Nicola Sturgeon

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Hospitality restrictions extended today and a 5 tier system?

Why not just have the same as England? Why is she insisting on harsher lockdowns then blaming Westminster for no funding.

Edinburgh and Glasgow will be like ghost towns soon. I’m sure more than 50% of bars and restaurants won’t re-open.

Are you all following the restrictions ( question for the central belters) ?

@MissEliza

It's a shit show down here? The infection rates where I live are a quarter of where my family is from in the Glasgow area. From what I can see on my hometown's Facebook group, many people are certainly not following the rules and people are getting frustrated. There's lots of reports of large house parties. I was considering taking my dd up for half term but there's no way I'd go from an area of low infection to a region with such high case rates. I'm worried about my df too. My colleague's daughter returned to her studies in Edinburgh in September and was really shocked at how people were ignoring social distancing etc compared to what she'd got used to over the summer at her DM's house in southern England. She wants to come home because she feels so uncomfortable. There's a real delusion in Scotland about how much better they're doing.

You live in the Lake District? I’m not sure you can compare Covid rates between there and Glasgow, the city with the largest population in Scotland.

I’m in Glasgow and as far as I can see compliance has been pretty good. My teenager attends a very large secondary school and only a few kids have has to self isolation so far.

@RaspberryCoulis
Hope you pull up @WaxOnFeckOff for her nastiness 😉

Funny enough I'm not stupid and am old enough to read the snark between the lines, you sound bitter and twisted and clearly have never been stuck with the option of one shitty cafe or a shop with shrink wrapped almost out of date sausage rolls while travelling round Scotland, which I have done quite a lot off in my 54 years. I'm happy to give money locally and to places who make the effort and don't think that they can get away with anything cos they have a captive audience.

I also suggest you go back to school @SBTLove if you don't think the UK is one big country.

The UN beg to differ. And wax shouldn't have sworn in my opinion but I See why she did - Althusser inference that anyone who criticises isn't properly Scottish.

I don't think I shouldn't have sworn to be honest. That smug inference that I wasn't Scottish enough and that my actual experience is obviously not true... Does my fucking head in. And we are allowed to swear. No doubt my post will be reported but I couldn't give a flying fuck 😁

@WaxOnFeckOff
I’m not at all bitter and twisted, I’m highly amused at your bitterness that’s spewing out of each post that you can’t accept that someone doesn’t agree with you or has another opinion, yet have the cheek to be swearing and name calling me 🤣
I’ve travelled all over Scotland and lived on one of the islands so yes there can be a lack
of amenities.
@RaspberryCoulis
I asked if she was Scottish no inference at all, as I did wonder at her criticism of our hospitality industry as I think it’s good if we can support it in these times. There are plenty areas that are open despite waxy claiming she can’t eat out 🧐

@RaspberryCoulis
Very hypocritical that you call me rude and unpleasant but waxy is excused her swearing and aggression. I suppose you Tory gals gotta stick together 😂

There are plenty of places open? So tell me then if you live in the central belt and want to go out for dinner - out as in proper sit down out, not a takeaway - where do you go? You can't go anywhere because EVERYTHING IS SHUT. And you're not supposed to travel to other parts of the country because Nicola says it's naughty.

Here here Raspberry, yet another person that it's just not worth engaging with. Clearly if your not snp you aren't allowed to be Scottish, or have an opinion, sick of the the sleekit , snarky, chip on the shoulder attitude that we should accept anything poor quality just because it's Scottish. One of the reasons I don't want independence.

I just love that despite saying I was brought up in poverty, I'm suddenly depicted as a naice (code for middle class) tory, just because I don't want independence and think the SNP and nicola are doing a piss poor job.

So we are to use Scottish hospitality but if we sit at a pavement cafe we are guilty as sin. Make your mind up Torquemada! 😂

@RaspberryCoulis
You’ve been rude all along.
I like the way you both twist everything to suit your silly opinions of SNP supporters.
I’ve not said anyone is less Scottish at any point, the only nastiness is from Waxy, who ironically claims she’s not allowed an opinion but is down my throat for daring to question her.
And I’m thick?
None so blind...

Haha haha haha haha haha........ ha

Right, I'm done. 😂😂😂😂

Has anyone questioned Sturgeon about this ridiculous nonsense that cafés can open but restaurants can't? In Bruntsfield and Morningside on Saturday the cafés were doing a roaring trade (most were full with queue) yet the "restaurants" , which could have taken the overspill , were closed.

Restaurants often have greater floor space and could do social distancing more effectively than the average tea- shop. Hawksmoor in St. Andrews Square for example has acres of cathedral like space.

@Scotslassie1

MissEliza everyone's stressed re potential travel restrictions. I get your worried but everyone has the potential to be restricted and unable to see family.

