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

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

Also

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/a5cf1aae-d7b4-11ed-89ad-19e3cfc05db4?shareToken=34ded68932e0bef3d0dc9a00a6393c3d

It would be very funny if he insists on taking this to court, loses, and has to resign. I wonder if losing two first ministers to the gender woo cult would be enough to make the SNP change direction?

TheBewilderness who wrote the Rules of misogyny, once said it would be like the Tower of Babel.

extract:

“Yousaf’s best hope is that expectations are now so low that drab hopelessness will seem like a comparative triumph. Again, it is important to note that this is not merely a view held by unhelpful newspaper columnists but one broadly shared by some of Yousaf’s colleagues.”

Ouch.

Such a job would be taken by a man, a female man or something something girlie penis.

The problem with letting the GRR just quietly die from lack of watering is the greens. Does anyone believe that those opportunistic nightmares aren’t holding the prospect of minority government over the extremely weak SNP leadership?

Any dependence of the greens is a big problem. And it’s not like anyone else is going to be willing to work with the SNP.

But if the Greens force the SNP to barge ahead with GRR, the SNP will have the public to contend with, and the public doesn't seem overly impressed, to say the least.

Talk about a rock and a hard place.

It does seem that this is a good lesson on how not to go about being in coalition.

Unless of course there's a big job that needs her urgently!! Doesn't the UN have a "SheForHe" campaign? That'd suit perfectly.

Wasn't it previously "HeForShe" ? Or did I miss the joke by a wide mark?

The problem with letting the GRR just quietly die from lack of watering is the greens.

That sounds wonderfully and organically deep, it's a marvellous sentence and image.

There isn't really a graceful way out at this point. Whether the rahhh Scotland forever and we have a right to oppress our women, harm our women and children and break British law if we want to, or breaking the loony left alliances they are now dependent on because few others are going to vote for them. Like Brexit: this is an unholy mess that arose through arrogance and sheer stupidity, and should never have been allowed to happen in this way. And now it has, there is no way to clean it up.

Like Brexit: this is an unholy mess that arose through arrogance and sheer stupidity, and should never have been allowed to happen in this way. And now it has, there is no way to clean it up.

Depressingly accurate.

Sorry Sir. It's probably time to plan to get everyone drunk in Sator Square with that stuff made of apples.

Well. Mostly apples.

The Greens being on Nanny Ogg's Scumble would explain many things...

I'll have to dig out my Discworld recipe book to make some Banananana Surprise soon.

Yes. Very much so.

The whole thing has actually exposed a set of long-standing leadership problems in the SNP. The debacle is a long time in the making. Nicola hid it behind a forceful personality, with the aid of clicky pens and a Westminster government of incredible ineptitude.

Maybe the SNP think it’s going to be like the ending to the cat in the hat. Mother is on her way home and there’s no way to clean up the mess (it’s ‘do deep and so tall’). But the cat isn’t going to swoop in with a fancy tidying up machine and make things better. Very much not. They’re going to have to answer for the bent rake and the toy ship in the squashed cake.

Humza has just revealed that the SNP hid the resignation of their auditors during a police investigation for 6 months.

Yes, I've just read that. The auditors resigned last October.

I like to think they moved down to London where they stumbled across a bunch of tras protesting outside a meeting of a bunch of lesbians. It'd have a nice symmetry.

The auditors story from STV https://news.stv.tv/politics/snp-auditors-quit-six-months-ago-and-first-minister-humza-yousaf-did-not-know-until-becoming-party-leader

I like this bit:
“When I learned about the fact that we don’t have an auditor in place of course I instructed the party to get on with finding another auditor.
“So we are working very hard to do that.”

I wonder if they're ringing round accounting firms who are all replying "We are unusually busy at the moment so unfortunately cannot take on any more work".

I'll have to dig out my Discworld recipe book to make some Banananana Surprise soon.

Or maybe some Carrot and Oyster Pie*?

(*Carrot so you can see in the dark and oysters so you've got something to look at)

I wonder if they're ringing round accounting firms who are all replying "We are unusually busy at the moment so unfortunately cannot take on any more work".

😂😂😂

If the auditors quit 6 months ago the question is why didn't Stergon and co not get another firm in then

@FannyCann: Wasn't it previously "HeForShe" ? Or did I miss the joke by a wide mark? It was/is HeForShe, but I feel that Nicola is so evolved that she would want to support the oppressed minority (men).

Greens could be a wild card, but I also think they are where they want to be now (junior coalition partner, well positioned to pick up some members/votes/seats if the SNP get too TERFy). They won't throw that away to take a theoretical stand if they can help it. The SNP ran a minority government from 2016-2021 with fewer seats than they have now, and got ad hoc support from other parties - for example, from Labour on measures that the Greens considered environmentally unsound like lowering Air Passenger Duty and passing a budget, and from the Lib Dems on anything "EUropean". They do need the Greens for independence-related votes, though, as none of the 3 UK parties will back those. They (SNP) are only one seat away from a majority; if they get lucky they could have it with a single by-election - although they seem to be moving in the opposite direction at the moment.

I do think people are too harsh on Humza. He's a terrible politician, but surely people don't think he's ... drab???

I think the obvious answer is probably the correct one - they didn't want anyone looking at the finances. For ... reasons...

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/snp-motorhome-seized-police-holyrood-29686185?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar
It just keeps coming 🤣

As if anyone would believe that

Yes M’Lord we spent £99,000.00 of Party funds on a motor home which only 2 people can fit into, rather than hiring an actual tour bus which is what every other political party use. 😂😂😂

And it sat on MIL’s drive for two years, without so much as being used as a mobile tea break room for SNP leafleters.

I believe it has 6 seats at a push - the two front seats, which rotate, plus two banquettes, and you could just about squeeze two people on each of those.

I had a quick look at campaign buses for hire, and even in the luxury fleet the minimum number of seats is 10 in a minibus and 22 in a coach.

So, yeah, riiiiight.