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Spike Podcast I'm Fraser Myers and with me in the studio this week we have Spikes editor Tom Slater and

Spike columnist Ella Whelan coming up on today's show the the downfall of Nicholas Sturgeon, the killing of Brianna Jai, and the unrest in Nozley.

So Nicholas Sturgeon has resigned after eight years as First Minister of Scotland.

She said in her resignation speech that she'd essentially run out of energy.

She doesn't want to subject her family to the pressures of political life

anymore and she was pretty adamant that this had nothing to do with any what

she called short-term pressures. Now, do you buy that?

I mean, there were some pretty serious short term pressures on her,

namely the gender row.

No, I think that speech was an incredible act of kind of obfuscation and you know essentially

trying to play the victim as well really but I think the idea that this had nothing

to do with what she euphemistically called the short-term pressures but really were the whole

debacle over her gender bill which had seen her authority unraveling for a matter of weeks now is

ridiculous it's quite clearly the thing that whilst there are many factors

there are many things that were leading us to kind of run out a road in various different

respects. I think her general political project in all sorts of ways was like

colliding with political reality as well as just general common sense. political downplayed obviously I'm sure we'll get into the question of what this means for independence

about what it means for the SMP, about what that means for British politics more broadly.

But the idea that this was some sort of frippery that it was just the straw that broke the

camels back, I don don't think appreciates how significant

this particular row was and row is a kind word for it I mean the way in which it not only I think

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