She’s gone. La Sturgeon. Or, as numerous memes have alluded to this week, Le/La /Autre Sturgeon. But you can’t give credibility to memes. They’re insulting, abusive, should be banned on decency grounds and are incredibly funny.

But the legacy Nicola Sturgeon leaves behind after her eight years at the helm of Britain’s most Scottish of nations (for the time being) is quite incredible.

She took a nation, on its feet with debt, with a struggling health service, where they die younger than anywhere this side of sub-Saharan Africa, and tied by the yoke of near slavery to the ‘masters’ down in Westminster. And just a mere eight years later, she has resigned, with her nation on its feet with debt, struggling with its health service, still dying younger than anywhere else in the Western World and no nearer to leaving the United Kingdom of Charles and Rishi than she was then. A remarkable achievement.

However, that’s not all!!! She also managed to make 51% of the Scottish people and 98% of the English absolutely despise her. Banging on and on about having a referendum every 6 months, whilst all around her turned to shit. And worst of all, the standard of goalkeeping didn’t improve one little bit during her tenure at Holyrood.

Nicola replaced Alex Salmond as head of the Scottish Nationalists and as Head of all Scotland in what they call ‘parliament’ but is actually a social project to keep at least 129 Scots in work. And during her time has won more elections, more convincingly, than anyone other than Putin, Erdogan and Kim Jong Un. All of whom she coincidentally resembles quite strongly. Her arrival in the top job freed up her predecessor to go out and rape and pillage (none of the 473 charges actually stuck), get drunk, take drugs and ‘lead the life of a normal Scot’.

So she earned our utmost respect. And we must put aside any judgments made purely on appearance. However exceedingly difficult that proves to be.

There’ll never be another like her.

We can hope.

Happy Friday

A xxxx