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"Scotland’s Leader Nicola Sturgeon Says She Will Step Down in Surprise Move" (NYT):
Only last month, she said in an interview with the BBC that she had “plenty in the tank” to continue leading Scotland and @bl@bloomswas [sic] “nowhere near ready” to step down.
On Wednesday, however, Ms. Sturgeon said she had been wrestling for weeks with the decision to resign. She spoke about being exhausted by the pandemic, during which she adopted a more cautious stance on masks and other social-distancing policies than the government in England.
There was an echo in Ms. Sturgeon’s resignation of that of Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand, who announced her resignation last month by saying she “no longer had enough in the tank.”
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She spoke about being exhausted by the pandemic, during which she adopted a more cautious stance on masks and other social-distancing policies than the government in England
Does this mean she has the lasting symptoms of the virus and/or vaccines or that she was a totalitarian during the pandemic and doesn’t want to face up to her destructive policies now that GB is reeling with the consequences…
…or AND…
Being a fascist tool of the WEF takes a toll on your soul.
These people think they know better than everyone else.
But eventually you notice you are making people miserable and ruining their lives and the only person who feels good about what you re doing is you.
I the good thing about the female version is they are more likely to opt for resignation where as the male version will more likely opt for the next steps in the fascist dream.
rehajm said...
Does this mean she has the lasting symptoms of the virus and/or vaccines or that she was a totalitarian during the pandemic and doesn’t want to face up to her destructive policies now that GB is reeling with the consequences…
…or AND…
The backlash comes.
I am very interested in how far it is going to reach into our society and social contracts.
Too many people are having heart failure and it is happening in places that are far too public to people it should not be happening to. Censorship has failed.
All they have left is gas lighting/lying.
That hasn't worked out particularly well in the past.
Colin Powell didn't have the "fire in his belly" to run for president back in the day. Has any male politician ever said "not enough gas in the tank"?
Next Wave Feminism: Women defending femaleness against transgender males crushing their sports and apparently adopting traditional female ambitions, careers, and roles?
Two women who relished their opportunity to play tinpot dictator during the pandemic but who don’t want to face the voters.
Outdated metaphor. Should be "its taking too long to recharge my battery".
Being a fascist dictator can be exhausting. Telling all of your subjects how to live could exhaust anyone.
Good riddance. Of course, there's no guarantee or indication that her successor will be any better. But there's always hope.
Too many of the Scots seems to have been sold on a self defeating and impoverishing course of separating from the United Kingdom.
I have friends in Scotland who have operated a B and B for nearly forty years and they refer to her for sometime as Nicola Scurgeon.
For the vote in 2016 on independence they allowed any EU residents in Scotland to vote, but not Scottish citizens living elsewhere and they tried to lower the voting age to 16.
She was seeking her own left leaning totalitarian fiefdom. I love the Highlands, spend much of my summers there, and will probably continue so long as health allows.
she adopted a more cautious stance on masks and other social-distancing policies than the government in England
Does that mean she was more strict or less strict? Seems deliberately ambiguous.
I'm going to assume she was more strict because the NYT seems positively disposed toward her, which means she's a lefty, which means she'll always go as far as she can toward increasing government power over individuals. That's called Progress by those who gain the power.
Weak. There is actual physical and spiritual fatigue or weakness: which happens, often without fault. But then there is also moral collapse, simply giving up *and not even trying to gut it out or hide it,* just walking away from the promised effort.
That’s character weakness.
I'm sure it had nothing to do with the public's rejection of her radical stance on surgical mutilation of children as treatment for mental illness or, just for puberty.
She got tired of publicly feuding with author J.K. Rowling about M-F Transgender (who haven’t physically had their genitalia removed as of yet) prisoners being housed with biological women prisoners. Score one for J.K. in taking down the First Minister of Scotland with irrefutable logic and biology…
“no longer had enough in the tank.”
On average, women have a smaller tank. And there's nothing wrong with that.
