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

These people are 'forensic' and 'all over the detail' until it suits them not to be. Like Starmer with Mandelson's clearance. They're either incompetent or dishonest.

There is no way that NS would not be making political ground out of this if it was one of her political opponents. She would be sure to take every opportunity to highlight the stupidity, naivety or dishonesty of her opponent.

I suspect Murrell was persuaded to plead “guilty” to avoid more about what NS knew or didn’t know being revealed.

At least with the Mandelson clearance there was a tactical motive (appoint somebody on Trump's wave length) however ill judged it turned out to be.

In contrast, from what they say, the SNP just didn't bother to check what had happened to their only motor vehicle, the £125K camper van that had apparently gone missing. They just kept signing the accounts each year.

Isn't there supposed to be a ferry in dry dock? Has anyone checked that it is there?

The most surprising thing about all of this is that Nicola Sturgeon is playing this SO badly. Think what you like about her and her politics (and I am not a fan) but she usually has her finger on the pulse and has built her career on being a competent politician. Lots of people (again not me) thought she did a great job in Covid and was a steady pair of hands. So it's a real surprise that she has got the tone of her response to this so badly wrong.

I suspect he was persuaded to admit his guilt because he has more skeletons (big pants) in his closet than she does.

Yes, massive train wreck, and all their top team want to do is get back to shouting about Independence like some sort of cult, it is the only thing they care about.

They had nightclubs open while still asking people to report symptoms to the NHS, sounds like they were just as lost as everyone else and going for the "herd immunity" gamble by letting young people mingle? She can stand up and talk crap for two hours, everyone at her political level needs to be able to do that, but there is very little substance there, it seems to have all been lies and deception.

Not really, she fumbled the gender stuff as well, that basically ended her political career.

As someone living in England, I had a lot of time for Sturgeon, particularly during Covid compared to the arseholery of Johnson. The Isla Bryson case really made me, and others, question her ability. Now, I just find it very hard to believe that she knew nothing at all - at best, she had suspicions but put her fingers in her ears and dug her heels in.

LOOK THE SCODDISH PEOPLE LOVE ME

Aye, all the ones who can fit in the luxury motor home that wears the cloak of invisibility.

Looks like Sturgeon has pulled out of an Edinburgh book event because her name is not now on the promotion materials. Could she be keeping a low profile for once. ? She was going to interview author Kirsty Lockwood whose novel is entitled We Know What You Did. !!!!

Do you believe NS was sitting at home with her mask on, knitting, in her Lego house all the way through Covid?

The funniest aspect of all this is that she can"t even blame the Tories.

Erm, no.

I bet the headline writers are mightily cheesed off about this!

OH AYE WHIT ABOOT MICHELLE MOANE?

We used to hear the whole time how lucky we were and other UK areas wished they had NS in charge during COVID.
She was a very eloquent orator who portrayed an imagine of calmly leading us successfully through Covid.

The reality was Scotland faired no better than the rest of the UK, and in fact probably worse if you account for the demographics . Our lack of population density beyond Edinburgh and Glasgow SHOULD have stood us in much better stead but it didn’t.
She kept schools closed for longer and NHS on emergencies only footing for longer.

It was just the contrast in the image BJ portrayed compared to NS but the underlying results for the country were no different and people in Scotland weren’t fooled

All about perception - as you say, she came across as calm and measured while Bozo thumped tables and ate cake.

How can I best express this?

Even when A wis in the SNP, the Scottish mammy schtick geen mi the dry boak.

It was a new low when she played the ‘poor woman’ card. ‘I am not the first woman to be betrayed’ or some such drivel. Come on Nicola, you were First Minister, meeting the great and the good and making life changing decisions. But now you’re poor, deceived, weak ‘woman folk’. That demeans you and all of us women who see ourselves as equal to men and equally able to manage our finances, challenge our partners and work at a senior level. You’re just spinning a narrative that you should be excused because those nasty men did it to you. Bah.

Key word here is virtually, lowly Terence of Buckinghamshire.

Those hairs will be voluminous yet hold their shape in the hot weather, thanks to the Dyson.

Those dashing good looks take maintenance, people. Can't blame a man for that.

And it is obvious he'd need a spare for travel.

I do not see Nicola as an orator. She is good at telling you off! A natural finger wagger during COVID. No fan of Johnson but he has a way with words.

Anyway she has fallen off her high horse; something she clearly doesn’t like

I can't believe she's playing the 'misogyny' card - complaining that there have been more bad headlines about her than the criminal husband

She was the First Minister of Scotland and leader of her party, she surely has to expect scrutiny as to how she didn't know anything about the party finances over the many years; in addition she was married to and living with the man who embezzled £400,000

Proclaiming your innocence is one thing, but being critical of the public and press scrutiny is very arrogant in this attempt to deflect any blame

I think I have just translated this!