Nicola Sturgeon branded 'Stalin's wee sister' in angry broadside by SNP veteran

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An SNP veteran has derided Nicola Sturgeon as “Stalin’s wee sister” in an excoriating rebuke of her time as First Minister and party leader.Jim Sillars said she had presided over a “leadership cult” and said the SNP’s general election annihilation had been a referendum on the Scottish Government.The SNP fell from 48 seats in 2019 to just nine seats at the election - their worst performance since 2010.The heavy defeat has led to infighting and finger pointing at Sturgeon, who quit last year, her successor Humza Yousaf and current FM John Swinney.Sillars, a long-term critic of centralisation of power in the SNP, has now written an open letter to members calling on them to take their party back.The former MP and depute leader wrote: “You will not like what I have to say.

But someone has to tell you the truth. What makes me so arrogant in claiming I am able to do so? Well, I am at the end of my political life.

My ambitions are behind me.“July was inevitable given how the Sturgeon/Swinney era misled the movement, lost its common sense in government, promoted marginal issues as national priorities while the real priorities of the people such as education, housing, NHS, infrastructure, were notable only for the staggering level of incompetence with which they were dealt with.“Whether the leadership has the grace to repent is of no matter.

It is a busted flush. The people have no regard for them.“Last Thursday wasn’t about who the Scots sent to Westminster, it was a referendum on the Scottish Government, and a condemnatory verdict was delivered.”In a direct attack on Sturgeon and her husband Peter Murrell, who was chief executive when she was leader, he told SNP members: "You acquiesced in changes to the constitution which