I have great admiration for Andrew Neil's ability to stealthily lay a trap, and lure witless politicians into it !

@kaywaters7478

3 жыл бұрын

It’s brilliant to watch!

@laughingachilles

3 жыл бұрын

He's very hit and miss with it, mostly depending upon the intellect of his opponents but I guess that is the game. Sometimes he reminds me of Columbo (you may not be old enough to remember that series and you should watch it if you haven't already). At other times Andrew seems to either deliberately give the guest an easy time or he misses some key issues which would pin the politician to the wall. Sometimes I think he goes easy because he knows politicians will avoid his interviews if he doesn't, and that is a sad indictment of modern journalism.

Special Needs Party has a whole new meaning !

Scotland's economy is strong, I'm crying with laughter!! Once they are gone, no coming back!!

@illiammackintosh2578

3 жыл бұрын

Scotland is a great nation ruined by one single factor and I think you can guess what that is!.

Bbc messed up getting rid of him. He gives it every one.

@danielward67

3 жыл бұрын

He's too old, white and unwoke for the BBC. Their loss is our gain.

@markdowns9607

3 жыл бұрын

The BBC is already irrelevant and Andrew never really sat well in at the BBC.

Well done Andrew 👏👏👏

Constantly blaming Westminster for its failures

@ray9628

3 жыл бұрын

They've had a few, 3 PMs since this interview for a start.

All bluff and bluster ! Sturgeon never answers a flaming question ! No plan whatsoever !!!!!

Finance is Sturgeon's Achilles Heel. She hasn't got a clue, and finishes up tying herself up in knots. Scottish people will pay the price if they trust this Independence claptrap.

Andrew Neil is awesome with his hard hitting questions. She has no real answers to give, just waffles

@Only-one-life-68

3 жыл бұрын

Chuckle looks uncomfortable 😳

“I’ll deal with the deficit the same was a the UK government, but I wouldn’t take the same decisions they did”. Right...

Wow she's something else!

I’m amazed she was ever voted in at all!,

@davesy6969

3 жыл бұрын

The grass is always greener....

Brilliant Andrew. And he’s Scottish . But Nicola still in denial .

He just asked simple questions and recieves a hatchet job of arguments back.

Sturgeon believes in the 'if you keep saying the same lie for long enough it'll be accepted as the truth' method.... Similar to Megan's 'my truth'.

@paulinekacprzak6383

3 жыл бұрын

I presume if you are wary of liars you didn’t vote for Boris.

@andrewnevermind4902

3 жыл бұрын

Typical narcasist.

@carraw3501

3 жыл бұрын

Tory led UK is now known across the world as the great lie.

@paulfitzpatrick6290

3 жыл бұрын

Straight from Josef Gobels playbook..another poisoned dwarf

@Peacefulnessxxx

3 жыл бұрын

Nope originaly it was Joeseph Goebbels.

Greed has always been Scotlands downfall, the parliament building was a billion pounds over budget. Porto cabins would have been good enough. The trams one billion over budget and counting, both projects were a license to steel. Scottish people are sick of this independence garbage. NICHOLA YOU ARE MAKING A FOOL OF SCOTLAND, PLEASE STOP IT 🙏🚫

love the way she kept going back to 2008/2009 numbers when we was coming out the recession

Andrew Neil - a REAL journalist and interviewer

Bring our money home, all the financial services who hold our pension funds and ISA's in Aberdeen etc-- withdraw now

Despite what Nicoliar says Scotland will become Greece without the warm Greek welcome and rain not ☀️

@surdanwhatley2939

3 жыл бұрын

I’m sure that wasn’t a typo ‘Nicoliar’. 😂😂

@jacksonirving4594

3 жыл бұрын

Chips on shoulders...

@etheltough8924

3 жыл бұрын

Off course we will b like Greece bankrupt but she will blame uk she always does she is living in la la land

@paulmaguire3454

3 жыл бұрын

Not if Scotland issues its own currency.

@rewind12354

3 жыл бұрын

It’s got a higher deficit than Greece.

The second interview I’ve seen where she uses North Sea Oil as one of the principal reasons for the Scottish deficit, yet it was supposed to be the Brucey bonus funding a sovereign fund.

