Is this true -or even likely?

Fortunatley, I cannot see a new SNP leader having the sheer clout of Nicola Sturgeon for quite along time.

All the other political parties in Scotland are likely to benefit from het resignation.

Having resigned she should leave politics completely because it doesn’t work to hang around after you have had the top job.

paddyann54

Dont get your hopes up Nicola is going nowhere until her work is done .As a long time member of SNP I can assure you the word on twitter is very different from the word from the FM in person .

😂
Ok right, if you say so.

paddyann54

Dont get your hopes up Nicola is going nowhere until her work is done .As a long time member of SNP I can assure you the word on twitter is very different from the word from the FM in person .

Never say never!

Oops didn’t see the other thread.

She’s just resigned.!

MTM
A lucky dip and. £5 win in the last fortnight. I wouldn’t get your hopes up.

Mollygo

According to Twitter Nicola Sturgeon plans to stand down as SNP leader before the next UK election. Has that been suggested anywhere else?

How are you on next weeks Lottery numbers MysticMollygo ? 🤣🤣

Yup!

Thrawn:

twisted; crooked.
"a slightly thrawn neck"
2.
perverse; ill-tempered.
"mother's looking a bit thrawn this morning"

Her neck looks fine so is is 2?

Thrawn is a great word!

When is the next election, would she want to stand again?

Well I suppose if they keep saying it year after year they'll be right eventually.

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Incidentally "thrawn". "Thrawn" is the word that so many people on here are clutching for. Or "Indifferent to bullies and the ignorant." That works too.

That's terrific paddyann. As you know her so well could you ask her what a woman actually is? Most of us seek clarification.

Like her or loather her, it has to be admitted that NS is a great speaker, never stumbles, is very practiced in politician speak, but lately she does seem to have been not quite so sure of herself, especially in the face of the fuss about transgender people and prisons which seems to have blown up in her face.

paddyann54

Dont get your hopes up Nicola is going nowhere until her work is done .As a long time member of SNP I can assure you the word on twitter is very different from the word from the FM in person .

I suspected as much, although it was such fun watching the interview where she was desperate not to answer the question she was asked, and trying instead to answer a question that she wanted to be asked.

Dont get your hopes up Nicola is going nowhere until her work is done .As a long time member of SNP I can assure you the word on twitter is very different from the word from the FM in person .

ornery
It's a word I seen in books but never used myself
Ornery - cantankerous, bad-tempered.

I would say determined and perhaps rigid.

If people think she is about to leave she will do the opposite
I'd call that bloody-minded

I know the feeling 😁

Ornery? That sounds like something else

If people think she is about to leave she will do the opposite. She seems to be that sort of person. I think Americans would call it ornery.

lemsip

I think it a good idea to put the main subject in title thread. such as nicola sturgeon in this case.

'is this true or even likely ' could be anything. imo

It sucks people in, though.... 😁

I think it a good idea to put the main subject in title thread. such as nicola sturgeon in this case.

'is this true or even likely ' could be anything. imo

I know nothing about her politics, but as a person she has seemed rather flustered and all over the place with her comments recently.

We can hope.

It's certainly all over Twitter.