campaigning with friends in the early days
1986: Just 17 years old and wet behind the ears a youthful Nicola Sturgeon joined the SNP and got stuck into political arguments with politicians many years her senior.
Her speedy acceptance as a budding politician was remarkable given her attention was also taken up with studies for a law degree at Glasgow University at Glasgow University and her early days in employment as a trainee solicitor at Drumchapel Law Centre.
1992 Her problem politically was that she was universally disliked by many of her political colleagues and the public who viewed her as an aggressive hard-line humourless harpy with an unhealthy preference for trouser suits.
But at the time she emerged there was a dearth of young talented Scottish nationalists and she was able to apply for and be elected onto the SNP National Executive. She failed, as a candidate for the Shettleston seat in the Scottish parliamentary elections.
1997: She stood as a shoo in candidate for the Westminster seat of Glasgow Govan and lost.
The Glasgow electorate did not rate her. Rejected twice and the SNP were popular at the time.
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Where would we be if Salmond had never got involved with her and the only reason, he did was that he didn’t want Roseanna Cunningham becoming leader of the SNP?
That vendetta by Salmond against Cunningham changed Scotland and our history and it brought about his own demise, which only shows hold vendetta’s or grudges isn’t the best policy.
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