@davesy6969

3 жыл бұрын

North Sea oil will last about another 20 years, what's going to replace it? The SNP always run a deficit and when pushed they say they will borrow.

"We would deal with it like the Uk government did in 2010" You mean all the stuff that the SNP described as "wicked" and "evil" Tory austerity? lol So will she tell people that independence means all those nice freebies - baby boxes, free care, fre euniversity, fre eprescriptions for all - would have to go once English taxpayers are no longer funding them? GUESS!

No answers to the questions. Totally flying blind!

I've just checked up to date Scottish economic figures including the national deficit to see if Nicola was right to be positive about the future.. And 5 years on,unfortunately its worse,much worse.

Thank you Alastair, a real eye opener. You have a new subscriber.

oh no, not her again not listening to that Liar!

A: you are £100,000 in debt B: I don't think it's right to only look at this year's figures. In 2016 I was £40,000 in the black. My debt levels are also 'broadly similar' to those of my neighbour in 2009. So no criticism of me is valid.

@tarync6539

3 жыл бұрын

Very nice 👌

@TribalmonkeyS

3 жыл бұрын

Its not the debt but the ability to pay it back that's important

@fearnpol4938

3 жыл бұрын

You are £100,000 in debt, your neighbour ran up those debts but in an agreement you made with them 300yrs ago you must take on debt they create.

@davesy6969

3 жыл бұрын

@@TribalmonkeyS paying debt back is fine, but it costs money in interest, which cuts basic services.

I’d love her to explain how she wants independence while trying to join the EU. You can have both. And what about the “once in a lifetime” vote ? Without the independence issue, she hasn’t got a job. Bit like Abbott without racism.

Well done Andrew, loved seeing wee Krankie swirm and pointing out she is nothing without Westminster and I’m Scottish

@countrymusicbydode9280

3 жыл бұрын

I agree Lynda 👍🏻

go andrew, destroyed her again and again

If you leave, Scotland can pay their own pensions and health services! Pay for your own forces and have your own pass port! Also keep your own debt!

@allandickman774

3 жыл бұрын

Great answer Paul very interesting you talk about pension 👍

Well done, keep it up😁😁😁😁🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

Andrew Neil just owned her and did it like a boss..Awesome!!! SNP motto still is 'Independance at any cost'

"We have intangible assets, called Fairy Gold, by some cynics."😉💸💸🌈👓

I have a friend with unshakable confidence, so we let him do the map reading on an expedition ....we got lost. Just because you believe doesn’t mean you are right or it will work but it’s down to the Scottish people to decide. I Just hope they are given the facts, it’s not about a personal mission it’s what’s best for the people. Love Scotland.❤️

Vote tactically to get the SNP out on May 6th!! Long live the Union. 🇬🇧

No Mr Neil !!! Do Not 'EXPOSE HER' Some Things Should NEVER Be Seen !!!

@countrymusicbydode9280

3 жыл бұрын

😉👍🏻

She knew what the questions were going to be. This is professional wrestling.

Politicians claim to solve the problems they have caused while still creating more problems. It is an endless cycle - right before I was born and even when I am gone.

@danielward67

3 жыл бұрын

Politicians are scum. Never believe a word they say.

@alexd9000

3 жыл бұрын

@@danielward67 : Bless Andrew Neil for his exposure and truth on this. We need more honourable men like him as we are void of them in reality.

Give her a 2ndref right now. Wish them the best, remove the financial burden.

Resign

@tleverage3939

3 жыл бұрын

She was health secretary for 5yrs and look what she did there. That is the reason we are in the mess we are in now. Simply lying does not help anyone. Dread to think what she would do if given independence.

@neildraycott5272

3 жыл бұрын

Only when she has got the title Weegie Empress of Scotland, then when she has that she will resign and say it was good on my watch.

Go Neil tear into Sturgeon #ResignSturgeon #SNPOUT #NoVotesSNP

Andrew took her down in one stroke

We have always had a deficit, even when I was in the Burgh Chamberlain's office. The reason is population. We are so much better under the umbrella of the Westminster government. We couldn't afford to drill for oil. It was the oil companies who footed the bill. I worked for Anchor Drilling when we were drilling wells. Scotland could not afford it. Now we are paying huge salaries and expenses for a bunch of numpties in Edinburgh. We cannot sustain this expenditure.

