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/

so, so many questions

how has this come as a surprise? do they not regularly review their spending against budget?

presumably when they laid out their budget it must have been accompanied with a list of deliverables that would be achieved with the money. An under spend of this sort of size must be accompanied with a significant failure to achieve deliverables. presumably they're going to figure out what they said they'd do that they haven't done?

what a flipping mess

The Government are also having to pay out huge sums every month in compensation because of the failing ferries -

www.heraldscotland.com/news/homenews/23267702.comp-claims-calmac-ferry-fails-double-year/

WTF?!?! Astonishing how he managed to blame Labour, westmonster and devolution for the SNPs authoritarianism and fuck ups and conclude that the answer is independence and giving them more financial control. 🙄

Not to mention hiring a temporary replacement for far more than it would cost to buy it.

Nationalist true believers will always find a way to blame ‘the union’ and its axis of evil for anything.

That includes the SNP being financially illiterate and operating without any kind of reasonable governance.

Yes, I mean, he’s right about the corruption and funding unelected advisors to form policy - but “give more power to the existing incompetents” is an odd conclusion.

as is “I don’t mind self ID, apart from the nasty rapists”

regardless of those things, his point is sound. Politics in Scotland is fucked

Also, I despair of Craig Murray’s tone deaf rhetoric about Scotland’s ‘colonial government’ etc. It utterly misrepresents how the Union even came about in the first place and, more importantly, is playing the victim despite Scotland’s very real and enthusiastic participation in historical British imperialism. The very streets of Glasgow are steeped in that particular history.

I agree that politics in Scotland is fucked. And I actually also agree that devolution as it’s been implemented has caused all sorts of problems for Scottish politics.

The absolutely useless SNP have absolutely benefited from - and purposefully perpetuated - the conditions that make it so hard for Scots to have proper political debate and representation.

Ideologically, I’m really not unionist (but I’m also not ideologically nationalist either). But I am utterly fed up with the state of politics in Scotland.

If I could go back to 1980 and fell my teenage self that I’d be wishing for a second chamber and considering voting tory (I read that it has been publicly stated at their conference that the bepenised double rapist with nasty leggings is a man) - well, this bleeding heart liberal wouldnhave laughed in your face.

either the world has gone mad or I have

I really have become convinced of the importance of a second chamber in recent years!

The lords still needs considerable reform (take voting rights off anyone who only turns up once in a blue moon for their own self-interest for starters, cough cough, Lloyd Webber) and only nominate people with real-world skills and expertise (no cronies and no hereditary peers) but a job for life means no fear of the mob and women would’ve been well fucked without Lords like Robert Winston and Baronesses Nichols and Fox.

Sticks in my craw that Ruth Hunt got a seat in the lords though.

Didn’t the Union come about because Scotland was trying to be a ‘colonising government’ and nearly bankrupted the country doing it?

The sheer bloody irony of joining the English because you fck up your own finances and then mucking up Independence from the English because you fck up your own finances…

Yes, there are many issues I could take with Craig Murray, not least his angles on feminism, etc.

But the points about finances were worth reading.

That was like the weirdest read. He was complaining that Westminster didn't give the SNP enough money and that's why things like health and education were failing in Scotland, when, actually, it appears that WM gave them £2b too much because the SNP couldn't find anything to spend it on.

Nicola does not resemble Liz Truss in any way whatsoever:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12029411/Former-PM-Liz-Truss-refuses-pay-12-000-Cabinet-Office-bill-row-lost-items.html

The Sunday mail has more shocking revelations

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/police-investigating-snp-fraud-probe-29849681?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar
And

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/snp-president-who-led-indy-29847970?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

I had missed this. Quality farce headline:

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/snp-president-who-led-indy-29847970?int_source=nba

I was thinking about the possibility of some kind of money-laundering angle, which, in turn, made me think about Breaking Bad, which then got me thinking about other uses for a motorhome. Scotland has lots of wide open spaces ......

So it now looks like £1m are missing £600,000 in independence donations and another £400,000 in bequests.

I have even more questions now than before but the only 1 I can ask is when will Stergeon be questioned by the police

I was a bit confused by the bequests article. Is it that the bequests have gone missing completely, or that they should have been ring fenced like the £600k?

That's a beauty Arabella

Proper laughed out loud at that. 😂

Is that "fellow activist" in the picture with Mike Russell in the Daily Record article Jenni Minto? A&B MSP (only since the last election) and now Minister for Public Health and Women's Health. It must be a bit galling for her that still nobody actually knows her and she is just a "fellow activist".

"Sums include £246,000 from the estate of South African-born Estelle Brownrigg, which was reported to the Electoral Commission (EC) in January this year. She died in a care home five years ago."

The story about bequests is very bemusing. No doubt there are those who wish to show their support after death but there are some very substantial bequests, are their families happy about this? There is a real sense of murkiness about some.

My own mother who died last year left various (modest) sums to animal charities only and my sisters and I rolled our eyes. I managed to persuade all that donations at her funeral should be split between her animal charity of choice and the Royal Osteoporosis Society as osteoporosis had caused her so much pain and difficulty in her last years. I think it's fair to say a substantial donation to a political party would have raised eyebrows.

Personally I wouldn't call that a horse box (some of which are equipped with very luxury accommodation for humans as well as horses). That's an old trailer and I suspect the renovations ran to mucking out the straw and sticking up some posters. Maybe a new tyre or two.

I bookmarked an article but there's so many mad shit snp headlines I've forgotten which one it was. Was it the guy who complained about being sexually harassed by a former snp big cheese, who is now being disciplined? Or was it the chronic pain group sufferers who are complaining that Humza ignored them but paid Facebook users £200 each to downplay the issue?

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/humza-yousaf-definitely-attended-meeting-29846890?int_source=nba#comments-wrapper

Nope, this meeting that definitely happened, definitely. Humza claiming that his support for the GRRŕrrrr bill demonstrates his support for the LGBTIQ+. Just like Iran's enthusiasm for transing away the gay demonstrates their support

Proper boggling at the thought of a bathrobe worth six grand. Is it woven from the hair of valley dwelling peasants?

(don’t worry, I realise the 12 grand must be about more than 2 bathrobes but I’m enjoying the ludicrous headline anyway!)