A few people have been asking me for my thoughts on Mhairi Black's decision to leave the SNP, so that's the subject of today's YouTube commentary. You can listen via the embedded player below, or via the direct YouTube link, or on Soundcloud, or on Spotify.
If you have a few seconds after listening, I'd be grateful if you'd subscribe to my YouTube channel, because I'm trying to build it up.
After I recorded the above, I spotted a monumentally stupid reader's letter in the Scotsman, accusing Mhairi Black of "inconsistency" because of her stance on Palestine and in favour of LGBTQ rights. The guy then proceeded to basically do the whole "but what if you were gay in Gaza?" meme, although he presumably was blissfully unaware that he was doing a meme, and also blissfully unaware of what memes are. The answer, of course, to the question "but what if you were gay in Gaza?" is "you would be murdered by Israel, just like heterosexual people in Gaza". That's actually a form of equality, I suppose.
Mhairi Black should know, the Scotsman reader prattled further, that Hamas opposes decriminalisation of homosexual acts. OK, and? Mhairi Black has never, to the best of my knowledge, expressed any support for Hamas, so where's the inconsistency? Do you mean that she has to drop her opposition to genocide in order to look sufficiently condemnatory of anti-gay laws that by all accounts are rarely enforced anyway?
Nothing ever changes. The Scotsman readers' page remains whacko central.
Scotsman “readers”? All seven of them.? No one really gives a fuck what these cretins say.
ReplyDeleteVery good YouTube summary (I have subscribed). As you say, losing one of Scotland's most naturally gifted conviction politicians is very unfortunate, but if it leads to a softening of the hard left within the SNP that will be a positive thing.
ReplyDeleteThe push for independence kept the broad church together. It was no surprise whatsoever that the broad church collapsed when Sturgeon / Swinney backed off on indy around 2017 and have then effectively dropped it as a realistic goal since 2020.
Meanwhile in the Herald an SNP 'grandee' claims that Mhairi Black wasted her exceptional political talents. The 'grandee' is none other than Jim Sillars, whose own political talents were rather thin. By the way, why does Sillars remain in a party he obviously loathes ?
ReplyDeleteDonald Trump is more Scottish than 43% of Scottish Green MSPs, if you're a blood and soil type.
ReplyDeleteHow do you know? Unless you have the dna you can't confirm one way or another,
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