SINCE I had my stroke, my husband Paul has been incredible in looking after me. So I was so happy for him at the weekend when Joe Biden became the president-elect of the USA and defeated Donald Trump, because as Peter said, “for the first time in four years I am not embarrassed to tell people in Scotland that I’m an American”.

I am also looking forward to a future episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race when surely some drag queen will appear with the name Georgia Flips.

As for the Rudy Giuliani press conference at the weekend, did you notice it took place between a shop selling sex toys and a crematorium? You get screwed and end up as ashes, and all of it taking place in front of a big sign warning of health hazards – a perfect metaphor for the Trump presidency.

I don’t think Trump will concede, because conceding basically means that he has to admit to being a loser. Psychologically, that is something he cannot do.

And it also means facing up to the fact that he might be going to jail, because when his lawyer Michael Cohen admitted in court to his part in paying off Stormy Daniels, he got three years in prison. Trump was named as a co-conspirator in the indictment, so if Cohen the henchman got three years, how much more will the man who pulled the strings and paid the money get?

Trump is in a lot of trouble and he is also in hock to the tune of a reported $400 million of debt. Scandal has piled upon scandal over the last four years and lawsuit after lawsuit is pending for him. I don’t think it will happen, but I would love to see him go to jail.

Joe Biden has already said he is not going to pardon Trump, but it’s not a good look for an elected politician to preside over his predecessor going to jail. Though in Trump’s case, if anyone deserves to go to jail it’s him.

Over the past few days he has shown that he is no democrat (with a small “d”), and all we have been getting from him has been “stop the count, stop the count”.

Which brings me nicely to the Scottish Tories, because all we have getting from them has been “stop the vote, stop the vote”, and then they have the nerve to complain that they are being compared to Donald Trump and they throw a hissy fit about the remarks that Nicola Sturgeon made over the weekend about politicians who “rage against democracy don’t prevail”. But that’s exactly what they are doing.

There was a disgraceful piece in The Spectator by Matt Kilcoyne, the deputy director of the Adam Smith Institute, who basically said that it is Nicola Sturgeon who is like Donald Trump. What he wrote was a fact-free victimhood-seeking rant that was based on lies.

He stated that the First Minister “enjoyed claiming, without any evidence, that coronavirus was spread to Scotland in the summer by the plague-ridden English”.

Basically, he was saying that Nicola Sturgeon was making political capital about English people carrying the virus into Scotland. That is utter nonsense as anyone who lives in Scotland knows – she was the first person to condemn those protestors at the Border and she has also resisted calls to place travel restrictions on people coming in from England in the way that the Labour First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford, has done.

The facts don’t stop the Tories claiming that she is motivated by anti-English racism – is that all they have got left? That’s the Tories led by Boris Johnson who was called a “shapeshifting creep” for his message to president-elect Biden.

Trump’s loss will have hurt Johnson because I think it spells the end for that brand of right-wing populism that Johnson and the Tories have been trading in.

Yes, Trump got 70 million people voting for him, but as the great American journalist HL Mencken once wrote, “no-one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public”.

Normally I wouldn’t be a great fan of a Biden type, and I tweeted that normally if a corporate centrist was elected to the White House, my reaction would be “meh”. I also have to point out that the Democrats didn’t do as well as they should have done in the Senate and House of Representatives contests. But the vote was motivated by the desire to get rid of Trump, and at the moment I am ecstatic by a lot that Biden won this victory for the planet and for democracy.

One thing I am sure Biden will do – he will ensure that the Conservatives will not trash the Good Friday Agreement. He’s very interested in the issue and I had to laugh at his remark when the BBC asked for an interview and he said: “BBC? I’m Irish.”

I know he is also interested in our fight for Scottish independence. Donald Trump would definitely have weighed in against independence and I think that would have helped us – if he had come out against independence I think that might have sent many people into the Yes camp. I think Biden will stay out of the argument and if we do vote, I think he will respect the result, whereas Trump probably would not.

So Biden’s win has to be a good result for Scotland.