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You certainly don’t get too close to most Scots if you say they are facing a cultural rift. As of this weekend, pubs will no longer be able to serve alcohol. No beer, no beer, no whiskey, nothing. The ban initially applies for 16 days. In the regions most affected by the coronavirus, restaurants will even have to close completely. For those Scots who think they are part of their country’s legendary pub culture, this is a very hurtful decree.
Responsible for this is Nicola Sturgeon, 50, president of the Scottish National Party (SNP) and head of government in Scotland since 2014. When Prime Minister With his Corona policy, he has not only the welfare of the country in mind, but also a clear political objective: he wants to act faster and more decisively than Boris Johnson, who is responsible for the rules of Corona in England.
Since the outbreak of the pandemic, he has been deftly leading the prime minister in front of it. Sturgeon made decisions that Johnson could only imitate. It appears that it will also enforce pub closures for the next week, at least in those parts of northern England where the number of infections has increased dramatically. That would do Sturgeon good. Once again, she would be the one to teach the wavering prime minister.
Nicola Sturgeon in the Parliament of Edinburgh on October 8.
(Photo: REUTERS)
Compared to Johnson, Nicola Sturgeon’s popularity in the Corona crisis hasn’t suffered as much so far. This is also due to the fact that her political style is more or less the opposite of Johnson’s demeanor – in the Edinburgh government district, she is considered a detail-obsessed technocrat who really only takes her skin off when it comes to fighting. for the independence of Scotland.
Sturgeon wants to propose a new referendum bill before the Scottish general election in May. With this he also wants to pressure Johnson. The Prime Minister is strictly against Scotland leaving the UK. On the one hand, Sturgeon’s move is a symbolic policy, because the question of whether Scotland can hold such a referendum should be decided by the British Parliament. On the other hand, Johnson cannot dismiss the move as an absurd dream. Because the greater the presumed electoral victory of Sturgeon’s SNP, the more difficult it will be to pressure Johnson to allow a referendum.
In 2014, Scots had voted between 55 and 45 percent to stay in the UK. But now, according to polls, the majority are in favor of leaving. The main reason for the separation request is Brexit, which Sturgeon calls “irresponsible.” So she knows most of the Scots behind her. She likes to present herself as a friend of the EU. During a visit to Brussels in February, he said he was looking forward to the day when an independent Scotland would join the EU.
Sturgeon joined the SNP at the age of 16 to stop Margaret Thatcher’s conservative policies. She is married to the party’s director, Peter Murrell, and describes herself as a feminist and a pacifist. Recently, however, Sturgeon’s image as a fighter was cracked. She is accused of having misled the Scottish Parliament. It is about when he learned of the allegations against his predecessor Alex Salmond, who was accused of sexual harassment and finally acquitted. This week, he said in the registry that he had found out earlier what he claimed: he had “forgotten” a meeting with Salmond.
Since then, the opposition in Edinburgh has been reproaching him for what Johnson hears often: that he does not seem to take the truth very seriously.
