Sturgeonland

[TheDeeDon]

I see that Swinney is going to quit at the same time as Sturgeon - I guess he has figured that Forbes will sack him once she wins

I actually find him a decent bloke. If we think we have zoomers in the cabinet now, I hate to imagine who will be coming in once the leadership has been decided.

I don't pay too much attention to politicians and tar them all with the same brush, but possibly there are some decent MSP in the lower ranks who could step up and do a job.

Don't have high expectation levels though.

[57vintage]

I actually find him a decent bloke. If we think we have zoomers in the cabinet now, I hate to imagine who will be coming in once the leadership has been decided.

Aye, a nice guy who came to our door during the by-election after Keith loon (well, Newmill) and fellow Red Brian Adam died. He was grateful that I asked how Mrs S (BBC journo Elizabeth Quigley) was coping with MS and a new baby. He even gave us a postal vote application form for one of the progeny who was home from Edinburgh for the weekend. Polite political discourse is possible (not with the shower of utter cünts who post on here, obviously ). He was handed education to sort out when everyone and his/her/their goldfish had fuucked it up, and he did too, throwing decent dedicated people at the SQA under a Brian Souter homophobe bus. In June 2020, he parrotted a hapf-dozen times “it is the statutory duty of local authorities to provide school education to national standards” to clear himself and fellow politicians of any responsibility for the sotter that that was. I was effing and blinding at the car radio, and Radio Scotland’s interviewer barely put in a tackle.
He only survived a vote of confidence by caving into the Greens and agreeing that exam candidates would be awarded the grades given by schools in prelims and coursework examination. No moderation/verification of assessment practice and quality, thus putting the 2020 awards to students in the same doubtful category as the first disastrous year of Higher Still in 2000’ where Sam Galbraith had at least the principles to resign once he’d agreed improvements for subsequent years. Swinney should have never left Finance where his abilities were best suited.

The talent pool of the SNP looks to have two shallow ends.

And that’s fit I think.