SNP shenanigans continued…

[TheBelmont]

A follow on to…
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/scotsnet/4778465-sturgeons-husband-arrested

Thought I’d get a new thread going as we are perilously close to filling the last and I for one am enjoying watching events unfold in your good company!

buckle up…it’s gonna be a bumpy ride….😁

half listening on BBC - seems like Humza is getting slung under the bus. Interesting discussion about the Gold Command meetings and why they were not minuted but of course decisions were made by the whole cabinet

"Responding to questions about the group, Nicola Sturgeon said she was not “particularly conscious” of WhatsApp groups where officials were exchanging information."

It's a variation on the "I don't recall" theme.

Was she too busy thumbing through motorhome catalogues to be particularly conscious of important WhatsApp information exchanges between officials? Or could she just not be arsed?

“particularly conscious”

Nice spin- lols at not being ‘particularly conscious’ when you’re supposed to be leading through a crisis with no precedent. My blood boils for all the people impacted by decisions made by these clowns in their chitty chatty sub groups.

cougher needs to switch their effing microphone off

Suspicious people might think that the coughs are deliberately loud?

The fake watery eyes and trembling lip when she says she wished she hadn't been FM during the pandemic.

What a load of ABSOLUTE BOLLOCKS. She loved every single minute of it, her daily sermon on the telly, the nauseating Janey Godley voiceovers, the chance to get one over on Boris.

What an odious, lying, disgrace of a woman.

Not just the school children. I live down south but through the pandemic I was worried sick about how isolated my df was due to the draconian restrictions about socialising. As he was in our 'bubble' we regularly invited him to stay with us but he resisted as he'd swallowed the SNP propaganda about how bad it was 'down south'.
When I read about the exchange between NS and her advisor, essentially making up the numbers who could attend funerals etc, I was appalled. My aunt died during the pandemic and I couldn't go to support my cousin and my df because of restrictions on numbers but NS thought this was a game with Westminster.

I ‘went’ to a funeral in the pandemic though only stood outside to see the hearse arrive. The undertaker/crematorium staff were quite willing to go over numbers, but as a more distant friend I didn’t want to put the family in an awkward position. Sadly not all funeral locations were so willing to turn a blind eye and instead stuck firmly to a number that was, as we now know, pulled out of thin air.

"It was never my intention to irritate anyone, says Sturgeon"

on BBC website. Think we can all definitely agree that's a big fat fail on that one.

So they said it was okay to go to Spain just so they'd get Spanish support for independence, but covid decisions absolutely were not political?

she says she wished she hadn't been FM during the pandemic

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I know - I can’t believe she said that with a straight face 😂

https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-reddest-flag-in-history/?fbclid=IwAR27dWL410FZogUkOwWgWkHSFMYzo2H2dXgbLEEIhSd6xpPRKNWd3Tdem2Q

Nothing to see here. Just a burner phone...

You've made me laugh out loud with that response. Thanks! Watching NS lie and twist things this afternoon had really put me in a bad mood.

I used to think Kate was out of her depth till finding out key information was kept from her in order to make her look incomptemp. Sneaky underhand behaviour ala sturgeon.

Kate didn’t stand a chance in the leadership contest, did she - Sturgeon and her cabal had already decided that Yousless was taking over to ensure the SNP would continue to operate exactly as Sturgeon wanted.

Incompetent.. I would lay money that sturgeon is still a puppeteer in the background.

Oh absolutely - she is still very much at the helm.

Well, the media seem to have lapped up her ‘tearful’ performance and ignored her admittance of being wrong, lying, and causing untold harms to adults and children in Scotland.

Wonder if the police pulled over the car for its lack of MOT, or was it a police vehicle she arrived in? If so, why?

She's one of the worst offenders for playing the sympathy card imo. I'm sorry but she chose to be a leader. Yes she was unlucky to have a pandemic on her watch but there's often something unlucky that crops up; natural disasters, wars, Trump.

The smartest thing to do is to accept when you are out of your depth and get someone better in to take over. The problem is that she thought she was the best and tbh, her practice of not developing or getting the right people in the first place meant that there was no-one half competent within the SNP either. They would have basically had to outsource the role to someone else.

Alister Jack: I think Sturgeon could cry out of one eye if she tried.

😅

Good on him, I say.
I also think his Whatsapp deletion story is more believeable, even if its obviously not good that they were deleted.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/33bef8dd-89b2-4cb0-b34f-65f0e02daf99?shareToken=5752562a240baf98d5d5c9961d30e085

Yet another example (if one were needed) of poorly drafted legislation, lacking detail and not properly scrutinised. Also an example of really not thinking through the consequences .!