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2 years

Sophy Ridge saying polls suggest a record result for SNP on Thursday. If so I give up.

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Blackford's face absolutely contorted with hatred at Westminster. What is wrong with that party?

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Never wanted a Scottish Parliament, didn't vote for a Scottish Parliament, but never expected to be actively ashamed of a Scottish Parliament.

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Scottifying the Census was stupid, self-indulgent, obstructive, small-minded, cynical and, of course, deeply political. #ScotlandsCensus

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Sturgeon chooses to twist the knife into an already felled and humiliated Prime Minister. She will be 'a political footnote' she rushes to point out, as if we weren't aware. Sturgeon, who's always on about encouraging women and 'gurrils' into politics, and is big on 'kindness'.

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The First Minister will by now have had the opportunity to view that horrendous video of violence in a Fife classroom, as she said at FMQs she would. Since Holyrood won't presumably be back in action until Tuesday, can a journalist now ask her what she will be doing about it?

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I hope somewhere in the Sunday papers there will be an in-depth piece along the lines of 'what is really going on at the top of the SNP'.

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I remember my class getting to watch Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977 in Television Room at Abdn Grammar in lieu of an English lesson. A little piece of history we didn't have to miss. Now a Scottish 'Govt' won't let a Platinum Jubilee book for kids be distributed. #progressive

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Having different guidelines in different parts of the UK is bonkers, imo. Why didn't the architects of devolution stipulate it would be suspended in an emergency situation?

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Blackford on about dignity? Blackford?

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Blackford - or 'Ian' as Huw Edwards has called him three times - getting to speak uninterrupted for ages on BBC. Been handed a pulpit, more or less.

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Patrick Harvie is a government minister because Nicola Sturgeon judged it to be a good idea.

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Scottish journalists - is it really necessary to couch questions to Nicola Sturgeon in apologetic, almost sorry-to-bother-you terms like 'if I can just ask...'? We *rely* on you to challenge and scrutinise power, not apologise for existing.

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Why is the notorious 'Tory Scum Out' banner not confiscated by police? #Perth

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Think have finally reached point of being unable to watch FMQs through inability to stand FM.

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3 years

Burnham's criticism of Sturgeon feels like a little bit of a watershed moment to me.

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3 years

Honestly think if first thing FM does is insult the leader of the opposition who has just asked reasonable questions in a non-insulting manner, the Presiding Officer should intervene. Otherwise she (PO) is reduced to mere announcer/time-keeper. We're better than this, surely.

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1 year

Well done Tom Gordon asking NS about the hefty loan her husband made to the SNP. She assures him the money was 'his resources' exclusively. She's not sure when she first learned of the loan being made.

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2 years

Pandemic 'COBRA' behaviour of Sturgeon as described by Hancock comes as no surprise. Yet simultaneously we were constantly hearing how superior her handling of covid was to what was going on elsewhere in the UK. The Daily Nicola Show, facilitated by BBC, has much to answer for.

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3 years

For heaven's sake, @BethRigby . Who says an SNP majority is inevitable, or that if it did happen a referendum is inevitable? Totally sick of the Sturgeon worldview being parroted by media.

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2 years

"Sorry". We have a Presiding Officer who *apologises* for interrupting a First Minister in full put-down flow. This apologetic approach has been going on since this PO was appointed, seems to me. Don't know how it would be described, but it's not presiding. IMO.

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We have a First Minister with no intention of taking action over behaviour within party ranks she herself brands 'completely unacceptable'. That isn't leadership. She is accepting it.

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3 years

Why does Jackie Baillie have to call out Mr Swinney for off-putting muttering while she is speaking? Be good to have a Presiding Officer who really did preside.

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2 years

The hounding and eventual removal of Wendy Alexander as leader of Scottish Labour compared to what appears to be going on now at the top of the SNP is more shameful than ever, IMO.

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2 years

She's right, redacted reports are rubbish. Let's have the full, unredacted Hamilton Report while we're at it. #onlyfair

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2 years

@Peston I am a Scot (and Yorkshire lover) who cannot bear the thought of the UK breaking up. And, as John Lennon might have said, I'm not the only one. The SNP does *not* speak for Scotland.

