Polls now trending towards the SNP not getting a majority in the May elections and No regaining its lead in independence polls so I think this certainly has had an effect

How she has handled the pandemic?

since the start of the outbreak:

7,536 people have died who have tested positive as at 18 March
9,831 deaths have been registered in Scotland where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate up to 14 March
33% of COVID-19 registered deaths related to deaths in care homes, 60% were in hospitals and 6% were at home or non-institutional settings (as at 14 March)

compare that to the Republic which has a similar size population and under 3,000 deaths :skull:

the republic is not joined to England and wales

Part of the drop in independence support will be from the surge in Euroscepticism because of the whole "vaccines shambles" on the continent. People are far less confident in leaving the UK with a view to fully rejoining the EU because ... well let's face it at the moment they're looking petty and incompetent.

It's a tough one for me because overall I am in full support of independent Scottish governance but I also don't think this is the time at all... we need calmer seas to focus on something like that and the world is currently in chaos. I edge towards Devomax over Independence, currently, but will still be voting SNP because there simply isn't another party that will pursue devolution of power; the only viable opposition to the SNP is the Tories and I wouldn't trust them for a second to not simply start shovelling the devolved powers we already have back down to Daddy Westminster, let alone continue seeking further devolution.

trump got amazing voter response and he ****ed up a pandemic, took help from foreign governments and was the most corrupt leader in american history :laugh:

Voters just don't respond how we expect them to anymore, that rule book has firmly gone out the window. But, she can still be ridiculed mercilessly whatever the outcome, and that will be the future if she remains the head of the SNP

So she hasn’t done that well then, it’s just a false narrative that is pushed relentlessly

As Margaret Covid demonstrated, Scottish people infected English people obeying the rules

:laugh:

i guess there was no space left on the front page for

"but did not do it knowingly"

:think:

I don't know much about political protocol when it comes to lies, was what she said/did objectively worse than day to day fibs?

it ends up a bit like watergate, it's not so much about the deed itself, its about the lengths that were gone to, to cover it all up

Full Report on Tuesday.

BBC reports

[Ex-finance secretary Derek Mackay quits SNP after suspension
Renfrewshire North and West MSP resigned
from his post last year over messages he sent to a teenage boy]

Nonce gone.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...snp-suspension

Even if you tipped her upside down and used her bristle head as a broom, you still wouldn't move enough **** to save her ass.

Lol..the masks to keep her lizard tongue off Salmond's gecko chin.

Good to see the INDEPENDENT inquiry has found that Nicola Sturgeon didn't break the Ministerial code.
Nice one and no need at all to resign.

:joker::joker: Its not the end :nono:

Brilliant news :love:

Who did she pay off?

Nobody paid off.
It's an independent inquiry not a political party one.

She'll likely get stronger criticism from the MSPs committee who've already been critical

I'll always take an independent inquiry's result over a MP committee one however.
Especially a committee made up of 4 more pro SNP and 5 anti.

Especially with pathetic Jackie Baillie from Labour on it too.

A fair result....says alec Salmond as he slithers off before the press ask him about his not guilty verdict.