Nicola Sturgeon presiding over 'blunder after blunder' as First Minister, claims former SNP MP

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Nicola Sturgeon has been accused by a former SNP MP of presiding over "blunder after blunder" during her time in Scotland's top job.The First Minister last week surpassed Alex Salmond as the longest serving head of the Scottish Government and led her party to another victory at local council elections earlier this month.

But Sturgeon's record in office has been challenged by a veteran Nationalist who claimed she had overseen "levels of incompetence that are impossible to hide".Jim Sillars, a former depute leader of the SNP, attacked the First Minister over what he viewed as repeated failures over education and the economy.

The former Govan MP also argued Sturgeon had failed to advance the case for Scottish independence despite the unpopularity of Boris Johnson.

In a scathing blog post, Sillars said: "In 2014, when Nicola Sturgeon took command of the SNP, party and government, Scotland was vibrant - we had just had a great debate with the voter turn-out in the September referendum the highest ever. "Today, however, Scotland is widely regarded to be in a state of stasis, with the SNP party’s internal democracy emasculated, its members in thrall to the cult of personality, and Scotland’s government, politics and economy stuck in the quagmire of mediocrity."Nicola Sturgeon is in total control of the party and government, so the responsibility is hers for failure to build that rock solid independence majority, for the deplorable state of Scotland’s education, health service, transport infrastructure, blunders on energy, and all round dispiriting incompetence."Sillars concluded: "Although her record is strewn with error, Nicola Sturgeon looks and feels safe."But failure after failure, blunder after blunder, levels of