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2 years

Willie Rennie absolutely taking the SNP to the cleaners over the ferries fiasco. He's on fire. #Holyrood No need for (Deputy) Presiding Officer to shut him up quite so ardently for running slightly over the time limit.

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2 years

I think they think the Blackford-Sturgeon-Grady matter is simply going to be swamped by the PM drama and that will be that. Don't think so.

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11 months

I don't necessarily want to drink a small can of M&S wine with my sandwiches on a quiet early Sunday afternoon train between two Scottish cities, but I wouldn't mind having the option. #nannystate

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2 years

There has been next to no discussion about local government in Scotland during this campaign. It's been dominated by N Sturgeon, not council figures. We are in the grip of a Scottish 'government' that seeks always to centralise power, not support local communities. IMO.

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3 years

Mention by @RuthDavidsonMSP of an offer of aid to assist the vaccination roll-out in Scotland made by the Government in Westminster draws groans from SNP MSPs in Holyrood. There is a sickness at the heart of politics in today's Scotland. #FMQs

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2 years

I remember watching the opening of the Scottish Parliament in 1999, and I loved Donald Dewar's speech about the speak o' the Mearns and all that, but I still had a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach. My stomach was right.

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Why does Sturgeon think it's OK to be impudent to journalists? Impudent rather than humorous. Does she think it's a good look? It's almost like she can't help herself.

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2 years

Own goal. Big one.

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3 years

The unvarnished & completely gratuitous rudeness of Sturgeon towards journalists at a recent covid press conference seems to have 'cut through'. But why has it taken so long? She's been obnoxious, contemptuous & patronising to journalists at regular intervals since this started.

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You're a seasoned politician, Nicola Sturgeon. You're going to have to work with the next PM. You could have chosen to be measured in your remarks at this delicate moment, & committed to offering for your part open and constructive dialogue. But hey - nationalism.

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5 months

Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance wrote down private thoughts in notebooks and made those notebooks available to inquiry. National Clinical Director Jason Leitch jokes about his daily pre-bed ritual of wiping his WhatsApps. Both knew a public inquiry was coming.

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Sick of onlookers who haven't lived under Sturgeon's 'government' for years telling those of us who have how we should be shocked/outraged at anyone daring to criticize her.

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2 years

Can you ask Ms Sturgeon, @iaindale , what she'd say to Scottish citizens made downright stressed & miserable by her constant push for separation with the rest of the UK? Who went through a hellish campaign for 2-plus years, won it, & don't intend to go through that again - ever?

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2 years

Breaking: Nicola Sturgeon: "I am not a shipbuilder".

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I am getting a wee bit fed up of the First Minister welcoming the ambassadors of Europe to Bute House in-between gracing the stages of the Edinburgh Festival/Fringe. #summer

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2 years

Every sit-down interview of Sturgeon Robertson & Blackford needs to include the question: why appointing a chief whip known for sexual harassment led eventually to the fall of a Prime Minister at Westminster and yet to no action on the senior politicians involved within the SNP.

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Isn't Sturgeon's big de facto election-referendum statement beginning to look like a monumental, badly-timed own goal?

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Westminster SNP Group coming across as anything but a united, happy band. Who would have thought it?

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1 year

A taxpayer-funded Minister for Independence is an outrage.

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2 years

16 year old Nicola detested the Tories, she's told us that often enough. She detests the Tories now. She's very good at expressing that detestation. Is it mature politics and what we expect of a First Minister? No, I don't think so.

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7 months

Yousaf admits to discussing Israel-Gaza conflict with Erdoğan. I think we should get to see a read-out of what was said at this extraordinary and unsanctioned meeting, @scotgov .

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3 years

One day encourage crowds onto Glasgow streets. Next day announce you're extending imposition of restrictions in Glasgow. This is 'steering us through'?

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2 years

It was inevitable that one day Sturgeon would effectively tell the Presiding Officer to shut up. And today...

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2 years

Willie Coffey MSP has done us all a favour by highlighting the godawful standard of debate and near-total absence of eloquence, wit and spontaneity in the Scottish Parliament. The place has an unwarranted air of complacency and self satisfaction about it. Time for a review. IMO.

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2 years

Keeping minutes of meetings really not a strong point of the First Minister's, is it?

