Susan

Retired council comms. Carer. Believer in solidarity & sharing between all parts of the UK. Tam Dalyell was not wrong.
#Stirling #Aberdeen #Halifax

[Susan @snapperup]

Would it not be better to have FMQs (the leaders' version) beginning promptly at a set time? It would no doubt make broadcasters' life easier, which seems a reasonable aim. Wasn't it supposed to start at 2pm?

[Susan @snapperup]

What a condescending horror Parliamentary Business Minister Jamie Hepburn MSP is.

[Susan @snapperup]

Swinney, Constance and the rest, by all accounts, genuinely see the SNP as a daily referendum campaign. That an electorate - those who bothered to vote - has just elected to keep such an outfit in power into a third decade is, to use Mr Swinney's terminology, gutting.

[Tom Gordon @DMScotPol]

🧵You couldn't make it up.

Amid the Peter Murrell and Indyref2 funding scandals, the SNP is proposing to take control of the Holyrood committees dealing with finance, criminal justice and public service reform by having its MSPs as both the convener and deputy convener..

[Susan @snapperup]

@FacundoSavala @rapwest @AlynSmith "the cops"

[Facundo Savala @FacundoSavala]

This was under a week ago @AlynSmith....👀

Care to make any further comment? 😆

[euan mccolm @euanmccolm]

If SNP voters weren’t willing to swallow any old crap, Swinney would be out tonight.

[Mark Hirst @Documark]

Over the past 10 days Swinney has spun a line that he has been "brought in" to sort out internal SNP governance as if he is some external, independent player.

He has been central to all of the dysfunction and cover-ups over decades, not just the Salmond related saga.

[Susan @snapperup]

@STVNews @FacundoSavala It's 'the big issue everyone at Holyrood has been talking about'. Well, except for the MSPs not allowed by the Presiding Officer to speak about it yesterday, right enough.

[Susan @snapperup]

@markthehibby Happened to listen to a podcast that was post-election but pre-Murrell guilty plea, and already it felt hugely dated. Don't see how this case and what it is now revealing doesn't change things permanently.

[Susan @snapperup]

@ScotExpress @scottishanproud Can just hear him if it was another party (who wasn't the Scottish Greens).

[alexmassie @alexmassie]

John Swinney is handling the Murrell affair very badly.
So badly, in fact, that we are left to conclude he opposes a new inquiry because he fears what it might find.
At some point, SNP people are going to start wondering if he is part of the problem…
https://t.co/zsxYAQG8Ul

[Susan @snapperup]

@JanetMcwee Thanks - not yet but will.

[Susan @snapperup]

NS told Kuenssberg the £600 000 'was there'. Isn't Swinney now admitting - it wasn't.

[Susan @snapperup]

@LucyHunterB The strangulated inability to say it like it is (the money was spent fighting elections and is therefore not available should it be called upon for an independence referendum) reminds me of another interview with another FM unable to admit the glaringly obvious.

[Susan @snapperup]

Contention: Sturgeon was over-praised, for too long, for her covid-era communication. Her govt crafted a dependency on her as personal messenger of information to an unnecessary and arguably unhealthy degree. See her treatment of journalists on live TV.

[Susan @snapperup]

@CliveWismayer A muddiness, never cleared up by the party, about whether the 'Yes' identity was still a stand-alone entity or came to be just the SNP by another name seems to me to be at issue here.

[Susan @snapperup]

So much in @Dannythefink's piece I've waited ages to hear London-based commentators say. So true - 'there isn't a single policy of Farage's as potentially destructive of stability & prosperity as Scottish independence...NS's been one of most dangerous extremists in public life. '

[Stephen Kerr MSP @RealStephenKerr]

Daniel Finkelstein is right. Nicola Sturgeon wants Scotland to believe that the politician who controlled the SNP, dominated Scottish politics and tolerated no dissent somehow knew nothing about what was happening inside her own party. Questions about the money were shut down. Critics were frozen out. Loyalists closed ranks. Now, after Peter Murrell’s conviction, she says she bears no responsibility. You cannot demand total control when things go well and plead ignorance when everything falls apart. Scots are no longer buying it.

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧Iain_L 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Iain_L]

Swinney really does have a lot of questions to answer. A lot are based upon his judgement and his personal integrity. A case of Party before honesty for @JohnSwinney perhaps?

[euan mccolm @euanmccolm]

massive mistake by flynn to take this “why should we?” approach to the question of a public inquiry. this is NOT SIMPLY AN SNP ISSUE.

[Susan @snapperup]

Unusually wordy and waffly from Flynn.

[@GinaDavidson @ginadavidsonlbc]

Stephen Flynn was on his first visit as a Cabinet Secretary today to announce £1.75m for entrepreneurial investment - more on that in a moment - but @LBC asked for his response to * Peter Murrell’s guilty plea
* how assured he is it couldn’t happen again
* if he’d back an inquiry