Sturgeon's book

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Anyone rushing to buy it? To read such startling revelations that she is attracted to women as well as men? (Must be tricky seeing as she can't define what a woman is).

Wouldn't put a penny in that woman's purse. Cant imagine there'll be anything in it we dont know

I have a lot of respect for Nicola Sturgeon for introducing the Scottish Child Payment.

This

Children would have far better prospects in life if the attainment gap was closed in the education system and they had quality jobs to go into after school. But this has never yet been sorted. Far better long term for our young people than a few extra quid in benefits

I find it fascinating that probably the most successful woman in Britain this century is treated with such derision on this website.

As she also “misdirected” millions of pounds that was given by Westminster to Scotland for schools and hospitals etc and used them for her own agenda ie independence and whatever else she spent the ££££ on then this tiny little policy that was put through that you don’t actually even know at the end of the day if that was her or someone else …she has zero respect from me or anyone I know!

As she also “misdirected” millions of pounds that was given by Westminster to Scotland for schools and hospitals etc

This is not how block grant functions.

£100 per month is more than a few quid, she made real moves towards dragging children out of poverty.

The problem with schools is that the smart kids get bullied and don't want to go, I don't know how you fix that other than boost incomes in the first place

Tell me you don’t know a blatant electoral bribe when you see one….

Why would we seek to celebrate a woman who sought to destroy the very category of women - for being a woman?

I cannot believe there are still some people who will support this sleekit, devious woman even after all the revelations about what the SNP were up to under her leadership and the fact the country has fallen to bits. It really is a cult.

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

Right, so now any policy intended for the betterment of the public is an "electoral bribe"? Is that how it works?

Screw those bastards trying to make anyone's life better eh? If only we had more governments piling on the misery and hardship. What exactly do they think they are doing? 😡

I assume you don't live in Scotland.

A failing education system and the ferry fiasco are just two aspects of life in Scotland which SNP first ministers including Nicola Sturgeon have presided over.

Not to mention all the unnecessary deaths from COVID as a result of her policy of transferring elderly with covid to care homes. (And of course, deleting all her WhatsApp messages so she couldn’t be held accountable). Plus those deaths resulting from waiting years for treatment due state of NHS Scotland (FIVE years now for routine gynae surgery). And local authority budgets slashed meaning local services have been cut and roads crumble into pot holes. The promise to dumb the A9 dissolved away to nothing. Sky high drug deaths that keep going up. Highest taxes of any part of the UK. It goes on and on.

Wondered when "ferries" would come up.

As per, no mention at all of the fact that every single party in Holyrood was adamant the SNP had to award the ferry contracts to Ferguson, and was spitting feathers at the prospect of them going abroad. No mention of the fact that the SG prior to SNP built precisely zero ferries to replace the already ageing fleet, meaning previous non-SNP FM's are even more guilty of total intransigence when it comes to this particular matter.

No mention of the myriad of vastly more expensive public procurement projects, military procurement projects, and infrastructure projects overseen by Westminster that have gone wildly over budget, partially delivered and then been scaled back, failed to deliver entirely, or are decades behind schedule AND overbudget, which Scotland, as part of the UK, is also paying for. Nope, "but Ferries!!!"

Yes, the SG have their failings, but they also look like the epitome of efficiency and probity by comparison to Westminster, but somehow we're supposed to buy that an overrun on ferry procurement and delivery signifies the country is going to hell in a handcart. Precisely what was Nicola Sturgeon supposed to do? Grab a welding torch and fire down to Port Glasgow for a wee shift in the yard herself?

(And of course, deleting all her WhatsApp messages so she couldn’t be held accountable)

Try again.

Deleting Whatsapps was standard protocol at the time, so she was doing precisely what she'd been instructed to do.

No doubt had there been a backlog of undeleted messages, the script would be "why aren't these SNP clowns following protocol"?

She had the best interests of the country at heart.

Social security is a decent win as far as I'm concerned. However she played quite a significant role in trashing Scottish health and education services and her chat about closing the attainment gap was just that - chat. She was also the heid honcho when they tried to downgrade and allocate exam results based on postcode during COVID. Unforgivable. Did she leave the Scottish Parliament better than she found it? No she did not.

The fact the SNP considered it standard protocol to delete their WhatsApp messages it the whole point! 🤦‍♀️

No, she has the best interests of Nicola Sturgeon at heart.

I know embarrassingly little about Scotland and Scottish politics, but isn’t NS the woman who considered it a priority to ensure that TW are able to live as women in all walks of life, including prisons, hospitals, changing rooms, etc…?

Yes. She thinks women’s concerns about letting men, including sex offenders, into spaces where women are naked or otherwise vulnerable are ‘not valid’ and ‘phobic. And after being forced to vote in favour of allowing women who have been violently gang raped to request the sex of the forensic examiner to carry out the immediate post-rape intimate exam, felt the need to record a video in a cupboard apologising profusely to trans identified men that those women wouldn’t be forced to have a man examine them if he ‘identified’ as a woman.

Quite.

I would not even borrow this $#@% from my local library…

I'm amazed that some posters think she was a great leader! Brainwashed or what?