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2 years

Brian Wilson brilliant on last night's Scotland Tonight @STVNews . When was last time Scottish broadcast journalists inconvenienced the FM or SG? We have a culture that has lost the distinction between reporting what SG wants reported, and true *journalism* - finding things out.

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Keep going Anas and Jackie. It's working...

Blow for SNP as new poll shows Labour only TWO POINTS behind

The SNP plan to twist the next general election into a single policy vote on the future of the United Kingdom could come to a stop with figures putting the nats in close competition with Labour.

www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk

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3 years

A doctor joins a virtual meeting with other doctors, scientists & journalists. He's the CMO of Scotland, and feels the need to have a large Saltire behind him in the corner. His counterparts across the UK don't appear to share this need to highlight difference rather than unity.

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Can't imagine BJ telling journalists 'I assume a certain level of intelligence...' in a Very Disappointed Tone. On contrary, he thanks them for their qs - even the impertinent & tricky ones. We've become inured to NS's cheek over the past many months, but today was too much.

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2 years

First Minister invariably extends her answers to Douglas Ross so that the exchanges with him take up a full 15 minutes. BBC Radio Scotland live coverage of #FMQs ends at 12.15 pm. So if she keeps waffling Anas Sarwar never gets covered on live radio. It's a cynical strategy.

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The more I think of Sturgeon's nonsensical, not-pausing-for-breath 'yes I do' yesterday when asked if she retains confidence in Blackford, the more I wonder where her reputation for being good at politics comes from.

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3 years

It wasn't 'a stupid Eurovision joke', though. It was yet another casual assumption by a separatist that they are at liberty to state that the entire country agrees with their worldview. Newsflash: many don't.

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Never, in the entire course of the pandemic to date, do I recall a Scottish audience being talked through graphs pertaining to the situation in Scotland in the way we have become so accustomed to seeing from Prof Whitty at the Downing St lectern. Why?

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I am innocent in the ways of the Supreme Court, but I would not have expected the statement "it's just so unfair" to feature in a senior lawyer's summing up statement.

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Can people just stop with the 'Britain is broken' guff and recognise the importance of solidarity, mutual support and friendship across the UK? Doesn't our defence as a nation depend on it?

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"Scotland's Census" letter arrives. "Shaping our future". The word Scotland appears six times on the envelope.

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So Blackford makes it to the summer holidays, and must be hoping that when they all return and there's a new PM and everything, calls for his resignation over his handling of the Grady matter will have been forgotten. Yes, he's no doubt hoping that. #longmemories

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2 years

When I was 16 I didn't think I knew it all. Surely today's 16 year olds don't imagine they do?

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BBC Sturgeon podcast says there were c250 televised covid briefings, which means over 250 hours of broadcasting. Is it safe to say never once over 250+ hours were viewers in Scotland (unlike elsewhere) shown a graph, table or map to illuminate what was being said? Why, I wonder.

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9 months

Keith Brown embodies what is wrong with the SNP. Arrogant, unpleasant, entitled, humourless, small-minded, etc.

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2 years

The re-naming of the Scottish Executive as the Scottish 'Government' should never have been waved through as it was. The Yes/No framing of the referendum question in 2014 should never have been waved through as it was. Have these lessons been learned? Doubt it.

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A mainstream Scottish newspaper publishes a story entitled 'Why I will never buy anything from Baxters again'. The reason turns out to be, basically, Tories. Scottish journalism used to lead the world.

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IMO, NS is the UK's most aggressive politician. Too many commentators, for too long, have confused aggression for talent.

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3 years

Not again. Why do we have a Presiding Officer who asks the First Minister for permission to speak? #FMQS

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Can people who generally don't take an interest in council elections but who don't wish the break up of the UK please take an interest in May next year (and vote anything other than SNP/Green)?

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Does @BBCScotland ever feel uncomfortable handing over the airwaves to a First Minister who uses them to publicly patronise and criticise not only individual journalists bold enough to question her, but the entire journalistic profession?

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Talking of respect: when has Sturgeon ever displayed any for anyone not of a similar mind to her? She can't even treat perfectly polite journalists with respect.

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Did no-one at Creative Scotland question the granting of public money to help promote a book by...the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, to whom Creative Scotland are presumably answerable?

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If next Tues there are no questions put for the FM to answer in her alloted 40 minutes of question-answering on the subject of a second independence referendum, Holyrood would be showing a rare bit of character and steel. I hope the opposition leaves her talking to herself.

