Fraser Jackson

Staffer for @AnasSarwar. Season Ticket Holder @DundeeUnitedFC. Glaswegian. No Pasaran 🌹

[Fraser Jackson @FrazJackson]

I tell you who may not have wanted to contribute to independence campaigning. The general public.

John Swinney admits that the SNP are being investigated by HMRC over fraudulent VAT rebates.

“The admission of guilt… does have potential implications on the payment of taxation”

[Chris McCall @Dennynews]

John Swinney asked if he’ll apologise to those who donated to the “ring-fenced” IndyRef2 fighting fund - the one that was ultimately spent on other stuff.

[Sam Taylor @staylorish]

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.

[Fraser Jackson @FrazJackson]

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.

[Fraser Jackson @FrazJackson]

Reminder that in 2024 John Swinney told an SNP campaign event not to boo journalists and that he ‘believes in open debate and respectful disagreement’

In 2026, journalists are seemingly not allowed to put his own words from ONE week ago to him.

[Chris Musson @ChrisMusson]

The way John Swinney attacks our reporter here for accurately and politely pointing out an apparent contradiction in his statements is disgraceful

[Fraser Jackson @FrazJackson]

@conor_matchett @Ankaman616 Your worst football take since the ‘definite’ penalty Celtic got vs Motherwell 👀

[Fraser Jackson @FrazJackson]

Wheesht for Indy update:

[Chris McCall @Dennynews]

NEW: Scottish Parliament rejects Labour demand for an urgent debate on whether an inquiry should investigate the Peter Murrell scandal.

SNP and Greens opposed.

Labour source: “The SNP have shut down debate in their own party and now don’t want to debate the issue in Holyrood”.

[Fraser Jackson @FrazJackson]

If John Swinney is angry now, wait until he hears who appointed Peter Murrell as Chief Exec of the SNP…

[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!"

[Andy Burnham @AndyBurnhamGM]

@reformparty_uk Getting worried?

Desperate stuff even by your standards. 😂

[Paul Hutcheon @paulhutcheon]

Yeah, a great week for the SNP.

[Chris McCall @Dennynews]

Peter Murrell bought 108 toilet rolls just hours before then First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned the public against panic buying during the Covid pandemic.

https://t.co/2QwSSAKTEt

[Sam Taylor @staylorish]

Everyone else: Yes you did.

[James Mitchell @ProfJMitchell]

An ultra-loyalist former SNP MP berates a journalist for doing the job she and her colleagues ought to have done long ago, asking important questions of a powerful politician. Shameless misplaced loyalty. This is why we need a vigorous media.

[Neil McIntosh @nmcintosh]

Yes. Yes, she did.

[Fraser Jackson @FrazJackson]

I think there is deliberate deception about what a parliamentary inquiry is. Police prosecute to a criminal threshold. Parliament should be able to scrutinise what falls below that.

If there is no culture of secrecy within the SNP, there should be no problem with an inquiry.

[Neil Findlay @Neilsocialist]

Apart from when flogging books at festivals

[Neale Hanvey🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @JNHanvey]

The growing list of things we’re advised Nicola Sturgeon didn’t see...

1. £120k Motorhome

[Fraser Jackson @FrazJackson]

@YannisMarr All the best for what’s next Yannis, you’ve been outstanding and really hope whoever comes next at the club is half as good!

[Fraser Jackson @FrazJackson]

Why is Swinney so terrified of a parliamentary inquiry?

[Chris McCall @Dennynews]

“No I won’t back a parliamentary inquiry,” John Swinney tells MSPs.

“There is nothing a parliamentary inquiry can add”

[Fraser Jackson @FrazJackson]

Crikey, John Swinney does not like scrutiny does he?

[Mark McLaughlin @MarkMcLaugh1in]

Opening the first FMQs of the new parliament, @AnasSarwar calls @JohnSwinney "arrogant" after the First Minister suggested voters didn't care about the Peter Murrell scandal because the SNP won the most seats at the election.

[Paul Sinclair @paulbsinclair]

When John Swinney appointed Kirsten Oswald as ‘Victims Minister’ was that to protect them or create them?