🔴 NEW From First Husband to fraudster: Murrellgate has exposed the cosy cabals and cover-ups at the heart of devolved Scotland. The fallout for Sturgeon and Swinney is only beginning. Read my @MailOnlineScot column 👇
https://t.co/CrIAuIgCEE
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EXCL: Nigel Farage's lawyer writes furious letter to BBC following Newsnight defamation row
Reform confirms boycot of the corporation until their apology demands are met.
Letter warns of potential damages should they not feel satisfied by response https://t.co/WMRq7MeelN
This is of course another frustrating element of this case and others. The SIC is taxpayer funded, as is the SG. The SG has their own legal costs = taxpayer funded, the SIC are going to have theirs paid by the SG using....taxpayer funds. We the taxpayers are losing here...
As Swinney finally comes clean over ‘ringfenced’ £667k war chest...
HOW CAN ANYONE TRUST A WORD THE SNP SAYS?
🗞️ Tomorrow's Scottish Mail on Sunday front page: #TomorrowsPapersToday#scotpapers 👉️ Read more on #mailonline
🔴 Exclusive: Police Scotland has been criticised after ruling that an ‘anti-Semitic’ image of Dame Maureen Lipman was not a hate crime
https://t.co/fpXamn636x
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John Swinney did not discover the truth today - he was plainly aware the ringfenced £600k had been spent when he gave this interview in 2021. He knew exactly why Douglas Chapman had resigned. If he had any integrity, he too would resign today. But he doesn’t, so he won’t.
🔴 Humiliation for SNP as judge finds ministers broke their own freedom of information laws, holding them in ‘contempt’ 👇
https://t.co/QzKJtqFWHJ
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Remember the SNP said the Indyref2 money had been 'ringfenced'? John Swinney now confirming it's been used for 'ongoing activities', including elections
Well… there you go. Swinney finally admits that the ringfence meant nothing, and the money the SNP pledged to spend only on a future referendum campaign was frittered away on other things.
The Scottish devolution experiment has not only entrenched dysfunctional bodies such as the Holyrood Parliament, it has undermined local government and contaminated/corrupted established institutions including the civil service and the Crown Office.
🔴 Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell passed off his crime spree in the party’s books as campaign overheads, leadership expenses, legal fees – and ‘event merchandise’
https://t.co/Gi2IJ64yLQ
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✍️ From today’s leader column: Those at the top of the SNP were plainly asleep at the wheel when this embezzlement took place. Read more 👉 https://t.co/cABUjV6oml
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