Barry Thain 🟥

Q Manivannan. Student visa holder. September 2021. Now MSP. £77,711 a year. No British citizenship. No permanent residency. Still temporary status. Still fundraising to stay. A sitting lawmaker begging colleagues on party group chats for £2,089 and £5,047 just so he can stay in the job. It’s Kafkaesque if Kafka had a sense of humor. While British students carry £50k debt like shackles and families choose between food and rent, Holyrood pays a foreign national £77k to exist here while he begs for cash. The SNP didn’t just open the door in 2020—they took it off the hinges. They deliberately changed the rules so non-citizens could stand for election. This was no accident. Try this in India, France, or America. You’d be in handcuffs and deported in 24 hours. In Scotland, they made it a career path. In October 2023, while Scottish families worked double shifts and rationed just to survive, this MSP publicly supported vandalizing posters of Israeli hostages. This isn't diversity, progress, or inclusion. It is institutional liquidation. This is a parliament so hollowed out and drained of purpose it can no longer protect its own citizens interests. The system isn’t broken, it’s working exactly as designed, just not for Scots. The rules were never written to protect you. They exist to erase and replace you.