It is important to remember that she is not Scotland's PM. She is King Chuck's minister for Scotland. As such, her oath of office is not to Scotland, the Scottish people, the Scottish constitution or even to the Crown as an entity. Her oath is to King Chuck personally. (Even in the 3rd Reich the oath was to the Fuehrer, not Adolf personally)
She was appointed by Queen Elizabeth (not elected by anyone) Chuck inherited her when mom went toes up and she serves at his pleasure.
Ditto Former PM for Britain Liz Truss and the PM for New Zealand.
Notice a pattern here?
3 female prime ministers. All resigned shortly after Chuck became king. Did they resign on their own or did Chuck ask them to?
Is Chuck anti-woman? He has always been an asshole, do we add this to his resume?
Yes, I know that Chuck is not supposed to actually exercise his power to hire and fire prime ministers. Officially he probably doesn't. Still, he is king and he does have that power He can exercise it under the table with a wink and a nod.
Once, even twice might be coincidence. 3 times? Starting to sound like it is on purpose.
Who's next? Trudeau? PM for Australia?
John Henry
Haha the TERFs took her out. Good work!
There was an echo in Ms. Sturgeon’s resignation of that of Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand
Both of these women turned out to be liberal totalitarians. Especially regarding COVID. Maybe the are looking back over the last three years and wondering, "holy shit, what have I done"?
She should have stepped down for being too leftwing-crazy. The SNP makes AOC and Chuck Schumer seem like conservative sane Republicans. Britian needs another vote on scotland. Lets allow the English to vote on the question of kicking Scotland out.
Anyway, sad she's "exhusted". Yeah, OK. Its a toughjob. Talking.
Sturgeon’s bottom-feeder policies have put many off their haggis.
So does this mean a new take on the old cliche?
If you can't take the heat -- get back into the kitchen?
Not soon enough, alas.
Running out of gas? The female sex has a lower lung capacity than her male counterpart, but can be materially improved through aerobic activity, reduced carbohydrate consumption, and other health-oriented choices. Are these women now, have they ever been, do they ever intend to become, mothers?
Is she also exhausted by the blowback she got for allowing male rapists to be housed in women’s prisons?
Oh, dear. Merkel, gone. Ahern, gone. May, long gone. Truss (remember her?) gone, too. Now Sturgeon's a goner, as is Kamala. All replaced, or to be replaced, by men.
Other than a couple Scandinavians, that leaves Georgia Meloni as the highest ranking politician in the West. Curious, that.
(I'm ignoring von der Leyen because the EC is BS.)
"More cautious." Other options: "hysterical" or "batshit crazy" or "panicked" or "irrationally wracked by fear." The fascist woman in charge of New Zealand was similar.
Her predecessor was Alex Salmond. Salmond, Sturgeon--what's next, Bream?
The utterly incompetent resigning because they are about to lose.
From The National Review:
“She said was was worn down by the “brutality” of political life.”
Woman fleeing the fight.
Is it weariness or a sense of self-preservational dread at an approaching reckoning, I wonder.
Perhaps women don't want to serve a man. Two women step down as prime minister shortly after Charles becomes their king.
Jacinda Ardern never did have enough in the tank.
Masks are useful to capture carbon dioxide emissions and calm metabolic energy. Too much of a good thing: "Too much C02 dissolved in the blood can cause symptoms that range from dizziness, drowsiness, headache, confusion and shortness of breath to heart arrhythmias, seizures and loss of consciousness."
They also serve other purposes, as viral collectors, petri dishes, fine particle aggregators, to impregnate a false sense of security for you and your loved ones, and garner plausible legal and political indemnity.
She falls under the non-telegenic cohort of female leaders who have pushed vocally for this disastrous war in Ukraine, throw her in a bin with Hillary Clinton.
But as for telegenic women who have been the advocates of disastrous policies, let me add the PM of New Zealand, as a fully vested member of this group of pretty, youngish women, who have been handed the reins of power.
What makes beautiful women, who have not yet lost their sexual attractiveness to age, the main pool of heads of state across the west? Maybe because, as every psychologist knows, women are more compliant, and so they are installed in these roles by the real rulers? Who knows, but it's something. This is why I wouldn't vote for Kari Lake on a bet.
