BREAKING: Joanna Cherry has said she will not contest a seat in the Holyrood election after an SNP rule change would have meant she and her staff “make themselves unemployed” to be able to do so.
— Gina Davidson (@wornoutmumhack) July 31, 2020
Wasn’t there a comment along the lines of “there’s no SNP civil war because that would require two sides of equal strength”? The two sides only seem unequal in their capacity to stitch up the rules. If they were unequal on the ground there’d have been no need for a stitch-up.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) July 31, 2020
I’m afraid George may be right on the second point here, which would confirm what I said the other day about the SNP’s sound strategic good sense giving way to identity politics zealotry. Everyone’s a loser as a result of this decision.https://t.co/Vn4VXbswrP
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) July 31, 2020
It’s not, but I don’t think there would have been such a determined effort to stitch her up if it hadn’t been for her stance on the GRA. There’s visceral hatred towards her – activists in December saying they’d campaign in any consitituency apart from hers (and Neale Hanvey’s).
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) July 31, 2020
Obviously I’m not going to say she “takes the TERF view”, because TERF is a derogatory word. But you’re correct that she regards the proposed reforms on gender self-ID as an assault on women’s sex-based rights, and that some young activists loathe her as a result.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) July 31, 2020
Well, TERF is a term of abuse because the people who it describes would never use it and find it deeply offensive. Neutral language would be language that both sides agree upon.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) July 31, 2020
My own view is the opposite – there seems to have been entryism into the SNP from people who care more about identity politics (such as enacting self-ID) than about indy. That said, there are anti-self-ID obsessives too. This debate shouldn’t be getting in the way of indy.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) July 31, 2020
Holders of certain strains of opinion within the SNP are making the same mistake that Blairities did a generation ago – ie. they think they’re so much in the ascendancy now that there’s no cost to themselves in stamping all over the other side. In fact, there’s a cost to us all.
— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) July 31, 2020
