Striking workers lose a day's pay. I don't suppose that these MSPs will take any financial hit. Are they aware of the laws around sympathy strikes?

OMG, I had no idea!

www.gov.uk/industrial-action-strikes

'Secondary action

It’s against the law to take part in ‘secondary action’ (going on strike in sympathy with people who work for a different employer).'

What absolute muppets.