I used to think Nicola was playing a great game of Chess when it came to Independence. Making sure all her pieces were in the right place to strike.

But now she is playing a different game, one that she is losing! Her Chess pieces are falling, maybe that’s because she is no longer calling the shots! There is another controller.

The numbers calling for her to go are multiplying and membership is on a slippery slope with income disappearing down the drain. The coffers are very low, not even enough for another campaign I hear.

Maybe Mr Murrell will have to dig into his pockets again, if he does I hope he remembers to register it this time with the Electoral Commission!

Nicolas Political Nuance has disappeared causing her to choose the wrong battles with the wrong people. To choose a battle deliberately or otherwise with Westminster is one thing but to choose that same battle with her own people is quite another.

The marriage between the SNP and the Greens was certainly not one made in heaven and she is now paying the price. The Nicola I went along to the Hydro to see is not the Nicola we now see. I am genually sorry about that, because, like many of you my dreams have been shattered.

But it has been a salutary lesson, if you seek Power for Power’s sake it will change you as a person.

History is full of people who rose above themselves thinking they were indestructible but they all fell, some out of hatred and others who had too many skeletons in the cupboard!

I will leave it up to you to decide which one will bring her down!!

Politics is a funny old game.