Can I just apologise to everyone on behalf of Scotland. I don't know how we let this happen. Maybe we should never have taken these pandas from the Chinese....🤔
This perplexes me too. Wondering if it was built in somehow? So that 'power' would not be given to the people, but a similar select bunch, so it would inevitably fail and Westminster could gloat, ah see it doesn't work, so devo can't work full stop. Or is it the part-devo with the hamstrung finances and inability to make decisions that means it's the worst of both worlds.
I want to scream 'for heaven's sake this is the opportunity to improve things finally, get on with it!'. Then decades go by. And the infighting rolls on. Lunatic fringes like with TRA seem to have a foothold whereas Westminster seems to be a hold out and not entirely sunk by it.
Emma is brilliant and also very funny. Check out the GPW hustings where she is glared at throughout by some TIMs. Other good news for GP is Tamsin (floater) Omond’s departure. They/
them is going to live in Glasgow and probably hoping for a job in government.
Do you have link or name I can search for? I usually turn them off after a minute as my ears are bleeding with the insanity (Yorkshire and Humber leadership hustings what is a woman 2020, I'm looking at you).
I knew a little about some of the candidates before and was impressed with Emma's piece to camera. She was great. I will try to watch the whole thing at some point.
I am sad and frustrated at some like Hannah Clare. Her written statement set alarm bells off and now this to camera was utterly dire. She took the opportunity to tell us about her partner and her cat. And then her tattoos (then shows one). And her favourite dinosaur which is clearly the information we tuned in to find out. Then quite remarkably her fave colour (for all of you hanging on the edges of your seats it's yellow). Oh come on. Was she deliberately trying to get no votes?
Seriously? This isn't a game or after school club. Has Twitter dissolved her senses? What the hell is happening to attract this calibre of representative? Where a supposedly adult woman puts herself forward for a position in a political party and thinks that was worth my time to listen to? And did no one tell her to stop sucking, playing with, and holding a pen in her mouth? That annoyed me and struck me as unprofessional. Then she opened her mouth.
Excuse me: What rights are trans people specifically supposed to have under the European Convention of Human Rights? As in rights not afforded to each and every human being protected by that convention but as in: specific rights for trans people that could be taken away from them? Or at least as in rights that could plausibly be interpreted to protect trans people but not the general public? Have they ever read the document? And what declaration is supposed to demand that trans people are excluded from the ECHR? Have they ever read that document?
The ECHR protects the right to life, the freedom of expression, the freedom of thought, the right to a fair trial, the right to be protected from discrimination, among other things. I have heard of no one demanding that trans people should be excluded from these rights.
If anything, their self appointed representation could be said to demand that the general public be deprived of many of the rights protected under his convention, such as the freedom of expression, the freedom of thought, and calls to be exempt from the prohibition of the abuse of rights, and in no uncertain terms.
We could plausibly argue that their self appointed representation routinely prompts police in the UK to violate the rights of feminists and other people set forth in Article 6 of the ECHR.
By the way, the Christian Right has employed the same methods of deception for two decades now in trying to convince the public that religious people should enjoy privileges at the cost of others. They even go so far as to falsify passages of the ECHR or the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on documents they hand out to prove their points of view. This has included the claim that human rights precluded gay marriage and the right of gays and lesbians to adopt children, or the claim that a ruling by the Court of Justice at the European Union had outlawed abortion.
TRAs are copying their playbook page by page, and they are outdoing their teachers in deceit.
They have the same rights and responsibilities, as everyone else but want more. Or rather they want to be seen as special so they can claim extra rights. Let them go to the UN and make their demands there and see how they get on... They will be told where to get off as they are not special and they are not entitled to additional rights. Result lots of tears, snot and throwing the toys out of the pram. All of which we can ignore for what it is... Childish behaviour from spoilt individuals.
You should see the state flag of Maine, it is godawful. So much junk on it but a flag company resurrected the old state flag, which is beautiful: a white background with a green tree in the center and a star to the side.
Can I just apologise to everyone on behalf of Scotland. I don't know how we let this happen. Maybe we should never have taken these pandas from the Chinese....🤔
We are a disaster. Strange thing, I do not know a single Scot outside of politics who shares these views. All the idiots are in Holyrood.
There must be some. It's like Begbie, no-one's leaving here until we find out who!?!
Maun ya radge cunt!
😂😂😂
This perplexes me too. Wondering if it was built in somehow? So that 'power' would not be given to the people, but a similar select bunch, so it would inevitably fail and Westminster could gloat, ah see it doesn't work, so devo can't work full stop. Or is it the part-devo with the hamstrung finances and inability to make decisions that means it's the worst of both worlds.
I want to scream 'for heaven's sake this is the opportunity to improve things finally, get on with it!'. Then decades go by. And the infighting rolls on. Lunatic fringes like with TRA seem to have a foothold whereas Westminster seems to be a hold out and not entirely sunk by it.
Well said.
Aye, apologies fir aw the tripe!
