Nicola Sturgeon compared to Japanese WWII Emperor in accepting 'losing' battle against Omicron
dailyrecord.co.ukNicola Sturgeon’s efforts to stem covid with new tighter restrictions than England have been mockingly compared by a top Tory MP to the Japanese Emperor admitting that WWII was not such a success for his country.
Jacob Rees-Mogg, the Conservative leader of the Commons, lampooned the First Minister by claiming the Scottish Government ’s covid restrictions over Christmas had done little to stem the rise in Omicron cases.
In exchanges with SNP MP Pete Wishart over demands for a return to a virtual Commons sitting, as Holyrood has maintained, Rees-Mogg turned fire on the nationalist government.He said: “The SNP have decided to take a very different route."They don’t believe in trusting people to make decisions for themselves.
They believe in constant, perpetual lockdown which, as I understand it, the leader of the SNP has herself accepted did not go as well as anticipated.“Which sound slightly like the comments of the Japanese Emperor at the end of the last war, that it has not been success what they have done in Scotland.“What we have done in the rest of the United Kingdom, in England, has worked better by trusting people.
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