Nicola Sturgeon

[Saddleworth2]

Now I didn't say that did I although they do share a penchant for a bad hair cut/wig by the looks of it and pander to a nationalist base.

Ill give you that. :-)

 

[Ban-jani]

Divide whom or what that isn’t already riven?

Do you seriously need that answering?

We’re divided now, for sure, that’s why I don’t think breaking the country up is a good idea.

 

[hgblue]

Now I didn't say that did I although they do share a penchant for a bad hair cut/wig by the looks of it and pander to a nationalist base.

I do know she’s despised by Unionists. I’m hopeful they’ll turn out and vote to defend the Union.

 

[Saddleworth2]

I said those on the extremes are usually successful in 2019, I pointed out those that are, all of them for differing reasons. She’s not the same as Trump or Farage but she does have an extreme ideology, as they do.

I don’t see her ideology as extreme and I’m guessing most Scots would agree with me. In this time it’s a perfectly valid question to ask. Some would say that it is extreme for a country to be ripped out of a Union against the will of its people. It just depends on the lense you look through.

 

[Ric]

I guess she doesn’t really care what the English think of her. Her job is to further the cause of Scottish nationalism, and she’s doing a pretty good job of that judging by the opinion polls. Admittedly she’s been dealt a fairly decent hand by facing the worst Conservative and Labour leaders in living memory.

 

[Saddleworth2]

I do know she’s despised by Unionists. I’m hopeful they’ll turn out and vote to defend the Union.

I’m a Scottish unionist. I don’t despise her at all. We turned out last time to vote for Ruth D and her party. That worked well didn’t it?

 

[blueinsa]

I guess she doesn’t really care what the English think of her. Her job is to further the cause of Scottish nationalism, and she’s doing a pretty good job of that judging by the opinion polls. Admittedly she’s been dealt a fairly decent hand by facing the worst Conservative and Labour leaders in living memory.

People like Blackford do a good job of telling Westminster that everyone up here wants independence and she eggs them on, I will give her that.

The truth is she knows she doesn't have a mandate for independance.

Far from it.

 

[Ric]

People like Blackford do a good job of telling Westminster that everyone up here wants independence and she eggs them on, I will give her that.

The truth is she knows she doesn't have a mandate for independance.

Far from it.

No, but a good electoral return for the SNP in the forthcoming election, along with the ongoing Brexit clusterfuck, undoubtedly strengthen her position.

 

[Cotswold Knight]

If she wants independence that bad let the rest of the UK vote and she will definitely get it

 

[Saddleworth2]

I guess she doesn’t really care what the English think of her. Her job is to further the cause of Scottish nationalism, and she’s doing a pretty good job of that judging by the opinion polls. Admittedly she’s been dealt a fairly decent hand by facing the worst Conservative and Labour leaders in living memory.

She doesn’t care. I am undecided about independence. That is a very significant shift from where I was at the time of Indy ref1. I really don’t think that the current English political players are that bothered about the Union. An independent Scotland within the EU or part of the U.K. outwith. Difficult question for us diehard remainers. I will wait and listen to the argument and implementation plan.