And now representing the USA in floor gymnastics we have @adamlambert, this looks like a 10 out of 10 routine 🙆♂️🙆♂️🙆♂️🥇🥇🥇 FYI leather attire optional for other contestants #QALWembley
Andrew Neil reveals there’s £9 billion ready to be spent on defence:
“There’s plenty of money around, if we had a government that had the guts to do it.”
@Afneil | @KateEMcCann | @StigAbell
This is an outrageous, disgraceful smear on John Healey — and an outright lie. There are a ton of ways to finance more for defence — starting with net zero — without taking a penny from schools or hospitals. Reeves should be ashamed of herself for allowing this nonsense. Suggests she’s really desperate.
I’m not going to amplify Reform’s ad by sharing it, but the wilful misrepresentation of Kemi Badenoch - selectively quoting what she said about ‘white lives matter’ - is disgraceful and dangerous.
It needs to be challenged, including by those of us who are not Conservatives.
Latest thoughts on Sturgeon-Murrell from @TimesRadio — The Times at One with Andrew Neil:
The Nicola Sturgeon—Peter Murrell SNP financial scandal is the gift that keeps on giving.
We now know that Murrell bought 108 loo rolls just 24 hours before his wife told the people of Scotland not to stockpile during the pandemic.
Maybe that’s why Sturgeon couldn’t see the now notorious camper van parked on her mother-in-law’s driveway — her husband had shielded it with the loo rolls.
She did admit to seeing the expensive new e-Jag her husband also bought with embezzled cash — how could she not, there’s a picture of her walking past it on their driveway? — but never thought to mention it. Well, we’re all used to flash new cars suddenly appearing on our driveways.
We’re also assured by Sturgeon that she never really clocked the expensive coffee machines in her kitchen — apparently there were several — because she was rarely in the kitchen. Then we were reminded that on Desert Island Discs her choice of a luxury item was — you guessed it — a fancy coffee machine.
We also learned that when Sturgeon said she had fully co-operated with the police when they brought her in for questioning, what she meant was she’d said ‘no comment’ to every question the police asked. Can’t wait for that bit in a future docu-drama.
She was then allowed to provide written answers but, strangely, never brought back to be interrogated about them by the police. Let’s hope we can all expect that consideration at the hands of Police Scotland.
Rather more serious questions remain unanswered about the SNP’s finances.
What exactly happened to the £600,000 or so the SNP had raised to fight a second referendum that never happened? After the May 2021 Holyrood elections the SNP’s coffers were bare. So did it all go on that?
It was in June 2021 that Murrell loaned the SNP £107,000 to help with cash flow. Half was never paid back. Only in SNP-land could you embezzle your party, then give it an interest-free loan.
Then there’s the £6m the SNP received from taxpayers. Murrell signed off on that. Was any of it used to boost Amazon’s profits?
The embezzling lasted for over a decade. Was it allowed to fester in plain sight because anybody who raised the slightest criticism of the party’s finances was bullied and threatened into silence?
One senior apparatchik resigned because he was refused sight of the party’s accounts. Well, why should he? He was only the party treasurer.
Current First Minister John Swinney asks: ‘what more do we need to look into?’ Rather a lot is the obvious answer.
This morning Peter Murrell, who pleaded guilty to embezzlement, appeared in handcuffs at the High Court in Edinburgh.
It was a short session in which the prosecution gave the details of his £400,000 spending spree with embezzled SNP money using a party charge card linked to its bank account.
Most of this is already public. Murrell said nothing. He will have his chance when he’s sentenced on June 23rd before which he can make a plea of mitigation.
I wonder what he’ll say! Sturgeon has thrown him under the bus. Will he return the favour?
@JeremyVineOn5 Great show today with @Jeremy_Hunt and @ayeshahazarika 👏 Proof that 2 people with often opposing views can each state their case without shouting or insulting each other. Hope you have this pairing again
She is not being held responsible for her husband’s crimes. She is being called to account for her deliberate frustration of the legitimate scrutiny which might have revealed those crimes. The distinction should be perfectly intelligible to anyone except the disingenuous.
@LBC Her child should be removed from her care. If she views her many escapades as 'normal' then what would she consider normal behaviour for her child to participate in? Goes without saying the men involved are pathetic losers
@RealTimVine You can tell that a monumental amount of care and time has been invested to create this wilding masterpiece. Definitely worth a rosette 🏵️
If anyone for Adams show in Berlin needs 2 regular GA tickets below face value, I have them - bc the fanclub told us wrong info 😌so if anyone has friends that need I’ll sell & transfer below cost so I can recoup anything lol 🙄
One of the many great days in our wonderful history. Which today’s young folk know nothing about. Watch and be proud. We liberated a great ally (still is) from the greatest evil.
This week’s @thetimes column is about Zack Polanski’s desperate attempts to launder his party’s antisemitism
Antisemitism is all the Greens are recycling
https://t.co/tV8pBiZ9Ey