Scottish Greens find a candidate more electorally suicide than Sparkles

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Yup, Wadhwa is back!

Aiming to stand as a candidate on the Edinburgh list for the socttish parliament next year.

No explanation or mention of Edinburgh rape crisis, of course. Wadhwa is trans, so cannot possibly be expected to explain Wadhwa's actions with public money like any CEO would have to. No idea how anybody in the greens expects this to play out - maybe they are just hoping nobody will notice???

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We have been following the increasing crazy of the Scottish Greens in recent times on this thread.
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5313420-scottish-greens-being-sexist-again

Running Wadhwa would be insane for any other party. For them it makes sense.

The interesting question is if any of this will actually backfire electorally in 2026. On the other hand fear of Reform, disillusion with SNP and Labour may push a bunch more people to vote for them unless something is done.

Obviously most Scots, even pro indy Scots, are increasingly wary of the Greens. As coalition partners they were a train wreck for the SNP - very bad as ministers, but also hilariously completely failed to get the SNP to focus on environmental issues. They eventually brought down an SNP administration. If unionists were to invent people to make indy look bad the Scottish Greens would be it.

The Scottish Greens are lucky because outside the right wing press or certain online circles the dodgy predator stuff is not being discussed. It is possible though 2026 could be the time when the spotlight falling on the Greens finally really makes them look bad.

It seems in 2026 the Scottish Greens will be doubling down on the crazy and I suspect one of their "gender" candidates will be exposed as a predator/violent again which would make at least the fifth time it has happened.

Especially as the SNP have good reasons to attack them more now as well. One aspect could be a JKR tweet pointing out some of the crazy in the campaign and it could get very messy.

A key role in how this plays out can be played by pesky Scottish women saying things not just online, but turning up at hustings and generally being pro-women in the Greens vicinity. This could cause them to double down on the sexism. Which in turn could get a lot more sunlight.

I am sure Mumsnet will be doing its bit.

Very interesting point. The same batshittery of the religious Puritanism of Breaking the Waves but where gender ideology is the new religion, and all questioners or disbelievers cast out of the dour community as happens to the Emily Watson character.

That's a case of careful what you wish for. I'd long wanted a PR system.

And now we have one, the drawbacks become more apparent. In some ways it's good as it does more accurately represent voters overall intent. And coalition government can arguably be better for democracy.

In other ways, it gives us the Scottihs Greens, and apparently no way to get rid of them.

English so still don't know what it is. I know what Aldi is though 😀

Because the SM's voted for it, they also voted to increase their numbers by 36, I think it was, even though the turn out for the last election was only 45%, 25 years and they've failed to make themselves relevant to the people of Wales. Though to be fair I might have got it wrong, I've been trying to understand what the changes they're arbitrarily inflicting on us pan out as, but it's really confusing, and the above was what I think they're up to. All I know is next year will be casting votes for parties not people. ????

Deposit Return Scheme. Millions wasted.

😂

An ill thought out plan on which millions have been wasted, where have I heard that before in connection with Scottish politics?

Don't worry a lot of us are not like this whatsoever. And totally, totally horrified by the Scottish greens. If this got ANY mainstream press attention the general public would be horrified. Most Scots are no nonsense type people. This just breaks so many safeguarding and just generally moral/societal norms it is awful.

Why is it not getting mainstream press attention? Lack of interest? Perverts' charter? How can we bring it to the masses outwith the echo chambers?

Surely they need to change their name now. False Advertising as it is.

Perhaps something along the lines of

• Scottish Penis Party (SPP)
• Scottish Piss Party (SPP)
• Scottish Piss Poor Party (SPPP)
• Scottish Penis & Piss Party (SPAP)
• Scottish Penis & Piss Poor Party (SPAPPP)

Great suggestions! My favourite is

Scottish Penis & Piss Poor Party (SPAPPP)

Scottish Perverts Party?

Scottish Nonce Party?

Well it's hit the press and as usual the express aren't pulling any punches

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/shamed-ex-rape-crisis-boss-35451068?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

And here's our Maggie showing that her grip on reality is as precarious as ever

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/maggie-chapman-claims-shes-popular-35449711?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

That woman scares me.

"I was in Dundee several months ago with my partner to pick up some second hand chairs. We were entering a lift and told the people inside to go on ahead, but they said: ‘We couldn’t possibly let the lift go by without letting Maggie Chapman get on, because of all the good work she has done.’

😂

May I take this opportunity to say that MN favourite phrase.

Of all the things that never happened, this never happened the most.

Oh dear god, she's just got no grip on reality at all. She expects people to believe such utter bollocks about gender that she can't see any situation rationally. If she says it's raining outside then you're probably safe to hang the washing on the line.

The Alba Green Party?

And everyone clapped. The end.

If I was in the same room as somebody who said that, I'd be inching towards the door, or the window if I was unlucky to be on the wrong side of her.

Politics aside, and if you knew nothing about who MC is [in fact I know very little about her, so I'll do as an example!], you'd be really worried about the mental state of someone who thinks so highly of herself and thinks that every random group of people she encounters recognise her, and think as highly of her as she does of herself.

And remembers exactly what they said, word for word, several months later..

Yep. I am almost dying of second hand embarrassment just reading that account.

If it did happen I'd place money on it being someone being sarcastic and taking the piss.