Times: “Isla Bryson is Sturgeon’s Poll Tax moment”

Referring to the first minister’s “meltdown”, another sympathetic SNP source noted that Sturgeon is “obviously worried and anxious. Voters can’t understand why we are so wedded to this.”

I wonder if the sympathetic SNP source knows why they are so wedded to this or if they are as baffled by it as the rest of us.

That Sturgeon can't - or won't - answer the question shows how illogical and silly trans ideology is.

It was a simple question: should a man convicted of raping two women be considered a woman simply because he has declared that he is one himself?

Simple, perhaps, but it caused Nicola Sturgeon real difficulties in the Scottish parliament: “I think that a rapist should be considered a rapist. That is what I think...I will not get into the individual circumstances of that particular individual’s claims to be a woman, because I do not have enough information about that.”

Stupid woman Nicola. Stupid!

I’ve been a huge supporter of Nicola and the SNP for a long, LONG time….but this absolute travesty of a policy and their seeming determination to run roughshod over the rights of biological women have turned me right off. I’d imagine I’m not the only one. This is an absolute dealbreaker for me, and for the first time in my voting life, I’m not certain I’d give it to the SNP next time if they don’t turn this around.

Amazing isn't it, this issue that everyone patronised and sneered about saying it wasn't important. Well it turned out it was quite important. Who knew eh? Keep wondering what Starmer is making of it all.

Alex massie covers loads in the Scotland section on this topic but this might be my favourite article to date.

Here you go:

SNP, Sturgeon and independence fall in poll after Isla Bryson trans prisoner row

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/5da98de6-a4aa-11ed-ab5a-a67b5932bebd?shareToken=1932ff59eacc5ed0fb509521267f34be

Can't do share tokens. Support for SNP falls.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/snp-sturgeon-and-independence-fall-in-poll-after-isla-bryson-trans-prisoner-row-5j3pqr7s5

This is a bad day out for Sturgeon and co:

SNP insiders are painfully aware of the damage

“Gender recognition...could lose us popular Scotland too.”

Referring to the first minister’s “meltdown”, another sympathetic SNP source noted that Sturgeon is “obviously worried and anxious. Voters can’t understand why we are so wedded to this.”

Sturgeon’s approval rating has slipped into negative territory, from +7 to -4 since October.

A reversal on the independence question seems to have happened over past month, with support for secession down from 53 per cent to 47 per cent

Curtice said: “...it looks as though the battering the Scottish government has suffered in recent weeks, and especially on the issue of transgender prisoners, may also have taken its toll on SNP support.”

According to Alex Bell, a former senior policy adviser to Alex Salmond, a “constitutional crisis” has in a week become “a policy disaster”.