Vocally oppose pardons for gay men historically convicted of nothing more than being gay? Fine.
Transphobia? Sure, go ahead.
Repeatedly intimidate women outside of abortion clinics? No worries.
The list goes on an on. There are another 10 of these.
Make scummy comments about Gaza? A step too far for the SNP. Out you get.
He should’ve been kicked out years ago, and I’m pleased he has been. Bit of an odd moral compass on display though.
Surprised it’s taken this long. He could have been chucked out numerous times over the years but they were happy to keep him.
This was his comments
“There is no genocide,”
“If Israel wanted to commit genocide, they would have killed many more people.”
“I personally do not believe that Israel has tried to commit, has committed, or is committing genocide.”
“They certainly have the ability to kill many more Palestinians than they have done.”
“That is not to say that the loss of life already is not too many.”
Genocide denial is good grounds for removing him and anyone else for that matter.
The timing of this is suspect. Likely paving the way for Alison Thewliss or David Linden to keep a job on Parliament benches rather than have them compete for the seat.
Wait, he’s been expelled now?
Timely with the passing of Salmond to see such a stark example of how unserious and incompetent the SNP have became.
I’m very anti-Israel, and I’m sure this guy is awful in plenty of ways, but this is a very weird thing to expel someone for. Whether or not “genocide” is the right word for what Israel is doing to Palestinians is completely valid debate. There are plenty of people on the marches who would say the same thing as he did
r/worldnews will have a fit when they hear about this. Imagine throwing him out for spreading their bad hasbara. They’ll be crying antisemitism in 0.006 seconds.
Fuckin FINALLY. Prick
About fucking time
John Mason has and always will be a hateful cunt who proclaims to be a Christian and lies on God to proclaim and spew his hateful shite. So of course a fake christian will support zionists who lie on Judaism, they are of the same ilk.
I hope he never finds employment anywhere again and lives the miserable bitter life he deserves shunned from everyone.
Im only angry that it took SNP this long to boot him out.
This is what it takes to get rid of him?
The man should’ve been gone a long time ago on several, far less, controversial issues, imo.
This seems like an odd thing to finally hold him accountable for.
Good riddance, took them long enough.
I find it incredibly disingenuous and hypocritical to cite “this kind of intolerance” as the reason to expel him.
Although that is certainly valid and justified grounds to expel Mason from the SNP, it becomes farcical when the Deputy First Minister is intolerant of women’s rights to bodily autonomy and LGBT+ rights.
Interesting a lot of people get in hot water for making pro Palestinian remarks that sometimes, accidentally or intentionally, are tied to accusations of antisemitism.
First time I’ve heard of a pro Israeli politician getting the sack.
Should’ve been kicked out long before. Then again his bigotry is in sync with the deputy FM
While I think the comments he made were crass, this seems a bizzare line for explusion given essentailly no western government would agree that there is a genocide occuring.
This is a sad day. Not about Mason, I loathed the prick, but whenever there was a thread from the usual Unionist suspects, showing a headline for the usual rabid media outlets with a title along the likes of ‘Senior SNP politician says something horrid’ I would make good money betting on it being John Mason – it was a steady earner.
Now admittedly there are possible other candidates, for some topics – creationism in Schools for example, there would be a certain group, and similarly, all sorts of other batshit crazy views have a bunch of folks but they would be different bunches for different topics. Mason was reliable, he seemed to cover all the bases.
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A strange line in the sand, isn’t it?
Speak out against same sex marriage? Crack on.
Vocally oppose pardons for gay men historically convicted of nothing more than being gay? Fine.
Transphobia? Sure, go ahead.
Repeatedly intimidate women outside of abortion clinics? No worries.
The list goes on an on. There are another 10 of these.
Make scummy comments about Gaza? A step too far for the SNP. Out you get.
He should’ve been kicked out years ago, and I’m pleased he has been. Bit of an odd moral compass on display though.
Surprised it’s taken this long. He could have been chucked out numerous times over the years but they were happy to keep him.
This was his comments
“There is no genocide,”
“If Israel wanted to commit genocide, they would have killed many more people.”
“I personally do not believe that Israel has tried to commit, has committed, or is committing genocide.”
“They certainly have the ability to kill many more Palestinians than they have done.”
“That is not to say that the loss of life already is not too many.”
Genocide denial is good grounds for removing him and anyone else for that matter.
The timing of this is suspect. Likely paving the way for Alison Thewliss or David Linden to keep a job on Parliament benches rather than have them compete for the seat.
Wait, he’s been expelled now?
Timely with the passing of Salmond to see such a stark example of how unserious and incompetent the SNP have became.
I’m very anti-Israel, and I’m sure this guy is awful in plenty of ways, but this is a very weird thing to expel someone for. Whether or not “genocide” is the right word for what Israel is doing to Palestinians is completely valid debate. There are plenty of people on the marches who would say the same thing as he did
r/worldnews will have a fit when they hear about this. Imagine throwing him out for spreading their bad hasbara. They’ll be crying antisemitism in 0.006 seconds.
Fuckin FINALLY. Prick
About fucking time
John Mason has and always will be a hateful cunt who proclaims to be a Christian and lies on God to proclaim and spew his hateful shite. So of course a fake christian will support zionists who lie on Judaism, they are of the same ilk.
I hope he never finds employment anywhere again and lives the miserable bitter life he deserves shunned from everyone.
Im only angry that it took SNP this long to boot him out.
This is what it takes to get rid of him?
The man should’ve been gone a long time ago on several, far less, controversial issues, imo.
This seems like an odd thing to finally hold him accountable for.
Good riddance, took them long enough.
I find it incredibly disingenuous and hypocritical to cite “this kind of intolerance” as the reason to expel him.
Although that is certainly valid and justified grounds to expel Mason from the SNP, it becomes farcical when the Deputy First Minister is intolerant of women’s rights to bodily autonomy and LGBT+ rights.
Interesting a lot of people get in hot water for making pro Palestinian remarks that sometimes, accidentally or intentionally, are tied to accusations of antisemitism.
First time I’ve heard of a pro Israeli politician getting the sack.
Should’ve been kicked out long before. Then again his bigotry is in sync with the deputy FM
While I think the comments he made were crass, this seems a bizzare line for explusion given essentailly no western government would agree that there is a genocide occuring.
This is a sad day. Not about Mason, I loathed the prick, but whenever there was a thread from the usual Unionist suspects, showing a headline for the usual rabid media outlets with a title along the likes of ‘Senior SNP politician says something horrid’ I would make good money betting on it being John Mason – it was a steady earner.
Now admittedly there are possible other candidates, for some topics – creationism in Schools for example, there would be a certain group, and similarly, all sorts of other batshit crazy views have a bunch of folks but they would be different bunches for different topics. Mason was reliable, he seemed to cover all the bases.