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This article is extremely disingenuous for multiple reasons and completely misrepresents what happened last night.
This was not a win for "left-wing" "dissidents", but rather a win for a reactionary anti-equalities faction.
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(All images have alt-text) https://twitter.com/ConterScot/status/1333790805199179777
This was not a win for "left-wing" "dissidents", but rather a win for a reactionary anti-equalities faction.
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(All images have alt-text) https://twitter.com/ConterScot/status/1333790805199179777
Firstly, this opening paragraph refers to the CWG as a left-wing group focused on radical policies.
Which, yes, was their intention. But, sadly, most of the people on the CWG slate were also on the "SNP Good Guys" anti-progressive slate too.
Which, yes, was their intention. But, sadly, most of the people on the CWG slate were also on the "SNP Good Guys" anti-progressive slate too.
Then we have this paragraph on Neale Hanvey MP. He was suspended for antisemitism last year and re-admitted to the party last year *on the condition that he attends a Holocaust education course*.
He was guilty of antisemitism! He should NOT be on this committee.
He was guilty of antisemitism! He should NOT be on this committee.
"Party dissidents" including Joanna Cherry who insulted First Minister Nicola Sturgeon in the Times on the first day of conference, and anti-progressive Angus MacNeil.
With friends like these, @SNP_CWG, who needs enemies?
With friends like these, @SNP_CWG, who needs enemies?
"Gains for the left" - the class-reductionist left who do not acknowledge any equalities issues despite that of class.
No, there are many, many on the left who are distraught about these results. If you're not a white cishet abled man, these are NOT good results.
No, there are many, many on the left who are distraught about these results. If you're not a white cishet abled man, these are NOT good results.
I think it was Russia who first started with the aggressive posturing that could lead to a new "Cold War" scenario, not us, given they literally invaded Ukraine.
Russia is an autocratic state with an aggressive foreign policy and they're not good guys.
Russia is an autocratic state with an aggressive foreign policy and they're not good guys.
Referring to the above screenshot also; the SNP's commitment to unilateral nuclear disarmament has NEVER been in doubt and MULTIPLE people have reiterated that over this weekend.
To claim that is in doubt is completely false.
To claim that is in doubt is completely false.
More than just "party centrists" support Nicola Sturgeon. She is a fantastic First Minister who is currently doing an incredibly difficult job during the pandemic.
There's nothing wrong with winning over pro-EU voters. Sturgeon is one of our best assets in the indy campaign.
There's nothing wrong with winning over pro-EU voters. Sturgeon is one of our best assets in the indy campaign.
The internal civil war that most of YOUR slate of candidates are on the wrong side of.
And then we have the Salmond affair. A reminder: not proven is not the same as not guilty; you can be creepy without being criminal.
And then we have the Salmond affair. A reminder: not proven is not the same as not guilty; you can be creepy without being criminal.
A significant amount of the party will support Salmond and people who are having a love affair with the Kremlin?
Sexual harassers and Putin fans. Great, just what I want from my party. Do you think this makes you look good!?
Sexual harassers and Putin fans. Great, just what I want from my party. Do you think this makes you look good!?
"The CWG also promoted some candidates associated with opposing the Gender Recognition Act" and were criticised for it.
If you don't want to criticised for being transphobic, DON'T SUPPORT TRANSPHOBES.
If you don't want to criticised for being transphobic, DON'T SUPPORT TRANSPHOBES.
To conclude, this article is further proof, as if we needed any, that the SNP Common Weal Group is NOT a group which supports the left.
It is a group which supports class-reductionist reactionaries who will throw marginalised people under the bus to get independence. END.
It is a group which supports class-reductionist reactionaries who will throw marginalised people under the bus to get independence. END.
