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Peter Murrell has resigned with immediate effect

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 18/03/2023 12:09

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65000606

Good. It's all unravelling.

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Timeforchangeithink · 18/03/2023 12:10

Oooooooh it's getting good now!!

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 18/03/2023 12:11

Resignation letter.

Peter Murrell has resigned with immediate effect
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NowThatsWhatICall22 · 18/03/2023 12:11

Will Martin Compston play Murrell in the movie?

SirChenjins · 18/03/2023 12:12

Hoo-bloody-ray - about time too. The murky house of cards is collapsing.

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 18/03/2023 12:13

I had just seen a tweet a few minutes earlier that said he'd been told to resign or face a vote of no confidence. Not sure who had said that.

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Rainbowshit · 18/03/2023 12:14

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 18/03/2023 12:13

I had just seen a tweet a few minutes earlier that said he'd been told to resign or face a vote of no confidence. Not sure who had said that.

It was in the herald.

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 18/03/2023 12:15

Yes, just found it. www.heraldscotland.com/politics/23395674.snp-nec-has-numbers-vote-no-confidence-peter-murrell/?ref=twtrec

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justasking111 · 18/03/2023 12:16

As a Welsh voter I'm just so jealous. Good luck to you all.

NowThatsWhatICall22 · 18/03/2023 12:17

Inevitable. This is all crashing down now (and Humza will be even more of a rabbit in headlights now he’s out in the big, bad Nat world by himself without his SNP mammy and daddy😆)

Rainbowshit · 18/03/2023 12:20

🍿

Runningslow · 18/03/2023 12:20

Thank goodness.

XDownwiththissortofthingX · 18/03/2023 12:21

At long last.

What a ridiculous situation to begin with. How he couldn't see that it was totally inappropriate to continue as Chair of the party once NS became leader I have no idea. Incredible it's taken a threat of a NC vote by the NEC to get him to go, but it's welcome news nonetheless.

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Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 18/03/2023 12:23

That Herald article is an eye opener. The blatant lying! How did they think they would get away with this?

Murray Foote, the former editor of the Daily Record who joined the SNP operation three years ago, said he was resigning after being let down by party HQ while “acting in good faith”.

Last month, he issued “agreed party responses” to the media trashing a newspaper report that the party had suffered a loss of 30,000 members.

This week, the party admitted its membership was indeed more than 30,000 below its previously published figure.

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RaraRachael · 18/03/2023 12:25

Good I hope the whole party comes crashing down around their ears. How they thought they could brazen out the ferries fiasco, the membership fiasco and numerous other skeletons in the cupboards I've no idea.

Hooklander · 18/03/2023 12:32

It's the money really though, isn't it? Those accounts look hinky even without the missing £600k.

Rainbowshit · 18/03/2023 12:33

RaraRachael · 18/03/2023 12:25

Good I hope the whole party comes crashing down around their ears. How they thought they could brazen out the ferries fiasco, the membership fiasco and numerous other skeletons in the cupboards I've no idea.

But still the nat faithful will vote for them because Indy. I'm just so fed up of the constitution divide allowing such corrupt incompetents to run Scotland into the ground.

Crunchygrass · 18/03/2023 12:50

This is very good for the SNP

RaraRachael · 18/03/2023 12:51

Yes ai have friends who will still vote for them regardless of what is unearthed because "We need to stop being ruled by ths villains at Westminster".
Hmm. Wasn't there a big handout from Westminster just this week.....

XDownwiththissortofthingX · 18/03/2023 12:58

Rainbowshit · 18/03/2023 12:33

But still the nat faithful will vote for them because Indy. I'm just so fed up of the constitution divide allowing such corrupt incompetents to run Scotland into the ground.

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Which of the various other corrupt incompetents would you prefer instead?

SirChenjins · 18/03/2023 13:04

XDownwiththissortofthingX · 18/03/2023 12:58

Which of the various other corrupt incompetents would you prefer instead?

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Why should we accept incompetents? We’ve had years of that, it’s time for change.

WeCome1 · 18/03/2023 13:16

Rainbowshit · 18/03/2023 12:33

But still the nat faithful will vote for them because Indy. I'm just so fed up of the constitution divide allowing such corrupt incompetents to run Scotland into the ground.

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There are many undecideds though. I was impressed by NS and how she managed covid compared to BJ. I might have voted for her, but I definitely have no faith in any of these candidates.

ThisIsUncool · 18/03/2023 13:33

how she managed covid compared to BJ

Well, that wouldn't have been difficult.

I'm Scottish, have family there, but have been in England for a long time.

From a distance, NS looked very capable and competent, especially compared to the various tory PMs. But as I understand it, schools and hospitals have both suffered badly under SNP control.

TeaAndStrumpets · 18/03/2023 13:52

Interesting that Ash Regan was the only one of the three candidates quoted not to bow and scrape about Murrell's years of service. It was more of a "don't let the door hit your arse on the way out" comment. She is possibly too honest to be a politician!

Rainbowshit · 18/03/2023 13:55

There are many undecideds though. I was impressed by NS and how she managed covid compared to BJ. I might have voted for her, but I definitely have no faith in any of these candidates.

So you fell for this spin rather than looking at the actual outcomes?

MarshaMelrose · 18/03/2023 14:00

I live in England and, even though services were clearly failing under her party, she did always look competent and in control, with a full oversight over what was happening within her party. But for me, that all started to fall apart with the Alex Salmond Court case. It became clear that she was either complicit in things or that she had no idea what was going on in the party, even with her own husband. The leadership campaign seems to have released the lid on the divisions and problems,within the party. It seems clear why she went, and Peter Murrell should have gone before her. It's a salutory tale that when the leader and the CEO are too close, cover ups, or the allegation of them, become more likely.