FAT CAT NAT FIGHT: It is clear that Sturgeon is conflicted. The Greens want her to trash the oil industry; SNP wants to use it to make Scotland great again. She wants power, and therefore needs BOTH the SNP and the Greens to give her a shoulder-carry to sainthood.
That, at least, is the conventional view. Mine is slightly different. I agree that Sturgeon is conflicted, but not only by her political "splits" act, serious though that is. Really, her main trouble is AT HOME.
Where is her "hubby", the party chairman? Given the police are investigating the disappearance of £600k of other people's money for her party, obtained allegedly by fraud, you would have thought that Uncle Peter would be at little Ms Sturgeon's side, holding her hand as they walk into life's polling booth together.
But he is gone - vanished - vamoozed. Has he hopped off his perch? Is he pushing up the daisies? Or is he up with the eternal choir invisible singing about sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll?
Rumour has it that he is in London, laughing at PlodScot while he dives from stew to stew looking out for chaps who are not as other chaps are. I have no idea if this is true or not, but I think it is important that Sturgeon say something about it, if only to quell such obviously absurd rumours and to show that Mr Murrell is safely ensconced in Bailliestoun, doing the dishes while his devoted wife sits cosily on the sofa reading Enid Blyton's "Five Go Looking for a Fix".
The public interest in this is the rule of law, which is never safe with a one-man government. You cannot have the separation of powers in a single-person state.
For more background on the larger issues raised by Sturgeon's apparent isolation, both politically and domestically, see this book: "The Justice Factory: Can the Rule of Law Survive in 21st Century Scotland?" (Ian Mitchell, 2020) The Foreword was written by Lord Hope of Craighead, ex-Deputy President of the UK Supreme Court and the Professor of Public Law who is author “Constitutional Law of Scotland” wrote the Introduction to Part II. It is not a party political argument, and has been endorsed by both Ian (“Stone of Destiny”) Hamilton QC and Adam Tomkins, the Tory ex-MSP who is also Professor of Constitutional law in the University of Glasgow. Details here on Amazon (UK). https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1981993401?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860 or through Graeme Baird at The Old Bookshelf, Campbeltown (01586 551114), who will post it to you in the old-fashioned way.
And if you want an immediate fix on the stupidity, ignorance and malice of the SNP government, you will enjoy this film about Humza Yusoff and the Hate Crime Bill: Short 04 - Hate Crime Bill (Humza's Bummer, 2020) - YouTube
FAT CAT NAT FIGHT: It is clear that Sturgeon is conflicted. The Greens want her to trash the oil industry; SNP wants to use it to make Scotland great again. She wants power, and therefore needs BOTH the SNP and the Greens to give her a shoulder-carry to sainthood.
That, at least, is the conventional view. Mine is slightly different. I agree that Sturgeon is conflicted, but not only by her political "splits" act, serious though that is. Really, her main trouble is AT HOME.
Where is her "hubby", the party chairman? Given the police are investigating the disappearance of £600k of other people's money for her party, obtained allegedly by fraud, you would have thought that Uncle Peter would be at little Ms Sturgeon's side, holding her hand as they walk into life's polling booth together.
But he is gone - vanished - vamoozed. Has he hopped off his perch? Is he pushing up the daisies? Or is he up with the eternal choir invisible singing about sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll?
Rumour has it that he is in London, laughing at PlodScot while he dives from stew to stew looking out for chaps who are not as other chaps are. I have no idea if this is true or not, but I think it is important that Sturgeon say something about it, if only to quell such obviously absurd rumours and to show that Mr Murrell is safely ensconced in Bailliestoun, doing the dishes while his devoted wife sits cosily on the sofa reading Enid Blyton's "Five Go Looking for a Fix".
The public interest in this is the rule of law, which is never safe with a one-man government. You cannot have the separation of powers in a single-person state.
For more background on the larger issues raised by Sturgeon's apparent isolation, both politically and domestically, see this book: "The Justice Factory: Can the Rule of Law Survive in 21st Century Scotland?" (Ian Mitchell, 2020) The Foreword was written by Lord Hope of Craighead, ex-Deputy President of the UK Supreme Court and the Professor of Public Law who is author “Constitutional Law of Scotland” wrote the Introduction to Part II. It is not a party political argument, and has been endorsed by both Ian (“Stone of Destiny”) Hamilton QC and Adam Tomkins, the Tory ex-MSP who is also Professor of Constitutional law in the University of Glasgow. Details here on Amazon (UK). https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1981993401?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860 or through Graeme Baird at The Old Bookshelf, Campbeltown (01586 551114), who will post it to you in the old-fashioned way.
And if you want an immediate fix on the stupidity, ignorance and malice of the SNP government, you will enjoy this film about Humza Yusoff and the Hate Crime Bill: Short 04 - Hate Crime Bill (Humza's Bummer, 2020) - YouTube