(things like the following paste, perhaps may remind people, we can still mend this, and you do not need to keep being terrorised into voting for the purple party. even just the banning double-jobbing... imagine having that!)
#scottishgreens #greens #newsletter #copypasta #wecanstillmendthis #cleanuppolitics #noneed #for #purpleparty

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Holyrood has just passed the Scottish Elections Bill, changing the way we run elections for the Scottish Parliament and local councils.

I wanted to let you know about some of the changes which I secured to this Bill on behalf of the Scottish Greens, making our elections safer, fairer and more democratic.

Banning ‘double-jobbing’ - Following my earlier proposal to ban members of the House of Lords from serving as MSPs and Graham Simpson’s similar proposals to ban MPs, amendments were unanimously agreed yesterday to ban dual mandates from 2026

Making it easier for young people to vote. - Young people are one of the groups least likely to be registered to vote and that needs to change. The Scottish Government has agreed to my proposals to trial automatic voter registration in schools, universities and colleges.

Protecting privacy for candidates and agents. - When candidates and agents are made to publish their home address, it puts them at risk. Thanks to Green amendments, agents will no longer need to publish their home address and candidates will have the option to display the ward they live in on the ballot paper, as an alternative to printing their address.

Increasing protections from political violence. - Attacks on elected representatives, candidates, campaigners and election workers are sadly becoming more common across Europe. As well as the direct impact on the victims, these attacks have a chilling effect on our whole democratic system. Parliament has passed my amendments to give the option of reflecting this in sentencing where necessary.

Reforming the unfair cash deposits system. - Having to pay thousands of pounds to get candidates on the ballot paper is fundamentally anti-democratic. Replacing cash deposits with a set number of nominations from registered voters has long been an Electoral Commission recommendation and whilst other parties were not willing to agree to it immediately, the Scottish Government has agreed to launch a consultation on my proposals.

Those are just some of the improvements which the Scottish Greens have made to strengthen our democracy.

None of this would have been possible without our supporters, members and volunteers helping to get Green MSPs elected. With the next election now less than eighteen months away, we need to rapidly build up our campaign funds. If you can chip in £5 or £10 today, it will go a long way towards achieving a record Green result in 2026.

Kind regards,

Ross Greer MSP
Scottish Greens, West of Scotland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reoCO4guC70

#scottishgreens

#dearscottishgreens #dearscottishgreenparty #sgp #scottishgreenparty #scottishgreens

are you standing up to speak for us, to ask the right questions, like this?

https://invidio.us/watch?v=Vn3EE7EMfXc

or are you part of the problem?

ever since changing from having co-convenors (and thus led by the people), to having co-leaders (and thus the people being [mis-]led), i've really really not liked being a member. this sell out conformity, this reordering to increase usurpability, in my own absence of evidence of any green spokesman having spoken out even 1% as well as this, and seeing little to encourage from a brief glimpse at the scottish green website's covid19 page... really really thinking of leaving the party, letting it rot. daunting. the best of the bunch just joined the bad. :( the weaktea platitudes of caring for people, are doing nothing to uproot the problems. like a placation, rather than anything substantive.

... i'm gonna go on a search, see if i can find anything to convince myself there's merit in hanging on for another scottish greens membership fee.

. . .

... this search does not go well.

and what could be good... i fear may have trojan-totalitarian flies in the ointment... will watch these later: https://invidio.us/watch?v=V0GUKtMffTE https://invidio.us/watch?v=CrnZDlle2dk

and these, though i suspect they may drive me further away. https://invidio.us/watch?v=6_lUM9C9Lyg https://invidio.us/watch?v=5D4Z60gLFWc tentatively hopeful though.

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still tho, about that sgp covid page...

Now more than ever Scotland needs to come together, and across the country our MSPs, Councillors and Branches are working hard to support their communities and the most vulnerable.

Now more than ever Scotland needs to come together

come together

has an air of insidious fascist NLP dog-whistling.

yeah... i know. from the least fascist party (that gets seats). still, i am hyper-vigilant wary of how appealing it must be to the fascists to usurp the green parties. what an effective vessel for them, to excuse their mass genocides. ... "for the greater good." green fascists are a thing. cant be complacent, lost in delusional wishful thinking, in denial about the monsters hiding in our midsts.

In Holyrood the six Scottish Green MSPs are working hard to ensure that the most vulnerable are given the protections they urgently need.

yeah? taking out the problem? or gonna buy things from those who: created the problem so you'd buy those things? part of the problem much?

We’ve got the Scottish Government to ban evictions, and led calls for an immediate roll out of testing for frontline staff and for eligible children to continue to get free school meals delivered to them so they don’t go hungry.

see the devil in the sandwich? oh how lovely, ban evictions. dont let them go hungry. oh so lovely. i feel so placated. why yes i'll submit to your premature hasty expensive testing that's proven dangerous and fraudulent on multiple levels, and funds those who are terrorizing us with this #scamdemic. fuck off, fascist in sheep's clothing.

Police Scotland – how to spot a scammer

i think i already am. lol.

no... i wont leave. gotta try help keep pulling them in better directions as best i can, given they're still our best shot. cant just walk away, leaving it to the usurpers.

*sigh*

what a shitty system. oh how i dream of evolving better forms of democracy, liquid democracy, config democracy, etc.

that really was disheartening when we greens sheepled that vote into conformity of having "leaders" though. ugh. EPIC EPIC fail. this is how democracy dies... not with a fight, but rapturous applause... :( ... every thursday at 8 you say? ... cant we just pay them and fund them and provision them and allow them the due autonomy they need to do their job of healing? no? just clap instead then, while we sell them out to the profiteering scumbags then? #NHS