NICOLA Sturgeon will today, as she does every Thursday, stand up in the chamber at Holyrood and take questions from Jackson Carlaw, Richard Leonard, and any other MSP with a burning desire to put her on the spot. But in a one-off election special, we here at The National are giving you your very own chance to ask a First Minister’s Question as the SNP leader will be answering our readers queries in the run up to the election.
Want to know the date for indyref2? Or what she’ll do if a newly re-elected Boris Johnson says “no” to a Section 30 order?
Perhaps you want to know how her plan to sort out attainment in maths and sciences in Scotland’s school.
Or maybe you want to ask her to recommend a book to give as a Christmas present or if she would rather fight 100 duck-sized horses or one horse-sized duck?
Send your question to us at letters@thenational.scot before 5pm on Friday 6 December and we’ll put them to the SNP leader, and print her response next week. No topic is off limits and we’ll try and put as many of your questions to her as we can.
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We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.
Unfortunately, though, these important debates are being spoiled by a vocal minority of trolls who aren’t really interested in the issues, try to derail the conversations, register under fake names, and post vile abuse.
So that’s why we’ve decided to make the ability to comment only available to our paying subscribers. That way, all the trolls who post abuse on our website will have to pay if they want to join the debate – and risk a permanent ban from the account that they subscribe with.
The conversation will go back to what it should be about – people who care passionately about the issues, but disagree constructively on what we should do about them. Let’s get that debate started!
Callum Baird, Editor of The National
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