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There's a reason why the SNP leaderships direction of travel will fail us all if they don't correct course. The SNP is led by someone who went to law school not engineering school. There's a reason why most fields of science have a split in terms of field vs laboratory.
It's because science has learned painstakingly hard lessons, that what works in the lab, does not necessarily work in the field. A man can design a bridge on a computer, but the men and women assembling it will inevitably find real-world issues in the building of that design.
This is why there are engineers who design and engineers who assemble. The same is true in the medical sciences.
There's a reason why vaccines are not just given to patients based on computer modelling but instead are handed over from the lab to doctors and tested in the real world. Because the lab cannot account for all variables.
Law is based on the written word, it is a field consumed with accuracy, with precision and exactness. It's a field that lends itself to being a fantastic public speaker and being good at communication, but it teaches a mindset of overcautiousness.
Laws often seem great on paper, but in the real world, not so much. Just ask most benefit claimants.
What we have is a First minister who is great at the administrative and speaking functions but who is failing to account for the variables of life.
What we have is a First minister who is great at the administrative and speaking functions but who is failing to account for the variables of life.
She is searching for a point in time which is that single perfect moment to announce a second referendum. The problem is, that perfect moment does not exist and it never will exist.
She's working from a blueprint which will not lend itself to the real world. What she needs to do is dorn the hard hat and accept that there will never be a perfect time, not least because the opposition are going to make sure of it.
The textbook needs to go down, she needs to dorn the fluorescent jacket and the hard hat, take a step back and realise that the square peg isn't going in the hole as-is, and either pick up the burning torch to make the hole bigger, or pick up the hammer and batter the peg in.
Ships don't steer themselves, they have captains precisely because the mood of the seas cannot be accounted for. Her captain adjusts course on the open seas, he doesn't wait for perfect conditions to sail in a straight line, otherwise he'd never leave port!
