Bye Bye Nicola

[d000hg]

Sounds rather like she's realised her single minded devotion to one lost cause is getting in the way of everything. Also sounds awfully like she's ignoring her party's many failings across areas like education and health but, quite naturally, is emphasising her many successes, such as, erm...

She has been hugely successful in terms of election results... SNP has a majority in Scotland and a total landslide really. To the extent a big part of her job was to do well in elections, that is an unconditional success a bit like Boris getting the 'red wall' landslide only moreso.

[malvolio]

She has been hugely successful in terms of election results... SNP has a majority in Scotland and a total landslide really. To the extent a big part of her job was to do well in elections, that is an unconditional success a bit like Boris getting the 'red wall' landslide only moreso.

Yeah but the objective is not to win landslides, only a blinkered fool would believe that. The objective is to govern Scotland to the best of your ability under the general remit of the devolution agreement. And n that she has spectacularly failed. And that huge majority also means that there is nobody to challenge the causes of that failure.

Who was it that said a country get the government it deserves...

[saptastic]

Do think this will derail the independence train - woo hoo

[SueEllen]

Do think this will derail the independence train - woo hoo

No as every SNP politician talks about independence.

[saptastic]

No as every SNP politician talks about independence.

well who would have thought

[WTFH]

Who was it that said a country get the government it deserves...

Exactly - being convinced that leaving the union would be far better than staying in, thinking that the rest of the union needs them more that they need the rest of the union, rather than trying to work with the union to improve it, always trying to work against it, and blaming the union for everything while accepting no responsibility themselves.

It’s almost like… never mind.

[Uncle Albert]

Going back to her roots: https://www.ents24.com/uk/tour-dates/the-krankies

[d000hg]

Yeah but the objective is not to win landslides, only a blinkered fool would believe that.

And yet when it's Boris who wins a landslide and then cocks everything up, you praise him as" the only one who can deliver an election result".

[malvolio]

And yet when it's Boris who wins a landslide and then cocks everything up, you praise him as" the only one who can deliver an election result".

Don't believe I ever said that, As usual you are reading things that aren't there.

You can't argue that he did though. And then he was pointlessly dumped by a menagerie of disaffected no-hopers (including quite a few of the newly gained red wall people who wouldn't even have been in the House without him) and replaced by a raving loony who was then displaced by a tax-and-spend vacuum who ain't going make a dent in the locals, never mind a national election.

Nicola, on the other hand, won on the back of a relentless campaign about Scotland becoming a free country, which appealed to enough of her countrymen who were happy to ignore her governments abject failures. And you say Brexiteers are deluded...

[SueEllen]

Don't believe I ever said that, As usual you are reading things that aren't there.

You can't argue that he did though. And then he was pointlessly dumped by a menagerie of disaffected no-hopers (including quite a few of the newly gained red wall people who wouldn't even have been in the House without him) and replaced by a raving loony who was then displaced by a tax-and-spend vacuum who ain't going make a dent in the locals, never mind a national election.

Boris hollowed out the Tory party you (and others) love.

Cameron wanted Corbyn to go and Blair wanted Duncan-Smith out because they need the opposition to challenge them so they have better policies.

Nicola, on the other hand, won on the back of a relentless campaign about Scotland becoming a free country, which appealed to enough of her countrymen who were happy to ignore her governments abject failures. And you say Brexiteers are deluded...

Every SNP member and politician wants independence. So if it isn't Nicola, Alex, Blackford or Flynn pushing for it someone else will come out of their party and will.