VIDEO: Nicola Sturgeon's 50 shades of greyed out memories
“I don’t recall” – Behaviour like this in an elderly person might lead to tests
Credit: Scottish Parliament
How much incapacity does Nicola have to show before Scots say “Enough”?
Today Facts4EU.Org looks at the apparent lack of accountability from the SNP government in Scotland. Last week Nicola Sturgeon faced almost eight hours of questioning from the Scottish Parliament’s committee looking into the devolved government’s handling of the Alex Salmond affair.
Ms Sturgeon appears to have developed an advanced form of amnesia
Members of the Facts4EU.Org team watched Ms Sturgeon’s testimony to the committee with increasing incredulity. Faced with the difficult questions, Scotland's First Minister and the SNP leader appeared to be suffering from an advanced form of amnesia. We use the qualifying adjective ‘advanced’ because the forgetfulness was selective and it was delivered in a homely, ‘oh poor me’, apologetic, faux-sincere style. This was quite a performance.
As a party-neutral organisation, Facts4EU.Org does not usually publish videos from political parties, but in this case we felt that the video produced by the Scottish Conservatives in response to Ms Sturgeon’s testimony really says it all.
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The EU has already split the UK over Northern Ireland – now Nicola wants to make it worse
Ms Sturgeon’s avowed intent – and that of her party the SNP – is the break-up of the United Kingdom. She has met EU officials and politicians on many occasions over the past few years, even at very sensitive times in talks between the UK Government and the EU over Brexit, and the best that can be said is that these were very unhelpful in securing a successful outcome for the United Kingdom as a whole.
Foreign policy is the sole prerogative of the UK Government and yet Ms Sturgeon and her colleagues have ignored this. Time and again they have sought to establish support in Brussels for the admission of an independent Scotland into the European Union. Despite their best efforts, they have been wholly unsuccessful in securing any meaningful words of encouragement from the EU machine.
Observations
Democracy must include responsibility and accountability
It is an essential element of any democratic government that they can be held to account for their actions. No doubt Ms Sturgeon and the SNP would argue that her eight hours of testimony before the committee of the Scottish Parliament demonstrates that she is more than willing to answer questions on her actions and on those of her devolved government.
This would be true, were it not the case that Nicola Sturgeon repeatedly failed to answer numerous key questions, giving a variety of excuses revolving around her ‘inability to recall’. Appearing before a committee of your peers is one thing, but then failing to be of any use in providing truthful answers is quite another.
Nicola Sturgeon’s appearance comes on top of a series of extraordinary attempts by the SNP government to block the committee from having access to the papers and other information it has requested. Where information has been provided it has been late, highly redacted, and only given after extreme pressure was brought to bear.
Even more extraordinarily the SNP government has claimed that no minutes were taken at certain key meetings. The number and variety of excuses like this have now stretched credulity beyond breaking point.
Meanwhile, the scandal of Scotland’s No.1 ranking for drug-related deaths in Europe, its failing education system, its latest hate speech law, and its blatant use of the BBC for daily propaganda broadcasts by Ms Sturgeon are all very serious causes for concern.
Surely the Scottish people deserve better than this?
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[ Sources: Scottish parliamentary enquiry | Scottish Conservatives ] Politicians and journalists can contact us for details, as ever.
Brexit Facts4EU.Org, Sun 14 Mar 2021
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