The Scottish public were just given a surprising answer to the question “Is it possible to be TOO much of a creepy misogynist pornsick nutcase for even the Scottish Greens?”
But goodness gracious, that last line is a stone-cold mic-drop.
The SNP is now the refuge of last resort for Scottish Greens rejects. Let that concept roam around your mind for a few moments.
“Sophie Molly”, who Wings readers may know better as “Sophie Sparkles” although his actual name is Euan Weddell, isn’t someone who elicits a lot in the way of sympathy.
(He did actually succeed in having the woman in the tweet above banned from Twitter, and was gloating about it as recently as this week, despite the fact that he’d actually mistaken her for someone else.)
Let there be no mistake: he is a deeply horrible man.
But nonetheless, such is Wings’ commitment to scrupulous fairness to all that we still have to question why the Greens have kicked him out, because he is, as a friend of ours put it this morning, “a walking Green manifesto”. None of the appalling, demented or hateful things he says every day are in any way at odds with party policy on a single subject, and in some ways by their standards he almost counts as a moderate.
(In his desperation to stay a candidate he apologised and retracted his comments about Rowling, which nobody else in the party has ever done that we’re aware of.)
And since he’s been behaving abysmally on Twitter for many, many months, one might also reasonably make the point that for the party to have selected him as a candidate in the first place suggested that they fully endorsed all his rantings. It would be beyond extraordinary for them to claim not to have known what he was like well in advance.
(And their surviving roster of candidates is packed with people who are just as loopy and extreme, although in fairness most of them have managed to refrain from publicly posting nude pictures of themselves in ball gags with clothes pegs on their nipples, though we have no doubt they all do it in private.)
“Sophie Molly” is clearly a very damaged and unstable human, and for the party not to have spotted that and protected him from himself is a genuinely disgraceful failure of their basic duty of care to their own members, albeit one that will come as no surprise to anyone who’s observed their position on safeguarding people generally.
Still, we’re sure he’ll find a happy home in the SNP, and we’ll be watching with curiosity to see if he’s joined by the rest of his “polycule” and all of his pals who used to be SNP councillors and the like, but switched FROM them TO the Greens because the SNP were “institutionally transphobic”.
We’re also very curious to hear the Greens’ official reasons for kicking him out, which haven’t yet been made public. But in the meantime, it seems that Euan is NOT to be “the future of Scottish politics” after all.
And in that, at least, he’ll definitely be right at home in the SNP.
