Thread by @TwisterFilm

1./ Good Riddance, Sturgeon the Liar?
Sturgeon's resignation was a reminder of how brilliant she is: only consummate political deceivers can perform like she did: with the quivering lip, the reminder she's 'hoooman' and the "oh don't make me cry" baloney.
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2./ She's so corrosive because, like Blair and the Clintons, she lies with sincerity. By contrast, we know Trump and Boris lie and they know we know so their lies are less convincing. Sturgeon strangled the Truth and waved its corpse aloft with disgusting sanctimony.

3./ Let's remind ourselves of just some of the stories she's told. Her legal background shrouded in accusations of cover-up? The relationship with her husband is bizarre. No other political party in Europe is run by such a happily married heterosexual couple. #houseofcards.

4./ Some allege she and Peter Murrell (the husband she conveniently shares a house with) told lies constantly about Alex Salmond. Did they misuse the rules around witnesses to cover up how close they were to accusers? Did they push accusers to come forward to destroy Salmond? 🤷

5./ I hold no candle for Salmond but Sturgeon and her creepy heterosexual husband Murrell were willing to see Salmond go to jail. In any normal democracy wouldn't the tapes recording Murrell's plotting have incinerated the career of both him and his absolutely adoring wife?

6./ We do know that Sturgeon and Murrell turned Scotland into a second rate polity where talent was entirely subsidiary to utter loyalty. No one who knows her believes any Minister is allowed to speak without her approval which means all the lies they told were approved by her?

7./ If that's true that means she must have sanctioned the outrageous cover-ups of children's deaths in a hospital that was not ready to open and was unsafe. heraldscotland.com/politics/19726…

8./ Would that also mean she was the source of cover ups in the saga of ferries over 6 years late and at least £300M over budget? We certainly know she tried to blame her Finance Secretary Derek Mackay for signing a contract she must have approved.

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9./ Most Scottish journalists will confirm how bullying Sturgeon's office could be. We know, for example, from the..err..right wing Guardian she tried to cover-up Derek Mackay's harassment of a 16 year old schoolboy whom he texted hundreds of times.
theguardian.com/politics/2020/…

10./ This despite the fact Sturgeon knew Mackay had a serious alcohol problem that made him get handsy with young men. That's why she banned him from drinking at SNP conferences but not when inviting schoolboys to Holyrood. heraldscotland.com/news/18217581.…

11./ Perhaps lies are inevitable when you refuse to engage with evidence. From education to drug deaths she refused to focus on issues that would require consistent hard work. Instead she preferred performative virtue-signalling like her silly baby boxes.
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12./ Who can forget the blatant lies she told about COVID? As warnings circulated about the virus spreading she allowed 60 000 people to attend Murrayfield on the 8th March 2020...then complained the Tories hadn't closed down quickly enough

13./ The cover-up of the Nike outbreak the same weekend was so blatant it might have been funny if it wasn't tragic. Sturgeon and SNP top brass claimed they couldn't warn people because of ..err..patient confidentiality. No one sensible believes that BS.
thenational.scot/news/19638932.…

14./ After a career as First Minister steeped in deception it was perhaps no surprise that lies have now ended her career. A police investigation into SNP finances in a party with no robust and independent scrutiny was surely a matter of time.
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15./ The biggest lie of all that Sturgeon told was that she had risk-assessed her flagship Gender Self ID Bill. In fact she'd waved rapists through into women's prisons and only relented when questioned by a media that finally found its voice.

16./ With what we know about the lies Sturgeon has told -and those we don't yet know about- should we believe a single word of her sanctimonious performance today? Of course not. Like the scorpion said to the frog, she can't help herself. Lying is her nature.

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