Michael Simmons

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[Michael Simmons @Simmons__]

SNP government found in contempt of court over refusal to comply with FOI and people wonder why they are regularly accused of a cover up culture

[Scottish Information Commissioner @FOIScotland]

Breaking: Scottish Government found in contempt over FOI practice.
Read more at: https://t.co/t9C3wuUeix

[Michael Simmons @Simmons__]

Shocking news

[Robert Colvile @rcolvile]

Absolutely bloody told you so

[Brian Spuzuki @BrianSpanner1]

‘This, Nicola, is the ethernet.’

[LBC @LBC]

‘Who can guess what was going on in his mind when he was doing all of this?’

@Simmons__ tells @TomSwarbrick1 how Peter Murrell went ‘from the ridiculous to the clever’ to cover up his embezzlement.

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Reminder that Citymapper tries to trick you during tube strikes. Scroll past ‘strike safe’ and you’ll find plenty lines still running

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Certainly looks like that

[John Ferguson @johncferguson]

It seems clear Peter Murrell’s belief he could steal SNP money with impunity exploded the minute Alex Salmond handed control of the party to his wife.

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Sturgeon's deception seems to know no bounds. Now we hear she refused a plea from the police to help with their investigation into Murrell – after the Crown Office had decided not to pursue her

[The Scottish Sun @ScottishSun]

Nicola Sturgeon refused to give witness statement to SNP fraud probe cops despite claims she was helping detectives

https://t.co/vg9WRdYlWt

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Also sound

[Tom Scotson @_tomscotson]

One minister says: “Pat’s not fucking wrong though is he?”

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Sound

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@GBPolitcs @grok is this true?

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They really were just all taking the piss out of us for years 🤣

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Keep coming back to this image. You could literally see the campervan from space.

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@PoundShopBot @gracebrod1e They never talked to each other or spent any time together apparently

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New Q from Laura K interview: why did Sturgeon know what questions the police were asking witnesses before she was arrested?

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@realcolinquinn The transcript is factual. Me calling it a 'glaring contrast' is quite clearly an opinion? I'm not god

[Michael Simmons @Simmons__]

Even if the explanation for this is that senior SNP police witnesses were all, quite normally, gossiping and that fed back to Sturgeon it's a glaring contrast to 'cooperating fully', 'not interfering with a live investigation', 'not discussing police matters' etc etc.

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[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

I will be on #BBCSundayShow on BBC1 Scotland shortly & as one of @theSNP NEC whistleblowers re financial mismanagement I hope to address some of the evasions & misleading statements in Nicola Sturgeon’s interview.

[Michael Simmons @Simmons__]

@ZackPolanski Zack would love to have you on my Reality Check podcast to explain how we can vote the bond markets into lower yields. Thanks