"She was asking the question again. It is, by any standards, a very good question, but Ms Sturgeon has posed it on several occasions. To the dismay of the scribblers, she seems determined to go on asking it until Jack McConnell answers. This, as we all know, will never happen.
Nicola wants to know what Jack really thinks about nuclear waste. She knows, that we know, that he knows, why the first minister cannot afford an honest opinion just at the moment. Any answer will land him in trouble with someone. For Ms Sturgeon, that is an excellent reason to go on asking. For Mr McConnell, it is a better reason to stick to standard-issue verbiage. For the prose stylists, it was all a waste of a good punch-up. Sorry: "a missed opportunity for reasoned debate". ...
Nicola found it "simply incredible" that Jack was not prepared to disclose his own views. Jack thought it would be "an absolute insult" to the experts studying the waste issue if he showed signs – I paraphrase – of independent thought.
He shouted a lot in the midst of all this, mostly at Sturgeon for failing to ask questions he wanted to answer, sometimes at Goldie for being a member of a party that fails to support his justice reforms."
A time for despair?
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