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?

He earned 100k, I earn 100k and I can assure you i am not turning up with anything like the stuff he bought and I don't think I am unusual. £800 handbag yes but not the Jag and motorhome.

There is an absolutely damning article in The Times today about this. First thing it mentions is this: Murrell was known as a thief when he was an aide to Alex Salmond, who moved him on when money went missing.

In other words, the guy was a known thief when Salmond was in charge of the SNP (2004-2014) 😮

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/snp-peter-murrell-embezzlement-wcqvkpbhp

I believe her. My DH and I are high earners. We also aren’t big spenders. I have no idea what he has in the bank but if he went and splashed a load of cash on something I wouldn’t jump to the conclusion he must have nicked it!

no

They need to believe her because some of them utterly worshipped her, and still want to vote SNP and can't justify it otherwise.
I know quite a few of them unfortunately.

I don't know but it's not good enough to consider her duty was just that of the busy wife who didn't have time to pay attention to new pepper pots - she was his boss and had responsibility for the party's finances.

That's why I don't believe her. Not so much because of the weird "Generation Game" style list of goodies at her home but because none of those things should have been signed off by her for anyone, never mind her husband.

It's very obvious to me that something else was going on. Either he had something on her so that she couldn't object, or there was a bigger scam going on and this was only a small part of it. Or was a smaller, separate scam.

Do you really think as the leader she wouldn’t be aware of the finances of her own party.she would be the one accountable for them. of course she knew she just doesn’t want to go to prison. Who gets a £500 pen? 3 coffee makers.

I believe her, my husband bought a new car last week, I assume we can afford it, I haven’t gone through his accounts and why would I?

she’s just a normal women who had a high power and stressful job, I doubt every time her DH bought something she checked finances she just assumed they could afford it like most of us!

No I don’t believe her, she threatened party members who had concerns about the SNP finances, even the auditors resigned. She absolutely knew how expensive Mont Blanc pens were because she was criticised for using them. She may not have realised the extent of his fraud but she actively prevented scrutiny of the accounts which would have revealed it.

And are you also his employer?

But she will have had no personal allowance and paying 48% tax so what does that equate to after

No. But who would? She does herself no favours and her public image is terrible.

No but the SNP hire accountants she had trust in then, she literally can’t do every single job herself

Same question as to the other poster who said similar: if you were also your husband's employer, would you expect to know a bit more about his finances?

You said you assume you don’t know for sure was his car more than his salary. Op when 1 partner has control of the finances most people don’t check but if you’re both involved you would know if you can or can’t afford it.

He wasn't that high an earner. At one point his net income was £56k yet he bought an £80,000 Jaguar.

Even if you believe she didn't know then that just means she is staggeringly stupid and incompetent because she out to have seen this when she was signing off on the accounts.

Accountants who discuss the figures with head of the party. Accounts need signing off she would be responsible for that.

I think I would suspect something if expensive items arrived if I knew his salary. I mean there is a limit isn't there? The occasional treat, but not motor homes.

Regardless of believing her or not, I feel disgusted that the whole focus of her career was breaking Scotland away from England by any means possible - and now she comes to LIVE in ENGLAND. All she has wanted was for England to fuck off.

Anyway, I do not believe her. Something is fishy as hell. I wonder if her marriage was a real one for example, given the “apparent” total lack of communication or financial discussions.

I’m English and live in Scotland as does my son and partner. We’ve all lived in different parts including areas where they very much support independence.
Please can we dump this myth that the Scots hate the English in our extensive experience this is not true.
I should add before I say anymore that I sit firmly on the fence re independence. I can accept that Nicola had some good qualities and she definitely is no fool thus I find it almost impossible to believe that she never once questioned or at best wondered where all the stuff was coming from and how it was being paying for. He was only on 80k (which she must have known) which isn’t that much in the grand scheme of things and I don’t think that level of earnings enables you to cheerfully spend the sort of money he was paying for very expensive coffee machines cruet sets jewellery hair dryers etc.
As for the motorhome did he never use it? He must have done. Surely even if they had only one holiday in it she would have asked him who owned it? Him, his mother, a friend either of the last two if only to thank them for lending it to them. Or did she assume he hired it? Even that doesn’t really stack up, hired vehicles come with instructions dos and don’t the hire companies name is written on it. I’ve watched her I don’t believe she lacks curiosity.
If she choose to turn a blind eye then as the first minister she was letting Scotland a country she loves down and we deserved better than this.

Auditors resigned! It was her job to sign and check the accounts. No I don’t believe her.

Stockpiling 108 bog rolls before your wife issues a COVID warning to not bulk buy. In other circumstances that'd be insider trading 😂

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/peter-murrell-bought-108-toilet-37226439

I’d believe her if she was just his wife. Especially if the rumours about their marriage are true. But she was also leader of the SNP and both those things together make it hard for me to believe she didn’t know. Why did she warn others not to scrutinise the finances. There was a clear conflict of interest there.

But as head of the party she should have scrutinised their accounts. The SNP finance committee refused to sign off the accounts so she signed the audit. Was she not suspicious when that happened, why did she not ask questions? Total corruption

One things for sure if this was benefits cheating we wouldn't be so generous to the "household". I used to try and see the best in people, but what with mandelson, Prince Andrew etc, I no longer do.