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Holdmypint · 15/02/2023 10:29

I am very happy to hear this. Wonder about the succession - will this open a schism in the party?

Datun · 15/02/2023 10:30

The entire country has seen how you can reduce a generally articulate politician to incoherent jibber jabber within a couple of seconds.

there is no way other politicians will not see the capital to be gained from that. Or the pitfalls to be avoided.

Personally, I find the entire ideology so ridiculous, that to me, the only thing needed is exposure. Because everyone else finds it as ridiculous as I do, but they just don't know about it.

Now they do. Now they so bloody do.

Johnnysgirl · 15/02/2023 10:30

maddy68 · 15/02/2023 10:06

What a shame. She always stuck by her values whether you agreed with her or not.

Her "values" are not worthy of the name.

purpledalmation · 15/02/2023 10:30

Omg! Long overdue!

Youwhatnowbiggles · 15/02/2023 10:31

Oh please please please can they replace her with someone who has some actual decency. So concerned they’ll replace her with someone even worse.

littlbrowndog · 15/02/2023 10:31

Youwhatnowbiggles · 15/02/2023 10:31

Oh please please please can they replace her with someone who has some actual decency. So concerned they’ll replace her with someone even worse.

I know. Hoping.

Helleofabore · 15/02/2023 10:31

Oh noes!!! Nic has posted in Flouncer's Corner!!!

I hope we can convince her to come back!

HufflepuffRavenclaw · 15/02/2023 10:31

Delighted. Absolutely FUCKING DELIGHTED. This woman has destroyed my country, her and her wee cronies.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 15/02/2023 10:32

Joanna Cherry would be good...

WarriorNun · 15/02/2023 10:32

Have they then deliberately allowed her to fall on her sword?

If there's been planning behind the scenes?

LoveMAFS · 15/02/2023 10:32

YES!💃💃💃💃💃

Squamata · 15/02/2023 10:33

That's a shame. I think she's great.

Appalled at the misogynist vibe on here calling her a witch etc.

TheBiologyStupid · 15/02/2023 10:33

ArabellaScott · 15/02/2023 10:25

Ooh, word of the day!

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Wiktionary gives a helpful exa from Anthony Burgess's 1989 The Devil’s Mode:
She considered herself engaged to be married to a Scotch propaganda officer who had been dismissed for peculation and gone home to sell cars."

en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/peculation

TheBiologyStupid · 15/02/2023 10:34

D'oh - "helpful example" .

Chersfrozenface · 15/02/2023 10:34

TheBiologyStupid · 15/02/2023 10:33

Wiktionary gives a helpful exa from Anthony Burgess's 1989 The Devil’s Mode:
She considered herself engaged to be married to a Scotch propaganda officer who had been dismissed for peculation and gone home to sell cars."

en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/peculation

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😂

RLScott · 15/02/2023 10:35

lieselotte · 15/02/2023 10:23

Well.

Surely it's not down to the transgender stuff. Maybe she's just decided to quit while she's (kind of) ahead aka Jacinda Ardern.

I wonder who Scotland will get instead.

Kate Forbes is the frontrunner apparently.

SlouchingTowardsBethlehemAgain · 15/02/2023 10:35

She has probably had enough of being vilified in the Daily Mail and its ilk.

MorrisZapp · 15/02/2023 10:35

She was on Mariella last week assuring her she had 'plenty left in the tank'. A week is a long time in politics indeed.

MyrtIe · 15/02/2023 10:36

Excellent!

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 15/02/2023 10:36

From twitter:

Nicola Sturgeon has announced she is stepping down.

Not a surprise to those of us that know what is in Stewart McDonalds emails.

Wouldn’t it be a horrible thing, if allegedly, certain very senior, most senior people in the SNP had been using trans politics issues to deliberately heave ‘stalwarts’ out the SNP membership and reduce demands for independence?

Very inconvenient if you discussed that by email.

Allegedly of course. Just hypothetical.

twitter.com/jammach/status/1625799393856167936?t=FaAWNvONhmmUouZjOp_18w&s=19

CloakAndTin · 15/02/2023 10:36

Yesthatismychildsigh · 15/02/2023 10:01

That’s sad, I wanted her ousted.

That's why she's jumped. Just like Jacinda.

Theeyeballsinthesky · 15/02/2023 10:36

This is a woman happy to let women be locked up with male murderers and rapists

I’ve no sympathy at all - this is entirely of her own making

lifeturnsonadime · 15/02/2023 10:37

Well hopefully this is good news for women's rights in Scotland.

CloakAndTin · 15/02/2023 10:37

MorrisZapp · 15/02/2023 10:35

She was on Mariella last week assuring her she had 'plenty left in the tank'. A week is a long time in politics indeed.

I wonder what information is about to break?

KohlaParasaurus · 15/02/2023 10:37

I hope this doesn't mean she and Murrell will escape being investigated to within an inch of their lives.