Sturgeon and her double standards
Patrick Harkness, an engineer at the University of Glasgow, told the SNP leader that her rhetoric around a second independence referendum was making him feel unwelcome in Scotland as a Yes vote would mean he would not be a citizen in the country where he lives.
In an outspoken intervention that won applause, he claimed that her MSPs were allowed to openly discuss how much they hate the English and questioned when she planned to stage a similar event for people from the rest of the UK.
Despite Ms Sturgeon’s claim that more than 450 people were in attendance, only around 250 turned up and there were rows of empty seats in the rear half of the city’s Corn Exchange.
Other questioners asked whether free university tuition will continue for students from the rest of the EU but Mr Harkness later pointed out that the SNP government already “specifically discriminates” against the English, Welsh and Northern Irish by allowing charges of up to £9,000 per year.
Ms Sturgeon insisted her support for Scottish independence was not based on hatred of other nationalities.
But Mr Harkness, 35, told her Scottish nationalists were "sneering at British people". He said: "Your backbenchers openly talk about how much people may or may not hate the English and you do not admonish them. Now you're misrepresenting my Remain vote to further yet more separatism.
"First Minister, I think we should recognise that you are building a cold house too. When are you going to hold an event such as this for UK citizens to reassure us that your nationalists will no longer speak division and hatred against us?”
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