WESTMINSTER was “absolutely terrified” when Nicola Sturgeon visited, an ex-MP has said.
Mhairi Black, who spent nine years as an SNP MP, made the claim in an interview with The Herald in which she also praised the former First Minister as “possibly the best politician I can think of UK-wide”.
Speaking of Sturgeon’s visits to Westminster as first minister, she said: “They were terrified of her, absolutely terrified. When she was in the building it spread like wildfire.
“You could see they’re actually quite shaken at the very fact that she’s here in person.”
Black also praised Sturgeon, adding: “I’ve always said I think she is possibly the best politician I can think of UK-wide as to competency and being able to answer a question. I’ve never seen her shaken. She was always unflappable and I know from experience how difficult that is to do. So, as a politician I thought she was s**t hot.”
Asked about Sturgeon’s legacy, Black said: “Undoubtedly no one can take away that she reached levels of influence and popularity and fear that I don’t think anyone else has in recent memory … I can’t think of anybody who has had that kind of impact, certainly on UK politics.”
Last week, Black announced she has quit the SNP – with the party’s “capitulation” on trans rights being part of the reason for her decision.
She stressed she still supports Scottish independence but there have been “too many times” when she did not agree with decisions made by the party.
“Basically, for a long time, I’ve not agreed with quite a few decisions that have been made,” she said.
“There have just been too many times when I’ve thought, ‘I don’t agree with what you’ve done there’ or the decision or strategy that has been arrived at.”
Black added: “I thought the party could be doing better about Palestine as well.”
The former MP said: “If anything, I’m probably a bit more left-wing than I have been. I don’t think I have changed all that much. I feel like the party needs to change a lot more.”
The National should be classed as fanfiction.
This why the which hunt over a caravan started. The slightest thing.
But let’s not talk about drunken parties in public residence or spending billions on absolute shitter projects.
To be fair she did run rings around the Governments of her time. That’s not saying much but still
I believe this, considering how [in the secretive State of the Union report](https://www.ukonward.com/reports/state-of-the-union/), commissioned by Gove during the height of the pandemic, Nicola Sturgeon was specifically highlighted.
> Yes voters say that if Nicola Sturgeon resigned they would be less likely to vote for independence. 28% of Yes voters say they would be less likely to vote Yes in this scenario, versus 23% who say it would make them more likely. It appears that support for independence is at least partially stored in the political personality of the First Minister.
It was not long after that report was released (not to the public at that time) that baseless, wall-to-wall attacks regarding Nicola Sturgeon “breaking the ministerial code” and “having to resign” broke out across most of our unionist outlets. Its worth noting that support for independence was hitting around 57-58% at the time, likely due to Sturgeons handling of Covid compared with Boris “let the bodies pile high” Johnson.
Now her reputation, which was at an all-time-high during Covid, is in tatters no matter what she says or does.
For unionists, the removal of Sturgeon is the death of independence. Time will tell whether this is truly the case or not.
She’s been gone for ages now, and the National is still writing fanfiction about her.
Does anyone other than the real hardcore nats believe it?
Interesting.
I don’t suppose you could send down Sturgeon more often?
And now she would be laughed out of town with a motorhome joke.
As neither a hater nor fan of hers, just an observer, she was good at separating Scottish identity from British internationally.
Think that was a criticism people in Scotland made of her when she went to an international summit that was hosted in Glasgow (that she wasn’t officially invited to iirc, going from memory), but she forced Scotland as its own entity into a lot of consciousness, rather than the “Island of England” as a lot of the world who don’t grasp the internals of these things sort of think.
She seems to have fallen afoul of local politics which 1 line manifestos generally do, but she was a fierce ambassador for Scotland and its image abroad.
She was so competent compared to all of them. She’s so missed.
This is the opinion of a former SNP MP, published in the nationalist “Pravda” that tells nationalist what they want to hear. Probably a good idea to take it with a pinch of salt.
The ex-MP in question being one of her own allies in her own party?
This is basically a non-story.
Aye, I’m sure they were shaking in their boots.
Sturgeon is the worst thing that could have happened to the cause of Scottish Independence.
Someone only concerned with personal glory. From not being able to recall the most basic details of important events, to telling her party to stop asking questions about the dodgy finances (and then later claiming she’d no idea what was going on), to asking the UK Supreme Court for permission to break up the UK, to tearing her support base apart with identity politic bullshit, to running the county in to the ground by every available metric – going backwards on everything she declared a target (eg education), to squandering mandate after mandate to actually do something about independence… (I could go on). All of this while heading a cult of fanatics who refuse to see or hear, and squawk like mindless drones about her brilliance as those of us living in reality bounce our heads off the wall – we used to stand side by side at independence marches and now look at us. The person most responsible for the death of Scottish independence – Nicola Sturgeon.
honestly can’t think of anything worse than having to deal with a visit from her so i get it
Are we sure it wasn’t just because the posh public school boys who populate Westminster couldn’t understand her accent and thought she might be threatening them?
Doesn’t matter is she’s found innocent as long as enough mud stuck. Five did their job well.
I wonder how close to the next election we will get Operation Branchform spinning back up in the news again.
It feels like it has been going on for ever.
Does she have a book out?
