Thorongil

It’s a yes.

WTF?

You can go and look it up as well.

Go and look it up on the internet. Are you pretending you are unaware of this information?

This is unbelievable. Nobody gave two fucks about transgenderism prior to the rise of violent and militant transactivism of the last 5 years. This is as because transgender people were actually transgender and not just fetishistic cross-dressers claiming they were the opposite sex and everyone had to play along and say “yes of course you are”.

It’s a known fact that Salmond gave Sturgeon this advice and that she then pretty much closed the door on him. As soon as she became first minister she then completely froze him out. The clique she built around herself and Murrell then hated Salmond and saw him as a threat. The trouble started with him telling her Murrell should go and when Salmond started planning a comeback crack at Mark McDonald’s seat after she threw him under a combine harvester they began their plot against him. This is common knowledge. it is astonishing watching people still refusing to face the truth regarding Nicola Sturgeon.

Are you honestly not aware of that?

It is true. I was there.

It certainly did not start under his watch. It was the most united party you would ever see, without the machinations and control freakery.

She did not. She had no interest in being on the good side of the many thousands of party members she alienated, shut down, marginalised and abused. she had no interest in the wider yea movement. No interest in due process. no interested in women’s groups. no interest in consultation other than rigged consultation. She is a rat.

The values were fine and it was a democratic Party until 2014. It’s Sturgeon’s fault.

Indeed. I joined the SNP in 2006. Under Salmond the party was nothing remotely like this.

My alarm bells started ringing ahead of the general election in 2015 when I saw what candidates were asked to sign up to by the party. New rules were created demanding absolute party loyalty for anyone who wanted to be an MP. Candidates had to agree that they would never, ever publicly disagree with any form of party policy and never make any criticism of The Party. It was the New Labour playbook at work in the SNP for the first time. And then the selection process for candidates was like the New Labour star chambers for the first Scottish Parliament. The rot was and is Sturgeon and now her legacy is going to be very hard to shake.

It’s absolute proof of corruption. And those who said so were targeted by Sturgeon acolytes for ridicule, harassment and bullying to a remarkable degree.

Yet it’s not acceptable to make such comments on any other protected characteristics. That’s verboten.

A lot of people saw this coming. A lot of serious people. They were monstered for it.

A lot of people, including journalists know exactly what has been discovered. I have been given the impression it’s very bad and considerably worse than the £600k.

I agree with you. My issue is that if this statistical approach is applied to any other protected characteristic everyone will call foul. When it’s applied to men as a sex class, it’s not a foul. Exclusively.

Men are statistically more likely to commit violent crime and more likely to be the victims of violent crime. This fact tends to lead to the demonisation of men as a sex class. This shouldn’t be the case though as sex is a protected characteristic and pejorative judgements and discrimination on that basis fall foul of the equality act. if someone used crime statistics to demonise a group of people based on their race, religion or anything else they would justifiably face criticism. Statistical data which didn’t reflect well on the “trans community” is verboten. Why are “men” fair game for demonisation and nobody else?

Just to say, I started again from the beginning with this. I was wrong.

If the auditors had failed in their responsibility it would be their client sacking them, not them binning their client, and they would be facing liability costs and an investigation by the FRC. Nothing to suggest this is the case.

A lot of seethe in that post.

Not Proven is an acquittal in Scots Law. he was acquitted on all charges yet many of you still have him as guilty. you had him as guilty. Before, during and after. looking forward to the cries of “innocent until proven guilty” with regard to Murrell and his cohorts.

OK. Withdrawn. I’ll keep an eye to ensure you don’t insult other posters or turn a blind eye to other posters being insulted going forward.