Nicola Sturgeon: Protesters demonstrate outside Fringe venue
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The Scottish First Minister, wearing a two-piece red suit with matching shoes, was leaving The Stand comedy club on Edinburgh’s George Street after watching a Fringe event as she was accosted by protesters from a Unionist group called A Force For Good. With dozens of the activists holding up signs that read “Sturgeon is not Scotland”, and one using a megaphone to demand her resignation, the First Minister looked to make a quick exit from the event in which she spoke with Graham Spiers for his ‘In Conversation’ series. As she rushed to a nearby silver Vauxhall, her security detail had to inform that she was trying to get into the wrong vehicle, before the protester with a megaphone shouted: “Your car’s over here, by the way.”
Ms Sturgeon exited The Stand comedy club to a constant clicking of cameras and cries from unionist protesters.
The protester with a megaphone said: “Will you apologise for damaging Sotland, Ms Sturgeon? When will you resign, Ms Sturgeon?
“Your car’s over her, by the way. When will you resign, Ms Sturgeon? Will you apologise for failing Scotland? Will you apologise for failing Scotland?”
The First Minister appeared unphased by the heckling, and even exchanged a smile with the shouting protester after they called her out for trying to get into the wrong car.
But as Ms Sturgeon ducked into her actual vehicle, her face twisted at the repeated suggestions that she had “failed Scotland”.
The criticisms were handed out by members of A Force For Good, which was founded by Alistair McConnachie, a former UKIP member axed for being a holocaust denier.
The activist using the megaphone was then stopped by the police and asked to temper their use of the device.
Some members of the queue shouted back and made jokes as the protest continued.
Nicola Sturgeon has been the First Minister for Scotland since taking over from Alex Salmond in 2014, but her popularity polling suggests she is not in favour at the moment.
Just over 25 percent of respondents to a YouGov poll said they liked Ms Sturgeon, placing her ninth on the polling website’s most popular politicians, behind the likes of Angela Rayner, Rishi Sunak and Ed Balls.
Her likeability appears to be negatively correlated with age, with the elder generations finding her considerably less favourable than the younger ones.
While only 17 percent of the cohort of Baby Boomer respondents, understood to be born roughly between 1946 and 1964, said they liked Ms Sturgeon, more than 30 percent of Millennial respondents said they favoured her.
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And a petition on change.org to have the First Minister removed has received over 76,000 signatures and continues to gain further support.
Set up by George Galloway, founder of a small unionist group called All for Unity, the petition accuses Ms Sturgeon of being “utterly incapable of working for the best interests of the Scottish people and Scotland”.
The writer goes on to list a number of what they view to be Ms Sturgeon’s pitfalls, including “ruining the futures of our children in the SQA results scandal”.
They added: “In the interest of all Scots, it’s time for Nicola Sturgeon to do the right thing – resign, and allow a cross-party government of unity to take over to see Scotland through this dark time – created after 13 years of SNP misrule.”
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