This tweet was made 13 years ago, in response to a particular event that had happened to me whilst backpacking as a young person - and wasn’t ever meant for public consumption.
“Hence why I deleted it several years ago. It reflects the lack of constructive spaces for people facing sexual assault at the time
Wow! What a spin. There’s no safe spaces for people facing sexual assault so I’m going to denigrate all Indian men as rapists.
Is the Green Party trying to compete with Reform for the most inappropriately selected candidates? Why can’t these parties get their candidates properly?
I think partly because what sane person wants to be a candidate?
To open their lives up to intense public scrutiny. To have deleted 13 year old tweets brought up. Particularly so if you’re opposed to those with vast amounts of power and wealth with majority control over the country’s press, who will have no qualms distorting facts to make a hatchet job on you. Every fart, sneeze, and little wrongdoing by Greens is inflated into a massive moral issue compared with what Reform candidates just seem to shrug off. The press don’t question Reform’s morality in anywhere near the same manner.
You’ve got to be a special kind of person to want that instead of leading a private life.
To then spend your days sparring with narcissistic bigots in opposing parties.
Yeah, no wonder the talent pool is poor. Still better than openly and proudly bigoted, corrupt, fascist, or narcissistic people though. Imperfect Green candidates at least stand for and are pushing for a better world, unlike Reform who want to drag us into 1930s Germany.
Yeah, the green party never had much electoral success until the past couple of years. So they don’t have much existing infrastructure for vetting candidates. They also pride themselves on being a “decentralized party”, so their local branches are responsible for vetting their own candidates for local elections.
From my experience as a member, the selection process for a councilor candidate is just a zoom call and a vote afterwards. I have no idea what kind of background any given candidate has (beyond trusting what they said in their personal statements), or if they have any dirt online in the past.
Let’s see if they’re working remotely from India in three years time, when their visa expires. They’ll have a lot of work to do on their own, as he isn’t able to hire any workers to help him.
Hopefully the racist is deported before then due to their hatred spread about white people.
Wow! What a spin. There’s no safe spaces for people facing sexual assault so I’m going to denigrate all Indian men as rapists.
Is the Green Party trying to compete with Reform for the most inappropriately selected candidates? Why can’t these parties get their candidates properly?
I think partly because what sane person wants to be a candidate?
To open their lives up to intense public scrutiny. To have deleted 13 year old tweets brought up. Particularly so if you’re opposed to those with vast amounts of power and wealth with majority control over the country’s press, who will have no qualms distorting facts to make a hatchet job on you. Every fart, sneeze, and little wrongdoing by Greens is inflated into a massive moral issue compared with what Reform candidates just seem to shrug off. The press don’t question Reform’s morality in anywhere near the same manner.
You’ve got to be a special kind of person to want that instead of leading a private life.
To then spend your days sparring with narcissistic bigots in opposing parties.
Yeah, no wonder the talent pool is poor. Still better than openly and proudly bigoted, corrupt, fascist, or narcissistic people though. Imperfect Green candidates at least stand for and are pushing for a better world, unlike Reform who want to drag us into 1930s Germany.
Yeah, the green party never had much electoral success until the past couple of years. So they don’t have much existing infrastructure for vetting candidates. They also pride themselves on being a “decentralized party”, so their local branches are responsible for vetting their own candidates for local elections.
From my experience as a member, the selection process for a councilor candidate is just a zoom call and a vote afterwards. I have no idea what kind of background any given candidate has (beyond trusting what they said in their personal statements), or if they have any dirt online in the past.
Or if they have the right to work (Scottish Greens)
An entirely separate party with no affiliation with each other. Should we discuss the Republican party while talking about Reform? It’s no different.
And who you’re alluding to does have the right to be an MSP as was laid out in the Scottish Elections Franchise and Representation Act.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2020/6/contents
Let’s see if they’re working remotely from India in three years time, when their visa expires. They’ll have a lot of work to do on their own, as he isn’t able to hire any workers to help him.
Hopefully the racist is deported before then due to their hatred spread about white people.
If you’re talking about that MSP, they are legally allowed to stand. You do not need a work visa to be MSP.
Graduate visa expires in 3 years. They won’t get another visa. Term is for five years.
Where does she call all indian men rapists though?