Sturgeon’s empty words to Trump

WHATEVER anyone may think about the maverick billionaire Donald Trump (whose fitness for the US presidency seems highly questionable, to put it mildly) the idea of him taking advice from Scottish politicians is faintly ludicrous.

There is no love lost between Mr Trump and the SNP, of course. Alex Salmond fawned over the businessman when he started pumping cash into his golf course in Aberdeenshire but it all went sour over the Nationalists’ wind farm mania. But no sooner had Nicola Sturgeon stripped Mr Trump of his Scottish ‘business ambassador’ status than he confounded pollsters and the liberal elite alike by taking the White House.

Last week Miss Sturgeon was lambasting Mr Trump and warning she would not maintain a dignified silence if the leader of the free world dared say anything she did not like. That has been exposed as so much empty virtue signalling as she has now written to the President-elect.

‘The election campaign was a divisive one. I was therefore encouraged to hear you pledge to be a president for all of America, and to seek to work with others to unify your country,’ she said.

Scots will enjoy a wry chuckle at that. Miss Sturgeon, who played a key role in the 2014 independence referendum – one of the most divisive arguments ever foisted on the Scottish people – praising unity! And this while she and her party still agitate, not for concord but the break-up of Britain.

Mr Trump would be well advised to put this letter at the bottom of his expansive in-tray.