Nicola Sturgeon living in England

erm… Nicola is that you???

Of course they do! That's why I don't understand this thread and the outrage of pp that Nicola is living there. Absolutely ridiculous and down right nastiness imo.

Plenty of Scots live quite happily in England

I'm English born and bred but long time resident of Scotland and supporter of Scottish Independence i've had 2 Scottish H's and i have a proud Glaswegian son. But the rest of my family - or what's left of it live in England and are as English as can be

So where does that leave me? As a supporter of the pro independence Scottish parties does that mean that should I take it into my head to join the rest of my family in England I woukd not be welcome and I would be a hypocrite too?

I’m a right-minded English person and I’m not distancing myself from colonialism and exploitation because it was not anything to do with me and was factually a part of our nation’s history. My ancestors of many generations ago may have been involved in the slave trade as I hail from a major slavery port city. However, I did not and do not act complicity in the cover-up of my (beard) husband’s theft of nearly £1 million from ordinary SNP members. The lengths that people will go to to exact their whataboutery to excuse Nicola Sturgeon for the fraud she has played upon the people of Scotland. She can’t even be bothered to hang around in the country she is apparently so passionate about. I believe that she will get her comeuppance and the police will find evidence to charge her with fraud. The ultimate irony would be for her to find herself in the clinky with Isla Bryson.

I thought right minded English people were. distancing themselves from colonialism and exploitation?

I'm English born and bred but long time resident of Scotland and supporter of Scottish Independence i've had 2 Scottish H's and i have a proud Glaswegian son. But the rest of my family - or what's left of it live in England and are as English as can be

So where does that leave me? As a supporter of the pro independence Scottish parties does that mean that should I take it into my head to join the rest of my family in England I woukd not be welcome and I would be a hypocrite too?

I'd agree if she was still involved in campaigning.

Maybe she thinks, having dedicated her life to it, she just wants to do something completely different, including living in a different country.

Fair enough in my mind.

The SNP isn't anti English or anti England.
LOL, come on that’s simply a ridiculous claim.

Who said Nicola can’t live in England? she’s living here. We don’t have any political parties in England advocating for a border with Scotland, unlike the other way around. That’s why it’s funny that their ex leader now lives in England.

Scotland itself participated nicely in and profited from the ‘Empire’.

This desperate race to distance yourself from ‘colonialism’ is laughable.

I always remember the SNP activists on the border with signs saying no English during Covid, I bet Nicola didn’t face such aggression driving her camper van on the train down.

Scotland itself participated nicely in and profited from the ‘Empire’.

This desperate race to distance yourself from ‘colonialism’ is laughable.

The SNP isn't anti English or anti England.

It is anti Scotland being treated as an English colony. It was historically an autonomous country and it should be an autonomous country now.

Why that means Nicola can't live in England at this point in her life - which even her most vindictive critics must acknowledge is an extremely difficult time for her - is beyond me.

The SNP isn't anti English or anti England.

It is anti Scotland being treated as an English colony. It was historically an autonomous country and it should be an autonomous country now.

Why that means Nicola can't live in England at this point in her life - which even her most vindictive critics must acknowledge is an extremely difficult time for her - is beyond me.

Is there anybody gearing up for this other than SNP supporters? Of whom, a lot live in England. That’s why the hypocrisy is so funny. Surely you’ve got to see the funny side of an ex leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party moving to England ? Kind of sums up the SNP really.

I know these days there is very much an England for the English mentality but I think if you are gearing up to extraditing all the Scottish people currently resident there it is farcical in the extreme.

She joins the likes of Sean Connery, Alan Cumming, Irvine Welsh, Brian Cox and Martin Compston - all Scottish independence campaigners but none of them actually live in Scotland

I agree. The amount of abuse and nastiness against her is unbelievable.

Personally I have always been a supporter of hers and this Murrell stuff has shocked me. But I believe in her fundamental honesty and no one deserves the abuse she is getting

If there was any evidence that she was involved in Murrell's crimes I 100% believe she would have been charged too. She was investigated for long enough.

Good for her. It'll do her good to get out of the goldfish bowl for a while. Scotland will always be her home.