Elle Jeee

Scot/Brit, anti SNP, AHF

[Agent P @AgentP22]

The SNP love boasting about "free tuition".

What they don't tell you is that thousands of Scottish students can't even get a university place in the first place.

"Free" means very little if the door is closed before you can get in.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

It’s not as you say.
Heriot-Watt has already filled its quota of Scottish government-funded places for Scottish-domiciled students for the current intake cycle. As a result, it has closed its clearing process to additional Scottish applicants.
This is the price you pay for no tuition fees.
With no price mechanism to ration places, Scot Gov rations by quotas instead, placing a strict cap on the number of Scots that can go to university. The cap is determined by the size of the budget Scot Gov has allocated to pay for Scottish student places.
It is a very bad system. Scottish universities can take as many English and foreign students as they like (they all come with fees) — and they take a lot. But not as many Scottish students as they like. So many miss out.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Scottish taxpayers, against the vast majority’s will, funded an attempt by the government to keep men in women’s prisons. Never have I been so tempted to move to Monaco and give all the money I’ve been paying in tax to groups fighting the rank misogyny of Swinney’s government.

[Agent P @AgentP22]

I wonder why Ross Greer deleted this tweet...

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Worth a repost

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

Six of these ten Highland Councillors voted to allow a taxi driver who raped a passenger to keep his operator’s license — even though senior police officers urged them not to.

Please note that although we’re constantly told it’s women who grease the wheels for rapists, every single councillor who voted in rapist David Brown’s favor is a man. Take a good look at them, Scottish women: these 6 men would put you, alone and unwarned, in a taxi with a man who has already raped at least one passenger.

Brown has been put on the register for life; he raped an 18 year old girl and dumped her outdoors on a sub-zero January night in the Scottish Highlands; but these 6 men - Chris Birt, John Grafton, Ruraidh Stewart, Sean Kennedy, Willy MacKay, and Duncan MacPherson - are more concerned about his finances than they are about the safety of local women.

https://t.co/Rq2jzLJ9P3

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

You mean men, men who claim to be women. You are a national broadcaster that consistently obfuscates facts around sex because you’ve taken an ideological position the public overwhelmingly rejects. This isn’t news, it’s propaganda.

[Agent P @AgentP22]

Holyrood has become a laughing stock.

If an MSP can't answer one of the most basic questions imaginable, why should anyone trust them with anything?

[Elle Jeee @McSmesley]

@RussellFindlay1 They should be named. The voting public need to know what they’ve voted for and what nonsense to expect going forward.

[Elle Jeee @McSmesley]

@Mike_Blackley @DailyMail No, sorry. We, as the voting public, need to know their names. We need to know who we’ve voted in and what we can expect going forward.

[Annemarie Ward 💜 @Annemarieward]

When a political class becomes incapable of stating the obvious, it should not be surprised when the public concludes that it is incapable of governing anything else either.

[Elle Jeee @McSmesley]

@Mike_Blackley @johns_granny Shut the place down. Complete waste of money and these childish performances are absolutely pathetic. Send them all back to school if this is the type of behaviour we can expect.

[Elle Jeee @McSmesley]

@PeterAdamSmith @itvnews Means he’s actually got an excuse for not facing the press this time….not that it would matter.

[David Atherton @daveatherton]

A reminder of a Nigerian 🇳🇬 was given asylum in Ireland 🇮🇪 because he is gay. He's asked if he has family back home.

Yes, "my wife and two sons."

[Jim Spence @JimSpenceDundee]

The ‘rot’ is easily explained. A party full of folk earning salaries and perks which their limited abilities couldn’t dream of in any other environment. They’ll acquiesce in any lie and suffer any indignity to maintain that. They also know that as long as they can convince just enough folk that everything is the fault of the UK or the English, their seats on the Holyrood gravy train are secure in perpetuity.

[Friends Of Wings @FOWingsScot]

Sturgeon thinks that she can move to London, post on Instagram how lovely her life is, and we’ll all just wish her well

But she has questions to answer - firstly, why didn’t she ask Murrell about why the whistleblowers resigned, after that NEC meeting?

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

The Neil Narrator writes: ‘Westminster’ is SNP code for England and the English. Typical of long-running and ongoing Nationalist attempts to sow unnecessary division.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

Latest thoughts on Sturgeon-Murrell from @TimesRadio — The Times at One with Andrew Neil:

The Nicola Sturgeon—Peter Murrell SNP financial scandal is the gift that keeps on giving. 

We now know that Murrell bought 108 loo rolls just 24 hours before his wife told the people of Scotland not to stockpile during the pandemic. 

Maybe that’s why Sturgeon couldn’t see the now notorious camper van parked on her mother-in-law’s driveway — her husband had shielded it with the loo rolls. 

She did admit to seeing the expensive new e-Jag her husband also bought with embezzled cash — how could she not, there’s a picture of her walking past it on their driveway? — but never thought to mention it. Well, we’re all used to flash new cars suddenly appearing on our driveways. 

We’re also assured by Sturgeon that she never really clocked the expensive coffee machines in her kitchen — apparently there were several — because she was rarely in the kitchen. Then we were reminded that on Desert Island Discs her choice of a luxury item was — you guessed it — a fancy coffee machine. 

We also learned that when Sturgeon said she had fully co-operated with the police when they brought her in for questioning, what she meant was she’d said ‘no comment’ to every question the police asked. Can’t wait for that bit in a future docu-drama.

She was then allowed to provide written answers but, strangely, never brought back to be interrogated about them by the police. Let’s hope we can all expect that consideration at the hands of Police Scotland. 

Rather more serious questions remain unanswered about the SNP’s finances. 

What exactly happened to the £600,000 or so the SNP had raised to fight a second referendum that never happened? After the May 2021 Holyrood elections the SNP’s coffers were bare. So did it all go on that?

It was in June 2021 that Murrell loaned the SNP £107,000 to help with cash flow. Half was never paid back. Only in SNP-land could you embezzle your party, then give it an interest-free loan. 

Then there’s the £6m the SNP received from taxpayers. Murrell signed off on that. Was any of it used to boost Amazon’s profits?

The embezzling lasted for over a decade. Was it allowed to fester in plain sight because anybody who raised the slightest criticism of the party’s finances was bullied and threatened into silence?

One senior apparatchik resigned because he was refused sight of the party’s accounts. Well, why should he? He was only the party treasurer. 

Current First Minister John Swinney asks: ‘what more do we need to look into?’ Rather a lot is the obvious answer. 

This morning Peter Murrell, who pleaded guilty to embezzlement, appeared in handcuffs at the High Court in Edinburgh. 

It was a short session in which the prosecution gave the details of his £400,000 spending spree with embezzled SNP money using a party charge card linked to its bank account. 

Most of this is already public. Murrell said nothing. He will have his chance when he’s sentenced on June 23rd before which he can make a plea of mitigation. 

I wonder what he’ll say! Sturgeon has thrown him under the bus. Will he return the favour?

[Mercurius @Mercurius_Scot]

Looks like @NicolaSturgeon (him/not me) is hot favourite to win a second #Oscar for her performance on @bbclaurak this morning. Waterworks on cue. Meryl Streep eat your heart out..............

[Joanna Cherry KC @joannaccherry]

🤦‍♀️ Nicola Sturgeon is setting up a strawman in her interview with @bbclaurak. Nobody was complaining of embezzlement in 2021. What we were worried about was financial mismanagement & lack of transparency. She demonised us for those concerns & should take responsibility for that.