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SNP finally loses the plot big time at exact moment Labour regains its sanity, voice and purpose.

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The power that the Greens appear to hold in the Scottish Government I find rather astonishing.

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2 years

Depressing and true.

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It must really get to Sturgeon sometimes that Blackford gets Westminster while she's stuck with HR.

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There's one single Civil Service in the UK, I believe. How can it be appropriate for civil servants working for the Scottish Govt to take to social media on the Scottish Govt twitter feed and, effectively, criticise the work of fellow civil servants working elsewhere in UK?

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A hostile First Minister ensconced in Bute House spouting bile in Westminster's direction and declaring the Westminster system 'broken'. Why could the architects of devolution not have predicted such a scenario and taken steps, legislatively, to remove the risk?

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Sturgeon more or less tells the Presiding Officer not to think about interrupting her before she starts answering Douglas Ross at #FMQs . Perhaps PO could invite her to get on with it rather than set out how she intends answering a question.

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Scotland likes to market itself as open-minded and inclusive, especially mid-Edinburgh Festival. Meanwhile, just up the road in Perth ...

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If a Presiding Officer saying 'Briefly, First Minister' elicits the First Ministerial response 'I will be as brief as I can, Presiding Officer. This is important stuff. Serious questions have been asked...' then something is not working in the hierarchy of a parliament.

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Young female front-bench SNP go-getters still appear to be adopting a Sturgeonesque pattern of behaviour. The obnoxious way Jenny Gilruth responded to Willie Rennie today, for example. Are there no advisers telling them it's beyond time for a change?

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Is Blackford just going to resurface at PMQs and lay into BJ as per?

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This First Minister uses 'infantile' & 'not grown-up' as slurs against the Leader of the Opposition, trotting them out every time he opens his mouth. This Presiding Officer does not consider this language disrespectful, bullying, or offensive. Going by the evidence. #disgrace

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Did Blackford and cohorts treat Theresa May with any dignity when she was PM? I think not.

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FFS, @BBCScotland . A hostile interview for the leader of the Scottish Tories, but not a word about the scandalous mess the SNP find themselves in? #TheSundayShow

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2 years

#wordsmatter If Salmond hadn't got away with re-naming the Scottish Executive the Scottish 'Government' things might not have got to this pretty pass.

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3 years

"First Minister, First Minister, if you could just give me one second... " This is surely simply *unacceptable* from the presiding officer of any parliament? Politeness and social convention cannot overtake how a parliament must operate? Use the word! 'Order!'

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It is just no good having a Presiding Officer who calls 'Members!' instead of 'Order!', & who is roundly ignored by a FM determined not to be put off her stride. It is not how a serious Parliament should operate. If PO can't bring herself to Preside someone else needs to do it.

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What was the point of the daily hour-plus 'briefings' by Nicola Sturgeon last summer, @BBCScotland ? How did you decide they were all justified, news value-wise? Were you given any choice about broadcasting them? Is there a relevant policy somewhere we can read?

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3 years

What's the point of a parliament where a Presiding Officer doesn't say a word as events slide remarkably close to farce - and nor does anyone else? (Well done @ScotTories for later raising a Point of Order, though.)

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3 years

She goes for Douglas Ross' "immaturity" ??? - and of course 'Presiding Officer' let's her.

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3 years

FM travelling daily between Glasgow to Edinburgh must be 'genuinely essential' it seems. Prompts question: what is Bute House actually *for*?

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2 years

Did a party ever need a period (long, ideally) out of power as badly as Sturgeon's SNP?

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3 years

That time an SNP backbencher asked FM a question & she read out the answer to a completely different, unrelated question. Why was everyone apparently too seized with embarrassment to say 'that answer makes no sense'? I mean just shout that out in the Chamber? PO silent as per.

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4 years

The Nicola Sturgeon daily television show on @BBCScotland : a pro-journalist rant. 1/10

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2 years

While Scotland's actual Transport Secretary stands and looks on.

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🚝 As @scotgov takes control of Scotland’s railway @NicolaSturgeon has been meeting staff at Glasgow Queen Street Station. 🛤 She says we won’t see changes overnight but services will gradually improve over time.

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