I have big news!
I will be leaving @roslininstitute and @EdinburghUni at the end of September to take up a new position as Principal Data Scientist at @DSM!
A note on Nicola Sturgeon's claim 'motor vehicle' expenditure would have been normal to see in the accounts.
She's wrong, and even more so given the campervan was listed *clearly* as an asset, i.e. something *owned*, not rented by the SNP
@meadwaj@ZackPolanski I think we're all in agreement here, EXCEPT for what we think constitutes a plan the bond markets would be happy with. I obviously didn't see the speech.
@meadwaj@ZackPolanski Well I think we'd all like to not be in hock to the bond markets haha, but it does require not having a large national debt and lots of unfunded spending commitments
Worth remembering: after Chapman resigned in May 2021 as SNP treasurer - citing prevented from fulfilling his legal obligations - only 3 folk were capable of signing off the books: Nicola Sturgeon (the incurious), Peter Murrell (the criminal), and Colin Beattie (the retread)
@NeilMerriman@meadwaj Welfare spending including pensions is set to rise by £70bn in the next five years. If we were to introduce a wealth tax, it would immediately be swallowed many times over simply by this one thing.