Hype was the name of the game
Her demeanour, dress sense and confrontational behaviour was evident in her student days and her aborted legal career and lifestyle before politics.
But Nicola Sturgeon claimed she earned her nickname because she tried to emulate male politicians aggressive and adversarial practices at the start of her parliamentary career.
She claimed she was surrounded by “middle-aged white men” and behaved in a way about conforming and fitting in. That was also reflected in how she dressed.
Her belief was that fitting in with the behaviour of men required females to become adversarial and aggressive in pursuit of winning their arguments since assertive, aggressive, and adversarial male politicians are seen as strong leaders.
But her recurring failure to gain a seat as an MSP by popular vote was a worry for the Party leadership and Angus Robertson finally persuaded her to abandon her long held feminist principles and abandon her “nippy sweety” behaviour.
Sturgeon, the fashion icon and Scotland’s first lady in waiting was relaunched at the start of the Scottish Independence campaign in early 2014
The makeover and extensive coaching designed to improve her delivery of policies to the public and parliament must have cost the Party many millions with a new expensive outfit being produced every day and many Scots believed the massively hyped transformation was real and would deliver change and were happy to clinb on-board the “Sturgeon for Independence” bandwagon.
The period 2014-2023 exposed the disgusting scale of the Robertson/Sturgeon “ponzie scheme” and Unionist media outlets are actively participating in the continued cover-up of the abuse of the Scottish electorate.
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