Like TV’s Nicola Sturgeon, I was a Regional Manager in Scotland. Unlike her, I had to exercise due diligence, be scrupulously honest, while making a profit. I needed the most talented, healthily ambitious people working for me & I wanted to give the best possible service to...

...customers over the long term, to retain them. Sturgeon is an appalling manager at any level, where everything is about her. She recruits the worst people because she doesn’t want to be challenged. She appeals to all the worst behaviours of the worst Scots, although I’ve no...

...doubt, her own supporters disgust her, even as she takes advantage of them. For too long the media gave her credence for her ability to speak without bumping into the furniture. She has monumentally failed in every element of her devolved administration, quite apart from her..

...nefarious acts and those of her acolytes. An ineffective opposition, begat by Milliband, Corbyn et al, have gifted voters to the snp and decent Scots must continue to resist. I don’t believe there will ever be independence, but the opportunity cost has been huge. Let’s keep on