On Friday the 5th of March, The Majority, with the support of Scotland Matters, UK Union Voice and over 250 donors who contributed to a successful crowdfunding campaign, launched the #ResignSturgeon campaign, the first in a series leading up to the Scottish Elections on May 6th 2021.
The campaign started with:
- Three digital billboards at the following locations:
- Glasgow – Clydeside Expressway
- Edinburgh – Slateford Road
- Aberdeen – Market Street
A #ResignSturgeon banner was also towed behind an aeroplane flying over the Scottish Parliament and Glasgow City Centre on the same day.
The campaign message — #ResignSturgeon — is part of an ongoing grassroots hashtag campaign on Twitter that has had hundreds of thousands of retweets and responses and regularly appears on Twitter’s ‘trending’ lists of the social network’s most popular hashtags.
The campaign is funded in part by donations to a crowdfunder, run by The Majority, which has raised over £6500 to date. https://donorbox.org/billboard-campaign
Alan Sutherland from Scotland Matters said:
We call on the First Minister to do the right thing for Scotland: resign and let us focus on recovery from the pandemic. She has done great damage to our country and Parliament’s reputation, here and abroad, by conducting an undignified, very public dispute with her former SNP colleague, while preventing the Salmond enquiry from seeing evidence that is crucial to a proper investigation.
Mark Devlin of The Majority:
We represent the silent majority of people in Scotland, who are angry and frustrated by Nicola Sturgeon’s shenanigans bringing international shame on Scotland.
The Scottish public deserve a Parliament and First Minister above reproach and want the Scottish Government to focus on health, education, jobs and the pandemic. Instead we have a First Minister misleading parliament, breaking the ministerial code and withholding information from an inquiry into her government’s unlawful, unfair and biased actions against Alex Salmond, all while totally neglecting her day job.
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‘Titanic Failures’ Billboard
Scotland Matters has erected a cartoon billboard in Victoria Road, Glasgow G41 1PT.
It depicts Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond on the prow of a rusting ferry, the “Glen Alba” in the “Supermajority Shipbuilders” yard, in a parody of the famous scene in the film “Titanic”.
A spokesman for Scotland Matters said “our billboard pairs the two people whose close relationship has dominated Scottish life and politics for the last 14 years, with one example of their incompetence, the overdue and over-budget ferries for CalMac which a Holyrood enquiry described as a “catastrophic failure”.
“In their obsessive pursuit of Scottish independence, Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon have trashed Scotland’s education system, conducted, and still pursue, an independence campaign full of undeliverable promises, creating division in our country, fomenting anti-English feeling, and their recent scandals and cover-ups have tarnished Scotland’s good name here and abroad.
They are trying to grip Scotland in a deadly “supermajority” alliance in order to steal the Holyrood election and subject us to five more years of decline, division, sleaze and Indy can-kicking instead of working with all parties to deliver a sustainable recovery from Covid.
The fact that non-existent windows had to be painted on the ferry symbolises the all style and no substance Salmond and Sturgeon years and we urge and encourage Scottish voters and the pro-UK parties to work together, to ensure our votes are not split and wasted.”
Scotland Matters is an Electoral Commission registered campaign group. More information on Scotland Matters is available on their website at https://www.scotlandmatters.co.uk and they can be contacted on 07836 368030 or via email at info@scotlandmatters.co.uk
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