Honestly though, when you’re arrested and held in custody for questioning and the police get the shovels out to dig up your back garden and worse are seem to be bagging stuff up and taking away the stuff they found buried in your back garden, it’s highly unlikely to go well for you
and due to the level of public interest in this, and the profile of rhe folks involved, then the hurdle to jump to undertake that operation Today and get what would have been very senior sign off, would have been very very high indeed. Much higher than what would be required for any of us.
that operation wasn’t done lightly. No local sergeant signed that off. That was approved at the very top and folks like the home secretory and prime minister would have fully known in advance and why. The new snp leader might not of known but you can bet good money sunak and braverman did. And a whole host of civil servants in Westminster.
sturgeons spokespersons statement is also very very clever. Ever a politician, she said she had no prior knowledge of the police actions or intentions to arrest him. That would be factually correct. It doesn’t mean she didn’t know about the case, and know it was now going to progress or that it was very likely, in fact almost guaranteed to get to this stage . The statement plays semantics. All she’s basically said is. I didn’t know they were planning to arrest him today when I resigned.
there is much more going on behind the scenes here than is being told to the public. Much more.