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To wish fab Nicola was our PM

249 replies

jnfrrss · 14/04/2018 08:09

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

OP posts:
Lynz39 · 14/04/2018 16:01

I'm in Scotland and absolutely not, agree totally about the baby boxes as above, huge waste of money

QueenLaBeefah · 14/04/2018 16:01

Sturgeon will be remembered for grandstanding and a refusal to do her day job (and being the highest paid politician in the U.K.).

TokyoSushi · 14/04/2018 16:06

YABU, YABVU

ny20005 · 14/04/2018 16:14

I think she's a fantastic politician & a great first minister - oh & I live in Scotland

Nhs here is doing so much better than in England. Of course there could still be improvements but we're on the right track.

I have children in school & they are doing really well. I don't know about high school as mine aren't there yet

TooManyPaws · 14/04/2018 16:18

I'm in Scotland and I really respect Nicola Sturgeon. Our education and health has been protected from the worst unlike England and Wales. The Scottish Government has actively sought to offset the effects of the dreadful bedroom tax. I think it right that I should pay more tax because I'm lucky enough to have a pretty decent salary and that this can then help give the poorer tax breaks. I have worked in the public sector for most of my working life (non-government) and my work has included horizon scanning and estimating the effects of government policy. I trust the current government more than I would any other party, and I used to be a Labour Party branch secretary before Blair destroyed the morality of the party.

As for Davidson, if anyone has a fetish about independence, it's her; she never stops banging on about it. And around 80%of the rest of the stuff she says has been analysed and proven to be incorrect. Ghastly play actor.

BearFoxBear · 14/04/2018 16:28

Agree on Ruth Davidson, the lies that woman tells with a straight face are unreal.

On baby baxes, they've had a positive impact on child mortality and health elsewhere, had a 100% positive feedback from recipients, and their implementation is being actively monitored to determine their true value. There are a lot of families out there with next to nothing (of which I've first hand experience) and I'm happy for them to get help like this. Make it universal, destigmatise it, give babies a supported start. Good. Keep it up I say.

Olddear · 14/04/2018 16:30

have you been drinking OP?

DearyDearyDeary · 14/04/2018 16:41

It's not really surprising baby boxes have such good feedback - everyone likes free stuff.

Anyhow, thanks OP - this thread has given me a good laugh this afternoon.

ImNotReallyAWaitress · 14/04/2018 16:44

God no.
There’s nothing fab about the Scottish nasty party.

FleurDelacoeur · 14/04/2018 17:23

about the SNP branding themselves as cool

More about branding themselves as different to the rest of the UK, more proof that Scotland is SO different and SO progressive and therefore simply must be independent.

Lionso · 14/04/2018 17:54

Recently having moved my primary age DS from Scottish school system (well thought of school) to English one (average ranked school). I was shocked how far behind my DS is. He was middle of the class in most things before. Now he is way way behind his English peers. Yes the Scottish school system is more relaxed (e.g. no SATS) but not necessarily better. Education is just one of many things under the SNP and Sturgeon that is going down the tube. Give it another 10 years and there will be a huge backlash to Curriculum for Excellence IMO.

OP you are being unreasonable.

counterpoint · 14/04/2018 18:04

She comes across as caring and honest. She is clearly much more intelligent than the Trump-stooge, May, when asked an off-the-cuff question. Mayhem-May is on a par with that brainless Bush for answering questions as knowledgeably as a five year old.

Shenanagins · 14/04/2018 19:03

When my socialist anti-private school friend was so worried about the implementation of CoE that they said if they had secondary age children they would be sending them to private school it made me sit up and start to take an interest in the state of our education and it’s not good.

QueenLaBeefah · 14/04/2018 19:08

Curriculum for Excellence isn't too bad in primary school but it's when your children go into high school that you really see it for the heap of dung that it really is. The SNP should scrap it ASAP and revert back to the old system. But, hey, they won't take lectures from anyone else so they'll carry on regardless.

Redglitter · 14/04/2018 19:10

She comes across as caring and honest

She's neither

CackleCrackle · 14/04/2018 19:23

We won’t be able to measure educational standards as the SNP have dropped and redefined surveys they don’t agree with.
Numbers on education not going your way? Problem with the survey obviously!

The question on baby boxes and the feedback is similarly a rigged game: measuring whether they’ve had any effect is one small thing, measuring whether they’ve had a better effect than spending that money elsewhere - much harder.

Baby boxes are tokenistic, the SNP are tokenistic politicians and the Syria soundbite is yet more of the same. Rather than looking to do something deep, like address the causes of child poverty, or anything that would actually help children being gassed in Syria, they have done something headline grabbing, easy and populist.

ginghamstarfish · 14/04/2018 19:23

I live in Scotland. She's not doing a good job here ...

Fundays12 · 14/04/2018 19:26

Nope I am Scottish and would get rid of her if I could. She forces independence down our throats constantly but refuses to listen when people say enough about it all. She lost a third of SNP largely because she didn’t listen to what the voters told her.

19lottie82 · 14/04/2018 19:28

Ha! I actually LOL,d when I read this title.

“Fab” Nicola? Have her! Please!!!!!

How niave you are OP! Do 5 mins do digging online and you will quickly see how fab she is not!

19lottie82 · 14/04/2018 19:30

She comes across as caring and honest.

Unfortunately it takes a lot more than that to run a country!

As an SMP, her constituency is an area called Govanhill aka govanhell. (Google it) if she can’t take care of her own back yard, how on gods earth can you trust her to run our country!

BigFatGoalie · 14/04/2018 19:34

Why are people so negative about such a thoughtful and passionate educated women?

Now I know you’re just winding us all up, OP.
good joke, but think I’ll pass.

QueenoftheSilverDollar12 · 14/04/2018 19:48

I think the OP has fecked off. It might have been Niklah herself, wanting a bit of feedback on her popularity 😃 or total lack thereof

19lottie82 · 14/04/2018 19:52

Nicola just tells the public what she thinks she wants to hear, and then it never follows through.

I’m embarrassed as to how many Scottish people actually believe her promises.

The SNP will be non existent in 20 years once everyone finally realised what nonsense they spout.

MexicanBob · 14/04/2018 19:53

If she could do the job she wouldn't be wasting her time at Edinburgh.

ocelot41 · 14/04/2018 20:04

I have had the opposite experience to Lionso. Moved from outstanding primary school in London to similar in Edinburgh, shocked at how far behind DS. But teachers all stepped up with some really well targeted interventions and much better now

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