Nicola Sturgeon Resigns. Not Before Time?

 Well, she's avoided the political bullet many times before. She's messed up many times, but somehow managed to apportion blame elsewhere, or her memory wasn't quite good enough to incriminate herself, you know the type.

But the trans issue in Scotland did for her. It's a case of ideology vs practicality: fiiight!

Ideologically, she and her (now clearly idiotic) cohorts in the Scottish Parliament decided to virtue signal all the way to Mars and decide that a man could one day be a man, and then for no apparent or practical reason the next day identify himself as a woman. 

Which would have been great ideologically, but for one, very large flaw.

Going through the Scottish justice system at the very same time as the MSPs were debating this impractical, unenforceable and essentially lunatic idea was the case of Adam Graham.

Adam Graham is a rapist. After his arrest and before his conviction for rape, he decided to change his gender to female.  Now, who can say if this was a genuine thing, or if Graham did it deliberately in order to be housed in a women's prison.

But almost straight after the lunatics in the Scottish Parliamentary asylum tried to install the self-identification law, the case of Graham popped up.

Now in the Scottish Parliament MSPs actually debated this case and said that this was a cynical gender change and criticised it. But how hypocritical is that? Because had they had the power to install this self-identification law only the week before, then by their own hand only a week later they wouldn't have been able to do anything against Graham and would have had to house them in a women's prison.

Much irony? Oh yes!

There was nothing in the Scottish legislation that allowed for such a situation. The cynical manipulation of one's gender wasn't covered at all. Actually the sheer stupidity of not catering for bad-faith actors showed the naivety of Scottish legislators.

Thankfully the Scottish loonies were saved by the English and the law was refused. Which then allowed the Scottish MSPs to deadname the person and also to not house them in women's prison without falling foul of their own law only a week after voting to create that law.

However, the damage to Nicola Sturgeon's already tattered reputation for ideological insanity was too much. The majority of Scots looked at the poor state of Scotland, with it's huge drugs problem amongst others and thought that MSPs and Sturgeon in particular should be using their precious time to sort the big problems out, not poncing around making laws so that a bloke with a beard can legally call himself Margaret. 

In the end, she became more and more a one-trick pony. Independence, Independence, it's all the fault of the English. Ironically it was the English that saved her from her ideology by not agreeing that law. 

Maybe the English saving her from herself was the point at which she thought maybe she'd gone too far. Maybe at that point she had an existential crisis or a breakdown. 

Goodbye Nicola, you will be missed, if only for comedic value.