First Minister and Equal Pay



I enjoyed this article from The Herald which reported that Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, is up for a scrap with extra-terrestrials invading Planet Earth in a modern re-working of The Kraken Wakes.

 Great news if you ask me, because it suggests that after fighting off invading aliens it should be child's play for the First Minister to get stuck into Labour-run North Lanarkshire Council over equal pay.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14299993.Nicola_Sturgeon_battles_alien_invasion_terrorising_UK_in_new_BBC_drama_debut/

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon battles alien invasion terrorising UK in new BBC drama debut



First Minister Nicola Sturgeon with Val McDermid at the Edinburgh International Book Festival last year

By PHIL MILLER - The Herald

She has obtained sweeping new powers for Scotland, leads a party poised to dominate Holyrood for years - and is now set to restore order to a UK invaded by aliens.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is to make first foray into radio drama - playing herself as a calming voice of authority as Britain is besieged by extra-terrestrials

Ms Sturgeon appears in the BBC Radio 4 production, The Kraken Wakes, a modern retelling of John Wyndham's classic 1953 apocalyptic novel, which has been adapted by the Scottish crime writer and dramatist Val McDermid.

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