Why, exactly, would you want to be a parliamentarian if you were going to abstain on a confidence motion? Unless you positively have confidence, then you positively do not. If you cannot make up your mind, then there is never any shortage of more suitable people with whom you might be replaced, as you should be.
The Hamilton Report is so heavily redacted that no one can tell what it really says, but at best it lets Nicola Sturgeon off because she would forget her own head if it were not screwed on. Holyrood's own inquiry, on the other hand, has found explicitly that she had misled the Parliament that has today decided to put those two together and conclude that it still had confidence in her.
Sturgeon has not been cleared. She has not been exonerated. She has not been vindicated. The vindication was that of Alex Salmond, 13 times. But even the Shrewsbury 24 finally won their appeal today. Even Hillsborough eventually began to have justice of a sort, although there is still a very long way to go. Even Orgreave will have justice. And there will be justice in this case, too.
To that end, vote for whoever was best placed to defeat the SNP in each constituency, at least if you could still stomach Labour or the Liberal Democrats first after the Hate Crime Bill and now after this. And in any event, give your list vote to All for Unity.
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