The reality is this is the issue. While clowns like @JohnSwinney and @StephenFlynnSNP jump on the bandwagon for expense paid jolly’s this is what they really think of the next generation of kids coming through. Pitches left to rot instead of somewhere for them to play
Said the exact same for years, mentality in Scotland is a huge problem.
Genuinely is frightening how a vast majority just accept & are happy to be mediocre.
At least Sinn Fein forgo their £96k salaries when they refuse to take their seats in Parliament.
This woman takes the money, takes the title, and still doesn’t deserve to be an MP . DISGRACEFUL
New SNP MP Lara Bird took the oath of allegiance to King Charles in the House of Commons and appeared to cross her fingers while doing it.
That is not a protest. It is contempt. Contempt for Parliament. Contempt for her office. Contempt for the constitution. This was an anti-British, anti-Unionist stunt from an MP who wants the privileges of Westminster while sneering at the very country that sent her there.
She is entitled to oppose the monarchy. She is entitled to support Scottish independence. But if her first act in Parliament is to treat the oath of office like a childish loophole, the public has every right to ask:
If the oath means nothing, what else is optional ?
Sentencing Peter Murrell, Lord Young says the 'manner of embezzlement' was 'not particularly sophisticated'.
So much for John Swinney's claim that Murrell only got away with it because he was devilishly devious.
SNP governance plainly inadequate
You can cross your fingers all you want.
You are still a Member of the British Parliament, under a British monarch.
If you hate it that much, don’t take your seat like Sinn Fein.
The UK economy basically works like this:
Get paid £2,000.
Give £900 to a landlord. Give £200 to the council. Give £150 to energy companies. Give £300 to supermarkets. Give £300 to car insurance and fuel.
Spend the rest surviving until next payday.
Then get lectured by someone who bought their house for £37,000 in 1988 about how you need to stop buying coffees and cancel subscriptions.
I don’t support rioting from anyone but when BLM did it, Labour said that MPs should speak to the black community and listen to the concerns.
Following the scenes in Belfast, has any Labour MP mentioned speaking to white, working class communities to listen to their concerns?
This hypermoralistic stuff is really tiresome.
We love the IRA, Hamas, 66 died, we'll sing about Jimmy Bell & Walter Smith, but let's pearl clutch over someone taking a career opportunity in Israel.
Your morals have ran wild.
I fear I have been too hard on Nicola Sturgeon for not seeing the camper van parked on her mother-in-law’s driveway. I now understand her husband hid it behind 108 loo rolls. Apologies.
Sturgeon’s memory is even worse than we thought.
She sat in front of an audience yesterday blaming Alex Salmond for appointing Murrell. He didn’t. It was Swinney …
So if you were to believe Sturgeon and her really seriously wacky sister Gill who are both now trying to disassociate themselves from Peter who has plead guilty to crimes of embezzlement that they claim they had no part in, then why did Gill post about him several times after his arrest in support? Just saying.
Why continue to support a man that somehow was guilty of those crimes. Why continue to post to your fan base that this man was innocent. Why deny court transcripts that you didn’t receive goods paid for by stolen money?
This is just my opinion. I think it’s a family affair because it seems to be quite obvious from the original charge sheet that the Sturgeon family benefited by the gifts they were given and yet for some reason that was struck off the same charge sheet.
Maybe it was removed for a guilty plea?
Who knows however when you have someone so high up in the Scottish judiciary in the SNP cabinet then how can it be impartial when it comes to a person of a higher offfice from that same cabinet being arrested?
I think there’s a hell of a lot of questions to be answered.
If you go no comment for seven hours while telling the media you fully complied with the police what does that say about you as a person?
It says you’re an out and out liar and not to be trusted.
Just my opinion it’s only an opinion but I think the story has a long way to run and I think it’s time that the police brought the other potential culprits to task because if you receive goods which are paid for by the proceeds of crimes then there are laws in place which should be imposed.
Sturgeon is and always has been a liar IMO!
It's quite an ask to believe Sturgeon never saw or mentioned a 7.4m campervan stuck to the gable end of her 85yo parent-in-laws house dominating a drive-way for 2 years. It would surely be the first topic of conversation.
The more you think about Sturgeon and Murrell the more obvious it becomes that they were both in on the scam.
She didn't take his name after the marriage...
She didn't have a joint bank account...
She didn't notice ANYTHING wrong with accounts despite being the leader...
All of these seemingly minor things gave her ample room to claim ignorance whilst I reckon she had full knowledge of Murrell's continuous decade+ long thievery.
We know she loves to cover her tracks - She and the rest of the rotten mob ritualistically deleted COVID WhatsApp messages.
Sooner or later the truth catches up to everyone - She will get her comeuppance.