Nicola Sturgeon’s Very Personal Public Humiliation; UK Cabinet Office minister David Lidington said any Brexit debate must be by ‘champions’ of main parties, the personal snub for Nicola Sturgeon, ‘selfie’ queen Sturgeon isn’t a major player in UK politics, the truth is no one wants a desperate needy woman lecturing them when they made the right choice and she didn’t on Brexit, painfully SNP discover Sturgeon is no Scottish Champion

Dear All

When a woman gets a knock back, it can be quite sore on their ego, you go from being on top of the world to staring in the mirror looking at flaws. Scotland’s unpopular SNP leader is a ‘selfie queen’. Her pensioner husband, Peter Murrell famously commented that a ‘selfie’ stick would make an ideal present for her.

In recent days, there has been talk of a Brexit debate, naturally ‘selfie’ Sturgeon wants in on the action, for numerous reasons. Chiefly the reasons seem to be, to boost her flagging leadership, to try and halt the terminal decline of her government, to try desperately to reconnect with Scots.

This is all linked to an attempt to shore up seats for both Holyrood and Westminster that the SNP currently hold. 2017 was a wake up call for the SNP, from 56 MPs they crashed backwards down to 35 MPs. Some other seats were held by a slim majority. In areas of Glasgow; just under 100 votes separate the current SNP MP from the ‘dole queue’ and universal credit, some of them live in fear of an early general election.

One of the Cabinet Office minister David Lidington has dropped a bomb on ‘selfie’ Sturgeon that if there is a Brexit TV debate is 'only for biggest parties', which means Sturgeon with 35 MPs wouldn’t be invited to the party. This will no doubt anger Sturgeon being brutally rebuffed, but we should remember, she isn’t an MP, so why should she be on the stage.

The answer is simple, the SNP at Westminister are a pack of fools, and if you look at Ian Blackford, well he looks like he has just had too many lunches, the wee fat guy who just waddles and babbles about the place.

Certainly not a man of action!

Cabinet Office minister David Lidington has insisted that Nicola Sturgeon will not be part of a TV debate with Theresa May. The reason is that Sturgeon is not a ‘big picture’ politician, she and her ‘low road’ politics of grievance has no right to attempt to barge into this debate. One thing that Cabinet Office minister David Lidington did say however is that it is up to Scottish broadcasters whether or not First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is included in any TV debate in Scotland.

With so many TV channels and the internet, there is plenty of options for Scots to just cut Nicola Sturgeon off, rather than hearing an evening of boring rhetoric as Sturgeon tries to turn a Brexit debate in a case for a second referendum on Scottish independence.

Enough is enough!

David Lidington said:

"This is a debate between the leaders of the two biggest parties at Westminster which is where the decision on whether to approve the deal or not will take place. The Prime Minister obviously will speak up in favour of the deal she has negotiated, I'm assuming that Mr Corbyn, if he wants to do this, will argue for the rejection of the deal. I think if Scottish broadcasters decide whether they want to have a separate debate in Scotland and perhaps invite the First Minister and the Secretary of State to take part there, but I think that's a matter for the broadcasters to discuss amongst themselves."

He added:

“This is a binary choice: Do you accept the deal that is on the table or do you reject the deal that is on the table and I think that there is a clarity about having two champions, one for each side of that debate.”

Clearly Cabinet Office minister David Lidington doesn’t consider Nicola Sturgeon a champion or even a ranked contender, which has a clarity about this, he has said what many Scots think about the Sturgeon ‘performance’, it just into up to snuff. Despite numerous makeovers, the sands of time have been cruel to Nicola Sturgeon, short, bad tempered, gobby, ‘pot belly’, and dyeing her hair and attempt to dress far too young for a grey haired women over 48. Despite her hefty salary, Nicola Sturgeon doesn’t have charisma, she doesn’t have style, mentally she is adrift; always it seems on the wrong side of the debate.

Watching Nicola Sturgeon doesn’t make for good TV.

MPs will vote on December 11 on Mrs May's Withdrawal Agreement, at present, the chances of a win for her look slim as even members of the Conservatives aren’t happy with the deal. The SNP are voting against the deal, orders from Sturgeon or her chief lackeys, the SNP MPs all vote as a block because they are sheep. On the evening of the debate, Nicola Sturgeon can sit in with her pensioner husband and watch as the real politicians thrash Brexit on TV.

The SNP had a chance early on to be part of Global Britain, and by default, project them as leaders of ‘Global Scotland’, but their politics are tried to a doomed EU project, there is no vision in the party. Having a provincial minded leader such as Sturgeon has damaged policy development in the party. The record of the Sturgeon government is appalling stuff, identity politics coupled with ineptness, short term policy to get over short term problems.

There comes a point when Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP will have to accept that she is mutton dressed as mutton, you could say even, she is mental mutton. The attempts to dress young, the layering of too much make up, the need to stick her nose in where it isn’t wanted has ‘something of the night’ about it. 

When Nicola Sturgeon described herself as ‘chief mammy’, my thoughts were, an attempt at humour or does she have a screw loose? I keep remembering the words from David Laws MP, when he wrote in his diary that Nicola Sturgeon was a ghastly woman, cold and unattractive, it is something you can't forget.

Finally, expect plenty of outrage by the SNP about Nicola Sturgeon being knocked back, although some people will quietly laugh, the truth is no one wants a desperate needy woman lecturing them when they made the right choice and she didn’t.  

Vacancy for National Champion of Scotland to appear on Scotgov website soon?

Yours sincerely

George Laird

The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University