They seemed to do more or less nothing for 10 years, unless blaming the Tories for everything and trying to force supporters to imagine the dozens of issues an election is fought on don’t exist and pretend it’s a referendum counts as a strategy.
It would be madness to say Sturgeon was completely incompetent and did nothing positive for Scotland. I may not like the SNP, but that simply isn’t true.
She was a totally different class than Yousaf and Swinney.
She did fuck all to move the needle on Indy though. We’ve just lived through perhaps the most blatantly corrupt and incompetent Tory government in memory.
A pandemic, Trussonomics, Partygate. PPE, Rwanda, multiple leaders, Matt Handarse being fired for cheating on his wife, a decade of austerity……and yet she still couldn’t convert that into enough support to routinely break the 50% mark.
If the case for Indy is as strong as the SNP and their supporters believe, why are more than half of us still convinced the last 10 years since indref 1 under that absolute shiteshow of a Tory government was preferable to trusting their plan.
Surely it’s either incompetence or a shite plan, even if some of the diehards around here would prefer to believe the majority of voters have been brainwashed.
Can’t wait for this doc to drop. Show everything, warts and all.
I think it’s beginning to dawn on people that Sturgeon was rather better spoken of than she was.
I’ll go out on a limb here and say I never understood her appeal – but it was obvious that some people got extremely caught up with the Sturgeon movement, in a way that was frankly weird for a politician.
In terms of Scottish independence, she quite clearly was just stringing it along.
For the rest of her policy platform, she was a bit of a Theresa May figure. Overly cautious and not terribly imaginative. Baby boxes and a bit extra in benefits for poor parents with children is hardly an exceptional legacy: almost a decade of small-c conservatism. The boat remained firmly unrocked.
So what else was there? Some suggested she was a great communicator. Having watched a few of her Covid-19 broadcasts, they came across as incredibly tedious. She took 100 words to communicate ten – by which time, you’d largely lost interest in what she was saying. Challenged by the press or in Holyrood, she was quick to anger – and always fell back on the same trite catchphrases.
Short of being able to string a sentence together without hesitation – which admittedly only about half of MSPs can manage – she didn’t really seem to have any obvious skills. I suspect people like Swinney probably saw that too, and there was a lot more frustration with her among the SNP MSPs and MPs than was ever aired in public.
I don’t think history will remember her particularly well.
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What was the strategy?
They seemed to do more or less nothing for 10 years, unless blaming the Tories for everything and trying to force supporters to imagine the dozens of issues an election is fought on don’t exist and pretend it’s a referendum counts as a strategy.
It would be madness to say Sturgeon was completely incompetent and did nothing positive for Scotland. I may not like the SNP, but that simply isn’t true.
She was a totally different class than Yousaf and Swinney.
She did fuck all to move the needle on Indy though. We’ve just lived through perhaps the most blatantly corrupt and incompetent Tory government in memory.
A pandemic, Trussonomics, Partygate. PPE, Rwanda, multiple leaders, Matt Handarse being fired for cheating on his wife, a decade of austerity……and yet she still couldn’t convert that into enough support to routinely break the 50% mark.
If the case for Indy is as strong as the SNP and their supporters believe, why are more than half of us still convinced the last 10 years since indref 1 under that absolute shiteshow of a Tory government was preferable to trusting their plan.
Surely it’s either incompetence or a shite plan, even if some of the diehards around here would prefer to believe the majority of voters have been brainwashed.
Can’t wait for this doc to drop. Show everything, warts and all.
I think it’s beginning to dawn on people that Sturgeon was rather better spoken of than she was.
I’ll go out on a limb here and say I never understood her appeal – but it was obvious that some people got extremely caught up with the Sturgeon movement, in a way that was frankly weird for a politician.
In terms of Scottish independence, she quite clearly was just stringing it along.
For the rest of her policy platform, she was a bit of a Theresa May figure. Overly cautious and not terribly imaginative. Baby boxes and a bit extra in benefits for poor parents with children is hardly an exceptional legacy: almost a decade of small-c conservatism. The boat remained firmly unrocked.
So what else was there? Some suggested she was a great communicator. Having watched a few of her Covid-19 broadcasts, they came across as incredibly tedious. She took 100 words to communicate ten – by which time, you’d largely lost interest in what she was saying. Challenged by the press or in Holyrood, she was quick to anger – and always fell back on the same trite catchphrases.
Short of being able to string a sentence together without hesitation – which admittedly only about half of MSPs can manage – she didn’t really seem to have any obvious skills. I suspect people like Swinney probably saw that too, and there was a lot more frustration with her among the SNP MSPs and MPs than was ever aired in public.
I don’t think history will remember her particularly well.