Gary Gibbon is in Aberdeen where it seems Nicola Sturgeon can do no wrong

Nicola Sturgeon: for many Scots, the SNP leader can do no wrong.

I am in Aberdeen for the second Scottish party leaders’ debate. Last night’s was quite fiery. Labour say they felt that they started getting some scrutiny on the SNP’s voting record. The SNP feel they made Jim Murphy look awkward discarding their ever so helpful offer of support. Jim Murphy would see that generous offer as the equivalent of kicking Labour so badly to the ground in Scotland that it can barely reach out its arm to be helped back to its feet.

Aberdeen is hurting right now. The oil industry that supports it has squeezed down with the oil price plummet. Oil and projected tax revenues from oil were at the centre of the SNP’s independence sell last year. Many at the time including the IFS said the yes camp projections for tax revenues were hugely inflated. I put it to Nicola Sturgeon she’d been selling Scotland a false prospectus but the first minister insisted land would make up any shortfall.

Passers-by who stopped to spectate the Nicola Sturgeon photo op in Aberdeen town centre told me it didn’t matter if the numbers didn’t add up, the point was anything was better than corrupt, horrible Westminster.

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