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To ask scots if they actually like Nicola sturgeon

917 replies

Karen85 · 03/02/2017 13:24

Just out of curiosity really because she and her voice make me cringe when i hear her on tv or radio.

Love scots though please don't get me wrong.

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Bloopbleep · 03/02/2017 14:32

I'm not an SNP voter but I like her and don't recognise the person the hate in this thread is aimed at. I only see the other parties talk about independence relentlessly - she is highly articulate and reasoned even if some of her evidence can be questionable.

I'm definitely not a Tory and I quite like Ruth too but that dugdale woman is a thick knob and embarrassment to labour.

Puremince · 03/02/2017 14:32

I like and respect her. I also like Ruth Davidson. I think that Kezia Dugdale is out of her depth, but might have been a good Labour leader if she'd had a few more years in the Scottish Parliament before becoming leader.

I'm far more impressed with Holyrood than I am with Westminster.

Yoksha · 03/02/2017 14:32

I'm a displaced Scot. I think she's intelligent & articulate. I don't know her personally. I wish she'd change the record though. I try to apply critical thinking on anything sny politician tells us. She's no better/worse than the rest of them. I don't think she's anyone's fool. She appeals to me more than Mr Salmond. I remember when she got elected to replace him as First Minister, he tried to hug her too closely in congratulations. She literally jolted him away from her person. I don't know if anyone else noticed it?

GoesDownLikeACupOfColdSick · 03/02/2017 14:33

I don't like her policies, but I think she's an impressive politician.

She does, however, look like Jimmy Krankie, and whoever it was that first pointed this out has a lot to answer for!!

Purplefrogshoes · 03/02/2017 14:33

I can't stand her independence at any price attitude. She as the first minister of Scotland should be concentrating on the state of the NHS, food poverty and I could go on all day but her constant threat of indyref2 when I believe she doesn't even have that power does my head right in

Yoksha · 03/02/2017 14:33

*any.

Igneococcus · 03/02/2017 14:34

I would quite happily pay for my prescriptions if that would mean our hospital will stay open. We are 2 hours (a bit less if there are few tourists) through the hills to the closest hospital with an A&E if ours really shuts down. No decision has been made but it''s under review and people here are extremely worried.
I have no real opinion about her as a person but as a politician, I think she has only one goal, which is independence at all costs, and this is crap.

MrsJayy · 03/02/2017 14:34

I dont think Kezia Dugdale is thick i think she was thrown in at the deepend Labour thought we need a woman who can we get

WankersHacksandThieves · 03/02/2017 14:35

I've heard stories of things she did when in charge of health that confirm what a horrid person she is as well as her abhorrent style of politics and her unwillingness to do anything about the cybernats spreading hate and racism in the their name.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 03/02/2017 14:36

I dont think Kezia Dugdale is thick i think she was thrown in at the deepend Labour thought we need -a woman someone, anyone, who can we get

Fixed it for you Grin

amusedbush · 03/02/2017 14:36

This is showing in trending as "To ask scots if they actually like..." and I knew what the question would be before I even clicked on it!

Yes, I really like her. I think she's brilliant and I have a tonne of respect for her and the work she does.

Mari50 · 03/02/2017 14:37

Don't like her, don't like her politics. SNP have had a decade to prove themselves and lo and behold they're as useless as the last lot. NHS is on its knees, education attainment has dropped, council services in decline. It's a disaster. All the snp care about is independence, we will be forced to have ground hog day referendum until they get the answer they want, by the time that happens their gross mismanagement of Scotland will have fucked the country over. That said, what are the alternatives. . . . . The tories fucking is over? At least this way we'll have no one to blame but ourselves (for a change)

ExConstance · 03/02/2017 14:39

I really like her, she is honest and fights Scotland's corner. I wish we had SNP in England, then I could vote for her.

Mari50 · 03/02/2017 14:39

We don't pay for prescriptions because the system in place to manage who pays and who doesn't costs as much as giving the shit away for free.
Hmmm. A great example of how public services work.

Sweetpotatoaddict · 03/02/2017 14:39

She's a terrifying manipulative person, who is systematically destroying what was good in Scotland ( Nhs and education).
She's a smart lady who wants independence at all costs to the Scottish people, a career politician who has little idea of real life! She runs a dictatorship within her party, ever heard one of them speak out of line?

Willow2016 · 03/02/2017 14:41

Nope cant stand her.

She has her own agenda for the whole 2nd Independance Referenum and Brexit stuff.

Basically she stuck two fingers up at the very people she is supposed to represent when they voted 'NO'. Suck it up woman it was a democratic vote, you dont get to say 'I want you all to change your mind or else I will keep harping on about it ad nauseum.

I would like to admire her for being a woman in a very masculine world, for getting where she is on her own merits, but the whole package of her, her manerisms, her smug 'I am going to be the person who makes Scotland independant' in everything she says and does puts me right off.

Scotland voted no, everyone has to respect that, end of.

GruochMacAlpin · 03/02/2017 14:42

Interestingly whenever I have heard Kezia Dugdale speak in a more relaxed interview she comes across quite well but I'm not sure her oratory skills in the Scottish Parliament are a match for either Ruth Davidson or Nicola Sturgeon both of whom are excellent speakers.

amusedbush · 03/02/2017 14:43

Scotland voted no, everyone has to respect that, end of.

Scotland voted no although I didn't with the promise of a UK that was part of the EU. The situation has changed.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 03/02/2017 14:43

Basically she stuck two fingers up at the very people she is supposed to represent when they voted 'NO'. Suck it up woman it was a democratic vote, you dont get to say 'I want you all to change your mind or else I will keep harping on about it ad nauseum

She didn't. The people who voted for the SNP did.

DollyMcDolly · 03/02/2017 14:45

Really can't stand her and I despise the SNP.

cdtaylornats · 03/02/2017 14:45

I detest her and her whole party of incompetents. We have an NHS crying out for money so the SNP run up their rates bill.

Not one bill has been put through Holyrood since the last election.

GruochMacAlpin · 03/02/2017 14:46

The thing is Willow that although the Scottish people voted "no" they also subsequently voted an SNP government back into the Scottish Parliament and sent an overwhelmingly SNP set of MPs to Westminster.

It's not so simple as you are making out.

StickyMouse · 03/02/2017 14:46

I prefer her to Teresa May, better conviction and better dressed! She seems to want to protect the interests of Scotland, Teresa May doesn't come across like that, her behaviour when direct questions were asked of her about Trident made me really doubt her ability as the PM.

Lessstressedhemum · 03/02/2017 14:46

She was in my sister's class at school and I still know her family, they live down the road from my mum's house. She is a very intelligent, very focused, principled woman. She never wanted to be anything other than a politician and has always done what she thinks is best for Scotland.

On a personal level, she still comes home and is involved in our local community. She has never forgotten where she came from. She is a woman of integrity and decency and, whatever you think of her politics, surely that is something to be admired?

Coffeethrowtrampbitch · 03/02/2017 14:46

I think she's great.

My sister is an SNP activist and when she met Nicola she got thanked for all her hard work (and the selfie she asked for!)

My parents were Labour activists in the 70 and early 80's, got an MP elected and got a number of local councillors elected, one of whom is now a Lord. They didn't receive a thank you for their hard work, not ever, from the people they had helped to get elected. Several of these now have net worth in the millions.

So purely compared to how most party officials treat their supports, she is great.

But if you dislike her politics you are realistically not going to like the person espousing them!