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

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Imdunfer · 25/05/2026 21:03

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.

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ByGraptharsHammer · 26/05/2026 10:35

bilbohaggins · 26/05/2026 10:32

I think there is the possibility that Nicola Sturgeon didn’t know, but this probably means she didn’t really have much of a marriage more of a business relationship (not necessarily anyone’s business) and more damningly she didn’t do her job properly when signing off the accounts and defending them. I think it’s fair to say that she should have made enquiries as one of the people responsible.

There is also the possibility that she knew, it’s just that there isn’t evidence that she knew, so she cannot be charged.

In either way, best case scenario is that she is somewhat negligent and really doesn’t correspond to the picture that she presented all those years.

Negligence in one’s own favour ought always to be suspect

Newname26 · 26/05/2026 10:38

TheKittenswithMittens · 26/05/2026 10:06

Is this a mobile home that I see before me ...

No its an SNP Battle Bus 😂

ladymalfoy · 26/05/2026 10:50

I want to know what was in the advent calendard

JustAnotherWhinger · 26/05/2026 10:56

ladymalfoy · 26/05/2026 10:50

I want to know what was in the advent calendard

This was last years version

https://www.fortnumandmason.com/fortnums-christmas-feasting-advent-calendar

ThePieceHall · 26/05/2026 10:59

Newname26 · 26/05/2026 10:38

No its an SNP Battle Bus 😂

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Nana Murrell’s neighbours must have been thrilled to see the back of it.

Eventmrs · 26/05/2026 11:04

No one is buying the fact she didn't know.
What will they do about it though is what I want to know.

GasPanic · 26/05/2026 11:09

JustAnotherWhinger · 26/05/2026 10:56

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Disappointed in the lack of dates and marzipan there.

UncannyFanny · 26/05/2026 11:13

NiftyGreenBiscuit · 25/05/2026 22:45

I believe she didn’t know. She is certainly not the first woman to have the wool pulled over her eyes by a man.

Come on. Let’s stop man-blaming. It just isn’t feasible to have that many brand new vehicles and not once wonder where the money was coming from. She’s not that dumb to have never once wondered how they were affording all those luxuries.

mumumental · 26/05/2026 11:22

You come on. Mumsnet is full of busy women living with men who have lied and cheated. Why not her?

Twisterlollies · 26/05/2026 11:23

mumumental · 26/05/2026 11:22

You come on. Mumsnet is full of busy women living with men who have lied and cheated. Why not her?

If those women were head of a business the hubby was embezzling money from it might be slightly different?!

OneTealShaker · 26/05/2026 11:23

Oblahdeeoblahdoe · 26/05/2026 10:01

Whoops you forgot to mention any Tories. Besides the covid corruption here's a taster -
Nadhim Zawahi fiddled his tax return paid a multimillion-pound penalty to settle his affairs. Think he was the one who claimed expenses for heating the stables or was it for clearing his moat?
Geoffrey Cox the former Attorney General had high-paying second jobs and failed to declare his stake in a tax avoidance scheme. He also notably voted remotely from a Caribbean tax haven while doing legal work for the British Virgin Iislands
Owen Patterson repeatedly lobbied ministers and officials on behalf of two companies paying him well over £100,000 a year. The list goes on...

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Well done for adding more Tories/lefties to the list.

Differentforgirls · 26/05/2026 11:30

bilbohaggins · 26/05/2026 10:32

I think there is the possibility that Nicola Sturgeon didn’t know, but this probably means she didn’t really have much of a marriage more of a business relationship (not necessarily anyone’s business) and more damningly she didn’t do her job properly when signing off the accounts and defending them. I think it’s fair to say that she should have made enquiries as one of the people responsible.

There is also the possibility that she knew, it’s just that there isn’t evidence that she knew, so she cannot be charged.

In either way, best case scenario is that she is somewhat negligent and really doesn’t correspond to the picture that she presented all those years.

It’s outside auditors who sign off the accounts. Not the FM or Depute FM.

Oblahdeeoblahdoe · 26/05/2026 11:30

OneTealShaker · 26/05/2026 11:23

Well done for adding more Tories/lefties to the list.

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All Tories, unless you think they're lefties 😁 Not got onto Reform yet

Differentforgirls · 26/05/2026 11:32

Eventmrs · 26/05/2026 11:04

No one is buying the fact she didn't know.
What will they do about it though is what I want to know.

Nothing as she was talked to by Police Scotland and let go.

CarbootJunction · 26/05/2026 11:34

I've got no idea how much money my DH has in the bank. I know he has savings, and a very good income. I would question it if he purchased a lovely coffee maker or a Mont Blanc pen.

ScribblingPixie · 26/05/2026 11:38

I'm bewildered by the risk taking - £400,000 is surely an amount they could have earned in a year.

AlternateLook · 26/05/2026 11:42

The thing about Nicola Sturgeon is that she's more unpopular in Scotland than Margaret Thatcher ever was.

MurkyMo · 26/05/2026 11:47

EasternStandard · 26/05/2026 10:14

Not normal washing bowls surely, but designer ones Lalique inspired

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Actually they were Addis so surprisingly practical!

Newname26 · 26/05/2026 11:48

Differentforgirls · 26/05/2026 11:32

Nothing as she was talked to by Police Scotland and let go.

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I agree nothing will be done.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 26/05/2026 11:52

Imdunfer · 25/05/2026 21:05

Oh, and she was leader of the party he stole it from while he was stealing it!

And people were raising their concerns about the party's financing with her too.

Frankly, if she didn't know what was going on (which I don't believe for a second) she shouldn't have been running a market stall, never mind a whole country.

Either she knew what was going on, and therefore shouldn't have been running the party or the country, or she was too stupid to realise what was happening under her nose, and therefore shouldn't have been running the country.

Basically, I think Peter Murrell has thrown himself on his sword to save the Blessed Saint Nichola.

Differentforgirls · 26/05/2026 11:55

Newname26 · 26/05/2026 11:48

I agree nothing will be done.

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Nothing needs to be done.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 26/05/2026 11:57

NiftyGreenBiscuit · 25/05/2026 22:45

I believe she didn’t know. She is certainly not the first woman to have the wool pulled over her eyes by a man.

Aye - but she's the only one who was running the country, @NiftyGreenBiscuit. I think we are entitled to expect our country's leaders to notice when massive financial embezzlement is going on right under their noses, and people are raising concerns with her about said finances!

PerkingFaintly · 26/05/2026 11:58

Oblahdeeoblahdoe · 26/05/2026 11:30

All Tories, unless you think they're lefties 😁 Not got onto Reform yet

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Nadhim Zahawi is Reform now.

Farage was delighted to welcome him – he fits right in!

NiftyGreenBiscuit · 26/05/2026 12:05

UncannyFanny · 26/05/2026 11:13

Come on. Let’s stop man-blaming. It just isn’t feasible to have that many brand new vehicles and not once wonder where the money was coming from. She’s not that dumb to have never once wondered how they were affording all those luxuries.

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Are you a man?!

And why not man blame. They deserve it.

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