Just received a Thank You card from our First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. Unexpected but very welcome nevertheless. Love her or hate her, she is tireless and is still giving daily bulletins to keep us up to date. Thank you too Nicola.
Unlike Boris NS continues to keep Scottish people informed by having a daily briefing and open to questions. Like it or not, support her party or not, I don’t think she has missed one briefing. She does not send her ministers out in her place, indeed she includes them .
Canary, have you ever listened to one of her daily bulletins? Far from being an unchallenged Party Political Broadcast, she is challenged every day. She doesn't pretend to have all the answers but the latest figures show she is doing a great job for Scotland.
Does she get questions about BLM and Brexit and things like that though? There were quite a few questions at the English briefings that were not directly covid related and when they were on Covid the same question was often asked and answered numerous times and then asked again (eg a whole series of questions about reviewing the 2m rule a few weeks ago)
anneasquith you can't be serious. You asked me why I'm bringing English briefings into this. Well I was responding to your post at 13:55 which referred to Boris's briefings!
in all honesty I think the regions (not just Scotland) have had it easy - they snuck in their announcements about lockdown when they knew BJ was going to, so they could be first, and now they can wait and see how lifting of restrictions go in England first before lifting theirs