NS has no consistency. She allowed the Glasgow spread to grow, this infected the whole central belt. Yet she put no travel restriction in place. Now we are on a circuit breaker, cases are not high where i am, i feel its massively unreasonable. She needs to manage Scotland equally without favouritism.

I've made no secret of my loathing of Nicola and the SNP.

Her regular coronavirus briefings are not about coronavirus at all but to keep her in the public eye and compare her with Boris etc. All to help her profile in time for the election.

Most of the stuff she is saying could be in a fucking press release.

I'll be voting for a unionist party in the constituency and list ballot papers. I'll be looking carefully at who is the SNPs main competition in my area rather than the party I actually prefer. I want them to lose seats.

Has anyone questioned Sturgeon about this ridiculous nonsense that cafés can open but restaurants can't? In Bruntsfield and Morningside on Saturday the cafés were doing a roaring trade (most were full with queue) yet the "restaurants" , which could have taken the overspill , were closed.

Restaurants often have greater floor space and could do social distancing more effectively than the average tea- shop. Hawksmoor in St. Andrews Square for example has acres of cathedral like space

I met a friend in South Queensferry about 2 weeks ago. Big spacious restaurants all closed but we ended up in a tiny cafe with 3 tables. Didn't make sense!!

@DidoLamenting

Has anyone questioned Sturgeon about this ridiculous nonsense that cafés can open but restaurants can't? In Bruntsfield and Morningside on Saturday the cafés were doing a roaring trade (most were full with queue) yet the "restaurants" , which could have taken the overspill , were closed.

Restaurants often have greater floor space and could do social distancing more effectively than the average tea- shop. Hawksmoor in St. Andrews Square for example has acres of cathedral like space.

I totally agree

My H works in a restaurant they are operating at 40% capacity and 2m distancing, staff have been in masks even before they were obligatory. They have had no cases and yet have to close.

There was a cafe on the news the other night that was packed and no 2m distancing. But they get to stay open? It’s not fair.

@user1471543683

Has anyone questioned Sturgeon about this ridiculous nonsense that cafés can open but restaurants can't? In Bruntsfield and Morningside on Saturday the cafés were doing a roaring trade (most were full with queue) yet the "restaurants" , which could have taken the overspill , were closed.

Restaurants often have greater floor space and could do social distancing more effectively than the average tea- shop. Hawksmoor in St. Andrews Square for example has acres of cathedral like space

I met a friend in South Queensferry about 2 weeks ago. Big spacious restaurants all closed but we ended up in a tiny cafe with 3 tables. Didn't make sense!!

I used the online option to contact NS. about Aberdeen just after our 3 week lockdown. I didn't get any reply at all. It was a perfectly polite email so a bit annoyed. Didn't really surprise me though as she's evaded questions about Aberdeen when asked.

Boris etc trying to balance health v economy during unprecedented pandemic 'they're murdering bastards, with blood on their hands. Oh and they hate the arts.'

Nicola etc trying to tackle same 'well gosh I wouldn't want her job! She's damned either way isn't she?'

Lol had exact same experience in South Queensferry. Tiny pavement rammed with people queuing for little cafes. Huge airy restaurants closed.

I think from the wording in the Tier documents, they are going to address this anomaly in this week's grand unveiling of who's going to be in which Tier.

My view is she will have Edinburgh in Tier 3 despite the falling numbers, but as a sop she'll allow restaurants to open if they don't sell alcohol after 6. I hope they do as so many have put stringent distancing policies in place and spent money on partitions etc.

Remember she only allowed the cafes to be open so that people on their own had somewhere to meet and is very disappointed that people are flocking to them .

I emailed NS at the beginning of the pandemic, the question was unrelated to COVID, but Covid came a long and made the situation worse. One of her staff answered with a generic email about how to stop the spread of COVID. When I pressed her assistant - he told me there was nothing more to say on the matter 😆

It was like asking why Lothian buses are dirty? Getting a reply about COVID (Wash hands etc) and refusing to answer anymore!

Maybe all those currently in receipt of council tax reduction as a single adult household will be issued with a ear tag special pass to be able to go to a cafe? The rest of us have people in our houses to speak to.

Not that she and her husband ever speak and especially not about anything to do with Alec salmond, party policy, independence etc. 🤔🙄

I met a friend in South Queensferry about 2 weeks ago. Big spacious restaurants all closed but we ended up in a tiny cafe with 3 tables. Didn't make sense!!

Lol had exact same experience in South Queensferry. Tiny pavement rammed with people queuing for little cafes. Huge airy restaurants closed

South Queensferry is obviously popular. I had exactly the same experience there a couple of weeks ago.