>>44777annoying because it means i have to type out, yet again, that he joined the Alba party, which reflects even more poorly on his judgement than using twitter.
Alba were socially-conservative socdem scottish nationalists opportunistically using TERFism to rehabilitate the reputation of their leader after he was accused of sex offenses / punish his former party, the SNP, for being in government when he was prosecuted for said offenses.
Now, you may say: Anon, all the socialist and communist orgs in the UK are a joke. It makes sense to join something like that and use it to get a platform for some good ideas, right?
Well, Alba is the least successful non-communist party in Scottish politics. It never managed to get a single representative elected at any level, not even local councils. It was accused of rigging candidate selections even though none of those candidates had a hope in hell of winning. It ultimately wound up earlier this year amidst accusations that their finance guy embezzled all the money. So even as TERFY, occasionally homophobic, pro-oil socdem civic nationalists, they were a total flop - let alone as any kind of useful vehicle for the left.
What drew Cockshott to this band of absolute chancers is left as an exercise for the reader.