Sturgeon laments ‘bad faith’ politics of today

The SNP’s Dear Leader never manages to stay out of the spotlight for long. Nicola Sturgeon is back on the speech circuit, this time appearing at Edinburgh University to bestow her wisdom upon some unfortunate souls. In her time away from the Holyrood frontbenches — during which she has spoken only a handful of times in the Chamber — it appears Sturgeon has been busy rewriting history. For at last night’s event, the Queen of Nats claimed that politics has changed since she resigned from the top job. Now, she claims, controversial policies ‘descend into the most vicious, toxic rammy, with bad faith arguments all over the place’. Er, has she forgotten the last 17 years of SNP rule?

The former first minister is no stranger to fantasyland, but Sturgeon’s newfound lack of self-awareness is rather staggering. The SNP veteran was the leader who introduced controversial gender legislation to Holyrood, who said she ‘detests the Tories’ and, of course, who was a key part of an indyref campaign that tore the nation in two.