The party that promised openness and transparency has ended up in court for failing to comply with freedom of information rulings.
You couldn't make it up.
@ScotNational What rot!! An inquiry is essential and it must be independent. Holyrood is a cesspit of scheming nationalists incapable of transparency and integrity.
Swinney saw the train coming down the track. If all this had broken before the election the SNP would've been decimated.
State corruption. https://t.co/Vy6nKmKG36
The SNP have already made Scotland the highest-taxed part of the UK. Now they're floating wealth taxes and mansion taxes because confiscating your income apparently isn't enough.
They've gone from taxing what you earn to targeting what you own.
⚠️Contempt of court.
⚠️Police investigations.
⚠️Missing money.
⚠️Deleted messages.
⚠️Secret files.
The SNP has spent years behaving as if the rules apply to everyone except them.
Arrogance. Secrecy. No accountability. That's the real SNP legacy.
https://t.co/hJOwjH2yKi
John Swinney confirms The SNP are being investigated by HMRC about fraudulent VAT rebates. That would mean that the public could now also be the victims of SNP fraud… oof.
So the trial was delayed, plea bargaining will allow Murrell a lighter sentence, and £60k of stolen items were ignored? It smells extremely distasteful and Swinney should explain in great detail how this has been deemed acceptable to the whole of Scotland, and very very soon.
The hypocrisy of the SNP is staggering. It’s contemptible.
On the very day the SNP Government has been found guilty of deliberately misleading and deceiving over FOI requests, they suddenly want to lecture others on standards.
Years of lies, deflection, secrecy and shutting down awkward questions - now they want to pose as the moral authority.
The brass neck is breathtaking.
🚨🏴 John Swinney has admitted the SNP took 600k from supporters who believed they were funding a future independence referendum and spent it on general party costs instead.
He confirmed the cash raised under Nicola Sturgeons appeals was never kept separate.
It went on day to day SNP activity and election campaigning not ring fenced for a 2nd referendum as promised.
So much for those promises that every penny would only go to the independence referendum.
If this doesn't wake the pro indy lot up then nothing will.
The SNP are crooks who do nothing but seek to divide and conquer. the sooner people wake up go this the better.
Questioned by Anas Sarwar on whether the SNP made fraudulent VAT refund claims when Murrell was in charge, John Swinney acknowledges that this may have happened. Which makes his continued resistance to a proper inquiry even harder to justify.