Is Nicola extracting the Michael?

There was a bit of pot calling the kettle black on the second the leaders debate in Scotland.  As David Coburn (UKIP) was explaining why, as he saw it, the problem was….    And before he got a chance to utter it, Nicola Sturgeon said “Europe”, they (UKIP) always blame Europe.  Which I did have a wry smile at given everything ever to go wrong in Scotland is always someone else’s fault, never the fault of Nicola and her SNP government even when it’s a devolved issue like the NHS.  London always gets the blame.

During the course of that debate Nicola said, when it comes to having a 2nd referendum, the people of a Scotland will decide.  Well, perhaps like so many other things, Nicola is trying to air brush inconvenient truths out of the SNPs recent past.  For example, the people of Scotland gave a pretty emphatic decision when given the chance to not be part of the UK.  They said No.  That sounds a pretty clear decision by the peoples of Scotland to me. 

She lost the once in a generation chance to convince us to leave the UK.  So she can’t now say, “Scotland didn't vote for the government in power”, as she seems to be hinting will be her rhetoric in the future, if a democratically elected UK government, which had as part of it's manifesto, offered an in out referendum on the UKs continued involvement in the EU.   What part of the emphatic yes to staying within the UK doesn't she understand the people of Scotland gave last year?

You know, they may be politically miles apart but there are increasing similarities between the first minister and former prime minister Margaret Thatcher in her last year in power.

Increasingly shrill.  Increasingly myopic.  Increasingly intolerant.  And increasingly extreme.  The difference is Margaret Thatcher won three democratic general elections.  Nicola so far has won nothing.