This is an absolutely appalling story. This individual should have been reported to the police and barred from the Parliament. Why have the SNP take no disciplinary action against him? John Swinney has some very serious questions to answer here. https://t.co/29I7sTz5Nz
I see Nicola Sturgeon is once again complaining that I posted a picture of myself wearing a T-shirt with her name on it and the legend 'Destroyer of Women's Rights.' Apparently this didn't 'elevate the debate.'
Is there a clinical term for an individual who has extreme thinness of skin when it comes to their own perceived hurts, coupled with a rhino-hide when it comes to the fear and suffering of others?
I'm thinking in particular of the two women Isla Bryson raped, who had to watch their First Minister squirm and smirk on TV as she tried to avoid admitting he was a man; of the five survivors of male violence who were ready to give evidence to Sturgeon's committee on gender self-ID, but were told to put their concerns in writing while seventeen trans-identified people appeared in person; of the mother of a young girl with a learning disability who campaigned against self-ID because she wanted her daughter to be guaranteed same sex intimate care, should she need it (the mother was presumably one of those female opponents Sturgeon calls 'shrill' and 'hysterical' in her memoir); of the ten-year-old girl sexually assaulted in a public bathroom by a 6'5" paedophile who served his jail sentence in a women's prison because he called himself 'Katie'; of Sandie Peggie, forced to discuss her own menstrual history in public to justify not wanting to undress in view of a 6ft straight cross-dresser in the nurses' changing room; of Marion Millar, dragged into court because she tweeted a picture of suffragette ribbons; of the Scottish rape crisis centres reliant on government funding who were pressured to admit trans-identified males into their services if they wanted funding to continue.
When Sturgeon refers to an 'elevated debate', she means a discussion that takes place within a tiny, smug bubble from which regular women suffering real life consequences of her policies are firmly excluded. These faceless ants are loftily dismissed as bigots, or, to be more precise: 'transphobic, misogynistic, homophobic, maybe racist as well.'
Nicola, you hated the T-shirt picture because you couldn't ignore it, as you'd ignored so many other women trying to make you understand their concerns. Appeals to your empathy, your intelligence and your compassion all failed. Apparently the only way to get through to you is through your vanity.
@murdo_fraser To dismiss the integrity of parliamentary colleagues with baseless insinuations is not just contemptible - it is a calculated attempt to rewrite the record!
@CactusXaye I don't get it. If a storm is coming, let it do its worst. It'll either blow the tributes about or it'll miss them. But to bin them (don't forget people spent an awful lot of money buying them) because a storm MIGHT blow them away is a grossly offensive & sacrilegious act.
@WingsScotland They can legally register the name "Believe in Scotland Ltd" but trade as "Believe In Scotland", the two are separate entities. The former can be dormant and he can trade, fundraise as the latter. One is a limited company the other isn't.
๐ฅ@AlexSalmond speaking this past weekend.
๐ฃ๏ธ "The Independence MSPs elected have to be the real thing. People who believe in national self-determination, who are willing to sacrifice for national self-determination."
#ALBAforIndependence
A bunch of scumbags celebrating the death of a scumbag? Except this is the face of nu-SNP! All former SNP staffers, policy makers, office bearers & part of the reason the SNP is now fu**ed. Current members take note.