Scottish Greens and Calling People Bigots
After this intemperate interview, in which @MaggieChapman was angry & disparaging about role of @EHRC & called those with concerns "transphobes", we believe she should step down from @SP_EHRCJ. We place no faith in fair, unbiased scrutiny while she remainshttps://t.co/ggP8btu5li
— For Women Scotland (@ForwomenScot) January 27, 2022
An angry Green MSP, Maggie Chapman, makes a fool of herself on Radio 4 - by floating a conspiracy theory about the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and calling people 'transphobes' if they dare to disagree!
Bogus Claims and Smears (August 18, 2021)
Seems like Patrick Harvie's knee-jerk response to criticism is to accuse people of being bigots.
Andy Wightman warned about a "censorious, bullying and intimidatory" attitude among would-be ministers and now Scottish journalism is being smeared with bogus claims of transphobia as well.
Bullies, Transphobes and the Scottish Parliament (August 09, 2021)
The Times reports that some SNP members are getting increasingly jumpy about doing a deal to bring the Greens into the Scottish Government.
So they should since the Scottish Green Party (SGP) leader (Patrick Harvie) stands accused of calling his former MSP colleague, Andy Wightman, a 'transphobe' which is no way for a minister, or potential minister, to behave, if you ask me.
Wightman, widely respected on a cross party basis during his time in the Scottish Parliament, has also described the SGP leadership as 'censorious, bullying and intimidatory'.
Seems fair given that Wightman was threatened with disciplinary action for supporting a vote to allow victims of sexual crimes (predominantly women) to choose the sex, rather than the gender, of the person who examined them.
Surely the Scottish Parliament should probe and look into these allegations before the respective leaders of the SNP and SGP stitch up some grubby deal?