How far the mighty have fallen. Nicola Sturgeon was the First Minister of Scotland for eight years before she fell from power. Popular, her politics seemed populist — until she put a rapist in a women’s prison, and then the Scots found out, and everything went to shite.
“Well, we have to get all these Pride-plus wankers out of these jobs, and put in real people, not puppets,” one Scottish man-on-the-street told a news reporter recently. Calling for “real family people” to acknowledge the reality of human sex differences, he averred that public toilets are a bigger priority for Holyrood.
“We need toilets!” he said. “People need a shite.” The clip went viral. Indeed, Scotland has had enough of the “Pride-plus” gender shite. Public opinion swirls with great force, but the process of flushing this turd remains unfinished, somehow.
To be sure, Sturgeon has bigger, more immediate problems now that she is no longer the Scottish National Party leader.
Her husband, Peter Murrell, was the subject …
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