Watch your taxes go through the roof

Wonder if she has "forgotten or cant remember " this interview

She has many more challenges (her words) than answers for these Challenges

love the fact he challenged her so robustly, she is living up in the clouds if she thinks she will not have to reduce spending or increase taxes. Nicola seems to forget that if Scotland leaves the UK they will get a portion of the assets but also an equal portion of the debt. So an independent Scotland would have a big debt burden and a huge deficit. I cant see EU welcoming them on that basis even if we ignore the likely veto from a few members. Most people are happy just having children as a legacy.

She never and will not speak about Scotland being far poorer under the euro and particularly a Scottish pound which would be eaten for breakfast by the money markets. Your mortgage is contracted under Sterling and wound be impossible to be afforded. Your pension would be hugely devalued. The EU is a house of cards. She won’t touch brutal facts.

@mao5869

3 жыл бұрын

Absolute nonsense

@PKImagePhotography

3 жыл бұрын

Neil shows WHY being in the "union" is not in Scotland's interests?! Why are Scots due a share of London's debt on its massive infrastructure projects? Those fake GERs figures are totally made up to suit the Tories, and manipulate Scottish exports. Scotland has far more resources than most small Indy nations, so the question is, why are only Scots unable to manage their own affairs? We must have our own Scots pound right away and a Scots central bank and return to being a trading partner (rather than a controlled region) in the EU also.

"The Scottish economy is in a desperate state. It has long been lagging behind the UK economy but now the prognosis must be considered as dire. In 2019 Scotland’s GDP was 8 per cent lower that of the UK as a whole. While GDP in the UK grew at a rate of 1.7 per cent between 2000 and 2019, in Scotland it grew at a much smaller 1.3 per cent. Employment from 2000 to 2019 grew at 0.9 per cent in the UK as a whole, but only at 0.6 per cent in Scotland.", Brian Monteith, ThinkScotland, April 2021.

He wouldn’t ask her a question unless he had the information in front of him

That's the longest I heard her speak without mentioning REFERENDUM. She, and the SNP, don't have a Scooby Doo..

Maybe the rest of the UK should have a referendum on whether Scotland remains in the UK...

Scotland stay United with us The. UK United Strong we fought side by side together WW1 & WW2 Victorious 🇬🇧🇬🇧🎩

@craigl458

3 жыл бұрын

Along with many other allies that made it possible. The fact people think the UK won the war single handedly shows the ignorance of their history. Without America's help we woukd be speaking German this day.

You have to be impressed, she managed to answer every question using virtually the same words (lies & BS). 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️.

Typical politician... Talks for 15 minutes and says absolutely nothing...

Unfortunately the people of Scotland won't see it

Andrew is top tier

Deficit is not a real problem under this covid crisis.

She was insane to go on this show. Mind you, we know she's insane....

I hope they leave the UK. I'm sick of their constant whining and complaining about how terribly they're treated. Lets see them go and watch them realise they have no money for anything. Can we rebuild Hadrian's Wall 50 feet high then?

@MrChalmers99

3 жыл бұрын

yes give scotland down to newscastle and Durham like it was over 800 years ago XD o

@ColleenMEA

3 жыл бұрын

Fed up of the SNP ruining our reputation.

If a tick was to evolve this is exactly what it'll look like

As per, couldn’t answer a straight forward question, without doing a 360! What an embarrassment! Resign!!

Nicola, are you in a fundamentally strong position by any chance?

she forgot to say about drug problem in Scotland its so bad

Did she answer any questions? She waffled as usual

It doesn’t bode well for the Scotts...

Why do more Scots live outside Scotland now and would never go back? My 4 brothers mother and father left in 1967 and would never go back except for a holiday or the rugby. It is a disaster, my brothers were and 2 still are senior managers and the other 2 worked in the middle and far east. I will not supply the figures as I cannot be bothered arguing nonsense, but the question should be asked.

Never heard so much b.......e in my whole life well done Andrew for exposing a politician who is not in touch with reality she should spend som of her huge salary and buy a new outfit if she can afford it

Let them go. Take the pound sterling and give them no assistance. Indepence means just that.

She denies that austerity measures will be necessary.

When it comes to Scottish economics this awful woman hasn't a clue.

