Nicola Sturgeon didn't know her husband stole £400,000

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Really? She lived with this guy and didn't know? She had a camper van parked on the drive and didn't know he stole the money to buy it?

I don't buy it.

AIBU

He should have had to resign from his post when Nicola became First Minister. The situation was ridiculous.
Unfortunately we'll never get to know all the truth of what is wrong in this party. It will be covered up and Nicola's stock answer in enquiries is 'I don't know' or 'I don't remember'.

Because the independence supporting vote is very unified, and the Unionist vote is split several ways, especially now Reform are splitting it further.

You need Peugeot mills. Those Lalique mills have Peugeot parts, but if you're not into company theft, you can save thousands by not having decorative glass:
https://uk.peugeot-saveurs.com/en/pepper-mills

Yes, she must have wondered about the Advent Calendars, surely?
It is greed.

Just me that thinks timing has been protected too.
Would have been interesting for the election if this came out a month ago.

I obviously don’t have a taste for the finer things in life, as I think the non-Lalique mills look much nicer. But if I’m buying on somebody else’s dollar, I would obviously be worth Lalique.

Ah….that I didn’t know. In that case YANBU. She had to know,

Hang on, the great nationalist who wanted independence from the UK, and in particular Westminister, the source of all Scotland's ills, is moving to London? Is there anything genuine about the woman at all??? She loves Scotland and wants rid of England, yet moves to its capital at her earliest convenience, she can't tell the difference between men and women nor name why a man who rapes should not be housed in women's prisons, she simply doesn't question how her hubby is nearly half a million richer than he should be, and flaunting it, despite the fact that she signed off his SNP accounts.

I always said NS was a prime example of style over substance and boy was I right.

Totally reasonable. Lalique for everyone when it happens

She has moved to London already. Yes yes, just another London Scot. You didn’t really believe all that nationalism stuff did you?

It was her job as leader of the SNP to sign of his treasury reports! Despite them being married.

The governance of the whole thing was completely corrupt. And that suited the Sturgeons who took advantage of it.

I can believe it is possible she didn't know, but whether that's the truth is another question.

You only have to read a few threads on here by wives who have been completely blindsided that their husband is tens of thousands in debt or has been having an affair for 12 years etc.

Quite clearly there have been some severe governance and audit issues in the SNP.

Your chum Farage is no shining example. Odd you haven't mentioned him in your catalogue of dodgy UK politicians.

All these committed campaigners for Scotland who move out of Scotland as soon they can, NS, Sean Connery, Wings over Scotland ( lived in Bath since 1991). Bloody hell. The fact that two of those three moved to the Great Satan that is England is particularly hypocritical. English rule can't be that bad after all, eh? That must be seeing the benefit of it to live there.

Is it a symptom of £400,000 being a bit of loose change to the wealthy elite? I don’t know how rich they are, but it’s the sort of thing Boris Johnson would do. “Oh…. four hundred thousand I never knew I had… ahem, nothing to see here, please can we draw a line under it?”

No one ever had £400,000 come into the household and not notice- it simply isn't credible.

But those are things husbands are hiding and can hide. PM was actually flaunting his wealth. He was not hiding it.

A wife may not realise her H as a secret mistress. She will definitely know if he bring his mistress to the house for dinner with them both and then takes her upstairs to shag in the marital bed.

Yes of course it smells. There is absolutely no way that NS used the politics of division to get power and money, no no. She is but a humble British citizen enjoying the capital city.

There will be another leader of the SNP of her kind, who spends all their time wrapping themselves in porridge oats but in secret, is down Fortnum and Mason for the good stuff. Guaranteed

No they are not that rich.

I probably wouldn’t know they were Lalique or how much they cost tbh. And if I did realise, but was told that they were bought from an estate sale or something like that and were practically new because the old laird who had passed on had never/barely used them, I might not have given it too much thought.

Same goes for stuff like Le Crueset. I’d probably not notice a pen at all and not realise that the coffee maker or lawnmower was so expensive, especially if these things appeared over the course of 10 years.

The main reason why embezzlement wouldn’t jump to mind would be because it would be beyond my wildest dreams to think anyone would nick money to pay for this sort of random paraphernalia. I’d more likely be eyeing up Stacey Solomon to help us reduce the clutter.

Car, camper van- I’d definitely have questions. My main suspicion is how the missing money wasn’t noticed earlier from the party side as that’s where I imagine she first got wind of this.

Random unfamous Woman commits horrible violent crime and claims she did it after abuse but without proof, MNer reaction "Poor wee thing, men must have driven her to it. She should get off for sure."

Man commits sneaky white collar crime that amounted to max. £3k/month stolen and frittered it on handcream size purchases and is married to now unpopular politician, MNer reaction: "That childless gormless harpy who must be a secret lesbian with a sham marriage, the wife has to be just as guilty, she full well knew!"

Pffffttttt.....

And remember that they will also pay less tax down in England. Bunch of chancers.

I lived in Scotland for most of my life and when everyone was falling over themselves, even Unionists, to say how great NS was, I was not buying it. I always saw her as a style of substance. She was cynical and manipulative. Feel total vindicated now and rather proud of myself for seeing through it when my friends and peers did not. Go me! 😁

Yeah! Let the bairns wear broken shoes to school and eat chips for tea as long as Pete n Nic can have their 400 quid advent calendars

This is different. We're not talking about a woman unaware that her husband was having trouble at his workplace, to which she has no connection. He was the CEO running the SNP. She was its elected leader. That's a problem right there even if he'd been as pure as the driven snow. He used funds donated to the SNP and nobody noticed for years and years! She was the leader of the SNP. Why wasn't she looking at the accounts and talking to the Finance Committee and the auditors? Why wasn't she concerned when the auditors resigned?

Imagine if this shower ever actually managed to get independence voted in. I shudder to think of how Scotland would be governed.