Leadership candidate manages to scare off supporters as insanity spreads to waters down south
The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. No one could ever accuse Kate Forbes of not being open about her beliefs. It’s just not entirely clear why so many people ever imagined she might win the leadership of the Scottish National party. But Kate was on a mission. To torpedo her own career at the earliest opportunity.
Within a few hours of launching her leadership campaign on Monday lunchtime, Forbes had given a series of interviews in which she restated her opposition to same-sex marriage. The Bible didn’t like it, she insisted. Her hands were tied. She didn’t quite get round to saying that several of her fellow SNP MSPs and MPs were damned. But give her time.
