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

Cracking me up now!

It would be interesting to know, although I doubt we ever will in detail, what were the fake receipts and what were just bought with snp funds and assumed ok.

Like does the invoice for the car just say “car for P Murrell” or is it that fake invoice/invoices for seemingly legit expenses were processed for the X amount for the car.

But...but....but...she really cares about Scotland!

Cares about lining her own pocket more like.

THANK YOU

Yes - I don't imagine he was doing the day to day bookkeeping himself, so what was being processed?

God knows but surely the invoice would be from
Motorhomes R US,
I xyz motorhome,
Purchaser SNP

But then its been registered to him personally rather than to SNP.

THEY SAID THEY NEEDED TAE SEE A DIAGRAM

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

I'm going to disagree on this one - he remained a silk and resumed his private practice after stopping being the AG - whether or not you agree with it that is allowed under the parliamentary rules. He was allowed to continue to vote by proxy - again whether that should be allowed or not it wasn't against the rules. He was in the BVI in his role as a barrister not because he was trying to avoid tax and he put the hours in - it wasn't money for free or embezzelment. I may not agree that MPs should be allowed to continue with their lucrative sidelines whilst sitting in the house but doing so is not corruption.

To be fair if your MIL didn't want a bloody great campervan clogging up her drive then she should've just installed one of the MN exclusive penguin bollards. That nobody ever seems to own outside of MN land.

It"s not exactly Goodfellas is it? 400k nicked over 12 or so years isn"t that much money either, what was the point, their combined income would have been about 350 - 400k a year with probably a lot of food, travel and accommodation picked up by the party or the tax-payer, that is a nice little cash cushion, so WTF was the point of a top end camper van suitable for driving across Australia parked up on a drive in Dunfermline bought with nicked money? And as I said earlier people on 400k household income don"t live on a new-build estate on the outskirts of Glasgow, that so obvious sham makes me more angry than the stolen money (which I don"t really care much about, much larger sums have been pilfered by people in positions of trust at pension funds, corporates etc.)

REALFEMINIST you are cracking me up

I find it hilarious that someone on MN (whether on this thread or one of the others on this topic) has suggested that NS wouldn't know about it because the campervan was parked in a different city.

For a start, Scotland isn't that big and a trip to the MIL's wouldn't be as onerous as driving up to the Highlands. Secondly, whilst Dunfermline is a city in name, it's honestly not that big. What constitutes a city in Fife would just be a medium-sized town anywhere else.

Maybe we should crowdfund some penguin bollards for him to protect his prison bunk?

I'm sure he'll be just fine.

Ah, the Daily Express 🤣

My parents live in the next street to The Campervan. It never moved. It became a point of discussion for us on the regular, as my folks also have a campervan (older than the SNP one!)
You rarely saw the MIL either. My folks wouldn’t be much younger than her, either. Very occasionally you knew either Murrell or Sturgeon were visiting, because of the additional police presence, but it was rare.

They did. For the election in May. They exceeded their target.

If only you’d remembered to tell Pete to CANCEL THE CHEQUE.

Also, you don’t vote for a party during a referendum, you vote on an issue. Like Brexit.

So do you think she saw the camper van?

Aye caused that worked well for much of the prison population.

They correctly identified there was something wrong with the accounts that they said they didn’t see? How does that work?

They did make it public though.

The police don’t make criminal prosecutions.