Everyone Loves My Niche Scottish Politics Posts, Right?

[netgirl_y2k]

I woke up this morning to discover that for the first time in my life I have a Tory MP *sign of the cross* because my awful, awful SNP MP has defected.

Now, what might cause someone to defect from a party whose raison d'etre is the pursuit of Scottish Independence to one which thinks that support for Independence is borderline treason? Perhaps, it was a true damascene conversion, a come to Jesus moment. Or perhaps it was that she was on the eve of being overwhelmingly deselected because she's a dogshit person with terrible opinions and everyone hates her.

The second one. It was the second one.

In addition to her shite smeared opinions, she was also a terrible Nationalist. She voted against abortion rights in Northern Ireland, as though a self-proclaimed Nationalist had any business in the uteruses of people in another part of the UK. And when the Scottish Government tried to make life marginally less shit for trans people she asked the Westminster Government to stop us. Just A+ Nationalisting, Good job, everyone.

This is, of course, another symptom of the ongoing civil war in the SNP between people who want independence to better pursue the sort of squishy social democratic policies that we like, and the social conservatives who the previous leadership had ball gagged and menaced with cattle prods into compliance.

And just to nail my colours to the mast, I think we should have tazed the reactionaries harder when we had the upper hand, because clearly Lisa Cameron (soon to be former Conservative) MP and I were never envisioning the same kind of independent Scotland. Good riddance to bad fucking rubbish, I guess.

Anyway. femslashex sign ups are open, and I'm going to sign up and so should you.

Comments

[nostalgia]

i saw that and went "how the f*** do you go from snp to tory???" D:

[netgirl_y2k]

I wonder if she tried Labour and they knocked her back, lol? It is equally funny that even the tartan tories know that Alba is a wee pretend-y joke of a party.

Honestly, though, I think she's just having a tantrum - you know, like a child - because it sounds like her deselection was about to be absolutely, embarrassingly overwhelming.

[lilacsigil]

Ugh, I didn't realise that was your MP, what a disgrace.

[netgirl_y2k]

I recently found out that she never actually passed party vetting and only ever got through on appeals or with legal threats. Just an all round rotten egg, really.

[tamoline]

Congratulations on getting to vote her out in the not too distant future? Fingers crossed her replacement is a substantially less dogshit person.

[netgirl_y2k]

The thing that makes this seem more like shit stirring than anything else is that I don't think she's standing again, and even if she did she'd never hold this seat as a tory.

The new SNP guy and the Labour lassie both seem fine, but it would have been nice to see Cameron up on that stage come election night having her arse handed to her.

[spiralsheep]

I'm glad you'll have better options next time.

[netgirl_y2k]

This is what I get for moving to the suburbs, heh.

[spiralsheep]

Let's hope you raise the tone of the neighbourhood. ;-)

P.S. I'm reading a so-bad-it's-funny 1961 romance novel set during a Latin American coup and our hot revolutionary bad boy Ramon Quintero was educated at the University of Glasgow.

Scotland: educating hot revolutionaries since the 18th century.

[netgirl_y2k]

She's now claiming that her family have had to go into hiding because of death threats.

This is of course not at all funny, nobody should be having to deal with threats, but also a bit funny when you live here and know that she is the MP for three sleepy commuter towns, one of which is quite posh, no one is getting assassinated around here.

More seriously, I don't know how you can claim to be doing the job of a constituency MP when you are in hiding from your constituents.

[spiralsheep]

LMAO, you so Scottish, bb! As an English constituent I'm used to Tory MPs hiding from voters and being unable to show their face even in parliament. *cough* Andrew Rosindell *cough*

[spiralsheep]

Literally only two days later, another Tory MP in disgrace:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67122669

LMAO.

[netgirl_y2k]

At this rate we're not even going to make the general elections, the tories are just going to lose an unending series of by-elections until the government collapses.

Which would, let's be real, be very funny.