C Boyle

An Independentista who wants to see her grand daughter grow up an independent young woman in an independent Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[Gordon Dimmack @GordonDimmack]

One of these people is an 83 year old Priest who held up a sign expressing her right to free speech. The other has decapitated his political enemies with a knife.

Guess which the UK government calls a terrorist, and which gets invited to number 10 for dinner.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The Courts have decided the Government can call anyone a terrorist with their ridiculous decision to keep the terrorist designation of Palestine Action.

To be a terrorist no longer do you have to kill people, or even try to.

You simply have to oppose the Government.

[C Boyle @CBoyle100]

@PalestineCultu1 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[C Boyle @CBoyle100]

@Russia_X1 In a heartbeat...

[Iranian Force @MrImranPk]

Retweet if you believe Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

🚨🇨🇦 BREAKING: World Cup protestors cover FIFA logo in Toronto with a powerful message

Repost if you think israel should be kicked out.

[Sara Salyers @SSalyers2]

They support what? Time to stop talking about an SNP government when all we have is an English/Westminster Administration whose members, but not civil service, we get to elect so they can swear allegiance to the English Crown and do as they are told by the colonial government while acting without the smallest degree of accountability to the Scottish people. Time to face reality and stop with all the fantasy campaigning.

[C Boyle @CBoyle100]

Stop the proposed AI data centre near Auchtertool, Fife. - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/7SX9dWVg0s via @UKChange

[LustraSkye @LustraSkye]

⚠️ CHAPELCROSS CONSULTATION TOMORROW & WEDNESDAY

The proposed 1GW AI data centre on the former Chapelcross nuclear site near Annan is going to public consultation this week.

1GW = 25% of Scotland’s entire winter peak electricity demand. One site.

The developer is CX Power. The UK Government’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority has already signed Heads of Terms. Scottish Energy Minister Michael Shanks has publicly welcomed it.

No end user has been named.

📍 Tue 16 June Creca Village Hall, 5–7pm
📍 Wed 17 June Victoria Halls, Annan, 4–7pm

Local authority: Dumfries & Galloway Council

Questions worth asking:

→ Who is the end user?
→ What is the aggregate grid impact assessment?
→ Why did the NDA sign Heads of Terms before public consultation?

RT this.
Communities deserve to know.

#Scotland #DataCentres #Chapelcross #Annan

[Sara Salyers @SSalyers2]

If you’ve no plan and no way to advance one you can always resort to the tactic of looking busy. I will not be signing up to this nonsense; it’s playing straight into the British state’s hands with its call for ‘a second referendum.’ We never had a first. If you don’t believe me look up international standards for a constitutional referendum and compare with the 2014 event, starting with ‘non binding.’ Then move into the franchise, the media bias, the threats and warnings issued by the Brits or by large businesses at the request of the U.K. govt and the breach of the purdah period with the super whopping promise of devo max days before the vote. Seeing it yet? Anyone asking for that all over again is just a turkey asking for Christmas.

[FM @FMLochearnhead]

It makes you realise who Sturgeon and her goon squad were actually working for. The Sturgeonite SNP were - and still are - the best false flag operation the British state have ever ran.
No wonder she has fled to London. Now the SNP will be destroyed. Medals all round in MI5.

[Peter Irvine @ibhinnPeadar]

That legal analysis was based on legal advice, instructed on my behalf and provided by the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates. 🧨 💥 ‼️

[C Boyle @CBoyle100]

@andywightman @ForWomenScot Doesn't help when the Head of Internal Audit and Risk Management reports directly to the CEO......

[C Boyle @CBoyle100]

@MairiMcAllan FYI

[Grouse Beater @Grouse_Beater]

WALES

The Welsh Parliament sets off at a fast pace.

Wales is taking action to decolonise its museum collections to rebalance perspectives. The Welsh government (Plaid Cymru) plan to clean up its history written by Anglo-centric historians and badly informed research staff who repeat old information from books. They want racism out of Welsh life as far as possible.

Right-wing racists are in panic over government plans to promote the Welsh language, culture.

Equality of access to the arts, culture and sport for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities will be a priority and our museum sector is integral to the success of this.

[LustraSkye @LustraSkye]

Johnston Carmichael and the SNP audit: questions for the record

Peter Murrell has pleaded guilty. The facts of his conduct are established. What remains unexamined is the institutional environment in which that conduct went undetected for years.
The following questions are directed at Johnston Carmichael LLP, who served as SNP auditors from 2016 to 2022. They are not allegations. They are questions the public and the profession have a legitimate interest in seeing answered.

On the 2020 audit opinion

Johnston Carmichael concluded in June 2020 that the SNP’s accounts represented a “true and fair view” of its financial position. It has since been established that at that time, the party’s expense procedures permitted claims to be submitted without supporting receipts, and that the CEO held ultimate approval authority over his own expense claims.

What assessment, if any, did the audit team make of these control arrangements? Were they identified as weaknesses, and if so, how were they reported and to whom?

On the 2021 audit language

The 2021 audit report introduced language identifying “the greatest potential for fraud” in the area of “revenue recognition.” This formulation had not appeared in any previous SNP audit conducted by the firm.

What prompted this specific language in 2021? Did it reflect new information, a revised assessment of existing information, or a change in audit methodology? And did it trigger any reporting obligations to the party’s governance structures, to regulators, or to law enforcement?

On the 2022 resignation

Johnston Carmichael resigned as SNP auditors in 2022, citing a review of client portfolio and resources.

What initiated that review? Auditor resignations are professionally significant events. The stated reason is procedurally accurate as a description but does not explain the underlying decision. What were the factors that led the firm to conclude this client relationship should end at that point?

On reporting obligations

Auditors are subject to Suspicious Activity Reporting requirements under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.

Where an auditor encounters information that gives rise to knowledge or suspicion of money laundering or fraud, reporting obligations may apply.

At any point during or after the audit period including following the 2021 fraud-risk identification did Johnston Carmichael make any report to ICAS, HMRC, the National Crime Agency, or any other authority? If not, on what basis was it determined that no such report was required?

On scope of engagement

Were Johnston Carmichael’s services to the SNP limited to statutory audit, or did the firm also provide advisory, bookkeeping, financial management, or other services?

If the latter, what steps were taken to manage the independence implications of a combined audit and advisory relationship?

On the ring-fenced fund

The 2021 audit period coincided with public scrutiny of the SNP’s handling of a ring-fenced independence referendum fund.

Was that fund treated as a discrete area of audit risk? What procedures were applied to it, and what conclusions were reached?

On regulatory oversight

Has ICAS received or initiated any review of Johnston Carmichael’s conduct across the audit period 2016–2022? If not, is that a gap that warrants attention from the relevant professional body?

The purpose of these questions is not to establish fault before facts are known.
It is to ensure that the examination of what went wrong does not stop at the individual who has pleaded guilty but extends to the institutional conditions that made his conduct possible and sustained.

[matrixbot @thematrixb0t]

Tucker Carlson: "You will never convince me at gunpoint even, that Keir Starmer is making independent decisions about the future of Britain."

"He is taking orders, that could not be clearer. And I think it's clear to the British population."

[C Boyle @CBoyle100]

@Fergie_CJ @CaledoniaLad @SatyagrahAlba 🫩

[C Boyle @CBoyle100]

@CaledoniaLad @Fergie_CJ @SatyagrahAlba How do you prevent malicious infiltration of any new party?

[C Boyle @CBoyle100]

@parkie1909 @Kev_OC66 @narindertweets Maybe he should do some research before wading in on a subject he clearly knows nothing about

[C Boyle @CBoyle100]

@alexhalsey @thealepalombo And Trieste....