BREAKING NEWS! Peter Murrell in custody for questioning re. funding of SNP

[Tillytrotter67]

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/10472558/nicola-sturgeons-husband-arrested-peter-murrell/

Have to say that I'm enjoying this immensely.

I hoped Sturgeon would get her comeuppance one day but could not have imagined anything like the spectacle of the forensic tent and the £110k camper being towed away.

I can't imagine Murrell will actually be found guilty of anything but surely the reputational damage will have put paid to the cushy UN career Sturgeon had planned?

In June 2021 Peter Murrell made a loan of £107,620 to the SNP - an oddly specific amount - that was not properly declared in the allotted time of 30 days. It was eventually declared in August 2022.

Just sayin'. Nothing to do obviously with the delivery of a wee camper in January 2021 worth somewhere in the region of £110,000.

https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/peter-murrells-murky-loan-snp-29153509

Now things are emerging it all seems so incredibly clumsy.

The police swabbed the camper thwn they might find a lot of DNA. It’s a swinger thing, campers, isn’t it?

@stealtheatingtunnocks " It’s a swinger thing, ?"
Fandabidozy! lol

" Is a huge campervan the sort of learner vehicle NA might be having lessons in? Or is her 92 year old mother in law a keen camper? "

Is this her?

@Rainbowshit " Oh I loved those sweets from the chemist too! Gutted they don't make them any more. floral cachous I think? "

Awww, that's a pity, I didn't know they stopped selling them. I have no idea why you could only get those in chemists though, I was too young to notice if they had any actual health benefit such as added vitamins but they tasted very nice.

I have failed to find floral cachous in the UK, but here's two pages of floral-ish sweets for you.
https://www.treasureislandsweets.co.uk/floral/page/1/

The mail reports the camper van brand catchphrase is "Breaking all the rules" and

'Goodbye rules, hello freedom,' its brochure states.

Be ironic if freedom was curtailed in someway.

Neighbours report that the van has never been used, not once leaving the driveway since delivery.

I have just searched for auctions of seized vehicles. I may need to bookmark the odd site.

We could do with a camper van - tent camping sucks when you get older.

that article is pretty funny in so many ways. Descriptions of the wheelie bins. The landlord of the local pub moaning they never come in. Margaret vaping outside Morrisons talking about Peter picking up
his messages.

Goodness, this is a story that just keeps on giving, isn't it!

I already have a campervan. Not a £100k one though. And I can emphatically state that there is absolutely no swinging involved!

I agree that the campervan is a hilarious addition to this story.

The mail article is also full of hilarious details. It’s abundantly clear that the residents of that estate in Dunfermline were very keen to give the reporter all the details. Right down to exactly where the police cars were parked.

I get the feeling they’ve been muttering about the massive campervan that’s never moved off the drive since about February 2021.

OMG. I was just having another quick scroll through looking for the brand name of the camper van and for a brief moment thought the police had muddered the van whilst loading.

What advertisement placement!

I imagined it bigger than that. You don’t get a huge amount for £110k do you? Considering that, like cars, it will start depreciating immediately.

Quality Save!

And you are right, they’ve been absent for a while. The last bag I bought was all shrivelled and dry and then nothing for ages. Was a bit trepidatious when I saw they were back in stock in case they were rank again but no need, they were fine.

Small print on the bag says they were made by Tangerine Confectionary in Pontefract and wiki says the parent company has a few factories up north - might be harder to find if you are a southerner?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeo_Confectionery

The bag calls them ‘Jelly Buttons clear jelly coated in non pariels’

Now i’m curious about what non non pariels (aka pariels) might be…

Bad luck on MIL’s new caravan, Nic!

I love this:

which locals say was originally delivered to the address by two men, in January 2021 - on Wednesday at around 9am

i love the amount of detail about the police cars - graphite grey (not just grey) and the marked car parked a little way up
the road.

You really get a sense of what it’s like to live on that estate. Those neighbours are definitely monitoring how often you wash your windows.

All this murky financial stuff does leave one wondering if Self ID policies had been imposed on NIc by either a big party donor or a secret blackmailer. There is no way a high up female politician is unaware of how her sex makes life different for her than her male counterparts.

Theresa May thought it would be an easy win that made her look ‘with it’ but kicked it into the long grass on realisation she was wrong (with Boris then burying it in the back garden).

It’s like finding out that Scotland was being run by Kat & Alfie & Nana Moon.

Masterminded from the back of a fancy caravan that never left Nana’s drive

https://www.niesmann-bischoff.com/en/ismove/

That made me laugh too. 😂

I can imagine my OH talking to a reporter and being totally into it. He’d start off all Stanley Baxter and descend into Rab C Nesbit by the denouement.

‘Well I take my youngest granddaughter to school on a Wednesday, and I recall I was just strolling back from that, and the bell goes at 8.50 and it’s only ten minutes away and I never stand talking at the gate so I’d have come round that corner at 9am and there it fuckin’ was, that massive fuckin’ monstrosity that hasnae shifted off the drive fae two fuckin’ years … and another thing aboot them Murrells, aye …’

The vape line killed me!

The writer was not taking the assignment seriously at all!

You don’t get a huge amount for £110k do you? Considering that, like cars, it will start depreciating immediately.

I will admit i read the first part of this and my brain went probably about 2 years, out early for good behaviour.

Not in the least.

Unless the assignment was to make the whole debacle sound as petty, provincial and crap as possible. Which it may well have been.

clouds of bubblegum vape paints quite a picture of Morrisons Uddingston.