The SNP crucified Douglas Ross for missing parliamentary business to referee football.
Now they're sending FOUR ministers on a taxpayer-funded World Cup jolly while Holyrood is sitting.
Arrogance. Hypocrisy. Entitlement.
That's today's SNP in three words.
John Swinney is handling the Murrell affair very badly.
So badly, in fact, that we are left to conclude he opposes a new inquiry because he fears what it might find.
At some point, SNP people are going to start wondering if he is part of the problem…
https://t.co/zsxYAQG8Ul
Daniel Finkelstein is right. Nicola Sturgeon wants Scotland to believe that the politician who controlled the SNP, dominated Scottish politics and tolerated no dissent somehow knew nothing about what was happening inside her own party. Questions about the money were shut down. Critics were frozen out. Loyalists closed ranks. Now, after Peter Murrell’s conviction, she says she bears no responsibility. You cannot demand total control when things go well and plead ignorance when everything falls apart. Scots are no longer buying it.
Living in a luxury house in London and sipping champagne on the book festival circuit is about as far away from serving a prison sentence as I can imagine. It’s worth remembering that thanks to Nicola Sturgeon vulnerable women in Scottish prisons are banged up with violent men.
If we’ve learned one thing over the last week, it’s that nobody in the SNP knows how to read a set of accounts. They barely even know what accounts are. Which explains why Scot Gov is heading for a fiscal trainwreck, & why the financial case for independence simply doesn’t exist.
She was his boss, she was the SNP leader, she was the treasurer, she signed off the snp accounts, she shut down anyone who dared ask about the accounts.
She knew.
She is a liar and no amount of crocodile tears can save her.
A £125,000 motorhome was parked in Nicola Sturgeon's mother-in-law’s driveway for two years and she expects us all to believe she never noticed it.
This isn’t stretching credibility anymore — it’s beating it to death with a shovel.
https://t.co/yKEJBTQKWY
Kirsten Oswald allegedly helped shut down scrutiny while the SNP finances were turning into a circus.
Now she’s the “Victims Minister”.
You genuinely could not script the hypocrisy.
https://t.co/dlGsbegI4p
Nicola Sturgeon allegedly hid behind “no comment” for seven hours when questioned by the police over Murrells £400K fraud.
The rotten culture at the top of the SNP is impossible to ignore now.
https://t.co/LvsMvPccL8
So #petermurrell bought an £81,000 Jaguar, £33,000 VW Golf, £5,000 Bremont watch and £2,618 Lalique salt & pepper shakers. And @NicolaSturgeon never noticed. Tests credulity doesn’t it?
I wonder how much the Scottish press will now feel able to reveal without contempt of court threats hanging over them. Spectator ahead of the curve on this but lots could not be said then 👇
If Nicola Sturgeon didn’t question/notice expenditure in her home, in her own kitchen, then what the heck was going on with taxpayer’s money, did this reckless attitude to expenditure impact the entire Scottish government?