Will Nicola Sturgeon enjoy renewed popularity over WhatsApp descriptions of Tories?
Take pride in it: is Nicola Sturgeon brandishing the finger with which she texted the claim that Liz Truss was as “useful as a marzipan dildo” on WhatsApp? Sadly not.
This Writer never had much time for Nicola Sturgeon – until now. What a shame she’s being praised for something that isn’t true but is from a parody account.
The SNP politician was ordered to disclose the contents of WhatsApp messages she sent during the Covid-19 crisis. What she said about Boris Johnson was bad enough – but a parody ‘X’ account took the story, ran with it, and brought joy to the nation:
Nicola Sturgeon used the following descriptors #CovidInquiry @PoliticoForYou #Satire
Matt Hancock – "weaker than a Nun's pis*"
Liz Truss – "about as much use as a Marzipan Dildo"
Suella Braverman – "Shitler"
Boris Johnson – "A fu*king clown"I haven't heard of a #MarzipanDildo… https://t.co/VT2Q5soLLl
— Carol Vorderman (@carolvorders) January 25, 2024
Why would anybody want her to apologise for saying these things? This Writer reckons that if Sturgeon really had said them, she should have had a medal!
I’m stealing the description of Suella Braverman, by the way. It’s only her first initial and the name of the foreign politician whose politics seem to most closely resemble her own.
Sadly, @PoliticoForYou is a parody account and the story isn’t true – apart from what Sturgeon said about Boris Johnson.
So it’s still bad news for him, after he tried to tell the Covid Inquiry in December that he got on well with Sturgeon and they had a good relationship. This may have been true in their interactions, but clearly her own opinion of him wasn’t as he described.
More details of the real WhatsApp messages are available (in watered-down form) here on the BBC News website.
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The only comment I’ve seen confirmed elsewhere is the one about Johnson. @PoliticoForYou is a parody account.
Thanks Debbie. It seems I wasn’t the only one who was taken in by it, though – and that says much about attitudes to the Tories across the UK.
I was taken in by it at first, before I saw the more complete Mirror article on the matter, after I saw a few people point out that it was a parody account.
Her comments seem to have been heartfelt and not borne out of simple rivalry. Given his leadership style during the pandemic I’d say it was somewhat of an understatement. She said, albeit privately, what everyone was thinking..