Can someone please explain to me in laymen terms what Nicola Sturgeon is supposed to have done?

[Loopylou6]

And yes she is accused of breaking ministerial code by not recording a meeting she had on the 29th regarding the allegations. A meeting she forgot about. I hope she is not made to resign Especially as Boris appears to be smelling of roses

@AyeKarumba

* Where is the censure for Boris Johnson lying through his teeth to parliament on a regular basis, unlawfully proroguing Parliament and Matt Hancock giving millions to all of his mates?*

What @beguilingeyes said!!!

Wtf has this got to do with explaining the situation right now? Boris and co are absolute thundercunts. That doesn't preclude ministerial code being breached in Holyrood.

This article hear pretty much explains it

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-55996021

While her male colleagues to the South lie, cheat, steal and break the law with utter impunity.

I agree that the current UK government is spectacularly corrupt and it's astounding it doesn't get more coverage but the NS thing has only gone mainstream recently for very valid reasons.

She has admitted misleading the Scottish Parliament. Until BJ became PM this was an automatic resignation issue in the UK, even if it was just a mistake.

The government investigation and the legal case both had huge problems. Those may not be her fault but when a married couple have such control over a party (and overtly use it to oust rivals) it's inevitable that people see their hand in every machination.

I follow the Conservatives (not through love!) on Facebook, and the vitriolic comments towards her on there is vile.

Obviously the comments directed at Ruth Davidson on the SNP Facebook and twitter accounts are OK then, because they come from righteous SNP and independence supporters? As said upthread, the moral high ground is a difficult place to maintain and the only way is down. I get fed up to the back teeth of ‘SNP/independence/Scotland good, Tory/union/England bad’.

That's a bit of a leap you've made; we're talking about the comments about NS as this is a thread about NS.

Perhaps, but the comment above suggests that no-one but vile Tory lovers are capable of vitriolic comments - the usual rhetoric, when in fact that couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s quite dangerous to espouse the belief that the SNP can do no wrong and should never be challenged.

We were promised better in Scotland. We were promised a transparent corruption free government. All along Scotgov have tried to obstruct this enquiry, withholding evidence, redacting incriminating passages under the guise of protecting the victims when all can see that's not the case.

For a sharp politician who is supposed to have a good memory and attention to detail there were a huge number of evasive answers from Sturgeon. Lots of I don't recalls etc.

Yes there has been wrongdoing in Westminster, but that has fuck all to do with Holyrood. Two wrongs don't make a right. Can't we expect better of our politicians?

@Graffitiqueen

We were promised better in Scotland. We were promised a transparent corruption free government. All along Scotgov have tried to obstruct this enquiry, withholding evidence, redacting incriminating passages under the guise of protecting the victims when all can see that's not the case.

For a sharp politician who is supposed to have a good memory and attention to detail there were a huge number of evasive answers from Sturgeon. Lots of I don't recalls etc.

Yes there has been wrongdoing in Westminster, but that has fuck all to do with Holyrood. Two wrongs don't make a right. Can't we expect better of our politicians?

Well said

@Graffitiqueen

We were promised better in Scotland. We were promised a transparent corruption free government. All along Scotgov have tried to obstruct this enquiry, withholding evidence, redacting incriminating passages under the guise of protecting the victims when all can see that's not the case.

For a sharp politician who is supposed to have a good memory and attention to detail there were a huge number of evasive answers from Sturgeon. Lots of I don't recalls etc.

Yes there has been wrongdoing in Westminster, but that has fuck all to do with Holyrood. Two wrongs don't make a right. Can't we expect better of our politicians?

This. I find it immensely frustrating that every discussion about this issue, here and elsewhere, gets diverted with what about the Tories. It's like as long as someone else has done something worse then it doesn't matter. Can you imagine if we fought crime on that basis?? Sturgeon herself did it at FMQs, turned a question about herself in to an attack on the Tories and Ruth Davidson in particular and it was just a classic example of what's wrong with politics; spin and smear. They're all bloody at it - doesn't matter what they've done so long as they can point at someone else and claim they're worse.

The whole basis of Sturgeon's party's existence is that we are 'better apart' because as a country Scotland is better, fairer, kinder, nicer, more progressive, etc etc etc. You cannot hold that ground and then at the same time say 'Boris and that lot are getting away with far worse shit in England'.

They are, and she has plenty of MPs down there to hold him to account.

Meanwhile in the Scottish parliament we are entitled to expect better - a point made by NS when disciplining other members of her own party.