Good, they were tyrants, especially the New Zealand one.
There are several scandals plaguing her government, one of which could be pretty serious. Something to do with her husband and loans made to the SNP. She us getting out while the getting good. Plus her policies and ideology are trash so all in all a fine thing she is gone.
Two women. I will not extrapolate to all women.
There may be another shoe to drop ...
It's funny how imposing policies actively hated by the majority of citizens can tire one out...
What is it with these authoritarian minded wimmin and their preoccupation with fuel tanks? One thing neither Ardern nor Sturgeon have ever run out of is gas, as they hyperventilated their hysteria about Covid.
The immediate cause of Sturgeon's demise can be summed up in the maxim, go woke, go (politically) broke, as she got herself into an impossible bind over men being assigned on arraignment to women's jails, but the deeper cause is the complete failure of the Scottish National Party over a broad range of public policy outcomes, from health to education to taxes. The cause of Scottish independence is now pretty much dead, which is good news for the United Kingdom, but bad news for English taxpayers as they will continue to subsidise the Toytown "government" of Scotland.
Sarah Palin, a female by sex and woman by "natgender", was stalked in person, in terrorist typesetting, and in evening news jests and brayers. Exhausting. Fortunately, she was unmasked, and did not run out of gas.
Trump, a male by sex and man by "natgender", traverses the anthropophobic climate in a Greenhouse environment with a seeming inexhaustible supply -- pun intended? maybe.
That Covid thing was exhausting, she says.
Well, she did it the hard way by her own choice.
I eagerly await the collapse from exhaustion of Whitmer, Hochul, Newsome, Walz, and our own "Fatso" Pritzker.
Upon reconsideration, I should express some gratitude to Sturgeon for her "more conservative" masking policies, etc. Because of the uncertainty for travel in the UK last year, we ended up going to Paris, Normandy, and Switzerland.
Absolutely loved Paris, but had Scotland been open for travel in the spring we would have gone there instead. So thank you Nicola for broadening my travel horizons and directing me towards the City of Light to which we will be returning in April.
P.S. You could probably have had more gas in your tank had you reduced the ridiculously high cost of petrol in the UK. Just a suggestion.
Of course we have these actual fascist dictator women who were celebrated for being fascists.
Compare and Contrast to Georgia Meloni and how she has been treated by the WEF regime shitheads.
Are we going to see any kind of article about Meloni even remotely close to this garbage?
Everyone sees through this crap. There are just some fascists and bubble heads that can't process what is actually happening here.
Two women. I will not extrapolate to all women.
DIEversity. The female bloc. The feminine bloc by virtue of a sum of their sex-correlated attributes. A conclusion is unmasked and forward-looking.
It is important to remember that she is not Scotland's PM.
That's right, they are part of the puppetry of the British Commonwealth. We'll miss you Queen Elizabeth. May she rest in peace.
"It is important to remember that she is not Scotland's PM. She is King Chuck's minister for Scotland. " - by "John" ...
While it is true that she isn't/wasn't Scotland's PM (she is/was First Minister for Scotland, elected by Scots voters who elected enough SNP Members of the Scottish Parliament to have her become First Minister), she has never been the British monarch's "minister for Scotland" ! The post of Secretary of State for Scotland is currently held by Alister Jack ...
"Current role holder
The Rt Hon Alister Jack MP
Alister Jack was appointed Secretary of State for Scotland on 24 July 2019. He was previously Lord Commissioner of HM Treasury and a Government Whip.
He was elected Scottish Conservative MP for Dumfries and Galloway in June 2017."
When being cute and dismissive of another country's culture and politics, it is better not to prove that you are apparently just another John - who doesn't know Jack about the subject ...
Two women. I will not extrapolate to all women.
Why not? Feminists typically take the worst behavior of the worst men and extrapolate to all men. What’s wrong with turnabout?
“a more cautious stance on masks and other social-distancing policies than the government in England”
Using a public health “emergency” to justify authoritarian power grabs is “caution”. That is how left-leaning media bias manifests.
Would Nicola have made a different decision if she had access to Tesla's charging network?
