Scottish independence

Well ya that's kinda my point. The lack of education in England as to the true make-up of their country is mind blowing.

The media play their part in that. Nothing stopping them having it front page. Plenty of stuff the general public don't think about much gets on there.

Whether its Trump or Murrell, nobody is above the law.

So the excuse presented by some female commentators that she left because she hadn't enough energy (the Jacinda Arden excuse) has been exposed as rubbish.

Well, she hardly was going to say, I think my husband is going to be arrested. Have you found the real reason that Ardern has resigned yet?

Soft on crime doesn't win votes. It's a bit like the Tories - too long in office.

Police arrested Nicola Sturgeon's husband today for issues with campaign finances.

I think this will weigh heavily on Nicola's resignation as well as the SNP as the police investigation was already going on at the same time.

It's not been good few weeks for Sturgeon. The rumour mill has it that both she and the husband are secretly gay and the marriage was a sham (I'm not saying anything libellous here....these rumours have even been addressed in the UK broadsheets recently).

I think that's the one thing the new First Minister of the SNP doesn't want nor need. He'll be a lame duck. Sturgeon ran into an cull de sac as she failed domestically, could not deliver a 2nd referendum and was always vague on currency for an independent Scotland.

In fairness something could be buried without her knowledge -but obviously I’m not saying there’s anything buried there- but it’s a very unusual raid- documents and laptops etc would be standard fare for the taking- you don’t usually see shovels in fraud cases - if it was part of the 600k they’re looking for, there's obviously some sort of evidence of a paper trail indicating large cash withdrawals - we’ll know over the coming months most likely what they’ve found if anything

Looks like the prospect of Scottish Independence is ebbing away again.

I think everyone accepts if there is any wrong doing, it will damage the SNP. Depends then how brittle the numbers for indy are. Starmer certainly can negate it by offering true devolution to all four parts of the Union. And LB winning 15/20 seats in Scotland at the next GE is the prize.

It ebbed away in 2014.

Sturgeon and the SNP have been taking the Scottish voter for a ride for many decades, not only on fake independence dreams but also on domestic matters.