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Five more ways Nicola Sturgeon has failed Scotland

Five more ways Nicola Sturgeon has failed Scotland

The very first article on this site, Nicola Sturgeon’s five biggest failures, got a huge response, with over 14,400 views so far.  But, so many of you said ‘Only five..?’ And we agree, so here’s some more of our First Minister's failures. Share widely...

#5 Dude, where’s our superfast broadband?

Lockdown measures over the last few months have really shown the importance of a reliable and fast broadband connection. In their 2016 election manifesto, the SNP proclaimed they would ensure “100% of premises across Scotland will have access to super-fast broadband by 2021.”

Nicola Sturgeon is ‘socially-distancing’ herself from Scottish parents

Nicola Sturgeon is ‘socially-distancing’ herself from Scottish parents

In a previous contribution I wrote how the SNP have failed schoolchildren of all ages and stages of progress, with slipping standards.  The Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy (SSLN) found that only 49% of 13/14 year olds were performing "very well" or "well" in 2016, down from 55% in 2014 and 64% in 2012.

It is against that backdrop that the SNP need a bolder drive and ambition to get Scottish school children all of the classroom time they can.  Nicola has had since March this year to plan for this provision, and that is precisely what is happening in the Scottish public school sector, but the SNP are letting down the majority of pupils who attend state sector schools.

Five times Scottish Nationalists bullied the media

Five times Scottish Nationalists bullied the media

#5. The Sun pulled an article about the Health Secretary’s complacency…during a pandemic

Despite being months into the Coronavirus pandemic crisis, when frontline workers are still not being routinely tested and PPE shortages are still troubling, the Scottish Health Secretary, Jeane Freeman, had time in her schedule to tweet she would chase up ASDA for Nationalist journalist Angela Haggerty’s groceries.

This, rightly, attracted much scorn and derision. The Sun ran a perfectly legitimate article, which they then deleted, leaving little trace that this story ever existed - an airbrush job the Ministry of Truth would be proud of.

Nicola Sturgeon's Five Biggest Failures

Nicola Sturgeon's Five Biggest Failures

#5 She deprived 300,000 children of their new hospital


Edinburgh's new Sick Children's Hospital was supposed to open at the end of 2012.  You didn’t misread that: it's just one example of the level of incompetence we must live with under the SNP in Scotland.

The project has been so delayed it has even outlived three previous health secretaries who were looking after it, making Jeane Freeman the fourth.  I hear you all breath sighs of relief at that...