Alba’s Ash Regan writes to Yousaf with demands in exchange for vote | Regan said she wanted to see progress on Scottish independence and defending “the rights of women and children”

by 1DarkStarryNight

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  1. What progress does Ash want to see? Her previous idea was installing an “independence thermometer” (whatever the fuck that means) in George Square.

    Nice of her to basically sum up Alba in two points though: independence without any thought behind it, and transphobia.

  2. I would rather stay in the UK than live in an independent Scotland founded on bigotry disguised as feminism.

  3. So either you’ll have an SNP Government having to bend to Alba or a new FM and/or election within the next couple of months.

    I don’t know what happened in Bute House yesterday, but it seems pissing the Greens off *this* royally was a galaxy brain move.

    Even Sturgeon’s old secretary was on yesterday saying this probably could have been avoided with a bit more tact from the Gov when dealing with the Greens, even if it still resulted in the agreement ending.

  4. Her demands will amount to all trans people jailed and independence declared by next week

  5. She’s seriously just going to try and make demands him this blatantly because he’s in a vulnerable position? That’s such backwards language it’s clear she’s honeying up “Take away rights from people I don’t like and I’ll keep you in power”. Literally any party is better to try to align with than the poison from her.

  8. Maybe she’ll settle for a bit more of her primary goal, attention?

  9. Why does everyone keep using trans people as political tennis? We have like 5067 other issues more important than gender rights but we keep kicking these marginalised individuals.

  10. He cannot possibly accept this. It’s designed for alba to say that they tried to work with the SNP but the SNP said no.

  11. Which rights, Ash? Why do these people never have specific “rights” they can point to?

  12. What a strange couple of days. The SNP have actually become more palatable having shed the despicable Greens, yet are undoubtedly on the way to implosion.

    Anyway, should Humza agree to Regans demands it will only shed him in an even more negative light. A political cuckold.

  13. “Defending the rights of women and children” is code for opposing rights for transpeople by the way. Regan’s concerns have nothing to do with actually advancing women and everything to do with holding back transpeople so that women don’t feel so hard done by in comparison.

    EDIT Humza would do far better to approach the Lib Dems to secure their abstentions. It’d be cheaper.

  14. Terfs gonna terf.

    You’ve got the First Minister over a barrel, so what do you ask for? More housing? A rail line? Extra funding for your constituency?

    No, let’s abolish trans people.

  15. Time for an election and for the people of Scotland to really have a say if they are still happy with the snp running things.

  16. “I’m a transphobe and misandrist hiding behind the social bulwark of TERFism, you will do as I say!”

    Delightful

  17. What progress on independence is she expecting? That’s what winds me up about the likes of Angus McNeil bleating away on Twitter. They just repeating the same old nonsense with no specifics on what they actually want to see happen. Just vague hand-wavey bullshit.

    And we all know what “the rights of women and children” is code for, don’t we?

  18. No-one in the SNP wanna give alba any credability except the FM who’s about to get fired. 

  19. This is a smart demand. 

    It exists to be a branch to the nutterbutters of the SNP, and a big fuck off to the other wing of the SNP. 

    If Humza accepts, half the party hates him, of he refuses the other half hate him even more. 

  20. Surely no SNP gov could capitulate to this?

    Surely at least 1 SMP MSP will decide they have principles and want to stick by the pretence they are left wing that they have been selling to the country for years?

    surely 1….just one…..

  21. I support independence. While I support absolutely no party at all, not Alba, not SNP, none of them and certainly not labour or Tories, Regan is correct that the SNP have betrayed the electorate who installed a cohort of politicians at Westminster and Holyrood on a ticket of pushing for independence. That’s a fact whether you agree or disagree with independence.

  22. “Defending the rights of women and children” is just transphobe-speak for “let’s make life even more difficult for a vulnerable minority”. Because *clearly* targeting people who are literally just trying to live their best lives in peace is *the* most important issue facing the country right now. Give me fucking strength.

  24. Yeah I don’t want an SNP that compromises to bigots, homophobes and transphobes, thanks.

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