STURGEON IS QUITTING

[Clymene]

Just seen on BBC headlines

Isn’t trying to link our reasonable position that people should be free to live their lives as they choose, but in certain situations sex matters and that needs to be respected, with the appalling murder of a young person, introducing hate into the debate?

I'm in Scotland, the Met police, while clearly awful, are not my priority. Nor are they anything to do with Nicola Sturgeon's success or failure as First Minister, frankly.

Fan-Feckin-Dabi-Dozi

Brilliant news. She has done a lot of damage to women's and children's rights and has not helped trans identifying individuals one iota. And lets not talk about her finances and what she did to Alex Salmond. She's dodgy as.

She has been forced out before being ousted it’s better for the actual survival of the SNP. If you are against independence then actually it’s a bad day as she was destroying them from within.

www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2023/02/nicola-sturgeon-used-and-discarded/

'The main cause of bad government performance was Sturgeon’s compulsion to sideline all people of real talent in the SNP, and surround herself only with the extremely mediocre, who would never challenge her.'

That is a very interesting article.

Ian krankie

I hate it when people feel the need to name call

I do too, and if she hadn't felt the need to call people like me racists, homophobes and transphobes then I'd feel less inclined to call her names back. Just as well she resigned, she was losing the plot towards the end. Though I did enormously admire her performance not using any pronouns at all for Isla Bryson and sticking to "the individual" and "the rapist". I couldn't have done it!

Are you aware that the nature of the corroboration law in Scotland makes it significantly harder to get a conviction for rape than under English law?

I would entirely agree that its a shambles in England and Wales but even with a functioning court system Scottish law puts higher barriers to justice for victims.

Just adding this quote from the Cheshire police statement - please don’t bring Brianna’s tragic death up in a thread about Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation.
It’s disrespectful to Brianna’s family and could undermine the justice process.

Just hope it's not John Swinney as the next First Minister.

As for the SNP, in general they are the best argument against Scottish independence.

www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-self-id-helped-bring-down-nicola-sturgeon/
James Kirkup in The Spectator.

@CryptoFascistMadameCholet
Timely reminder.

It's just such poetic justice though.

NS forced the GR Reform Bill through just as fast as ever she could, but not so fast that she didn't make sure to squelch the "maybe don't let rapists self-id when being sent to prison" amendment.

And then a rapist went to a women's prison.

And within weeks of the bill passing, she is out. Weeks! Glorious.

I do not think the GRR bill and her resigning are unrelated.

She "led Scotland through COVID" by doing things a week or two after Boris and having more gravitas in her delivery than BJ. (Let's face it, Mr Tumble has more gravitas than Boris).

Same mistakes were made with care homes and not locking down early enough/too harsh locking down (depending on your viewpoint). And as for the hush up over the Nike conference in Feb in Edinburgh.

I suppose she also managed not to have piss-ups with her staff in the middle of lockdowns. But it's not a high bar to clear, is it?

James Kirkup:

"How did the most astute and sure-footed politician in Britain manage to trip over on self-ID and end up stammering over the rights of a rapist such as Isla Bryson? I suspect the relatively small scale of Scottish politics plays a part. It’s not a big country and its political class is equally modest. Years of SNP rule in Edinburgh has meanwhile reinforced the walls of a small and insular settlement made up of left-leaning public bodies, charities, campaign groups and other lobbyists, most of them wary of breaking the progressive consensus and offending the party’s ruling cadres. In other words, Scottish politics was easy to capture."

It's a day for joyous celebrating across Scotland. The child sterilising conveyor belts in the Sandyford clinic is being shut down, and the woman who blocked amendments to keep male sex criminals out of women's prisons has resigned.

Can we start hoping that other politicians will take heed, and curb the instincts that have been leading them down the path towards destroying women's rights and child safeguarding.

Good. She’s no feminist and caused no end of harm to women.

I think Sturgeon did use 'her' to refer to Bryson. At a press conference Sturgeon said 'My comments about her, eh the person being a rapist'. Also, at the same press conference Sturgeon said that Bryson 'regards 'herself' as a woman'. Then when asked about that one minute later said that she couldn't remember and that would take the reporter's word for it.

Why you are all so happy about this is beyond me. If youvthibk the tories will do a better job for women’s rights you are deluded !! Not to mention she is highly respected abroad and I I’ll be very hard to find someone who can do the same . I guess everyone here is either English or really doesn’t care we stay under English rule for another hundreds of years . They treat us so well 🙄🙄🙄

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Nicola has resigned as party leader, she’ll be replaced by another SNP MSP, not a Tory you daft sausage 😂

Not at all sorry to see her go, and I hope it brings some improvement for women's rights in Scotland, but Alex Salmond is hardly a knight in shining armour.

Yes because finding someone else l be very easy !!

@Wiluli

Not to mention she is highly respected abroad and I I’ll be very hard to find someone who can do the same .

They like her in Russia. They call her Beluga.