'Outdated metaphor. Should be "its taking too long to recharge my battery".'
Or, "The wind has gone out of my sail."
Alastor,
From the Scotland Act of 1998:
The First Minister.
(1)The First Minister shall be appointed by Her Majesty from among the members of the Parliament and shall hold office at Her Majesty’s pleasure.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/46/section/45
And from Section 84:
84 Oaths.
(1)A person who is returned as a member of the Parliament shall take the oath of allegiance
And here is the oath of allegiance that she swore:
I, (Insert full name), do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles, his heirs and successors, according to law. So help me God.
So you want to say that her allegiance is to Scotland or the Scottish people? Doesn't seem to be from what she swore. Her allegiance is to King Chuck personally. In theory, he should always want what is best for Scotland. But if he tells her to do something that she thinks contrary to Scotland's best interest, she has to carry out his wishes, commit treason or resign. Even disagreeing with the king would probably be lese majeste. Is that still a crime?
Some democracy.
Not my monkey, not my circus so whatever works for the UK is fine by me. But it is hardly a democracy. I can sympathize with Scots who don't want to be subjects of a English king.
To those who say the US is not a democracy, I agree 100%. It was never intended to be and I have similar objections to people who attempt to call it one.
John Henry
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under of robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some points be satiated; but those who torment us for their own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to heaven yet at the same time likely to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on the level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.
C.S. Lewis
"Women running out of gas."
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more sulfurous vegetable in diet or fill up the tank >> choose for yourself
John Henry - I understand your signature confusion ...
"I, (Insert full name), do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to His Majesty King Charles, his heirs and successors, according to law."
The truly-key phrase involved is "according to law." ...
The power of British custom and tradition is such that, while King Charles is indeed the Head of State, His Majesty is a Constitutional Monarch, not an absolute (and especially not a Hollywood) monarch ...
How is the first section (1) that you quote in any way significantly different from the power held by (and used by) President Biden to fire nearly all Senate-confirmed U.S. attorneys appointed during the Trump administration ? It's just another "shall hold office at Her Majesty’s pleasure", is it not ?
Some democracy, eh ?
The First Minister's allegiance, by custom and tradition, is supposed to be to their constituents - that is the meaning of "according to law" ... and, since the Monarch is a direct landowner, citizen, and constituent in Scotland, the First Minister's allegiance is owed to the Monarch-as-constituent as well as to everyone else in Scotland ...
At the risk of making this a longer comment, do your sympathies "with Scots who don't want to be subjects of a English king" get extended to the counties in Oregon who have been voting to secede from Oregon so as to join into the State of Idaho ?
Some democracy.
The U.K. is not a democracy. It is a constitutional monarchy. The people of the U.K. are subjects, not citizens.
just another John - who doesn't know Jack about the subject ...
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‘s math a rinn thu Alastor
It's a trend: Sturgeon and Ardern, before that Feinstein and Pelosi (although Feinstein doesn't seem to remember having quit), Liz Truss, then a bit earlier Angela Merkel. It's like women are quitting government all the time.
John Henry your understanding of the British constitution is several centuries out of date. You wrote:
"Her [Nicola Sturgeon's] allegiance is to King Chuck personally. In theory, he should always want what is best for Scotland. But if he tells her to do something that she thinks contrary to Scotland's best interest, she has to carry out his wishes, commit treason or resign. Even disagreeing with the king would probably be lese majeste. Is that still a crime?"
Since the 17th century it is Parliament rather than the Sovereign which has been supreme. King Charles 1st discovered this to his cost when he was executed for High Treason in 1649 after being tried by Parliament.
Shortly afterwards Parliament deposed King James 2nd and gave the crown to the joint Sovereigns William and Mary. They were obliged to swear to "govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereunto belonging, according to the statutes in Parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same". One of the statutes passed by that Parliament was the Bill of Rights of 1689 (1 William & Mary Sess 2 c 2) which is a still a vital part of the British constitution. The Bill of Rights makes it quite clear that the Sovereign reigns but does not rule. (Strictly this relates to England but I understand that similar arrangements were made in Scotland.)
