Nicola Sturgeon ‘doesn’t want independence’ says Nigel Farage
The SNP leader has come under fire for her handling of the coronavirus vaccination programme in Scotland amid allegations she has become too focussed on securing a second independence referendum after local elections in May. She was also heavily criticised for appearing to side with the EU over the vaccines row by threatening to publish commercially sensitive data about the amount of doses being shipped into the UK.
It looks increasingly likely Nicola Sturgeon won’t beScottish First Minister by the time the year is over
Alex Apati
And she was accused of hypocrisy when she claimed Boris Johnson’s recent visits to Glasgow and Livingstone could be in breach of his own “stay at home” coronavirus rules.
One critic tweeted: “Should the Conservatives tweet Nicola Sturgeon’s daily trip from Glasgow to Edinburgh?
“Sickening that the SNP are using a global pandemic for political point scoring.”
Another said: “Nicola Sturgeon commutes between Glasgow and Edinburgh. The SNP, hypocrisy at every turn.”
And in a post directed at Ms Sturgeon, another critic tweeted: “Do you realise how petty you come across?”
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Ladbrokes spokesman Alex Apati said the odds on her remaining in office for the rest of 2021 had now been cut.
He said: “Having been a 9/4 shot earlier this morning, the bookies have since trimmed odds to just 2/1 on Sturgeon being replaced before the year is out.
“As things stand it’s Angus Robertson who heads the betting to be the next First Minister at 4/1, ahead of Joanna Cherry and Kate Forbes (both 6/1).
“It’s looking increasingly likely Nicola Sturgeon won’t be the Scottish First Minister by the time the year is over, if the latest odds are anything to go by.”
Opinion polls have suggested a majority of Scots would now favour breaking apart the 314-year-old union between England and Scotland if given the chance to vote.
But Mr Johnson has told Ms Sturgeon and the SNP to stop talking “endlessly” about a new independence referendum and said most people wanted to see Britain “bouncing back more strongly together” when the Covid-19 pandemic eases.
The Prime Minister said independence supporters had their chance in 2014 in a vote they had agreed at the time was “a once-in-a-generation event”.
He said: “I don’t think that the right thing to do is to talk endlessly about another referendum when I think what the people of the country and the people of Scotland want in particular is to fight this pandemic.
“I don’t see the advantage of getting lost in pointless constitutional wrangling when after all we had a referendum not so very long ago.
“The very same people who go on and on about another referendum also said only a few years ago, only in 2014, that this was a once-in-a-generation event – I’m inclined to stick with what they said last time.”
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Ms Sturgeon has vowed to bring forward an independence referendum if the SNP performs well at the polls in May.
A formal referendum must be approved by the Prime Minister but following Brexit, where Scotland voted to remain, and a raft of new polls in support of independence, public calls for a second vote have increased.
The SNP leader her party’s predicted victory on May 6 would give her the mandate to hold a second referendum.
A Survation poll released on January 18 found 51 percent of the 1,020 who voted, want to break up the UK.
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