Salmond and Sturgeon: What is the controversy all about?
Two of Scotland’s best known politicians are involved in a row which some people believe could force Nicola Sturgeon to quit as the country’s first minister. Who are Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon? The pair dominated Scottish politics for more than a decade, and led the campaign for Scotland to become independent from the UK.
Nicola Sturgeon is turning Scotland into a failed state – Reaction
When the government of a component nation of the United Kingdom provokes the headline in one of America’s leading journals “Scotland’s Government Slashes Away at Liberty”, it is cause for serious concern.
Senior Nats ‘had secret WhatsApp chat codenamed Vietnam to plot against Salmond’
SENIOR SNP figures had a secret WhatsApp group chat codenamed “Vietnam” in which they plotted against Alex Salmond, it’s been explosively claimed. Nats MP Kenny MacAskill alleged messages between high-ranking party members discussed “putting pressure” on one of Mr Salmond’s accusers to give evidence at his criminal trial last year after she “expressed reluctance” to do so.
Nicola Sturgeon’s Calatonia gambit on independence shows how dangerous voting SNP really is – Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP
The frog says “ok, but if you sting me, we’ll both die”. The scorpion promises to keep its barb to itself and climbs on. At the river’s deepest section, the frog feels the barb piercing its back and poison flushing through its veins.
Nicola Sturgeon plea as ‘significant numbers’ of young people leave SNP in trans rights row
Wednesday, 27th January 2021, 8:28 pm Updated Wednesday, 27th January 2021, 10:02 pm In her statement posted on Wednesday evening, Ms Sturgeon said: “I don’t have much time for anything other than the fight against Covid right now but on some days silence is not an option.”
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