An happy birthday tae Robert Burns 🥳 X
An gie they teddy bears back ooer :)
Happy Burns Penny :-)
Thank you Graham I feel honoured to get a mention. x
Emma is brilliant and also very funny. Check out the GPW hustings where she is glared at throughout by some TIMs. Other good news for GP is Tamsin (floater) Omond’s departure. They/
them is going to live in Glasgow and probably hoping for a job in government.
Thanks, but we don't want her. It is bad enough that Patrick Harvey practically lives on my street!
Do you have link or name I can search for? I usually turn them off after a minute as my ears are bleeding with the insanity (Yorkshire and Humber leadership hustings what is a woman 2020, I'm looking at you).
Hi, no problem. Here’s the link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bucEbY2SuEE
Ta :-)
I knew a little about some of the candidates before and was impressed with Emma's piece to camera. She was great. I will try to watch the whole thing at some point.
I am sad and frustrated at some like Hannah Clare. Her written statement set alarm bells off and now this to camera was utterly dire. She took the opportunity to tell us about her partner and her cat. And then her tattoos (then shows one). And her favourite dinosaur which is clearly the information we tuned in to find out. Then quite remarkably her fave colour (for all of you hanging on the edges of your seats it's yellow). Oh come on. Was she deliberately trying to get no votes?
Seriously? This isn't a game or after school club. Has Twitter dissolved her senses? What the hell is happening to attract this calibre of representative? Where a supposedly adult woman puts herself forward for a position in a political party and thinks that was worth my time to listen to? And did no one tell her to stop sucking, playing with, and holding a pen in her mouth? That annoyed me and struck me as unprofessional. Then she opened her mouth.
Excuse me: What rights are trans people specifically supposed to have under the European Convention of Human Rights? As in rights not afforded to each and every human being protected by that convention but as in: specific rights for trans people that could be taken away from them? Or at least as in rights that could plausibly be interpreted to protect trans people but not the general public? Have they ever read the document? And what declaration is supposed to demand that trans people are excluded from the ECHR? Have they ever read that document?
The ECHR protects the right to life, the freedom of expression, the freedom of thought, the right to a fair trial, the right to be protected from discrimination, among other things. I have heard of no one demanding that trans people should be excluded from these rights.
If anything, their self appointed representation could be said to demand that the general public be deprived of many of the rights protected under his convention, such as the freedom of expression, the freedom of thought, and calls to be exempt from the prohibition of the abuse of rights, and in no uncertain terms.
We could plausibly argue that their self appointed representation routinely prompts police in the UK to violate the rights of feminists and other people set forth in Article 6 of the ECHR.
Read the full document here:
https://www.echr.coe.int/documents/convention_eng.pdf
By the way, the Christian Right has employed the same methods of deception for two decades now in trying to convince the public that religious people should enjoy privileges at the cost of others. They even go so far as to falsify passages of the ECHR or the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on documents they hand out to prove their points of view. This has included the claim that human rights precluded gay marriage and the right of gays and lesbians to adopt children, or the claim that a ruling by the Court of Justice at the European Union had outlawed abortion.
TRAs are copying their playbook page by page, and they are outdoing their teachers in deceit.
They have the same rights and responsibilities, as everyone else but want more. Or rather they want to be seen as special so they can claim extra rights. Let them go to the UN and make their demands there and see how they get on... They will be told where to get off as they are not special and they are not entitled to additional rights. Result lots of tears, snot and throwing the toys out of the pram. All of which we can ignore for what it is... Childish behaviour from spoilt individuals.
They just want complete access to women’s spaces and to be able to trans any children who walk by.
Exactly this ⬆️
It’s because we’ve got that hateful little shit Patrick Harvey up here 🤬
Yep. The "Feral Potato" is in a misogyny class of his own.
I LOVE those declarations! May the Force be with those women!
By coincidence, this landed just as I spotted this update from the former leadership candidate and unofficial they/them spokesthingy for the Greens.
https://twitter.com/tamsinomond/status/1485529380256460803
Bad luck Scotland, they is all yours!
Sorry, the reply about moving to Scotland.
https://twitter.com/tamsinomond/status/1485543575224041472
Oh good grief, the trans pride flag just got cancelled!
https://twitter.com/dianalouisej/status/1485956715459842051
Cancelled? Should be set on fire! 🔥🔥🔥
At the rate they're going the trans pride flag will end up the most overcomplicated flag in the history of ever.
You should see the state flag of Maine, it is godawful. So much junk on it but a flag company resurrected the old state flag, which is beautiful: a white background with a green tree in the center and a star to the side.
One must have to have an IQ of less than 75 to comment under that post.
I doubt they want ALL their rights removed. Sounds like a lie.
Surely they’ll still have all the same rights everybody else has.
Scottish Greens debate cutting ties with Green Party of England and Wales over 'transphobia':
https://www.thenational.scot/news/19878879.scottish-greens-debate-cutting-ties-green-party-england-wales-transphobia/