JK Rowling branded Nicola Sturgeon a f***wit over her gender ID views in a scathing review of her memoir.
The former First Minister’s memoir, Frankly, was launched today and is packed full of personal admissions and bombshells from some of the most infamous moments in her political career.
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Harry Potter author JK penned her own review of the book which included a foul-mouthed feedback about Ms Sturgeon’s time in office.
Ms Rowling – a vocal critic of Ms Sturgeon over her gender self-ID bid – delivered a furious takedown of Ms Sturgeon over the scandal of male-bodied trans double-rapist Isla Bryson, previously known as Adam Graham, being sent to Cornton Vale prison in January 2023.
Ms Sturgeon famously refused to say Bryson was male or female in a car-crash press conference, which came weeks before she quit as First Minister.
The author wrote in her review: “Bryson, a convicted double rapist, had decided he was a woman and would rather be incarcerated with the sex against which he’d already committed the most male of crimes.
“When asked on television whether bald, blonde wig-wearing Bryson was a man or a woman, the First Minister, whose composure and articulacy under fire had, for years, been her most potent political asset, made herself look – and forgive me for employing a PR term here – a complete f***wit.”
Ms Rowling said Ms Sturgeon had made out that the “the blame for her looking like a complete f***wit lies with others.”
Raising another high-profile Scottish case, she said: “Nobody had warned her about Bryson, you see.
“She apparently had no idea that the very thing feminists had warned her was likely to happen, and had already happened – trans-identified man Katie Dolotowski had already sexually assaulted a ten-year-old girl in a public bathroom, and served his time in a women’s prison in Scotland – would happen again.
“She explains in Frankly that she was worried about the impact it would have on trans people if she denied Bryson was a woman.
“Therein lies the problem in the smallest of nutshells. If you’re prepared to accept the foundational falsehood that some men are women, you’ll inevitably find yourself panicking like a pheasant caught in headlights one day, because to admit that even a single man who says he’s a woman isn’t means the whole edifice of gender self-ID collapses.”
Ms Rowling widened her criticism of the ex First Minister with a rundown on subjects not focused on in the memoir, called Frankly.
Following praise for the book from commentators south of the border, Ms Rowling scornfully mentioned “liberal London” types who also hailed her pandemic performance.
Ms Rowling wrote: “Her English fans can’t be expected to know about every single cluster**** over which the supposedly competent Sturgeon presided, and they certainly won’t find out about them from Frankly.
“The mysteriously vanished government WhatsApp messages from the pandemic, the tanking educational outcomes, the CalMac Ferry disaster: you’ll search in vain for candid accounts of these in Frankly; indeed, most aren’t mentioned at all.
“Perhaps the most disgraceful omission – and I’ll admit to a personal interest here, because I’m married to a doctor who used to run a methadone clinic, so saw the national scandal up close – is the fact that Scotland continues to lead the whole of Europe in drug deaths.”
Scottish Conservative shadow equalities minister Tess White said: “JK Rowling’s brutal verdict on Nicola Sturgeon and her dismal record will strike a chord with many Scots.
“Her dismantling of Nicola Sturgeon’s gender self-ID policy is as devastating as it is accurate.”
Nic’s pal Val: ‘Cops ruined my mate’s career’
BY MARK MCLAUGHLIN
NICOLA Sturgeon’s author pal Val McDermid has claimed the “actions of Police Scotland” have damaged Nicola Sturgeon’s career prospects.
The Scottish crime writer took what appeared to be a swipe at cops, blaming their probe into allegations of fraud in the SNP for the lack of decent job offers coming her way.
Opposition politicians scoffed at Ms McDermid’s claim insisting the former first minister was already “damaged goods” because of her record in government.
Ms McDermid told Times Radio: “I think it’s been very difficult for her to decide on the next chapter of her life.
“She’s only in her mid-50s. She’s got plenty of energy left. She’s got plenty of mountains to climb.
“But the kind of things that you might have expected her to go on to were closed to her because of the actions of Police Scotland, because of what was going on in the background.
“Obviously, the kind of jobs that one might have expected to come her way have not come her way. But on the other hand, she has had the time to write her memoir and take her time with it and get to grips with the things she wanted to say.”
NIC’S TWILIGHT SAGA
Ms Rowling’s review was titled “The Twilight of Nicola Sturgeon” and poked fun at Ms Sturgeon with a comparison between her and Bella Swan, the heroine of Twilight book and movie series.
She says they are borth “shy, awkward, bookish girls” who move to “small, rainswept towns” – one called Forks, one Dreghorn in Ayrshire.
Ms Rowling quotes a line saying “I don’t yet realise it but in this moment the course of my life will be set. Everything that has gone before has been leading me here”.
And she adds: “These are Sturgeon’s words, but they could just as easily be Bella Swan’s, for both shy, insecure teenagers have dates with destiny. Nicola Sturgeon will one day become First Minister of Scotland. Bella Swan will join the ranks of the undead.”
Delivering the verdict on the book as a whole, Ms Rowling says: “And so to the three hundred thousand pound question: is Frankly a good read?
“Honestly, only if you find Nicola Sturgeon so fascinating the dull details of her political decision-making intrigue you, and are prepared to accept all her special pleading.
“The biggest impediment to enjoyment is that Sturgeon, like Bella Swan, has a complete void where a sense of humour should be.
“Bella’s best attempt at a witticism in Twilight is when she says, in answer to a query as to why she isn’t tanned, ‘my mother is half albino’. The only time Sturgeon makes what I think is supposed to be a joke is when she says of a teenage boyfriend, ‘His nickname was Sparky (he wasn’t an aspiring electrician).’”
She adds that “most of the time, Frankly reads like a PR statement that’s been through sixteen drafts” and says: “The best anecdote is on page 120, when Sean Connery teaches Sturgeon an acting trick to lower her voice.
But if you’re looking for a more scintillating read, I recommend The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht – especially if you want the real low down on the dystopian nightmare Sturgeon’s gender beliefs have imposed on Scottish women.”
And poking fun at Ms Sturgeon’s apparent modesty in passages of the book, Ms Rowling pointed to various boasts in Frankly.
She wrote: “Sturgeon’s alleged imposter syndrome and constant crises of confidence don’t prevent her admitting to ‘the raw talent I had for politics’, or that ‘I certainly wasn’t lacking in ability’, that ‘far from being the weak link, I was seemingly the star attraction’, ‘it all added to the sense that I had the Midas touch’ or that ‘there is no doubt that I was a massive electoral asset.’”
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