To wish fab Nicola was our PM

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Her thoughts this morning

My first thoughts this morning are with service personnel called to action. Syria’s use of chemical weapons is sickening - but the question that the PM has not answered is how this action, taken without parliamentary approval, will halt their use or bring long term peace. #Syria

The nawbaggery on this thread is spectacular

Eeewwwww. No. No. No 🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢

You'd better believe it @DontDrinkDontSmoke

Horrible divisive politics and party. Niklah needs to concentrate on getting education, NHS, emergency services etc back to what they were instead of being a kiddy on stateswoman by having a junket to China.

SNP are all fart and nae shite. No then, no now and no always.

YABU in my opinion.

Having lived up here in Scotland for a number of years, I can see she is concerned with only one thing. Independence. She's hateful, does little to denounce the sectarianism which exists here and leads a minority government which seems to have passed very little legislation in the time I've been here.

She is all talk and no action; very ineffective overall. She'd be an awful PM.

From what I understand, speaking to lawyers who work in public services - eg Procurator Fiscals. The legislation that has been passed is pretty badly written anyway. Possibly it’s a blessing in disguise.

She’s very self serving. I wonder if all the SNP are even happy with her?

I understand many in the SNP do not like her as the leader. I work with someone who thinks the SNP can do no wrong, are the best thing since sliced bread and should NEVER be talked bad of but she admits internally NS is disliked by many.

I can not stand her or her party. As a fully qualified solicitor I find it astounding so many of their ill thought out policies breach laws (the information sharing part of the named person act breached human rights) and was apparantly only a minor issue to resolve yet we are some 18 months gone and no indication they have managed to fix this so called minor error. Mind you they are probably still trying to work out how they can blame Westminster, the Tories and all us nasty no voters for this 🤔

I should point out i'm not a Solicitor I am referring above to NS being the qualified solicitor.

hateful, does little to denounce the sectarianism which exists here
Actually that's incorrect. The Offensive Behaviour at Football Act was introduced to address that very thing and repealed as other parties didn't like it. It is also very difficult to deal with years of bigotry that have been ingrained for centuries.
No one has to like NS, but some of the comments on here have been pretty vile.
By the way, I am English living in Scotland, and think she is doing a pretty good job.

Offensive Behaviour at Football Act was ridiculous and unworkable.

Other Nicolas who would make better PMs than Nicola Sturgeon:

• Nicola Walker

• Dr Nic Williams

• Nicola Adams

If Scottish Parliament votes to get rid of denominational schools, then sectarianism would be pretty much eradicated within a couple of generations. Never mind lip service by banning idiots from singing their songs at the football.
Half of them probably don't even know the background history to most of their songs and chants anyway.

If Scottish Parliament votes to get rid of denominational schools, then sectarianism would be pretty much eradicated within a couple of generations. Never mind lip service by banning idiots from singing their songs at the football.

Would it? Sectarianism has far more to do with football than it does schooling. This year marks 100 years of Catholic state education in Scotland, and if you don't realise why it was such a big deal I would suggest that you don't understand sectarianism.

"... being a kiddy on stateswoman by having a junket to China." You really don't understand why she was there, but it was and will be hugely beneficial to Scotland. Can't say any more without outing myself!

It's pandas for the zoo @BearFoxBear isn't it? 🐼

More steel?

clearly any junket to China must've been to recruit more overseas high fee paying students for our under funded Scottish universities. That'll be it. Scottish students can't get in, but we love ones that pay huge fees.

Oh and pandas.

Yes, because although we should all be so grateful for free fees, what is not advertised so widely is that the numbers of places for Scots gets less and less. And the Uni’s are being starved of money. We would be better paying something

Also the budgets for colleges have been slashed to the bone for free university tuition.

I agree @BrashCandicoot re the football breeding sectarianism.

I simply think that if all kids were educated in one school in their communities and if religion were to be kept as a matter for home and place of worship, as is now becoming more common in Northern Ireland, then we would see a huge decline in sectarian type behaviour.

Interestingly, as a teacher and person of good moral standing but not affiliated to any religion, I'd be ineligible to apply for a promoted post in a Catholic school....that's not right in the 21st Century

QueenoftheSilverDollar
It would take a lot more to rid sectarianism in parts of Scotland than that. You’d have to stop trouble makers pouring over from Northern Ireland to Old Firm games, bringing their tribalism with them. You’d have to outlaw wholly sectarian organisations like the Orange Order parading their hatred round the streets every year celebrating a Northern Ireland battle in the 17th Century!

There are more integrated schools in England, but it hasn’t stopped racism thriving in some areas. Schools have a lot less influence on children, despite their best efforts, than examples set in the home.

I grew up in Glasgoe, and was very aware of sectarianism. Have lived elsewhere in Scotland - much further North - for years and never been aware of it. Is it genuinely a Scotland problem? Or just limited to some areas?

It's not a Scotland problem. It is isolated to certain areas.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/scottish-town-where-green-is-beyond-the-pale-981747.html

Some areas worse than others. Not all areas but working class areas have it worse.

quite apart from the Indy issue, which tbh, most people are too weary of incessant poll taking to want to vote on again, the Scottish government seem to be fucking things up spectacularly and no one has notoced. and they are wild about centralisation of everything. After the roaring success of Police Scotland, somehow they have not been put off and I thibk they are away to amalgamate all the health boards into 3 super health boards. it's an absolute disaster waiting to happen as they won't have learned anything from the police mess.