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!

Who’d have thought they’d turn out to be a massive charlatan..?

Well what a surprise. Another poseur!

How do they expect to get away with it.

Whilst I am sure there are some who have genuine issues about sex and gender and social imposed conformity, they aren't the one making the headlines.

It is always these fakes.

Lets hope it wont be that long before everyone says we just dont believe any of it.

What an insult to those who now have this man as their "representative" at Scotland's government.

Another instance of a member of a privileged class using professed luxury beliefs to climb the greasy pole.

Looks like they’ve maybe hoodwinked the greens too

The laddie cannot help where his parents sent him to school, but it is his choice to work for Essai and Discover and it is his choice to lie about his past.

Exactly