How much of Sturgeon’s story should we believe?

Monday blog

Hopefully many of you saw the interview with the fragrant Nicola Sturgeon on ‘Red’ Laura Kuenssberg’s Sunday political Labour-loving show. I, of course, believe eveverything the Wee Jimmy Krankie said:

Obviously she wouldn’t have been surprised at the:

• Jaguar car which appeared on her driveway
• The massive mobile home parked at the side of her 80-year-old parents-in-law’s house
• The pens and pepper pots and suchlike costing thousands of pounds
• And all the other goodies bought by her husband with embezzled money

After all, she was just a working-class girl from the North of Scotland. So such items would be quite normal in a modest home like hers.

But, just like our world-respected BBC, I have to be impartial and thus must give both sides of every story just like the BBC does on subjects like ‘Global Boiling’ and ‘Safe end Effective Vaccines’ and how wonderful the EU is and what a disaster Brexit was etc etc etc

On 20 November 2014, Nicola Sturgeon became First Minister of Scotland, succeeding Alex Salmond, who had resigned after defeat in the Scottish Independence referenfum. She is the first woman to hold this position. In March 2023, Sturgeon resigned as First Minister and was succeeded by Humza Yousaf. According to Wikipedia, she said that her resignation was because of the emotional toll the role took on her and for the false internet rumours about her sexuality and personal life. But, if I remember correctly, there was a good deal of furore at the time of her resignation about a transgender (male!) Scottish rapist being incarcerated in a women’s prison.

So for balance and impartiality, here’s one of the most scurrilous rumours being spread by horrible people. Such people are suggesting that Scotland’s previous First Lady is a vagitarian who realised that a single woman could never reach the highest position in Scottish politics, especially given the rumours about her personal life. The story goes on to suggest that her 2010 marriage at the age of forty was a sham designed enable her to become First MInister. If this is the case (and I’m sure it’s not) this would have given her ‘husband’ an incredible lever to use against her should she ever find out about his tendency to so generously spend other people’s money on himself and his good lady wife.

According to the Scottish Daily Express, 75% of those who expressed an opinion believe that Sturgeon was lying when she claimed to know nothing about her husband’s theft of SNP money.

Anyway, there you have it, Mr Ofcom. Complete impartiality giving both sides of this story.

I have my own experience of what a corrupt nasty little country Scotland is. Many years ago, my uncle set up a small electronics manufacturing company in Inverness as he wanted to be near a brother who lived there. My uncle was promised generous grants from the HIDB (Highlands and Islands Development Board) which were keen to encourage manufacturing to move to the North of Scotland. But when the time came to pay out the HIDB grants my uncle was informed that quite a few bribes would have to be paid to the local ‘government mafia’ otherwise no money would be forthcoming.

Anyway, here’s Leo Kearse’s take on the whole sorry Sturgeon affair