Former SNP leadership candidate Ash Regan defects to Alba party

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Former SNP leadership candidate Ash Regan has resigned from the party to join Alex Salmond's Alba party.

Alba said her decision came after increasing disillusionment with the SNP's leadership and its "wavering commitment" to Scottish independence.

Ms Regan, 49, was elected as SNP MSP for Edinburgh Eastern at the last election and becomes the Alba party's first representative at Holyrood.

She came third in the SNP leadership contest won by Humza Yousaf in March.

The first minister said she should now do the "honourable thing" and step down as an MSP to allow a by-election.

Mr Yousaf said: "I can tell you categorically that the reason she's in that parliament is because she had the SNP logo next to her name on the ballot paper."

He told BBC Scotland she was "not a particularly great loss" to the party.

More here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67248844

There seem to be a number of threads about her for anyone interested https://www.mumsnet.com/search?query=Ash+Regan

What on earth do they think she's going to do to they/them?

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/trans-staff-don-t-want-to-share-office-with-snp-defector-ash-regan-hzmc2k55c

https://archive.ph/bxvtF archive link

This seems like a nice bit of DARVO

One party source told The Scotsman: “Obviously not satisfied with trying and failing to get us kicked out of government, she’s trying to kick us out of our offices now too.

It's hardly her fault, if some of the Greens are so bigoted they refuse to share office space with her.

This has got to be a hoax surely??!! Honestly how can anyone take this seriously.

Transgender staff working with the Scottish Greens have raised safety concerns about sharing an office with the SNP defector Ash Regan, an outspoken critic of plans to liberalise gender laws.

The Scottish Greens have reportedly approached the presiding officer, Alison Johnstone, with safeguarding concerns relating to their transgender staff.

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Anyone who votes for the Scottish greens or snp is accepting this madness. Let's see labour or the tories back. Whatever happened to Ruth? Surely she believes in reality? As a lesbian tory!

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Ruth has been disappointingly quiet about all this.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bbef2552-79a0-11ee-b861-bff63f5f7486?shareToken=54a997bbf99d009054393497330520a1

I’m not sure about the canteen, I think the crèche is probably more appropriate.

“Most Greens would sooner work from the parliament canteen than be office-mates with Ash Regan.”

Someone needs to explain to these children that they don't have to be "mates" with people they're sharing an office with. It's a place of work not a social event.

It's fuckin pathetic from the greens. Call them a waambulance

They need a nationwide fleet of them.