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?

There were rumors about the embezzling long before they were ever arrested. Did she not think to take a closer look, or have someone else take a closer look at the money situation once questions were raised? No, she (and the others of course) shut down all complaints and queries from party members about how the money was being used. As party leader, it was her place to make sure member's questions were being followed up on.

She’s a thief herself so of course she knew!!! She’s stolen MILLIONS far more than £400k from the Scottish people on her little project and didn’t give a shit that the money came from Westminster! She held her hands out for money from Westminster while spouting the ridiculous independence shite but lying to the Scottish people about the actual reality of what it would
mean to schools - everyone having their children at home and a teacher doing work with the kids via zoom or whatever! None of that was mentioned that they couldn’t cope without the money from Westminster which pays for all the Scottish schools and teaching staff!

I don’t believe she knew he was embezzling. I think that when she found out she resigned as leader and separated from him. However, I do think that she should have had transparent procedures in place to manage finances within the SNP. I’m not sure that it was her job to sign off the accounts - wouldn’t it be the party treasurer, Colin Beattie? He was also arrested and not charged.

It’s clear that as a couple, they’d been advised that there was a conflict of interest in them being leader and CE, notably by Alex Salmond. I can see a wife not wanting her promotion to cost her husband his job. I think he should have done the decent thing at that point and stepped down. Either she should have insisted that he did, or he should have offered to, to avoid putting her in exactly this position. However, having agreed not to, I then think they both became entrenched in that position. Any questions about the accounts would have initially just felt like rerunning the same old argument. Obviously at some point though the weight of issues piling up should start to raise alarm bells.

I do want to know wtf the treasurer thought he was doing, though - how could he not notice? I can buy that the party leader doesn’t scrutinise the accounts, because she has a treasurer to do it for her. But I can’t buy that the treasurer didn’t look at them when there kept being loads of complaints.

And where is her long term wife? The one she’s been living in the Scottish Borders with for more years than she was “married” to her husband??? All the people in the border town her and her female partner live are very well aware of their hypocrisy

I also suspect that quite a few gifts were never in their house at all and that’s why she didn’t see them. He wouldn’t be the first man to have an affair and lavish gifts on a secret liaison. Or he was giving generous gifts to friends and family. And/or they were leading at least partially separate lives.

its my understanding that the camper van wasn't used by NS. So far as it entered her head at all, she thought it belonged to inlaw's neighbours. Given the strange stuff that he bought, I don't think that there are "safe assumptions" about any of his purchases. I understand that they didn't holiday together.

Why was NS so protected by the people of Scotland?

guessing for the same reason Ted Heath was?

A bit before my time but I will now Google!

Hmmm my take, based on nothing but my own suspicions, is that this was a marriage of convenience. It wouldn’t surprise me at all that they were living completely separate lives. Now NS is in the awkward position of not being able to say that as it spark loads more questions and intrusion into her personal life.
having a married couple at the centre of a political party was a liability for so many reasons, the SNP should have privately suggested one of them moved on many years ago.

I’m not sure that it was her job to sign off the accounts - wouldn’t it be the party treasurer, Colin Beattie? He was also arrested and not charged.

It was - she signed them in her party officer position and by signing them she had to state they were true. She was also treasurer for a time. And supported her husband blocking another treasurer and the finance committee from seeing the books leading to them all resigning. Also as party leader she failed to react when the auditors resigned cited possible fraud.

She isn't. We loathe her but don't control the press.

Sorry, misquoted. Was replying to comment asking why she is so protected by the people of Scotland. I've known her secrets for a long time, and those of Gordon Brown. So have many others. We cannot print it in the press and comments are regularly deleted.

Why can’t you tell us here?

I dont holiday with my colleagues but when one goes on holiday I always ask them where they went, what they did, did they have good weather etc and Im not married to them.
So she wants us to believe that her husband who she was living with at the time went away in said camper van and she never once asked where he went or what he did?
What excuse is she making about the £80k + car? The expensive jewellery she has been seen wearing, the expensive makeup, obviously not for him, the watches the 3 coffee makers etc?
Im not vehemently opposed to her unlike many but Im sorry none of this is credible.
Frankly she have been better advised to say nothing than go on national TV, but these people never learn look at Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. You can’t help feeling they are taking us for fools that we will happily believe anything they say without question it’s pure arrogance on their part.
To quote Disraeli “never apologise never explain” not that she’s done much apologising so maybe “never complain never explain” would have been better advise.

I reckon she didn't know at the start probably when he bought the necklace. When he moved onto the motor home, she must have known and by then they were in too deep. She couldn't dobb him in as she would incriminate herself.

Nope, no apologies for any of it and ripping people off instead of using the money for the right reasons.
They are shameless.

^^This is the most believable answer.

Agree...I don't know why anyone is making excuses for her. Baffles me. She signed the accounts, the ones her husband was embezzling from. How is that 'understandable' in any way? She was the FM, not some lowly clerk. Complicit or beyond incompetent.

This seems sensible.

Why in the 21st century would it be a “marriage of convenience”? They’re not royalty or aristocracy are they? They weren’t trying to breed a blue blooded heir and a spare. I know some may think that Scot are behind the times but this isn’t the Tudor court we talking about here.
Or was it so that they could conveniently siphon off £400+k from SNP funds with no questions being asked?

If I was ever in doubt, the fake crying sealed it (and it is fake crying). I don’t believe a single fucking word that comes out of her mouth.

And now the England hating liar has moved to bloody London. You couldn’t make it up.

not sure that he ever used it either.

So why did he buy it? As a garden ornament? His mother was in her 90’s highly unlikely she was going on holiday in it.

I do not believe she didn’t know, and I’ve read today that Alex Salmond knew Peter Mullen had stolen money whilst working for him and moved him to a new post early on in his career, Salmond hoped he had learned his lesson, obviously he didn’t. Salmond then repaid the money taken , now if this is correct how did he become chief executive? And how did NS shut down all chat about why 3 treasurers resigned without looking into the reasons.