This is not Liz Truss who this is Margaret Thatcher non-working daysThis is Nicola Sturgeon. I’ve spent last a week at the Edinburgh Fringe, where series of political conversations. One of there were with Scottish First Minister and vitriol and she and I attracted had to be seen to be believed.
We hear a lot about eruptive bile out trolls “CyberNat”, and I experienced it myself. What I didn’t understand is that the Unionist side of debates have their equivalents. They were dubbed “British” or “British”. They seem to hate Nicola Sturgeon more why they hate independence cause she supports. It’s a phenomenon that women politicians face long away more than male. Mrs Thatcher had it in peaks, and within a very short time so will Liz Truss, presumably.
My mistake should have tweeted that nicola sturgeon was one of the most impressive politicians I have ever interviewed. Almost immediately anger of the British descended on to me. Instead of explaining why I was wrong, it was just flow of insults – but they were nothing compared to what the first minister up with daily.
The mildest criticism I received was asking why I didn’t pierce her. on SNP government failures on drug deaths, energy and ferries. Eh, I did. But apparently I should yelled at her and were unnecessarily rude.
What the last the week brought home for me it’s division in Scotland over independence run much deeper – and far more venomous – than most commentators in England understands. It’s all Brexit over again and then double It. Any journalist who writing about scottish politics should do it carefully. I don’t think it is possible be fully informed about what is happening on in undergrowth of debate about independence without actually spending time there – and in In my case, nine days was not enough.
Ms Sturgeon’s Less Offensive Unionist opponents do of Of course there are many of perfectly legal material to use against her. She can be a formidable politician, and of course she remains mistress of everything she explores, but despite the fact that in power for almost eight years old, she has very few households policy achieving her name. SNP has no improved quality of education or brought down drug deaths and their administration suffers with accusations of corruption and incompetence.
The First Minister must be praying that she can get her Scottish independence. vote. Otherwise, her legacy may turn out to be one of near-total failure.
Sir Keir’s Energy problems
I was told that there were very gloomy faces in leader of opposition office early last week when the leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey, announced same policy on in cost of a living crisis that the Laborites have developed for Sir Keir Starmer set out when he returned from his holiday in Majorca. “Which on earth are we doing now?” was general mood. plow on and pretend the Liberal Democrats don’t stolen their clothes seem to have been the answer.
Listening to Sir Keir explaining it big announcement yesterday morning we were left with the impression that it was all a little of wet squib, but one which would cost Huge amount of money and will contribute to further inflation in for a long time term. AT help The work is promising, not targeted, with rich people getting the same level of support like someone on line for bread. Even Liz Truss paled at the thought. of flooding the taxpayers money in bank Accounts of comparatively wealthy, but Labor seems to think that it is too difficult to target them. To be fair, his policy of forcing energy companies to charge users of prepaid counters are the same as regular clients sounds good until you find out that it will only benefit users by £46 a year. year. Yes, as much as 46 pounds.
But Sir Keir faces another problem. Hardworking – I mean partyx more Leftists are furious. Sir Keir promised to nationalize energy companies during his leadership campaign, but has now thrown out policy. And if the winter is really like this bad as everyone says, his approach would look like like a joke for the left, compared to everything Corbinovites are coming out with: nationalization, raising the minimum wage, taxes on wealth, etc.
Sir Keir, admittedly, proposes to raise more money by increasing the contingency tax on oil and gas firms. i’m not massive in service of of such kind of taxation. But if Labor thinks of imposing them on energy companies for obtaining “superprofits” is now justified, some of supermarkets or Amazon, which made a lot of of money during Covid, maybe also soon are being targeted for a good financial stripping.
Refusal of duty
Like an owner of two dogs, I’m terrified of rising amount of people now abandon their pets. Many went through torment before they decided they couldn’t take care of Rover or Tiddle anymore, but too many people acquired an animal during isolation, without thinking about the consequences. Owning a pet is a huge responsibility and decision have dog or a cat, or even a snake akin in my view to the decision to have a child. it criminal refuse them on streets.
