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Must be a combination. There can be no denying the drop in the polls for both her personally and independence was due to it. It was too sharp and sudden to be anything else. She's usually so composed but I've never seen her as speechless as trying to defend Bryson in parliament. I think she was done like a kipper to be honest. Wish she'd stayed and the loons at the greens took the brunt
Exactly this. What on paper might have struck most as a peripheral issue was so badly handled by Sturgeon that it's ended up playing a significant role in her downfall. It wasn't a here today gone tomorrow crisis as she tried to claim either. Those who could see the dangers inherent in the bill had been campaigning against it for years. By turning a deaf ear to all concerns and loading the bases with lobby groups aligned only to her own views she laid the foundations for the humiliation which followed.