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Oct 11, 2021 55 tweets 19 min read Read on X
The Strange Case of Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon:

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Nicola was born in Irvine, July 1970 and attended Dreghorn Primary & Greenwood Academy.

Note: That’s Ayrshire, not Glasgow 👍 Image
Nicola said she detested Thatcher growing up yet in one of the many incongruous elements in her life, her parents took advantage of that most Thatcherite of working class policies: buy your own council house Image
Young Nicola went to the University of Glasgow and studied Law.

There she became involved with the Nat movement - which back then was a lunatic fringe (It really was) Image
Young Nicola’s critical faculties have long been criticised by her former professor, Alistair Bonnington.

Alarm bells ringing yet?

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Young Nicola graduated and became a solicitor for a few short years, but her career ended abruptly with allegations of professional misconduct and “left under a cloud”
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Young Nicola ran for office at least 5 times in local council elections and general elections and was often left bruised and battered.

But thanks to devolution, in 1999 Nicola fought Glasgow Govan, lost again, but sneaked in under the list system.

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Alex Salmond led the SNP at Holyrood in 1999, but soon got fed up with it and jetted back to the bright lights of London.

Salmond and Nicola would become an inseparable duo later. Image
John Swinney became SNP leader, couldn’t handle it and quit. Sturgeon threw her hat into the ring but looked like she was going to lose to Roseanna Cunningham. Image
Turns out Salmond despised Cunningham and decided to make a heroic return to Scottish politics.

He would run as leader and Nicola would be his glamorous assistant, sorry, deputy. Image
Over the next few years Nicola and Ales became close. He was her mentor, her confidante and her boss.

How close did this working relationship become? Who knows. But they were a formidable team. A duo.

Batman & Robin. Fran & Anna. Image
Remarkably the SNP “won” the 2007 Holyrood election and with help from the Scottish Tories (oops, inconvenient there for the Nats) they formed a minority administration.

The Executive was quickly changed to the grandiose “government”. Image
Nicola, as well as being Salmond’s partner in crime (Tasmina who?) was also given the role of Health Secretary. Image
In 2010 Nicola found love and married Peter Murrell.

Peter was and still is (presumably) the Chief Executive of the SNP.

Nicola now had the ear of both the FM/Party Leader and the Chief Exec of The Party!

What a girl. Image
2010 wasn’t all roses.

Nicola faced calls for her resignation over her backing for a fraudster called Abdul Rauf.

Her judgement was again questioned by the more experienced politicos and media.

Nicola, using one of her nine lives, survived.

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Oddly, a couple of years earlier, Nicola couldn’t find compassion in helping bury Labour’s Wendy Alexander’s political career.

What’s good for the Sturgeon goose isn’t obviously good for the gander.

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Ignoring her failures at Health, Nicola came to prominence during the “civic and joyous” Scottish independence referendum.

One of her most telling contributions was to warn EU citizens they’d be kicked out if Scots were daft enough to vote Yes.

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Nicola was a signatory of The Edinburgh Agreement which gave a legal basis for the democratic vote of Scots and our decision on our relationship with the UK.

The result was to be decisive (it was) and to be respected…
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Respected?

Four days after Scotland rejected separation by a landslide both Salmond and Nicola gave a reconciliation church service a bodyswerve.

Bit odd if you do respect the result, eh?

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Nicola backed the SNP’s White Paper which was clear: the 2014 was a once in a generation event. Image
After being routed by Scots in a legal, democratic referendum (a gold standard said observers) Alex Salmond stepped down (in a huff it has to be said) as FM.

The door was ajar for our heroine, Nicola. Image
Nicola became SNP Fuhrer (sorry, leader) unopposed and of course she became our first female First Minister.

Jacinda Ardern didn’t get a look in back then. Image
So what would Nicola do?

She rode a Yellow wave of divisive separatism and toxic nationalism to win almost all of the Scottish Westminster seats in 2015.

But she did lose Salmond’s majority at Holyrood in 2016.

But then she was given a Get Out of Jail Free Card: Brexit. Image
Nicola used the EU Referendum as a chance to hijack Scottish Remain voters’ votes as a proxy for independence!

Who knew?

Scots vote to remain UK ✅
UK votes to leave EU ✅

That’s democracy? Isn’t it?

Nicola was beginning to be disingenuous with the electorate.
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Our shy and retiring Nicola used Brexit (even though she was powerless to prevent it, democracy ain’t her thing it seems) as an election winning machine.

She has no credible opposition either within her party or outwith it. Image
Nicola is also feted by “celebrities” who proclaim undying love for her and no one can criticise her.

She is our own Boudicca, our Hillary Clinton, the Scottish Edwina Currie. Image
Nicola made a bold claim early in her tenure:

Judge me on Education.

scotsman.com/news/politics/…
Oops.

PISA has shown Scotland isn’t doing so well.

Critics of CfE like Prof Lindsay Paterson have warned us for years but who cares?

Now Scotland won’t be included in PISA.

And the Education report was withheld until AFTER the 2021 Holyrood election…


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Nicola also promised to be accessible and transparent as First Minister.

But more on that later.

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Nicola has been dogged by failures and poor judgement.

Prestwick airport for one.

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Another is the Ferguson shipyard ferry fiasco…

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The Queensferry Crossing affair (Built by Chinese steel and has to be closed when it’s icy)

To be fair that’s probably more on Salmond as is Prestwick Airport.

But judgement is key in being a leader, isn’t it?

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Nicola visited Auschwitz in 2018 and rather oddly (I’ve been there and no one took photos like this) posed for portraits (not quite selfies) with The Great Leader in the same frame as one of the most horrific, murderous places of where nationalism can ultimately lead.
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Also in 2018, Nicola bizarrely referred to herself as “Chief Mammy”.