@davidtaylor2131

3 жыл бұрын

She certainly has an ability to convince people she is the solution, but to what even she doesn't Ken that answer...

@parkerk6210

3 жыл бұрын

Sturgeon is like Gordon Brown & Diane Abbot, clueless on figures

@HornManish

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely Peter! A terrible woman.

@caprcail

3 жыл бұрын

That’s why there is a Finance Minister.

@nuncaolvidare4895

3 жыл бұрын

Their hate blinds them to the bigger picture. They are anti English and it's tolerated. They are the most hypocritical people in politics What stands out most for me out of all the snake national party's subjects is health. Particularly mental health. Personal experience and those known to me personally shows me the state of the national health under her watch. Also the well documented devastating horror stories from her super duper hospital & the failings and scandals of Scotland's entire health service. 31 month waiting lists to see mental health professionals? Biggest suicide rate per population in Europe and highest drug&alcohol deaths in Europe, infact addiction deaths have gotten significantly worse under their reign. This is obviously due to a number of factors, but the hypocrisy of the party in health, well-being and social care is laughable when you read their manifestos and listen to their patter. The amount of elderly folks she sent home from the hospital to die: quickly forgotten about 😒 They are for the Scottish people; the underdogs; the small voices; the poor the elderly and the vulnerable? It's exactly these types of persons that they continue to sacrifice - whilst lining their own pockets and blaming Westminster. Scandal after Scandal and there is no shame. I can't even comment on justice and victims of crime, I'd be here until the end of never. They are a poisonous lot who play on the fact that there still is a sectarian divide in parts of the west of Scotland: lowering the voting age and visiting mostly RC schools in attempts to influence children and their parents. I have twin nieces who attended an RC school in Glasgow. That party makes my blood boil with the sheer hypocrisy. Scotland needs freedom - aye freedom from the SNP 🤞 her subjects start to see the facade

I’m for an independent Cornwall! 🤠 Massachusetts Mayflower Descendant.

I now have a phobia of the word CHALLENGES

If it's so Rosie up in Scotland as she thinks, why is there a Barnett Formula

Unfortunately, Sturgeon, this earth is not a fairyland, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore, extremely harsh. There's no star too far, and no dream too grand. So, Sturgeon, shake the fairy dust and make a wish. The magic is in your hands! Sturgeon lives life in her own little fairytale.

Simply lovely

Let them go far better for the rest of the UK

Krankie Time ASKING England to give it to them She talks a load of crap when you can under stand Krankie talk

It’s a pleasure to be with you Andrew ! Bet she soon changed her mind about saying that !

Like a wriggling fish on a hook 🪝just getting reeled in

People are more willing to move to scotland if they gain their indepedence. Surely properties will boom.

How to answer a straight question, don’t answer it.

Brilliant. Somebody should take her up on her "projections for GDP improvement in the next five years"! Saying that in 2016 and adding five years makes it 2021. How did she do??

Jimmy Krankie has a wobbly head.

I liked the bit when she said "fundamentally strong economy"

My god...do Scotland really want independence?

There seems to be a lot that lady doesn't deny!!

Never heard such blether!How does she honestly think Scotland would survive without the UK.Just look at the roads in Dumfries and Galloway! and along side Loch Ness.I very much doubt Scotland,as much as I love it,is able to generate its own economy and a strong enough one to support the needs of everyone.

The only car crash here is the disastrous social state in which they live.

Got Her !

Voted in by the people for Scotland and will again independence is unstoppable

14 years with a Fail record that would scare a fucking ghost" Keep your yelping dog on a lead SNP, Her day of doom is drawing near" They should all be put in a padded Fail Cell to fail on their own for the next 100 years

Best interviewer by a mile...500 in fact and then 500 more

We ain't going to pay for much longer , tax your people.

The emotional argument in favour of Scottish independence is very strong. A proud nation etc etc. The economic argument is virtually non existent. So be a proud, independent nation by all means. But when it comes to benefits like tuition fees and prescription charges....forget it. Whatever untruths the SNP tell you.

Can someone please ask her if we are so rich why are we so poor,????

She quotes revenues compared to the UK when it's UK taxes that prop Scotland up.

If she says challenges again, I will top myself

She really believes in the rubbish she spouts.