So when you wrote that the leader should represent the SNP, you meant apart from the members.
Not sure if I've previously discussed this on the MB, but certainly have elsewhere. When we think of political parties, to my mind there are three main constituent elements. Firstly their elected representatives (e.g. MPs, MSPs etc), secondly there is the formal membership and thirdly there is their broader support within the electorate - their 'voters' so to speak. Some also have formally affiliated organisations, but I'll put that to one side.
The issue that a number of political parties have is that their formal membership is often not representative of either their elected representatives nor of their wider voter, let alone the populace as a whole. The clearest recent examples, of course, being Truss and Corbyn - both loved by their respective membership, yet not being favourite with MPs, who let's face it know and work with the individual in a manner that members don't. And similarly not clearly supported by broader voters.
Whisper it quietly, but when selecting a new leader, who presumably you want to be successful, of those three constuencies the least important should be the members. Why? - well because the MPs/MPSs know the person and have to work with the person and unless the broader electorate are prepared to vote for that individual they won't be successful.
This is in no way a comment about Forbes - I've expressed this view for many years - probably the first time being when Ed rather than David Miliband ended up as leader of the Labour party, which I was a member of at that time. That's situation was a little different to this one - but political parties need to think very, very carefully about how they select new leaders, and particularly how they do so when in power so that the individual becomes not only leader but PM/FM etc.
The point about the intolerance is you seem to want to change the mandate to somehow ensure that she isn't elected.
This is nothing to do with Forbes per se - indeed looking at where things are at the moment it is perhaps quite unlikely that the current SNP system will mean that she is elected. I made exactly the same points during the tory leadership election in the summer, so I cannot see how this can be construed as being anything to do with Forbes, let alone intolerance towards her.
NS - there are many ways in which you can select a new leader - thinking the approach taken by a particular political party isn't ideal is in no way intolerant. And by the way I raised the whole issue of the process, including numbers for nominations
before Forbes had announced her leadership or started on her series of train wreck interviews.