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Nicola Sturgeon Accused of “Toxic” Legacy After Standing Down as MSP

by Will Jones
12 March 2025 3:31 PM

Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of leaving a “toxic” political legacy that divided and damaged Scotland by pushing gender self-ID among other contentious agendas after announcing she will stand down as an MSP. The Telegraph has more.

The former First Minister said she would not contest next year’s Scottish Parliament election, marking the end of her front-line political career. 

In a statement posted on social media following months of speculation, she said “the time is right for me to embrace different opportunities in a new chapter of my life”.

Senior SNP figures lavished praise on her record in office, focusing in particular on her providing “important national leadership at a time of crisis during the Covid pandemic”. [Oh dear, no lessons learned there then.]

But the Tories said she was the “most divisive Scottish politician of the devolution era”, highlighting her “toxic” plans to allow biological men to self-identify as women.

The Crown Office prosecution service also confirmed that she remained under investigation as part of the long-running criminal inquiry into the SNP’s finances.

It emerged last September that Police Scotland detectives who had been investigating her as part of Operation Branchform had asked prosecutors for guidance on the next steps.

In January she disclosed she was divorcing Peter Murrell, the SNP’s former Chief Executive. He has been charged with embezzling funds from the party and she has vehemently denied any wrongdoing.

Ms Sturgeon is the latest in a series of SNP big hitters to announce they are standing down as MSPs at the May 2026 election, including Humza Yousaf, her short-lived successor as First Minister and party leader.

In a letter to local SNP members posted on Instagram, the Glasgow Southside MSP said: “I am writing to let you know that I have decided not to seek re-election to the Scottish Parliament next year.

“Reaching this decision has been far from easy, however, I have known in my heart for a while that the time is right for me to embrace different opportunities in a new chapter of my life, and to allow you to select a new standard bearer.” …

Rachael Hamilton, the Scottish Tory Deputy Leader, wished Ms Sturgeon well but added: “We cannot forget the deep divisions in our country that Nicola Sturgeon created, fostered and encouraged.

“By any objective analysis, her record as First Minister is one of failure. Scottish education standards collapsed on her watch and the poverty-related attainment gap, which she promised to eradicate, widened.

“She presided over a drugs-death emergency, a ferries scandal, a crisis in our NHS, crumbling roads – and all while raising taxes on hard-working Scots, which stifled economic growth.

“Her reckless gender self-ID policy betrayed women, her soft-touch approach to justice betrayed victims and her shameful deletion of Covid WhatsApp messages denied bereaved families answers and highlighted the secrecy and cynicism that characterised her Government.”

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Gender Self-IDNic Sturge-onNicola SturgeonScotlandSNPTransgenderismWoke Gobbledegook

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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
2 months ago

“Providing important national leadership at a time of crisis during the Covid pandemic…”

…By suggesting sawing off the bottom of classroom doors to improve ventilation.

Good riddance to the evil Mac-barmpot.

Last edited 2 months ago by Art Simtotic
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Heretic
Heretic
2 months ago
Reply to  Art Simtotic

Did she really do that? Sawing off classroom doors???

I wish there were a photo of her doing that, like this example of her colleague:

Hilarious moment Humza Yousaf falls off his scooter in Holyrood corridor

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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
2 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

Oh what a classic that is, with the added bonus of face maskeradery, the surgical boot and the minion jogging alongside with the crutches!

In return, two more minutes of Pure Comedy Gold from Holyrood Studios…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WhPO4jI3JI

…FMQs: Sturgeon defends Covid proposal to ‘chop bottom off classroom doors’

Last edited 2 months ago by Art Simtotic
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Art Simtotic
Art Simtotic
2 months ago
Reply to  Art Simtotic

Ps Don’t mention the ferries, I mentioned them once but I think I got away with it.

Last edited 2 months ago by Art Simtotic
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Heretic
Heretic
2 months ago
Reply to  Art Simtotic

Incredible! Watching that video, I just could not believe her spewing such tripe, standing there gesticulating in that jerky, aggressive manner, putting down the perfectly reasonable objections from another MSP.

She seemed literally insane!

