NICOLA Sturgeon walked into a barbershop without a mask, and promptly put one on a matter of seconds later. Why there hasn’t yet been a re-run of the Holyrood elections is anyone’s guess.
At the very least, she should step down as First Minister after first declaring that Scotland will never leave the Union – if the baying hounds are to be believed anyway.
But if you thought the SNP leader not wearing a mask for a little bit was bad, wait until you find out that the police won’t be putting her behind bars over it.
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The news has sparked all the predictably asinine outrage, not least from Jane Lax, the person who complained to the police about the horrific incident.
Lax, who was dropped as treasurer for the Moray Tories after she joked about the First Minister having a miscarriage, raged against the police’s decision on Twitter.
After calling Police Scotland “supine”, she wrote: “Have any of you actually looked at the Police Scotland website?
“I’ve just tried to identify how investigations are carried out and can’t find it.
“The whole website has got SNP wokeness written all over it. ‘Help make Scotland a better place’.”
Ignoring that Lax seems to think the idea of making “Scotland a better place” is actually just “SNP wokeness”, she also can't have been looking at that Police Scotland website too closely.
After all, it took the Jouker precisely 0.49 seconds (according to Google) to find not only Police Scotland’s “Crime Investigation Standard Operating Procedure”, but also FAQs looking at the “Complaints and investigative process” and “Investigating your complaint”.
On that final webpage, there is some information Lax might find useful.
It reads: “Why might my complaint not be dealt with?”
The answer states: “Your complaint won't be progressed if it's not 'reasonable and proportionate' for us to do so.
“This could be because we've already looked into it previously or you weren't directly affected by the events the complaint is about.”
There’s your answer. It’s hard to imagine that Lax, who presumably lives in Moray, was directly affected by Nicola Sturgeon not wearing a mask for a few seconds in a barbershop in East Kilbride.
Since attacking the police, Lax has made her tweets “protected” so that only people she has approved can view them. That’s probably for the best.
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