How this wasn’t ridiculed by the great Scottish wits and satirists like Frankie Boyle, Kevin Bridges, Billy Connolly, Janey Godley, Limmy and Malky fae Calderbank then I don’t know what the fcuk is happening. Image
The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital was planned and developed when Nicola was Health Secretary and opened in 2015 when she was FM.

Just before the pandemic, this tragic story broke.

It has never been satisfactory resolved.

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More bad news for Nicola.

Scotland is the drug death capital of Europe.

Is that Nicola’s legacy?

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Or is increased Child Poverty Nicola’s legacy?

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Or is Nicola’s legacy the expert edging of the Yes movement?

Just keep dangling #indyref2 in front of the gullible? Image
Or is her legacy intertwined with her mentor Alex Salmond?

What did she know?

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
Nicola has done her best to create some distance between her and her mentor, Alex Salmond.

But something just doesn’t sit right.

Did she break the ministerial code? Image
Nicola was cleared! Phew!

Who appointed James Hamilton?

Nicola Sturgeon.

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“You are paranoid!”

Am I?

👇

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And so we come to the Covid pandemic where Nicola became TV’s Nicola Sturgeon and relied on “experts” like Devi Sridhar (not a virologist or epidemiologist) to make some odd choices based on “science” and even odder proclamations.

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Did Nicola play politics with the pandemic?

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Nicola has had some episodes during Covid that betray the civic and joyous nationalism she likes to portray.

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Or this one where she, a regional administrator, is telling the British Prime Minister that he can’t visit a part of Britain?

Odd.

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But Nicola is well used to this kind of spin.

Remember the message in Brussels when we left the EU?

It was paid for by the SNP not the EU.

And yes, this is reported in The Sun….

thescottishsun.co.uk/news/5246156/s…
Awkward that, isn’t it? Image
The SNP are masters of spin.

See my Pinned Tweet for the way they’ve spun lies, myths and conspiracy theories to brainwash, radicalise, indoctrinate Scots.

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I’ve missed out so much but let’s finish on a couple of major issues.

First:

The Care Homes Covid crisis.

It was a disaster.

And nothing happened. No heads rolled.

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Remember when I said we’d return to transparency?

Well at the beginning of Covid, Nicola has been naughty.

#NikeGate is a matter of life and death.

Has Nicola used up all of her nine lives?

Is it time?

#ResignSturgeon

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And what of Peter Murrell?

Nicola’s loving husband who has miraculously done a Lord Lucan?

Where is he?

heraldscotland.com/politics/19433…
So the Strange Case of Nicola Sturgeon comes to an end.

What is her true legacy?

Division? Hatred? Bile? Falling standards in health, education and God knows what else?

Baby boxes.

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Sturgeon has stepped down.

Is it tiredness?
Is it the GRR Bill?
Or something else?
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Salmond says Obama made “a lukewarm statement”

Utterly fantasy from Salmond.

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Then journalist Dan Vevers agrees with Salmond that Putin supported the UK… eh bullshit.

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I perfectly understand why people rightly point out that comparisons between groups now and the Nazis is upsetting and that the Holocaust is the most abhorrent crime in human history.

But history must not be repeated. And the Nazis didn’t start with death camps.
Now I’m not for one minute saying current political parties will end up with genocide, not at all.

But what we do need to be vigilant about is nationalism.

Go to Auschwitz.

I have.

Once you see what happened there you’ll never wave a flag or sing a patriotic song again.
Why?

Because you see where nationalism leads.

It starts “innocently” enough.

A demagogue.
Othering opponents or a group of people.
Indoctrination.
Intimidation.
Censorship.
Propaganda.
Intolerance.
Authoritarianism.
Mob Rule.
Gleischaltung.

Who does that you remind you of?
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Apr 13, 2022
Scotland under the SNP.

Since Nicola Sturgeon became FM, Scotland has descended into an authoritarian nightmare.

English commentators and colleagues may think this is hyperbole…

But is it?

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One of the first things Nicola Sturgeon did when she became FM was to silence dissent among her rivals and allies in her own party, the SNP.

Seriously, talk out of line and you are toast.

You can bullshit about #indyref but not Chief Mammy. Image
This view has been described as “Stalinist” by some of our braver journalists.

Transparency and democracy?

Don’t be daft. Image
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Apr 8, 2022
The Spectator article shows up Scottish politics for what it is: parochial, broken and corrupt
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An embarrassing comparison with England that is unjustifiable.
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Apr 8, 2022
F for Fake:

Sturgeon and the SNP deceive Scots.

They have overseen a litany of failures, scandals, hypocrisy and alleged corruption yet nothing happens.

Ask SNP why?

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Nicola Sturgeon promised when she became FM to be judged on Education. So let’s take a look at that first. Image
But don’t worry, Scottish kids are doing brilliantly in our National tests/exams, our Scottish exams, you know, in Scotland.

But internationally you can’t pull the wool over our record slide since SNP took over. SNP didn’t tell the truth.

Ask SNP why?

fullfact.org/scotland/johns…
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Oct 13, 2021
The SNP’s relationship with Europe.

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Let’s travel back to 1975.

When the EEC (as it was then) in/out referendum was held, the SNP wanted Scotland (and Britain) out of the EEC.

Interesting quote from Alex Salmond below.
After being dealt a bloody nose by being blamed for bringing down Callaghan’s Labour Government and ushering in Maggie Thatcher, the SNP struggled in the wilderness during the 1980s.

In 1988 they eventually came up with a new idea:

“Independence in Europe”
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