Trans Green Party candidate with no British visa elected to Holyrood

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Q Manivannan, who identifies as non-binary, was elected as an MSP on the Edinburgh & Lothians East list for the pro-independence Scottish Greens.

It was reported earlier this week that the former PhD student has appealed to colleagues for £2,089 of funding for a temporary graduate visa.

This would give the anthropologist and poet a further three years to work and live in the UK, picking up the taxpayer-funded MSP salary of £77,711.

Manivannan is said to have told colleagues this would help buy time to save up the £5,047 cost of applying for a global talent visa, the UK immigration category for promising individuals in specific sectors.

The self-described “queer Tamil immigrant” was only able to stand in the election after SNP ministers loosened the rules over who could be a Holyrood candidate.

Full article https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/05/09/trans-green-party-candidate-migrant-elected-holyrood/
And at https://archive.is/LhZYy

Reform couldn't have dreamed for a better headline!

There's a typo in your post, so for clarity, it was the posters who didn't want to discuss trans issues who argued for the split. (I'm not sure if you were saying the same or the opposite due to the typo in your post.)

But the board that was set up is dead. It has very few threads and posts. Would that not suggest a lot of feminists actually do believe the trans issue is importsnt. Otherwise this board with be dead and the other would be very busy?

@highame I didn't say you were pro green, just that you would make a very good green.

And being thought of as a Reform supporter still not an insult.

That particular form of PR is deeply flawed. The Irish use STV, which is much better.

Those teachers clearly self-identify as being transeligible candidates. How bigoted and didaskalophobic to claim that transeligible candidates aren't eligible candidates!

Seriously, I suspect that Greens are collectively lacking in the Security Mindset. They keep acting like they assume that people are truthful and honest and don't forget to pay their council tax, when in fact people lie and steal and forget to do stuff and that's why due diligence exists.

He also doesn't believe in evolution...

https://x.com/WingsScotland/status/2054480607929839631

Though possibly understandable since he apparently doesn't appear to believe in biology either

Whaaaaaat??? Nothing would make me sign up to Twitter, but this does actually tempt me. Could you possibly post more screenshots?

Isn’t believing in evolution usually a key tribal marker against MAGA and fundamentalist Christian types? How has the thinking got so bendy that this flavour of loon also rejects evolution?

Well, it gets tricky, doesn't it?
Poor old Darwin was pale, male, stale and English; how could he possibly be right?

Nitter link:
https://nitter.net/WingsScotland/status/2054480607929839631

Ah sadly @SecretSquirrelLoo I'm also not on twitter, I managed to screenshot the wings post from my browser but I can't delve in further than that.

Ah wait I can see someone has posted a nitter link! Going to also have a peek :)

More proof the SGreens are barking mad...

But incredibly rude and disrespectful whilst coming across as completely narcissistic. Great look in someone representing a broad constituency.

You too can do this. Just click in the address bar at the top of your browser and replace x.com with nitter.net and then press return / enter.

Horseshoe theory, I think
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_theory
Or 'two cheeks of the same arse' also works.

I liked this comment

to be fair to the boy, he is living proof that evolution isn't happening.

😂😂😂😂

Both authoritarian. And willing to engage in violence to achieve their aims. Not so much between them ultimately. Huge differences in wealth in communist Soviet Union despite the claims to ‘every man’ and all that.

Oh yes absolutely, but I didn’t expect evolution denial to be one of the issues they would horseshoe on.

Misogyny yes of course, anti-immunizations potentially. Evolution surprising.

Someone found the grift, in his own words: "Artist Basic Income".

nitter.net/did_ye_AI/status/2054489685552939350#m

It’s worth watching mannivan being sworn in.. dear god

That's what Polanski is advocating for, it's what the Greens mean by No Borders, everyone has the right to go where ever they want and get housing and a basic universal income where ever they are.

If they want no borders, why are they for Scexit?

The self-described “queer Tamil immigrant” was only able to stand in the election after SNP ministers loosened the rules over who could be a Holyrood candidate.

Why was their need to loosen the rules? Surely even people who don't care about immigration see an issue with this? What's wrong with only having citizens??? Someone here for a few years only on a student visa who can't work full time? That is madness. The greens are absolute loons. I say this as someone who used to be a member and would like to vote for a centre-left party.

They are different concepts:

• Scexit: Scotland makes its own laws without Westminster's involvement.
• No borders: people can move to and from Scotland at will.

I am not a fan of closed borders. Closed borders hasn't worked out well for North Korea and Myanmar. At the same time, we should bar people with serious criminal records from coming in. "No borders" would allow criminals in and that's not OK.

I agree with this. It's not just about the paperwork but also fully understanding the country and people you've to represent. In reality it takes a long time to fully understand. I've lived abroad in countries. I just can't imagine having the arrogance to say I could full represent them after such a short time.

He doesn't intend to represent them, it's all about him, he's a Green it's about getting the power to rearrange the world to suit him. Those who vote Green are nuts.