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

Sorry, I didn’t explain what I meant well.

I’m wondering if the “fake receipts” mentioned are because for some items instead of, for example,
“£350 for games console” they say “£350 for mileage, y hotel and expenses for meeting with potential donor”

So what looks like a genuine amount of money for an acceptable reason is given the ok, but the actual purchase shouldn’t be ok. I think that could especially happen if people simply stopped looking at his SNP card statement and just accepted that his expected bill from his receipts (fake and real) was £x and the card statement matched so it was ticked off.

They correctly identified there was something wrong precisely because they weren’t allowed to see them

I don’t know why anyone thinks that poster is funny. Are you all not Scottish?

Precisely. And the idea that the people sitting on these sorts of committees know nothing is absolute nonsense. My work audit committee is made up of an accountant, two lawyers (one specialising in risk), and a senior HR specialist. Lots of much smaller charities I know and work with have a similar make up on their finance, audit and / or risk committees. Qualified people are often very happy to use their skills and expertise to support causes they believe in.

So by telepathy then?

That would be my assumption. You couldn’t have gone, and not seen it. I suppose she could have been told it was a neighbour’s and they’d asked to park it there. The on street parking is awkward in that estate. But she would have seen it, nonetheless.

I saw another poster on twitter saying they’d seen Sturgeon in the Asda at Halbeath a couple of times (very nearby) buying stuff for dinner; assuming that she was taking it to her MILs. They could be making it up, but it’s plausible.

I think at least some fraction of voters would be thinking on who was likely to be in charge after the vote and whether they trusted them to do a good job or not.

Is Joanna Cherry an accountant on the side?

Blimey, Nic's busy on here this afternoon 😁

There have been some developments since then though.

Exactly. There's something badly wrong if the audit committee knows nothing about finance. They're not the professional auitors, but they should be people with skills/experience/qualifications to ask the right questions. Which tbf they did.

But you said “vote for them at a referendum” which has never happened. You don’t vote for a party at a referendum. I don’t know any other way to put it. You vote on a single issue.

Like what?

Give over. Refusing to hand the accounts over to the finance and audit committee (and the new treasurer at one point) is obvious suspicious.

You don’t need telepathy to work that out.

The behaviour around the accounts was dodgy. Members of the committee flagged that and walked away. They were indeed proven correct that something wasn’t right.

Nicola Sturgeon is a liar 🤥

As it turns out Frank Ross, one of those who quit, is indeed an accountant. Joanna Cherry has a legal background, which makes sense on a committee like that.

No there weren’t… England, Wales then Scotland.

Why? Was Peter unarrested during the campaign?

Looking it up Wales had highest covid 19 deaths per 100k and Scotland had highest excess deaths.

I don’t need telepathy. The members who walked away, walked away to Alba. Except for JC who clung on like a limpet.

Think Frank is still in the SNP.

No it doesn’t.

Frank Ross, the accountant, didn’t join alba.

It absolutely does.

I mean, it doesn’t suit your stance that they were all just randoms with no skills that one was an accountant and one a strong legal background, but it makes sense to everyone else

So your statement that they all quit to join alba was bollocks then…