The Scottish Greens are revolting

[ArabellaScott]

https://news.stv.tv/politics/furious-lgbt-scottish-greens-say-party-could-leave-government-over-nhs-puberty-blockers-pause

At least, the Rainbow Greens are!

There's a petition for the Greens to leave Government, if anyone finds it please post the link or how to find it!

Alba is not big, still very new and has not had a single candidate elected yet. All its elected members have defected from the SNP.

But they have played this cleverly by making an offer to Yousaf that he wouldn't accept. Now they look to disgruntled SNP supporters like the ones who are serious about independence. And to less disgruntled SNP supporters, well it was the Greens who brought Yousaf down, not Alba.

There won't be a Scottish election until 2026 now, so they'll be hoping they can build enough support to get over the 8% mark where parties start picking up list seats. Until now they've been polling only about 2%.

Thank You @BlackForestCake,

There won't be a Scottish election until 2026 now, so they'll be hoping they can build enough support to get over the 8% mark where parties start picking up list seats.

Greens got seats with as low as 6.0% of the vote

All of the greens seats are regional list seats. Not one green MSP was voted for as an individual.

Impossible to get rid of! I really resent that about Scottish politics.

I’m not sure. AS has gone public, saying that HY rang him to say Alba’s conditions were all reasonable. HY hasn’t denied that, AFAIK.

I think the problem was that HY couldn’t get any deal with Alba - even if it had delivered independence tomorrow- past the Sturgeonites.

The history rewrite is in full swing. The greens have deleted their tweets about Cass.

There's a glaring omission in this article too...

www.thenational.scot/politics/24287166.council-tax-freeze-went-wrong-humza-yousaf/#comments-anchor

Ellie Gomersall

'it all comes back to his undemocratic Council Tax freeze'

Does it, Ellie, aye?

Bollocks.

"Meanwhile at Scottish Greens HQ.....

As opposed to all those incredibly democratic decisions like putting men in women's prisons.

Gender ideology has been the catalyst to the downfall of two First Ministers. How many more must fall until they realise that this is a danger to women and girls, is deeply opposed by the public, and a women is an adult human female?

Ash Regan

x.com/ashreganalba/status/1785248728820982175?s=46&t=A2fpFNgDRyXF2d6ye97wEA

Brilliant that she has such a big impact on policy and other votes

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do you mind? Ive not long had my breakfast.

It's frickin hilarious to see the reverse ferreting from the treens.

Treen (n): small wooden objects

Sorry. Fgs don't go on the Starmer thread until you've digested!

Is this the same Ellie that took a much wanted space off women to attend ElectHer (encouraging better representation of women in politics)? This was allowed to happen despite Ellie already being heavily involved in politics, a union leader, BBC and newspaper contributor.

Btw this is rhetorical; I know it's the same Ellie I just wanted to highlight Ellie's entitled male behaviour once again...

Men gonna men - they can’t stop themselves. If they see a woman has something they want they simply expect to take it.

Slightly off track but did anyone else just see Lorna Gordan on BBC News being completely upstaged by a Golden Retriever outside Holyrood?

Never work with children or animals.

What did it do?!

I watched it on the big telly and can't find a clip to post.

There was a woman crouching down outside the Parliament building in the back of the shot, patting her knees in a "Here boy" manner.

GR trotted up to her and immediately flipped over on its back for a tummy rub. Dog person and woman chatted for a bit then they all started to walk off but just as the humans exited stage left, GR plonks its bum on the ground just behind Lorna and has a long hard scratch behind the ears. Dog exits shot then a second later pops back in for another scratch.

Scene then cut to inside Parliament.