Daniel Johnson MSP

Scottish Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament for Edinburgh Southern. Email [email protected] for case work and questions.

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

An excellent summary of the grassroots rebellion that took place in the SNP in 2020 & how it was ruthlessly crushed by the very people who are now claiming to have no idea that anything was wrong with SNP finances. In a healthy democracy their behaviour should have consequences.

[Daniel Johnson MSP @DJforEdS]

In retrospect, maybe sticking to “no comment” was a better strategy.

[Mark McLaughlin @MarkMcLaugh1in]

💬 @JohnSwinney today admitted there weren't "adequate controls" to prevent Murrell's thieving.

"The systems in place shouldn't have been able to be abused but they were."

I reminded him last week he said the systems did not fail.

Response: "DON'T PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH!"

[Michael Shanks MP @mgshanks]

When you start attacking journalists for quoting your own words back to you it's a sign things are unravelling.

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

🧵From Murrell narrative it’s clear that the systems put in place by @theSNP for financial management were wholly inadequate. Leadership, party office bearers, most of NEC, HQ staff including party’s in house solicitor at best asleep at the wheel at worst grossly negligent. 1/2

[Paul Hutcheon @paulhutcheon]

The latest Peter Murrell hearing, which provided more details on bogus invoices and self-approved expenses claims, makes John Swinney's refusal to back an inquiry even more shocking.

[Jackie Baillie @jackiebmsp]

Observations on the interview by Nicola Sturgeon today.

This is not about her being responsible for her husband’s crimes, this is about her responsibility as party leader and FM. She and others bullied and intimidated members of the NEC and silenced those who asked questions.1/5

[Chris McCall @Dennynews]

Jackie Baillie: "The Peter Murrell scandal will not disappear through carefully managed interviews"

https://t.co/bS9ipc9APf

[Daniel Johnson MSP @DJforEdS]

About 62% of Scots feel exactly the same way.

[Laura Kuenssberg @bbclaurak]

Sturgeon tells BBC: I'm serving a sentence for crime I didn't commit - BBC News

[Daniel Johnson MSP @DJforEdS]

@gorbalsgoebbels @Mark29873110 Or even just Wikipedia.

[Daniel Johnson MSP @DJforEdS]

I thought there was nothing further to add?

[Laura Kuenssberg @bbclaurak]

WATCH TOMORROW!
9am @BBCOne and @BBCiPlayer

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

Don’t be fooled. Nicola Sturgeon (wife) is not being held responsible for her husband’s crimes. As leader of the party she is being called to account for her deliberate frustration of the legitimate scrutiny which might have revealed those crimes. The distinction is 💯 clear.

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

Five years to the day since I resigned from the SNP NEC because of the deliberate frustration of the scrutiny of governance & financial management I had been elected by members to deliver. Those asking questions were treated appallingly. We need to know why.

[Daniel Johnson MSP @DJforEdS]

@Scots_Woe_Hey Thank you’

[Daniel Johnson MSP @DJforEdS]

Prepare for what? He plead guilty.

Preparation would indicated they were going to defend. They did not.

[Graham Grant @GrahamGGrant]

🔴 Exclusive: Peter Murrell’s court hearing was delayed until after the Holyrood election because his defence lawyers argued they needed more time to prepare

#petermurrell #SNP #politics

[Ryan-Thomas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @RyanThomas_Q]

Just about fell out of my seat watching @haveigotnews… 😂

[Daniel Johnson MSP @DJforEdS]

There is also the small matter of the balance sheet.

It was right there in a dedicated line in current assets for motor vehicles.

Zero credibility.

[Dean M Thomson @DeanMThomson]

Nicola Sturgeon via her lawyers:

➡️ Ms Sturgeon was “not aware of [the] existence” of the £124,550 motorhome vehicle until it “featured in the police investigation” in early 2023.

Ryan-Thomas Quinn (a student) saw this statement and responded with the following:

➡️He reported seeing Sturgeon in Asda in autumn 2022, just a six-minute drive from her mother-in-law’s property.

Quinn told the press that when he saw Sturgeon’s statement on Monday claiming she did not know about the vehicle before 2023, he “burst out laughing” because he thought her claim was “ridiculous”.

“I just find it unbelievable that clearly she was at her mother-in-law’s house, and she didn’t think to ask her the question ‘where did the campervan on the driveway come from?’,”

👉Note: Sturgeon’s lawyers subsequently have not denied that the Dunfermline visit Quinn said he had witnessed had taken place.👈

[Neil McIntosh @nmcintosh]

Yes. Yes, she did.

[euan mccolm @euanmccolm]

I wonder if the new generation of SNP politicians realise the depth of James’s understanding of their movement or know about the regard in which he’s held by those who got them to this point. They should pay attention. He’s not daft.

[Daniel Johnson MSP @DJforEdS]

Spare a thought for motorhome vendors and manufacturers.

Through no fault of their own- they have been tarred with the same brush as the SNP and Murrell.

Next time you pass a campsite or your mother-in-law’s driveway, take time to think about the real victims here.

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

The reason I became a “persistent critic” of the SNP leadership from 2017 onwards was that I became aware of ineptitude & a whiff of corruption behind the scenes. The backlash was very unpleasant but I’m proud to have been vindicated. It was worth it. https://t.co/lME8KZr3yC