Scotland has produced countless consequential men over the centuries. Having apparently run out of native-born talent — exhausting, perhaps, the ranks of the Bells, Flemings, MacDonalds, Stirlings, and Wallaces — the country has resorted to rule by a foreign squatter.
As the result of woke Scottish National Party ministers loosening the rules last year over who could qualify to become a candidate, a male Indian national who holds neither British citizenship nor permanent residency was elected last week to serve as a member of the Scottish Parliament for the Edinburgh and Lothians East region.
‘British elections for British people.’
Q Manivannan, who has boasted of a strong connection to the Tamil Nadu region of India he hails from and whose alleged tweets suggest an intense animus toward white people, was fielded as a candidate by the Scottish Green Party.
Scotland’s supposed “first non-binary MSP” promised on the campaign trail not just to fight “for the radical change our working-class and marginalized communities need” but to stand “unwaveringly” for his ilk, namely “immigrants or asylum-seekers.”
While evidently keen to help that class of supposedly “marginalized” people now proven capable of shaping the island’s destiny without ever setting anchor, Manivannan appears especially eager to bring his war against biological reality to Holyrood.
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Q Manivannan’s fellow citizens line up to vote in the region of India he recently left behind. Riya Mariyam R/NurPhoto/Getty Images.
Manivannan identifies as a “queer Tamil immigrant”; uses “they/them” pronouns; campaigned on advancing a “more caring politics rooted in the working class, the queer, and the solidary,” and is apparently an expert on “transness.”
“Transness is blackness. Transness is womanhood,” he told fellow travelers at a rally. “Transness is disability. Transness is everything the world wants you to believe that is unlovable.”
“Our liberation is bound up with every person who’s ever been told their body, their land, their life does not matter,” added the Indian.
There is some uncertainty over whether Manivannan can lawfully serve his five-year parliamentary term, given both that he is in the country on a claimed three-year temporary student visa, and his student visa does not permit him to work more than 20 hours a week. If, however, he is afforded additional wiggle room — which may happen since India remains a British commonwealth country — the Indian national is set to enjoy a six-figure annual salary at Scottish natives’ expense.
Numerous heritage Britons appear to be less than enthused over the election of a foreign squatter.
Robert Jenrick, a British member of parliament, wrote, “I don’t want to live in a country where people on student visas can become elected representatives to national parliaments. He’s crowdfunding from Green Party members for his graduate visa for pete’s sake.”
In an op-ed on Monday titled, “The ‘election’ of a foreign student is a travesty of democracy,” Tom Tugendhat — a member of the U.K.’s Conservative Party who served as security minister until 2024 — said that the Indian’s election was the result of a dysfunctional system.
“You have to ask: Why did the people of Edinburgh and Lothians East choose them? Well, they didn’t. Or rather they didn’t directly,” wrote Tugendhat. “The Scottish Green MSP was the third name on a party list, chosen by a small collection of party apparatchiks and hoisted into Holyrood by an electoral mechanism that puts the party in charge.”
“An Indian was elected to the Scottish Parliament, even without a permanent visa to stay in the UK,” wrote British politician Rupert Lowe, the leader of Restore Britain. “This is wrong.”
Lowe emphasized that this “should not be allowed to stand” and demanded “British elections for British people.”
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