Thread by @Sakura509

Caveat: This article is sourced from @Daily_Express !!!

"End of Sturgeon?"

Frankly, an appropriate response from @NicolaSturgeon might be to quote the infamous Mark Twain response to an erroneous 'obituary' known to all...

"The reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated."

msn.com/en-gb/news/oth…

More accurately, the media have quoted:

"Ms Sturgeon said she had a “real job to do” and was focused on guiding Scotland through the Covid-19 pandemic."

It's very reassuring to hear that @scotgov and @ScotGovFM have prioritised safeguarding lives and Scotland, above all else.

"I’ll leave others to play games or politics. I have got a real job to do and people can decide themselves whether I am doing it well or not, but I am absolutely 100 per cent focused on leading this country through a pandemic."

💯% 😀👍

Making her priorities crystal clear!

“That’s what I’ve done since this time last year and it’s what I’m going to continue to do for absolutely as long as necessary.”

And again, making it absolutely crystal clear!

Equally clearly, #Ross has no qualms about pursuing his political career ambitions 👇

“Nicola Sturgeon, SNP leader, let’s you and I debate our respective positions right now."

IMHO this appears to be nothing more than playground bravado and has no relevance to lives of Scots.

I could have included an accurate picture taken of 'YES' supporters for #ScottishIndependence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 but there is no need, Scots know @ScotGovFM acts in Scotland's national interest!

scotsman.com/news/politics/…

However, it's worth noting that @Daily_Express does as it always does: hints at the news; tells its' 'reader' how to think and feel; then speculates on how to reinterpret it, to fit their wildest dreams!

Everyone is entitled to their opinions and #Sillers is but one man!

There is a saying...'Hell hath no fury, like a woman scorned'!

This applies equally well, to the male ego!

"Why Are (Some) Males’ Egos So Fragile?"

"We live in a culture that has promoted male supremacy from the start"

1/2 "The last 500 years have continued the hijacking of the commons by governments and the wealthy, extending to the whole world, beginning with the Vatican’s 1493 Doctrine of Discovery, which claimed that any lands not governed by Christians could be “discovered”"

2/2 "and claimed by the Christians who arrived onshore."

NB "It has continued more recently with government-business partnerships that again take away the livelihoods of the common people through the forces of globalized capitalism (Bollier, 2014; Korten, 2015; Perkins, 2016)."

"What does this all have to do with male entitlement?"

"When communities are disrupted, so are families. When families are disrupted, so is child development. When child development is disrupted, it is particularly impactful on boys."

Nature vs Nuture!

What of Nanny's role? 🧐

"While both girls and boys need the evolved nest to grow properly, boys need it more and for longer (Schore, 2017). Girls have more built-in resilience and develop much faster in early life."

Female leaders worldwide are noted for their achievements!

"How does a child survive who feels highly insecure, who has an empty self and deep despair? He might use his enhanced survival systems to oppose and dominate or submit and emotionally withdraw."

Similarly, as in alleviation of stress; 'Fight, Flight or Freeze'.

"He has difficulty behaving in ways that are “fiercely egalitarian” because those capacities are grown within the evolved nest."

No man is an island so, what of the consequences for society and all humankind?

What of #Trump #Trumpism, #LiarJohnson and #ToryCorruption ?

"Instead, he latches onto scripts, learning the rules that get him ahead. He uses his survival instincts—territoriality, rivalry, routines, and group loyalty—to move through the social world (MacLean, 1990)."

PMQs & inane slogans!!

"The deep insecurity inside is externalized—meaning, other people are the problem—because the splitting of self occurs in early life as a matter for survival. Insight into personal feelings is underdeveloped or too dangerous."

It's always EU're fault & never facing consequences.

"The world becomes black and white in certain respects. If he feels bad, it’s someone else’s fault. Because the child himself was not treated with empathy himself in early life, little empathy is developed (Narvaez, 2014)."

Brexit means Brexit! 😱

"The script for an entitled male is to make sure their head is higher than that of women or unqualified men."

Hence, the deployment of playground politics!

For many adults, they have matured beyond using those rudimentary tactics to undermine others and their achievements.

"If there is a threat to that script, they must fight like the devil to make the world right again. They feel righteously angry for the threats to their place in the world."

According to THEIR worldview, however warped and corrosive to democracy and humankind.

Global Britain 🤔

"We see the raging of entitled males across the USA as they are asked to share privileges with everyone else (Cramer, 2016), including being held accountable for their actions."

Not a pretty sight to behold but it cometh this way, in post-Brexit UK.

"It’s easy to understand why our cousins, the nomadic foragers, worry about the dangers of a big ego—the man can become dangerous in doing anything to keep his power."

We witnessed this in Capitol riots, 6th January 2021.

Tory cronyism gives plenty reasons to remember that needs of the few ought NEVER to outweigh the needs of the many, particularly in a democracy, as in UK.

If UK is no longer a democracy, noone consciously voted to end democracy!!

So, what does this say about Tory UK Government?

psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/moral-…

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