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Sturgeon and her party began pushing the [[police state]] "Named Persons Act" in 2016. This [[authoritarian]] bill was designed to "monitor the happiness" of every child in Scotland. The act was defeated in 2019.<ref name=NO2NP>[https://no2np.org/ No2NP]</ref>
Sturgeon and her party began pushing the [[police state]] "Named Persons Act" in 2016. This [[authoritarian]] bill was designed to "monitor the happiness" of every child in Scotland. The act was defeated in 2019.<ref name=NO2NP>[https://no2np.org/ No2NP]</ref>
Sturgeon posed with a copy of English newspaper The Sun in May 2016, said paper having printed what are now considered to be lies about the [[Hillsborough disaster]] in 1989. The event took place just days following verdicts of an inquest into the tragedy 27 years prior in which 97 people died. Hugh Kerr left the party in protest, branding the first minister's actions as "crassly insensitive".<ref>[https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14467674.former-mep-quits-snp-sturgeons-endorsement-sun/ Former MEP quits SNP over Sturgeon's 'endorsement' of The Sun]</ref>
Following the SNP losing Westminster seats in the 2017 UK general election to unionist and pro-Brexit parties such as the Conservatives, Nicola Sturgeon was forced to concede that there was no popular support for her desperate plan for a second referendum on Scottish "independence".<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/27/nicola-sturgeon-shelves-second-independence-referendum Nicola Sturgeon shelves second Scottish independence referendum]</ref>
Following the SNP losing Westminster seats in the 2017 UK general election to unionist and pro-Brexit parties such as the Conservatives, Nicola Sturgeon was forced to concede that there was no popular support for her desperate plan for a second referendum on Scottish "independence".<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/27/nicola-sturgeon-shelves-second-independence-referendum Nicola Sturgeon shelves second Scottish independence referendum]</ref>