[Liam-]

Mhairi Black ftw

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Liam-

Mhairi Black ftw

That weirdo thinks women can have a penis.

So nope

[joeysteele]

I think the SNP now have a really hard task to fill their leader and First Minister post.

I can't think of anyone who'd impress like Nicola has since becoming leader.
Love or dislike her, she was formidable.

[Cherie]

[QUOTE=joeysteele;11262058]I think the SNP now have a really hard task to fill their leader and First Minister post.

I can't think of anyone who'd impress like Nicola has since becoming leader.
Love or dislike her, she was formidable.[/QUOTE]

she was, but men were her downfall

[bots]

i think westminster will be breathing a large sigh of relief, and as it turns out, Liz Truss was absolutely right

[MTVN]

I try to stay out of the trans debate but I think this is great news for Unionism! Agree with Joey that she has been a formidable leader and I think any replacement would be unlikely to garner as much support for independence and the party is more likely to fracture now

[hijaxers]

Originally Posted by MTVN

I try to stay out of the trans debate but I think this is great news for Unionism! Agree with Joey that she has been a formidable leader and I think any replacement would be unlikely to garner as much support for independence and the party is more likely to fracture now

Well like Alex Salmond said she has set them back years ! what aa bad finale for her over some lying bloke in a wig, it wouldn't have caused this furore had the rapist not taken the piss

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by hijaxers

Well like Alex Salmond said she has set them back years ! what aa bad finale for her over some lying bloke in a wig, it wouldn't have caused this furore had the rapist not taken the piss

Maybe true but Alex Salmond is also pretty loathed in a lot of the independence movement!

[Beso]

Shes left one hell of a mess..

That will never be forgotten.

[arista]

She Owes The Conservative Scottish Leader
Ł50.


A bet she did.

[arista]

[arista]

So far Angus is in the lead.

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by arista

So far Angus is in the lead.

If I was an SNP supporter he wouldn't inspire me.
That's just my feeling on him however.

[Crimson Dynamo]

The Scottish Conservative Leader was running the line at the Piggery on Sat and the terrorist-supporting Celtic "fans" unfurled a disgusting banner (which the club has not condemned)

Life in Scotland

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[GoldHeart]

Right decision imo

[Cherie]

Whenever people accuse JK Rowling of transphobia, something always puzzles me. They never quote a single word she’s said.

This strikes me as very odd. After all, if what Ms Rowling has said about trans people is so shocking, so cruel, so mind-bogglingly hateful, then surely her critics should quote her exact words, so that the rest of the world can see the full horror for themselves. Mysteriously, however, these critics always seem completely unable to cite even one transphobic utterance. How can this be? Google is normally such a reliable resource. If someone as famous as Ms Rowling has said anything transphobic, it should be the work of moments to locate a record of it. Yet none of her critics have managed to do so. In fact, all that anyone seems able to find are quotes in which she merely defends the rights of women, without ever abusing or threatening trans people.

What a conundrum. I do hope that one day someone will solve it.

At any rate, no matter where they stand, one thing that everyone can agree on is that JK Rowling’s intervention in the gender debate has been seismic. And never more so than now. Because, had it not been for the creator of Harry Potter, Nicola Sturgeon wouldn’t have resigned as Scotland’s First Minister.

It sounds a grand claim. But I genuinely think it’s true. Whatever Ms Sturgeon may have claimed when announcing her decision, the main reason she had to go is her calamitous approach to gender self-ID. That one row shattered her reputation irreparably.

For the first time in her career, she looked desperately out of her depth. In the past, even her fiercest opponents were forced to concede that she was a formidable politician. An expert performer in debates. An unflappable interviewee. She possessed a rare ability to answer a question politely while giving the impression that, if the reporter dared to push it, she could reduce him or her to rubble with the merest glance.

n recent weeks, however, that ability has deserted her. When asked whether transgender rapists should be housed in women’s prisons or men’s, she looked alarmed, confused, all over the place, like a giraffe on ice skates. As far as I could make out, amid all the spluttering and stammering, her message seemed to be that trans women were definitely women – unless they’d committed certain crimes, in which case they immediately became men, although only until they’d completed their prison sentence, at which point they immediately became women again.

At any rate, whatever she was trying to say, one thing was clear: she couldn’t handle the pressure. And that pressure was on her in large part thanks to JK Rowling.

Before Ms Rowling made her first public comments on gender issues, back in 2019, I suspect that most people in Scotland, or for that matter the rest of Britain, had hardly given them a thought. Yet such is her fame – not to mention her apparent imperviousness to online abuse – that she was able to drag the debate into the public eye, and keep it there. It was no longer possible to avoid it. But for her, therefore, Ms Sturgeon simply wouldn’t have faced such intense scrutiny on this issue from the media.

Even then, the most intense scrutiny continued to come from Ms Rowling herself. “Never forget,” she told her 14 million followers on Twitter last month, as the uproar over biologically male rapists in women’s prisons reached its peak, “Sturgeon, her government and supporters have insisted that it is ludicrous to imagine anyone would dress in women’s clothes to get access to vulnerable women and girls. Wouldn’t happen. Everyone is who they say they are. To question this is hate. ‘The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.’ George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four …”

Mere weeks later, Ms Sturgeon is on her way out. We don’t know who will succeed her as First Minister. But whoever it is will need to be tough, fearless, unflinching – and have a view on gender issues that reflects most voters’.

Unfortunately, however, the person who best matches that description is too busy writing books.I




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