Oor Nicola Sturgeon thread.

[Binos]

2 minutes ago, Binos said:

That's what I was thinking 

Ferries,  a9, recycling scheme, gender laws, renewables sell off

Proposed drink advertising ban

The policy and delivery coming out of her stewardship were honking 

[Jacksgranda]

12 hours ago, Richey Edwards said:

This is genuinely one of the most disgusting things I have ever read. What an absolute piece of shit this clown is.

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That is absolutely shocking.

Quite disturbing that someone could think that, never mind write it.

[Benjamin_Nevis]

10 minutes ago, Binos said:

That's what I was thinking 

Ferries,  a9, recycling scheme, gender laws, renewables sell off

 

7 minutes ago, Binos said:

Proposed drink advertising ban

The policy and delivery coming out of her stewardship were honking 

(You get one for each post)

[Melanius Mullarkey]

57 minutes ago, Binos said:

But couldn't get a road dualed

When was the last time you tried to dual a 112km road through the highlands during a pandemic?

[alta-pete]

6 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkay said:

When was the last time you tried to dual a 112km road through the highlands during a pandemic?

All that outside working across some of the least populated landscapes in the country? While travelling was curtailed? Piece of piss and a wasted opportunity IMHO. 

[Melanius Mullarkey]

1 minute ago, alta-pete said:

All that outside working across some of the least populated landscapes in the country? While travelling was curtailed? Piece of piss and a wasted opportunity IMHO. 

Surprised every construction project didnt finish ahead of schedule and under budget during the pandemic tbqh

[Rugster]

5 minutes ago, alta-pete said:

All that outside working across some of the least populated landscapes in the country? While travelling was curtailed? Piece of piss and a wasted opportunity IMHO. 

There would have been a gap in the road every two metres though.

[alta-pete]

And, all facetiousness aside, I’m fairly sure one of Boris’s initial directives when everyone was told to stay at home was to get the road crews out to sort the motorways that couldn’t otherwise be tackled in normal times without serious disruption. 

[Jacksgranda]

52 minutes ago, renton said:

It's in the process of being dualed. It won't be on time, but it'll get done.

Couldn't be any later than the A5 over here.

https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=db7d93f3c0961c08JmltdHM9MTY3NjUwNTYwMCZpZ3VpZD0zY2UzYjk5My05Zjc3LTYwMWUtMTQ1Mi1hODc0OWU1MDYxZTcmaW5zaWQ9NTM1Mw&ptn=3&hsh=3&fclid=3ce3b993-9f77-601e-1452-a8749e5061e7&psq=dualing+the+A5+in+northern+ireland&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaXJpc2huZXdzLmNvbS9uZXdzL25vcnRoZXJuaXJlbGFuZG5ld3MvMjAyMi8wMy8wNS9uZXdzL2E1LXBldGl0aW9uLWxhdW5jaGVkLWFzLW1sYS1oaXRzLW91dC1hdC1ncm91cC10aHdhcnRpbmctcGxhbnMtdG8tdXBncmFkZS1yb2FkLTI2MDYyOTcv&ntb=1

And the A6 Dungiven to Drumahoe dualling might run it close

 

[Benjamin_Nevis]

5 minutes ago, alta-pete said:

And, all facetiousness aside, I’m fairly sure one of Boris’s initial directives when everyone was told to stay at home was to get the road crews out to sort the motorways that couldn’t otherwise be tackled in normal times without serious disruption. 

Looks like that was as well-organised and as harmonious as one would expect:

https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/highways-sectors-mixed-approach-to-covid-19-leads-to-stand-offs-with-maintenance-crews-01-05-2020/

[Scary Bear]

I see that Nicola Sturgeon thinks her legacy is that Scotland is fairer today than it was in 2015. Even she couldn’t come up with any biggies in terms of legacy, so she went for that vague legacy, which is difficult to prove or disprove.

For me her legacy is a time of unbridled electoral success but total inability to do anything of note with that success.

Scotland has become a country that specialises in producing policy documents which are poorly thought through and only superficially discussed with those who will need to put those policies into action. 

