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

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Follow on from previous thread.

She signed the accounts off as a true record of the party’s financial position.

I work in financial services and so many regulatory returns that I make have to be signed off by a director. A director of a financial services institution has nothing to do with these returns’ production. They don’t know what they relate to. They know they have to put their name to them and that’s a serious business so I get ENDLESS questions from them about where the backing numbers come from, what systems are used to produce them, who gave 4 eyes review to the numbers, blah, blah, blah, but you have to respect that because that’s a person taking their responsibility SERIOUSLY. They are verifying what they are putting their name to.

NS seems to have not taken it seriously at all, then when questioned by those who said that there seems to have been an error was hostile in the extreme. Thats an appalling way to act.

Of course it's not misogynistic when no holds barred nicknames apply to male MPs. If you're arguing that then you're justifying misandristic conduct. You can't have it both ways.

I find it really odd she has not divorced.

I wonder what Murrell’s sentence will be? He pleaded guilty, but there will have to be a public sentencing hearing where he will argue for the lightest possible sentence. I wonder what on earth those arguments will be?

They are likely to support Sturgeons account, perhaps? Or not? He will get his own legal advice about what will keep him out of prison.

This story is not over. The sentencing will add further fuel to it.

Rishi Sunak got quite a lot of stick over his wife’s spurious non-dom status, as I remember.

Cannot edit but have seen the Metro headline now. NS claimed it was "out of sight", parked behind her in-laws property.

IIRC there was plenty of hatred/loathing directed at Boris.

This is absolutely brilliant!

John Crace at his finest

Agree with all of this. Someone like her would never in a million years risk everything she’d worked for to go along with his thieving to buy such ludicrous items.

Her explanations in the interview about not noticing on a personal level are believable. You have to have not watched the interview or just be blinded by hatred for her not to see that.

Professionally too I can easily believe that she didn’t notice the specific amounts going missing - that level of attention would be way below her pay grade.

All the same, she was the head of the organisation where this happened. In the normal order of things someone at her level would accept accountability for a scandal of this magnitude. That’s part of what comes with a senior salary - a senior level of accountability. She is dodging that on the grounds she was wronged too, but it does look quite bad from the outside.

Awful isn't it?

You should listen to the interview and really think about the actual reality of the situation.

I wouldn’t even notice a motorhome parked next to my elderly mum in law’s house (not in the drive, as reported). It’s just not something I would even take an interest in. If I did notice it I would never think a) it belonged to my MIL, or even less likely my own husband b) it cost so much. At most I might think oh the neighbours have a new camper van. But realistically I wouldn’t even think that.

Can you honestly say you would immediately know your husband had been embezzling?

I think the arguments will be around mental health and that he had some kind of compulsion driving his behaviour. To be honest, much as I think the whole thing shows the SNP in an extremely poor light including, obviously, Murrell himself, I do think it must be true that his behaviour, at least towards the end, was symptomatic of a mental health problem as it was just so extremely irrational. There's plenty to suggest dishonesty on his part going back way beyond this so whether he started out as a greedy, entitled so-and-so and eventually couldn't really control it or whether it was always there as an issue and just escalated over the years, who knows? Absolutely not to let him off the hook but I think his behaviour is so extreme that it is reasonable to think there are significant mental health issues there.

When did she join the SPS?

Point blank refused to acknowledge Bryson as a male when questioned, don't excuse this.

You made the suggestion 🤷‍♀️

Yes, that must have been why Joanna Cherry was never out of the papers publicly undermining the party and didn't leave even she she was voted out by her constituents.

She wasn't ousted.

Like who?

Kate Forbes. I loathe everything about the SNP so was delighted when one of the very few remaining credible, intelligent SNP politicians decided to leave.

Withdraw from public life because her husband committed a crime? Wow. 😱

How many people live in England? It's astonishing that you know most of them. How do you juggle them all?

She has knowingly left herself wide open to accusations of impropriety by her actions. She has had access to the best legal advice and consultancy available in Scotland and was advised that this was a possible outcome.

Her actions are not those of a person trying really hard to get things right.

So I’d say it’s perfectly reasonable to examine why she didn’t.

I'm not annoyed with her because she's a woman. I'm angry at her because she's denying everything despite knowing that nobody believes her.

How do you know which Scots mainly vote for her?

Aw give her a break .I may well not notice and extra couple of hundred thousands stuck down the back of our sofa either if my DP decides to be a crook. I’m also a very busy woman.

In what way?