Grievance and grudge

nIColA Sturgeon began manoeuvring for a second independence referendum more than a year ago, before the Holyrood elections and the Eu referendum.

After the Brexit vote, she steadily ramped up the rhetoric about securing Scotland’s place in Europe and spent thousands of pounds of taxpayers’ money on instructing civil servants to prepare a draft referendum bill, publishing her ‘compromise’ proposals for Scotland remaining in the single market and then pursuing a pointless grandstanding involvement in the Supreme Court case on invoking Article 50.

The First Minister has spent countless hours on one grievance after another, agitating in both the Scottish parliament and westminster about how her proposals have been dismissed out of hand by the uk Government.

She claimed she was left with no choice and had been forced to demand the right to hold Indyref 2. Her mandate for this was not from the Scottish people but from her own minority government in Holyrood, supported by the Scottish Greens, who don’t even have a single constituency MSP. Given the intensity of this orchestrated campaign and Miss Sturgeon’s outrage over the past 12 months, is it not very strange that she is no longer mentioning Scotland’s place in Europe now that a snap General Election has been called?

Instead, the First Minister and her party have reverted to their old election campaigning based on ideological hatred of the Tories.

Could it be that Miss Sturgeon has finally realised that the majority of Scots, including many in the SnP and other former Yes voters, don’t support her Brexit position and further pursuit of her unilateral policy on Scotland’s place in Europe will cost the SnP dearly at the ballot box. a. wyllIe, largs, ayrshire.

IT was nationalist MP Pete wishart who criticised opponents who said everything the SnP did was bad. now his own party’s entire General Election campaign is based on saying everything the Conservatives do is bad. F. johnStone, ayr.