Scotland has become a country where public services don’t work anymore. Now, that’s been a gradual decline since the Tories took over in 2010, speeded up by Covid and Brexit, but sadly for her, the bit where the public sector really stopped working happened during her shift.

Sadly, I don’t see any appreciable talent behind Sturgeon. Her cabinet are likely a large part of the reason that Sturgeon has struggled.

 

Edited February 16, 2023 by Scary Bear

[Scary Bear]

3 hours ago, alta-pete said:

I was out in the car yesterday with the radio on and what struck me most was the rambling repetitiveness of her resignation speech. I had to go look it up afterwards - 17 minutes.

The tl;dr version - self aggrandising, self congratulatory pish.  

A day on from it, can anyone actually point me to any sort of metric that confirms Scotland to be a materially better place for anyone than it was 8 years ago? 

It’s fairer apparently.

My gas and leccy bills are mental, I can’t get a doctor or dentist appointment and the roads are falling to bits. Maybe that’s fairer or I have my rose-tinted specs on but that’s either no change or a bit less fair.

[oneteaminglasgow]

2 minutes ago, Scary Bear said:

My gas and leccy bills are mental

Do you hold Nicola Sturgeon responsible for that? 

[Scary Bear]

Just now, oneteaminglasgow said:

Do you hold Nicola Sturgeon responsible for that? 

Yes, yes I do. On the same imaginary scale that she uses for fairness.

[CarrbridgeSaintee]

Don’t want to come across as heartless but can’t think of a nice way to make the following point.

Are road deaths actually the fault of the road?

Yes, dualling roads to make overtaking etc safer is all fine and well, but personal responsibility is also important.

I feel there’s a culture within driving where people don’t leave enough time for their journeys and often seem on a mission to get from A to B as quickly as possible.  It shouldn’t be like that.

So often people completely ignore stopping distances too, driving for long periods of time far too close to the vehicle in front.

Aquaplaning is something that happens frequently too.

Perhaps education is also a way to bring down the high death rate on the A9?

Edited February 16, 2023 by CarrbridgeSaintee

[oneteaminglasgow]

1 minute ago, Scary Bear said:

Yes, yes I do. On the same imaginary scale that she uses for fairness.

That statement doesn’t make any sense whatsoever, and Sturgeon laid out in her speech some of the metrics she was using around ‘fairness.’ It’s stuff like more people from disadvantaged backgrounds going to university, a more progressive tax system, baby boxes etc. 

[Scary Bear]

1 minute ago, oneteaminglasgow said:

That statement doesn’t make any sense whatsoever, and Sturgeon laid out in her speech some of the metrics she was using around ‘fairness.’ It’s stuff like more people from disadvantaged backgrounds going to university, a more progressive tax system, baby boxes etc. 

I disagree with her statement that Scotland is fairer now than it was in 2015. Nicola picking some metrics she thinks shows fairness doesn’t mean I have to agree with her. Is that clear enough for you?

[Genuine Hibs Fan]

I wouldn't take the opinions around fairness of someone who defended his club signing Goodwillie too seriously tbh lads 

[oneteaminglasgow]

7 minutes ago, Scary Bear said:

I disagree with her statement that Scotland is fairer now than it was in 2015. Nicola picking some metrics she thinks shows fairness doesn’t mean I have to agree with her. Is that clear enough for you?

It’s perfectly clear, it’s just that I believe that “my electricity bill is high, therefore Scotland as a whole can’t be fairer” is a ludicrous line of argument. 

[SandyCromarty]

Nicola Sturgeons legacy will be the convincing wins she led in General Elections and Scottish parliament elections, consider that there is only one Labour and six tory MP's in Scotland against 44 SNP MP's.

And then Holyrood dominated by 64 SNP MSP's, with the tories and labour MSP's mostly list.

In fact if the Scottish elections were 'first past the post' as in Westminster the SNP would be virtually unopposed with hardly any london based tory and labour gadgies in the Scottish Parliament.

So the naysayers, petty critics, woman haters and daft journos can throw all the shite they want but at the end of day Nicola Sturgeon delivered elections that gave the Scottish People a voice but especially a political identity.

A great legacy for us to continue.