Nicola Sturgeon loses her grip as a half-baked vaccine passport scheme is revealed

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But in the end, there was no need for such a rebellion, though unlikely, because La Sturgeon threw in the towel herself. Yes, the vaccine passport system will remain mandatory in nightclubs from the early hours of Friday morning, but in a stunning last-minute juncture I decided there would be no enforcement for regulations violations until October 18 — more than two weeks later.

How will this affect the owners of nightclubs? Will they demand vaccine passports from their sponsors from Friday or will they simply shrug and say anything lasts until October 18th? and will this date still be in effect; After all, with Covid cases and hospital numbers declining all the time, La Sturgeon may decide to dump the whole thing while at the same time claiming the outright win for its politics. Needless to say, her judgment is a foregone conclusion.

With a degree of courage we had come to expect from this lady, the Chief Minister insisted that the delay in implementation would allow the nightclubs to “test and adapt to practical arrangements and build confidence in the practical arrangements they would need to put in place to be compatible with the scheme.”

Oh really? I have to conclude that it is very difficult to argue with Tory leader Douglas Ross, who called the first minister’s move a typical example of her “chaotic last-minute planning”, or with Alex Cole Hamilton, leader of the Liberal Democrats, who said the new delay It proved that both the Scottish government and nightclubs were “nowhere ready” to implement the new system.

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