Like her or loathe her, Nicola Sturgeon is one of the most formidable politicians Scotland has ever produced

by Sea_Owl3416

36 comments

  2. like her or loathe her nicola is one of the most formidable caravan buyers Scotland has ever produced

  3. She was ok but I think she just looked good versus the dross in the opposite parties.

  4. Formidable debaters but ultimately she was lacking in key areas. She was too confrontational towards opponents and could not win over people to her point of view in key areas. Tactically naive in places (post EU referendum particularly).

  6. Like her or not her ex-husband is a formidable jammy cunt and whether she was complicit or not, her career is fucked.

  7. Shame she’s proved to be as corrupt as all the rest.

  9. Loathe her, not formidable, Scotland has done much better many, many times.

    Corrupt, blinkered, braggart, ineffectual, relied on a cult of personality and did I mention corrupt?

  10. Corrupt, power hungry, lying sack of shit that was more interested in telling the public how to live their lives than serving them. I guess that did make her formidable.

  11. Her mistake was to allow some people still to hold office even though they were useless.

    Ferry fiasco for one. No offence to people at the yard, but the owners were milking that contract and the Scottish Gov were asleep at the wheel until it was too late.

    Edinburgh Tram fiasco is another one.

    At the end of the day, I like her for her policies, fair and equitable, but the financial management of projects was a joke.

  14. She lost all the momentum and professional governance Salmond built up.

    She could have kept the pressure on, but she didn’t she decided to Jedi mind trick us all with Gender and the Jobby jab.

    Good riddance, you should be in jail!

  15. Aye she was probably the best leader the Scottish Parliament has had and a cut above the rest of the UK. She should have been far more ruthless with her own party though, allowing the likes of Cherry to stay after all the backstabbing she did was insane; any other party would have tossed her to the wayside ages ago.

  16. She’s a grasping crook. There is nothing formidable about her.

  17. A political Con Artist. Leaves behind a party riddled with secrecy and scandals of her making.

  18. Cool, list her top achievements. The North Coast 500 doesn’t count.

  19. Hopefully now the people of Govanhill might actually get an MSP who lifts a finger. It’s scandalous she could draw the salary and spend so little time in Holyrood and even less time with constituents.

  20. Hopefully now the people of Govanhill might actually get an MSP who lifts a finger. It’s scandalous she could draw the salary and spend so little time in Holyrood and even less time with constituents.

  21. She talked a good game but she didn’t deliver much beyond, ‘not doing all of the Tory cuts’.

  22. Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks.
    🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

  23. Interesting how you can be a popular and electorally successful First Minister and a pretty terrible party leader both at the same time.

  25. The question is, will she make a comeback for indyref 3?

  26. Top class politically didn’t take the populist road like Liebour called it out as it was.

  27. “Formidable”? I thought she was referred to as Jimmy Krankie and or “wee nippy”.

    She achieved hee haw in office and left in disgrace.

    Shes a joke.

  28. Another one who refused to define a female and was completely blinded by her dislike of anything Westminster..

  30. She’s got a very mixed legacy to be fair.

    Lot of the SNP’s victories with her in office have been mitigations of the Tories’ austerity policies (mitigating the bedroom tax; tolling out the baby box, Scottish child payment and the Scottish social security programme), and probably handled COVID about as well as she could with the UK response itself being all over the shop.

    But there are some real tenrpole bits of work that just… Haven’t happened. Abolition of council tax (or heavy revision thereof)? Non existent and the policy of freezing it has but councils hard; and housing legislation reforms were consistently watered down because the SNP are riddled with landlords.

    However I think one of the biggest blights was allowing Cherry to do thoroughly poison the discourse around the GRR. I honestly feel like there’s a sliding doors moment where the strength of the SNP mandates (as far as they can be measured under the Holyrood system at least) could have been utilised to “politely” thank lthe likes of cherry, Mcalpine and Regan for their services once they started undermining what was the supposedly settled position on trans rights, much as the Greens had with Andy Wightman. Instead you had cherry spouting bile constantly and needing to have sturgeon effectively apologised for her on a few occasions. Genuinely piss weak leadership on that issue.

  31. A highly effective and highly divisive politician who I’m glad to see the back of. Farage next please.

  32. The unionist politicians would have fawned over her if she was one of them.

  33. She herself says we had to judge her on education. She’s a failure.

  34. Really? Can you point to any single lasting achievement that springs to mind?

  35. And Trump is one of the most formidable US presidents.

    *sipstea*

  36. Mischief was her middle name. The SNP MPs would get a flight from Edinburgh to London, ooh we’re all going on a jolly holiday, getting pished on the plane, all excited at going to Westminster, ooh what fun, the banter !
    Anything and everything they get a chance to vote on, let’s vote against the Tories. What’s the vote aboot? Dinnee Ken, jist vote against the Tories.

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