Sturgeon's halo slips as shambles of SNP is revealed

SOMETIMES, in politics, the curtain is pulled back so that everybody can finally see things for what they well and truly are. And this is exactly what happened last week with Nicola Sturgeon.

- Matthew Goodwin

Not that long ago, Saint Nicola was lauded – by an alliance of liberals, left progressives, and fawning BBC journalists – as the brave and honourable leader who would steer them to their socially liberal, if not radically woke, paradise north of the border.

They hated Brexit. They hated Boris. They hated the Tories. And I’d go even further – more than a few probably hate the British people, who since Brexit they routinely denounced as racists, bigots, Gammons, and more.

This is why Sturgeon was routinely held up by this political, media, and cultural elite as the alternative to Boris Johnson, a man they truly loathed, not least because he outflanked them all at the 2019 general election. But in recent months, especially after evidence given this week at the Covid Inquiry, which has decamped to Scotland to look at the response north of the border, it’s now become crystal clear this cult-like worshipping of Saint Nicola has left many in the McChattering classes looking utterly ridiculous.

Consider what we learned last week. It’s nothing short of remarkable. While Sturgeon and her cronies spent recent years proclaiming themselves as the morally righteous, virtuous ones, we now see things for what they are.