Deals, No Deals and Grubby Deals
"Let’s set aside for a few moments that a party which has never won a single seat in six Scottish elections over 21 years – nor even come close – has now managed to secure a couple of ministerial posts. One of their co-leaders, Lorna Slater, couldn’t even win enough support in her own party originally to gain a list seat in May’s Holyrood elections. She picked up only 36 votes but was elevated to second place on the regional list for Lothian.
"But only after Andy Wightman, one of Scotland’s most respected politicians and an authentic environmentalist, was forced out for expressing reasonable concern about the Greens’ sinister views on women’s sex-based rights. There can only be one big personality in this party, you understand.
"For many women in the SNP this tawdry arrangement with the Scottish Greens is a declaration of cold intent. Much of the misogyny that’s been directed at them for standing up for women’s protected characteristics in the debate over transgender rights has come via the sewer than runs beneath the Scottish Greens. This was most recently evident following a column written last week by the journalist Ruth Wishart in The National.
"Ms Wishart – like Mr Wightman – had chosen her words and position carefully on the clear and present danger of the proposed Gender Recognition Act to women’s rights. Simply for expressing this view she was accused of being a transphobe in a co-ordinated and frenzied social media attack led by Patrick Harvie, the man who rules the Scottish Greens as his personal fiefdom.
"It was bitter, juvenile stuff targeting a woman who was exposing social inequality and discrimination against minorities while Mr Harvie was saving up for his first bicycle repair kit."
https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/19528183.nothing-radical-tawdry-snp-green-carve-up/
