Nicola Sturgeon is ‘istry’. Gone. In all but she’s still hanging around making a nuisance of herself in that ‘dead man walking’ kind’a way. Or perhaps ‘suicidal woman walking’ as she actually quit herself. And the leadership race is hotting up. In a rather tepid, low-key, never-eard-a-none-of-em sort of ‘hotting up’.

Favourite at the moment is Humza Yousaf, the man who puts ‘race’ into the leadership race. But he seems like a good guy. Decent and moderate, seems to have all his teeth, even though he’s Scottish.

Then there’s Ash Regan, bit of an outsider but I’d vote for her just because she’s got a bit of a Jessica Chastain vibe about her. Which can never be a bad thing. Sturgeon really lowered the bar for ‘looks’ in Holyrood and some may think this a trivial and relatively unimportant issue, but as I don’t get to vote, nor care who rules ‘up there’, its as good a variable as any for me. Until someone better comes along. Or better looking.

And then there’s Kate Forbes. The youngest, at 32, still officially on maternity leave, so we know she’s fertile, and an energetic and engaging speaker. BUT…

She’s a Christian! And with a really big ‘C’. The biggest you can imagine. She is to Scottish politics what the DUP is in Ireland. What the Taliban is to Afghanistan. A horribly regressive and ultra-conservative force, prioritising the bible over any kind of modernising societal reform. She’s anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage, has issues with illegitimate births and don’t get her started on anything ‘trans’ or she genuflects and raises a cross. Which is arguably better than Sturgeon’s proposals on that subject but would the Scots really want a smiling, female Ian Paisley in the top role? I would say ‘God help us’, but appreciate its a bit inappropriate here.

Its all very exiting. Relatively.

As opposed to Liverpool last night, that was exiting in every sense of the word. Though the words on Klopp’s lips this morning would probably be more along the lines of “how the fuck did we do that????”

2-nil up after just 14 minutes and then went into total collapse mode and allowed Real Madrid to beat them 5-2. Quite amazing.

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx

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