When a person makes a public comment saying they will not be making any more, they would do well to stick to it, because anything else shows their panic.

And in panic mode, the idiocies just keep tripping out.

We have now entered the comical phase of this saga.

But it’s not just comical, it’s sad!

Sad because this woman had her future and our future handed to her on a plate after the Referendum in 2014. We all have flaws and nothing brings them to the fore more than power!

And the best way to keep that power is to surround yourself with like-minded people. We would do well to remind ourselves that those people are still around today in Holyrood and Westminster. So the problem has not gone away!

A democratic country we are not. We have a semblance of democracy but it is an illusion. A vote every 5 years is not true democracy, and the alternative, Direct Democracy, has now been pushed into the long grass once again. We have no one to blame but ourselves, having just voted for continuity.

Our FM is in full ‘power mode’ so don’t expect any changes soon.

The only difference between his ‘fight or flight’ mode and Nicola’s, is that he hides behind the phrases of ‘it was criminality ‘ and ‘it’s in the past’, whereas she is verbose!

The big Q now is, was there a criminal conspiracy to hide all this ?

No doubt someone in the future will write a film script about all this, but will it fall under the heading of comedy or tragedy?

The tragedy for all the rest of us was, that no one listened.

We must all now try to move on, for the real independentist, the battle was lost, but not the war, because it remains ongoing and the Salvo/Liberation train is still on the tracks and moving!