>Mhairi Black, who spent nine years as an SNP MP, made the claim
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WESTMINSTER was “absolutely terrified” when Nicola Sturgeon visited, an ex-MP has said.
Mhairi Black, who spent nine years as an SNP MP, made the claim in an interview with The Herald in which she also praised the former First Minister as “possibly the best politician I can think of UK-wide”.
Speaking of Sturgeon’s visits to Westminster as first minister, she said: “They were terrified of her, absolutely terrified. When she was in the building it spread like wildfire.
“You could see they’re actually quite shaken at the very fact that she’s here in person.”
Black also praised Sturgeon, adding: “I’ve always said I think she is possibly the best politician I can think of UK-wide as to competency and being able to answer a question. I’ve never seen her shaken. She was always unflappable and I know from experience how difficult that is to do. So, as a politician I thought she was s**t hot.”
Asked about Sturgeon’s legacy, Black said: “Undoubtedly no one can take away that she reached levels of influence and popularity and fear that I don’t think anyone else has in recent memory … I can’t think of anybody who has had that kind of impact, certainly on UK politics.”
Last week, Black announced she has quit the SNP – with the party’s “capitulation” on trans rights being part of the reason for her decision.
She stressed she still supports Scottish independence but there have been “too many times” when she did not agree with decisions made by the party.
“Basically, for a long time, I’ve not agreed with quite a few decisions that have been made,” she said.
“There have just been too many times when I’ve thought, ‘I don’t agree with what you’ve done there’ or the decision or strategy that has been arrived at.”
Black added: “I thought the party could be doing better about Palestine as well.”
The former MP said: “If anything, I’m probably a bit more left-wing than I have been. I don’t think I have changed all that much. I feel like the party needs to change a lot more.”
The National should be classed as fanfiction.
This why the which hunt over a caravan started. The slightest thing.
But let’s not talk about drunken parties in public residence or spending billions on absolute shitter projects.
To be fair she did run rings around the Governments of her time. That’s not saying much but still
I believe this, considering how [in the secretive State of the Union report](https://www.ukonward.com/reports/state-of-the-union/), commissioned by Gove during the height of the pandemic, Nicola Sturgeon was specifically highlighted.
> Yes voters say that if Nicola Sturgeon resigned they would be less likely to vote for independence. 28% of Yes voters say they would be less likely to vote Yes in this scenario, versus 23% who say it would make them more likely. It appears that support for independence is at least partially stored in the political personality of the First Minister.
It was not long after that report was released (not to the public at that time) that baseless, wall-to-wall attacks regarding Nicola Sturgeon “breaking the ministerial code” and “having to resign” broke out across most of our unionist outlets. Its worth noting that support for independence was hitting around 57-58% at the time, likely due to Sturgeons handling of Covid compared with Boris “let the bodies pile high” Johnson.
Now her reputation, which was at an all-time-high during Covid, is in tatters no matter what she says or does.
For unionists, the removal of Sturgeon is the death of independence. Time will tell whether this is truly the case or not.
She’s been gone for ages now, and the National is still writing fanfiction about her.
Does anyone other than the real hardcore nats believe it?
Interesting.
I don’t suppose you could send down Sturgeon more often?
And now she would be laughed out of town with a motorhome joke.
As neither a hater nor fan of hers, just an observer, she was good at separating Scottish identity from British internationally.
Think that was a criticism people in Scotland made of her when she went to an international summit that was hosted in Glasgow (that she wasn’t officially invited to iirc, going from memory), but she forced Scotland as its own entity into a lot of consciousness, rather than the “Island of England” as a lot of the world who don’t grasp the internals of these things sort of think.
She seems to have fallen afoul of local politics which 1 line manifestos generally do, but she was a fierce ambassador for Scotland and its image abroad.
She was so competent compared to all of them. She’s so missed.
This is the opinion of a former SNP MP, published in the nationalist “Pravda” that tells nationalist what they want to hear. Probably a good idea to take it with a pinch of salt.
The ex-MP in question being one of her own allies in her own party?
This is basically a non-story.
Aye, I’m sure they were shaking in their boots.
Sturgeon is the worst thing that could have happened to the cause of Scottish Independence.
Someone only concerned with personal glory. From not being able to recall the most basic details of important events, to telling her party to stop asking questions about the dodgy finances (and then later claiming she’d no idea what was going on), to asking the UK Supreme Court for permission to break up the UK, to tearing her support base apart with identity politic bullshit, to running the county in to the ground by every available metric – going backwards on everything she declared a target (eg education), to squandering mandate after mandate to actually do something about independence… (I could go on). All of this while heading a cult of fanatics who refuse to see or hear, and squawk like mindless drones about her brilliance as those of us living in reality bounce our heads off the wall – we used to stand side by side at independence marches and now look at us. The person most responsible for the death of Scottish independence – Nicola Sturgeon.
honestly can’t think of anything worse than having to deal with a visit from her so i get it
Are we sure it wasn’t just because the posh public school boys who populate Westminster couldn’t understand her accent and thought she might be threatening them?
Doesn’t matter is she’s found innocent as long as enough mud stuck. Five did their job well.
I wonder how close to the next election we will get Operation Branchform spinning back up in the news again.
It feels like it has been going on for ever.
Does she have a book out?
>Mhairi Black, who spent nine years as an SNP MP, made the claim
A credible and reliable source.
/s
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