Nicola Sturgeon

All set to resign apparently?

WTF.

 

Looks like it is true, WTF indeed.

 

Nor wanting but 'I've just had enough' sounds fair.
Recent years have been a long line of frustrations and knock-backs engineered by a London based right wing parliament who apparently are frightened, misogynistic and bullying all.

 

“Apparently”?

 

The transgender reforms did for her unfortunately - the theory didn't work when it came to the very first practical example.
I can't blame her for walking personally, it was a thankless task.

 

Good!

 

Well!

 

I suspect it may have been Transgender reforms that have finished her off - I know some SNP members who weren't happy, I think it's a difficult issue for some people who are liberal otherwise.

 

Well that's Independence Scuppered for the time being. Unless there a successful long-term Labour government after the next UK election, I cannot see how the divergence in political culture between Scotland and England can be fixed other than independence.

Gender recognition was not the hill to die on, it was well intentioned but the dismissal of any criticism of it as reactionary was simply incorrect and unfair - there were legitimate concerns which were thrown into sharp relief by that rape conviction. But the upcoming political crisis over bottle deposit scheme and the ongoing CalMac ferries fiasco are going to get much worse for the SNP.

 

A shame I feel. Pity we do not have such a capable leader in Westminster.

 

Culture war is all the Tories have left, they can't claim to be pro business or competent on the economy any more...

 

My worry is that culture war will be enough.

 

Really can’t blame her - a pretty unenviable job if you really take it seriously unlike someone like BJ who was primarily interested in power (i.e. the abuse of power) and shedloads of money.

 

It was about her 'immature' theory based policy being overlaid on a real case (that of the prisoner) and falling apart at the first hurdle. The whole subject deserves more than a cursory sound bite based 'one side of A4' paper.

It would have been the straw that broke the camels back though; how long can one person continue in a role like that with all the emergent issues topped with a thick layer of hate messaging?

 

I thought she was a permanent fixture

This is not a good thing

 

Don't agree with her Independence position but that's a cracking speech.

 

Best politician in UK