A question for those interested in...

[mondo_notion]

If Sturgeon is so astute, why does she keep doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results?

She's a Scottish Nationalist, of course she is going to keep trying. I don't think she'd be pushing quite as hard if Brexit hadn't came along but the tories got sh*t scared of gains for UKIP and pushed the euro vote through. She is quite rightly using it for leverage for another scots indy vote.

[Red Zone]

She's a Scottish Nationalist, of course she is going to keep trying. I don't think she'd be pushing quite as hard if Brexit hadn't came along but the tories got sh*t scared of gains for UKIP and pushed the euro vote through. She is quite rightly using it for leverage for another scots indy vote.

Nobody is saying she shouldn't keep pushing for another indy vote, that is what she believes in so she is entitled to do so. What is being said is that her strategy over the last six years has been limited to bashing Westminster/England/Tories (and to a lesser extent Labour). That has been entirely successful in shoring up her core vote that has ensured success in the first past the post system we have.

I contend that same strategy has done absolutely fcuk all in persuading the people she needs to persuade to support that they even want another referendum never mind vote yes in such a referendum and until she does so in sizeable numbers Johnson will just continue to ignore her bluster regardless of the outcome of the 2021 election.

Why is that?

Is she thick? - I don't think so
Is she happy enough just being FM and carping from the sidelines? - as Mason said you wouldn't think so
Is she badly advised - possibly?
Is she scared to take a risk for fear of twisting off some in her Party and she is then under threat from a challenge from the likes of Cherry or MacKay? - maybe?
Or is it some other reason?