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sskinner
sskinner
2 months ago
Reply to  Heretic

Slightly off topic but related to fires. During the ‘time of insanity’ York University advised self isolating students to stay behind in the event of a fire. They subsequently had a visit from the fire brigade to explain things.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-54551789?fbclid=IwY2xjawJABTFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHe9FpmUHpJtIepl9qBMbPKJNxKsyrwR6uCO3B0SD6nhVRZEJG9QUxwbfcw_aem_thP1oM1ucgmTu0WiJjsdFg

Students self-isolating at the University of York have been told to wait in their room in the event of a fire and let others out first.
The university’s Health and Safety Services told students to wait for a minute before leaving “to allow non-isolating individuals to exit”.
In total 288 staff and students at the university have tested positive for coronavirus.
The university said it had since “updated and changed” its guidance.
…

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sskinner
sskinner
2 months ago
Reply to  Art Simtotic

I recall her banning single use plastic bottles while in the same week mandating single use face masks – made out of plastic.

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sskinner
sskinner
2 months ago
Reply to  Art Simtotic

This needs putting in the ‘evidence’ folder, although it’s getting quite full.

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NeilofWatford
NeilofWatford
2 months ago

When’s her day in court?

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EppingBlogger
EppingBlogger
2 months ago

How long does it take lawyers to find out that £600,000 is missing.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 months ago
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About £600,000.

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Heretic
Heretic
2 months ago

Whoever in history decided that Red Lipstick was a good idea?

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Arum
Arum
2 months ago
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You can put lipstick on a sturgeon, but there’s still something fishy about it

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Heretic
Heretic
2 months ago
Reply to  Arum

! 🙂 But seriously, how can anyone think that lips looking like they are dripping with blood is somehow attractive, except to a vampire?

Or any kind of lipstick, or paying a lot of money to have silicone injections to make lips look horribly swollen— what is the point?

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Mogwai
Mogwai
2 months ago

Yes indeed, she was a massive woketard and betrayer of women, and had she been a white man she would have been a traitor to white men, because we know how it goes by now with these people who worship at the alter of identity politics. They sow discord and division in society, with Sturgeon being a prime example over the years.

The post below is referring to the recent research that was done, which Noah Carl covered in an article here, about the significant difference in voting habits of men and women up to 29 years of age, with young men becoming more right-leaning and women more Leftard;

”What we’re seeing in this chart isn’t ACTUALLY men and women diverging in politics, what we’re ACTUALLY seeing is twenty years of identity politics causing division within our society, pitting us against each other; men vs women, black vs white, left vs right etc etc.

The Identity Politics so aggressively pushed by the Old Left is done for one thing and one thing only: to divide us. It’s intent is to keep us seperate and angry at each other, to look at each other as the enemies they want us to be and not the partners that we are.

And yes you can make the argument that perhaps it wasn’t INTENTIONALLY done to divide us, and to a certain extent I might agree. But at the end of the day it’s irrelevant. What matters is what a thing DOES not what it intends to do, and now that we know exactly what the results of this Identity Politics does, it is our responsibility to push against it.
At the end of the day, the TRUE intent of a system is what it does, not what it claims to do.

Men are becoming more conservative and women more liberal. But it isn’t just that, everywhere we look we see more social division than ever before. Why?

We were promised by our leaders on the Left that obsessively focusing on ours and others identity would bring us closer together, that excessively policing our speech to prevent anyone from hearing any words they didn’t like would heal the cultural divide, and yet the opposite has happened; We are more divided by identity than ever before. It turns out, what the Old Left was selling us as the cure was actually the disease.

It’s time to admit Identity Politics is a failure and instead of healing the cracks and social fissures we see in our society, it’s actually the CAUSE of it.”

https://x.com/The_AltLeft/status/1899437609673175425

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
2 months ago

I hope the general population up there get wind of what she has done to them and take the appropriate action against her.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
2 months ago
Reply to  Jabby Mcstiff

Your suggestion would apply to the whole of the establishment going back and starting with Bliar.

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
2 months ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Not really it is simply the result of looking at current reality and seeking remedy. You have to remember that a lot of Scots men now are entirely castrated. We need to give them their balls back. The whole nutsack.

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
2 months ago

There are women like that who will cut your balls off. I lived in rural Ireland for a long time I dig the Celtic spirit and I can tell you that this woman and her sort are a murrain.

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sskinner
sskinner
2 months ago

She also stirred up tribal hate between England and Scotland.

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Gezza England
Gezza England
2 months ago

It was downhill for her ever since The Krankies ended.

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