I don't believe that lese majeste was ever a crime in the UK, but I would be interested to hear of any examples.
Historically I never paid any attention to my gas gauge and/or warning lights.
I would just run my damn car all the way to E, and then I would fill her up again.
In fact I liked to flirt with danger. My CJ-7 (Jeep), the damn needle would go way below E. And I'd keep driving. "I can go below E." I probably ran out of gas a half dozen times in my damn Jeep. And because I'm a man I'll blame the AMC corporation for their fucking slack-ass gas gauge needle that was unreliable and who the fuck knows how much gas I have anyway?
My BMW, it's so exact it tells me how many miles I have left. I'm like, "I got 20 miles left, no biggie." And around 10 miles or maybe 15 miles the damn mile counter goes blank. This puts me in a panic. "The Germans don't know how many miles I have left! It was all a lie!" And I make a panic run to the gas station, with the radio turned off just in case it's sucking up gas or some damn thing.
I haven't run out of gas in at least a decade. (The Swedes get partial credit for my incredible run).
Tapadh leibh, gu coibhneil, Narayanan ...
@Narayanan, @Alastor, hey, guys. We ain’t looking for no trouble in any language.
Apparently lese majeste is still a crime in England. And was a crime in Scotland until 2010. With the last prosecution over 300 years ago, not strictly enforced.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9
The Treason Felony Act of 1848 makes it an offence to advocate for the abolition of the monarchy. Such advocation is punishable by up to life imprisonment under the Act. Though still in the statute book, the law is no longer enforced.[102]
Section 51 of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Act 2010 abolished the common law criminal offences of sedition and "leasing-making" in Scottish law. The latter offence was considered an offence of lèse-majesté or making remarks critical of the monarch of the United Kingdom. The final prosecution for this offence had occurred in 1715.[103]
John Henry
John Henry is correct that lese majeste is still a crime in England. However I'm not sure that refusing to do the Sovereign's bidding falls within the definition in the Treason Felony Act:
"If any person whatsoever shall, within the United Kingdom or without, compass, imagine, invent, devise, or intend to deprive or depose our Most Gracious Lord the King, from the style, honour, or royal name of the imperial crown of the United Kingdom, or of any other of his Majesty’s dominions and countries, or to levy war against his Majesty, within any part of the United Kingdom, in order by force or constraint to compel his to change his measures or counsels, or in order to put any force or constraint upon or in order to intimidate or overawe both Houses or either House of Parliament, or to move or stir any foreigner or stranger with force to invade the United Kingdom or any other of his Majesty's dominions or countries under the obeisance of his Majesty, and such compassings, imaginations, inventions, devices, or intentions, or any of them, shall express, utter, or declare, by publishing any printing or writing ... or by any overt act or deed, every person so offending shall be guilty of felony, and being convicted thereof shall be liable ... to be transported beyond the seas for the term of his or her natural life."
Besides any prosecution under the Act would require the consent of one of the government's law officers, so government ministers have little to fear.
Pandemic probably didn't help, but the transgender rapist prison problem seems to loom a lot larger among the reasons for her resignation, at least judging from what I read in the UK press. She went all in on support for transgender ideology, and then got caught flatfooted when it turned out that meant putting a male rapist in a female prison just because he identified as female. Sunak, I think, has also exploited the opening on trans issues to make her look an out of touch fool, by blocking her transgender Gender Reform Recognition bill. Gender difference is the right tag for this, but not between male and female politicians.
Also, the new Princess of Wales has now very publicly rolled out her early child healthy development initiative. Not really related but sort of, Camilla is a longtime, vocal advocate for programs that address domestic violence.
COVID probably played a large role as well for both. Ardern for awhile was not letting NZ citizens back in the country. Can’t really recall the conditions imposed for refusal. Also, I believe their were bans on ordering take-out food. Wasn’t there encouragement to report on neighbors? For Sturgeon, of course, women’s prison issue really seemed a bridge too far for many.
For Truss, that always seemed to me an economic thing along with intraparty politics.
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