So at last, finally, what many hoped would happen has happened and the Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has tendered her resignation from her post. This is not before time. For far too long the Scots have suffered from the ideological rigidity and incompetence of Ms Sturgeon and her Scottish National Party colleagues. Although her welcomed political demise is being ascribed to her surrender to the small but noisy cohort of trans activists into pushing gender self-ID, there’s a whole lot more wrongness that has helped her on her way.
Nicola Sturgeon has been at the centre of much that has gone badly wrong in Scottish politics. The fingerprints of her and her party is all over a multitude of problems ranging from the furore over replacement ferries that are supposed to serve the residents of remote Scottish islands, ferries that in some cases were not suitable for the docks that they were intended to visit, via the horrific ‘named person scheme’ that would have seen every Scottish child overseen by some government bureaucrat to missing and unaccounted for money and increased restrictions on freedom of speech.
The SNP under Sturgeon has grossly ill served the Scottish people. It has taken an education system that was once the envy of the rest of Britain and turned it into a basket case of under achievement. Her SNP regime has overseen a massive rise in drug deaths and has turned an already crumbing NHS into something even worse. On top of that Sturgeon’s SNP government has been worryingly enthusiastic about authoritarianism whether that be policing what people can say in their own homes or forcing school children into masks of dubious effectiveness against Covid. The SNP under Sturgeon has fulfilled and made flesh all the fears that many had over what Devolution would bring. She turned Scotland into an authoritarian socialist hell hole and sowed division wherever she went and by whatever she did.
I’m glad she’s gone but people should not rest on their laurels. Whilst it is quite possible that the SNP could realise the error of their ways by electing as leader someone with a little bit of common sense and an appreciation for the value of letting citizens make their own decisions about their own lives, it’s also possible that someone equally as awful, someone like Hamza Yousef for example, could step into her shoes. It’s up to SNP members now to decide whether they want to be ruled by those who love and respect the electorate or whether they replace Sturgeon with something equally bad if not worse.
With Sturgeon gone there will be a lot of women, businesses and ordinary people celebrating her political demise and hoping that sensible government emerges north of the border. We have to wait and see if this hope is realised or whether the SNP will pick another equally awful Sturgeon clone.
While Sturgeon’s departure is excellent news, and not just for Scotland, I very much doubt that the SNP has anybody of a higher calibre than Sturgeon. It’s my firm believe that their next leader will prove to be worse. I notice her supporters are claiming that she’s planning this for some time. If that’s the case, then why did she make a £50 bet with Douglas Alexander that she would lead the SNP into the next general election? Their are many things that helped bring her down, but the self-inflicted trans row was the catalyst.
Good points there. I wonder if all the skeletons in Sturgeon’s and the SNP’s closets will emerge now that she’s no longer going to be leader?
“Hamza Yousef for example, could step into her shoes.”
Hamza Yousef in red high heels?
The mind boggles.
You have reminded us that there are worse people in Scottish politics than Sturgeon, Yousef for example. I wouldn’t trust that man to sit the correct way round on a toilet let alone run a nation.
Farewell to the fish-wife.
Personally I’d rather have a foul mouthed fish-wife as a political leader than the reality denying, authoritarian and thoroughly illiberal Sturgeon.
I suggest Kirsty Blackman for new leader. She’s an SNP MP and her name alone should cause the ‘woke’ idiots to have conniptions – a white woman (if you can define one) called Blackman!
First of all sorry about the delay in replying. My Sabbath intervened. Ha ha nice one. Sums up the vacuity of the woke. From what I can gather it does seem that there might be one of two vaguely sensible candidates for SNP leader, but Sturgeon’s influence probably runs quite deep in the party these days. Sadly I suspect that what might end up in the position of leader might be someone a bit worse than Sturgeon. What could change things is if the various fiscal allegations aimed at the SNP over the use of Covid recovery money get traction amongst the general public as I don’t think that these allegations are aimed purely at Sturgeon and her circle alone. If it can be shown that the fiscal irregularities that are alleged to have occurred were known of more widely in the party and not just Sturgeon’s inner circle then it could have an impact. We will just have to wait and see what happens.
First Jacinda Ardern now Nicola Sturgeon. Are they jumping ship, to disappear into the sunset to spend their ill-gotten gains? I wonder who will be next.
There’s a long long list of bastards that I hope step down soon. Trudeau and Drakeford come to mind first.