Elder Dorothy Grace: Sturgeon ran the SNP like Trumpton’s Gestapo, and as a new MSP I quickly learned that even her backside had to be respected

Is Nicola Sturgeon aiming for a full-fledged comeback after being sponsored by Brasso’s Brassneck?

First, as the former First Minister announced yesterday, she is to end her marriage to Peter Murrell, who has been charged with embezzling funds from the SNP.

Second, she has sought to soften her image by appearing on comedy tours and book events.

Finally, she began a new attempt to deal a cruel blow to the widow and dishonor the name of her mentor, Alex Salmond.

Sturgeon claimed in a newspaper interview last week that Salmond was “really rough with people”. I intervened many times to stop him. ”

The specter of Sturgeon stepping in to stop trouble is an uncomfortable joke for those of us who have suffered from her actions.

Sturgeon has taught herself lessons with a smile on her face in recent years, but for those who have suffered from her actions, she remains as cold as the opening of a mortuary drawer.

It is taboo to further hurt the widow and family and cause them pain in their grief.

But Nicola Sturgeon did something similar for Moira Salmond, Alex Salmond’s kind-hearted 87-year-old widow, and just six weeks after her memorial service at St Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh, her former He once again took out his anger on his master.

Crowds lined four levels down the street to mourn his death from a heart attack at the age of 69 in October last year.

He always said the heart attack came after years of fighting harm, with the support of his former pupil Sturgeon, whose career was built under his tutelage.

In my years as an SNP MSP, I personally did not witness any bullying from Alex Salmond. I found him to be warm, resourceful, and an encouragement to hard working people.

He was undoubtedly one of Holyrood’s outstanding achievers, for example commissioning the construction of the bridge, which was built on schedule.

Sturgeon’s biggest fault was wasting her time on boring playground harassment, cronyism and failed policies.

From her first parliament, Sturgeon has been part of a crony group known as the Trumpton Gestapo within the SNP group due to her playground bullying and so-called “jackboot tendencies”.

When I first met her, I could tell that she expected even her backside to be respected.

In 1999, shortly after we were all elected, I was asked to be one of the ‘wallpaper’ MSPs on the SNP conference platform.

I chose a seat in the third row from the front so Ego and the others could land. But Sturgeon was late and had to take a backseat. After passing multiple memos to the group’s executives at the time, he wrote to me: “Please give up your seat to Nicola.” She is the frontbencher. ”

She was only 29 at the time and I was a middle-aged mother. My ass and I protested, refusing to shift.

Since then, Sturgeon has not spoken to me in the three years we shared an office in Glasgow in the first parliament.

I don’t know why, except that she hates journalists and perhaps her backside has a rejected edge.

Characteristically not speaking to some women, Joanna Cherry said years later that Sturgeon never had a proper conversation with her. I’m a feminist – I had no idea I was until Sturgeon claimed this in public.

After Salmond resigned as SNP leader in the summer of 2000, John Swinney took over but lost control. In fact, he still had traces of Sturgeon’s last sitting.

When I complained about an SNP man who two women claimed had been abusive, I, not the man, was threatened with discipline. Some men were protected.

Another point of danger arose when it seemed that someone who was not a crony might succeed in a public cause.

I was preparing to go to Brussels to litigate the Glasgow pollution case, and when I returned home I found that the Chronic Pain Campaign, which I had founded in Glasgow, was preparing to make some progress with the then Rabo Lib executives.

But I needed the support of Parliament’s First Health Committee, which I served on for three years until Sturgeon became SNP health spokesperson.

Suddenly, the SNP leader called me in and said: “Nicola and John have decided that you are resigning from the health committee.” You will be replaced by Aberdeen MSP. Everything has been arranged. ”

When I protested, he replied, “These are instructions from Nicola and John.” you must obey. “follow! Those people had been watching too many old war movies.

The reason for this, according to the seller, was that “Glasgow was thought to have too many health MSPs”.

Come back – is Britain’s sickest city overpopulated? Sturgeon will be the only SNP MSP left in Glasgow.

I was supposed to be “leaving soon” so I didn’t get a chance to stay for a few weeks before pleading for Glasgow in Brussels. There was no discussion, Sturgeon ruled.

After 26 years of service, I left the SNP rather than the Health Board and became an independent for the last year with no charges.

By doing so, I was able to maintain my health and win a European pollution lawsuit that is still cited today. The rest of the health committee, Labor, Liberal and Conservative, all rallied together and were very shocked.

Moira Salmond did not name Ms Sturgeon in a statement released on Sunday, but said her attack on her husband when he was unable to protect himself after his death left her and her family with a “huge loss”. It was painful, hurtful, painful and extremely unfair.”

The Court of Sessions several years ago found that Sturgeon’s Scottish Government acted unlawfully against Alex Salmond and that the Government’s errors had cost Scottish taxpayers more than £500,000.

A subsequent jury trial in the High Court acquitted more than a dozen of the women’s claims. However, the atrocities continue.

It may be the first time in Scotland that a widow has been forced to publicly plead for an end to her “family’s hurt and pain” and make a heartbreaking plea: “Please let Alex rest in peace.”

Shame on the sturgeon.