Does anyone believe Nicola Sturgeon?

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As per title, does anyone actually believe NS with her claims she had no idea her husband stole £400k, didn't notice the MANY luxury items just appearing around her home, and is a victim in his deceit?

I believe her, yes.

Do you really think she would have risked everything as leader of her country - including her freedom - for a nicer pepper pot?

I personally believe she is that clever to leave a considerable distance from the finance and is that arrogant to think we're all stupid enough to believe her.

It never ceases to amaze me what people refuse to see, even when it’s in front of them. She was the same about Alex Salmond. She was warned, but she couldn’t see it. I believe her, and I think she has no malicious intent, but I also think she is astonishingly naive.

I believe her, yes.

She was a very busy woman who didn't go through her husband's income and expenditure.

They were both high earners and would've been used to buying expensive items anyway.

i do. i don't think the fact that she was paying so little attention to her husband and her home is very surprising - she had a lot on her plate. i also can see how she thought he could have afforded things like caravans and a new car or been given finance for them. if their finances were separate i can see how she could have missed this. personally i wouldn't have paid any attention to pepper shakers appearing in the kitchen and wouldn't have suspected they cost a gazillion quid. i think most of us trust the people we love and dont suspect that theyre going to do something illegal. i dont think she's covered herself in glory as a leader or as a person tbh, but i do think its possible she didnt realise what her dh was up to.

400k looks like a lot to us ordinary people but he was the chief exec of the SNP. It’s entirely possible that she didn’t notice.

She has divorced him - if she stayed with him, I would have believed she was complicit. But she kicked him to the curb.

I'm not 100% sure but I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt. She was, after all, trying to run a country, so she may not have had much time or energy to scrutinise her husband's purchases.

Didn’t he buy a motorhome ?

I believe her too. He was a high earner whom she trusted.

Absolutely not. I'm surprised so many people believe her but I assume it's because she is a woman. No way you would believe a male politician

Not a chance do I believe her. She’s complicit and he’s taken the fall as they both want independence over anything so will continue to lie and cheat to get it.
If she wasn’t aware then when people kept raising their concerns then she should have listened and got them looked into.

Why didn’t she though? She was his boss, why didn’t she ask what the £100 k motor vehicle in the SNP accounts was? Why didn’t she sign off the accounts despite hundreds of thousands missing and even the auditors resigning? Why didn’t she tell him to hand the books over to the treasurer when he refused?

£80k a year is not a high earner in the context of the items he was buying.

Well if she is lying that isn’t good.
If she was knowingly turning a blind eye that isn’t good.
If she was readily gullible that everything was all fine that isn’t good either.

So none of the possible situations look good at all.

My issue is simple - I know she is a liar, and liars lie, so I cannot believe a single word.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05eedgp804o
She knows Isla Bryson is a man. She knows people cannot change sex. She knows violent men are dangerous to women. She is a horror, a disgusting careerist who will do anything to line her pocket and further her power.
Liar, liar, pants on fire.

This is my view too. They both had a lot of disposable income.

I think she has plausible deniability. But that's not the same as saying that I believe her.

With their salaries, £400K of extra spending (over a number of years) isn't necessarily something you'd pick up on, if you trusted your spouse and didn't bother looking at any bank statements.

But at the very least she has massively trusted some very dodgy people. I would say that nobody that naive has any business being in power.

I believe her in the personal sense that she didn't realise her husband was stealing from their party. Where i think she is culpable is her failure to do her job as leader of the party. She accepted his word that the finances were all in order rather than doing as many of the NEC members were asking (and what she should have done to manage the donations made by ordinary people) and open the books to proper scrutiny. Instead she closed ranks, repeated his lies publicly (even if unintentionally) and hounded those people out of positions. She didn't even appear concerned when one treasurer quit and the auditors refused to sign off the accounts.

Anyone with any training at all in this area would know that if you raise money for a specific purpose it is ringfenced for that purpose and appears clearly labelled in the account as restricted funds. You cannot spend it on anything else. If it's not there that should raise a question. That she didn't look more closely doesn't make her a criminal but it does make her incompetent.

Yes.
My husband is very good at lying and hiding things.
so much so that i give up questioning him. It’s exhausting.

I don’t believe a word of it.

£80k is not a high earner in this context

She's always been power hungry and couldn't see the wood for the trees. She wouldn't have seen it in front of her eyes, that's my take on it all.

No. She has lied about other things so I'm inclined to think she's lying about this too, even though it would be possible to rationalise her not having known that her husband had very sticky fingers.

Fair enough, she have missed the ultra-blingy cruet set, but how do you rationalise the massive RV that dominated her mother-in-law’s drive on her small estate?

she only kicked him to the curb after the arrests though.

she needs to stop giving interviews. Her PR is awful, who has told her to play the victim card?