So, people still think Sturgeon stepped down because she was tired?
Right good, get him to fuck and take Nicola with him.
Then we can put that useless era behind us and get on with finding an SNP leader that actually wants independence.
r/Scotland in shambles
Ofcourse, will await due process. But, as a long term SNP voter, I’m disappointed. Leading this party in Scotland is already perilous enough – even more the need to dot the i’s and cross the t’s. Something is a miss. Guilty, or not guilty, they should know better.
I’m sure it’s all just a big unionist misunderstanding.
He might throw her a campervan to save himself.
Well well well
such a weird coincidence that nicola stepped down 5 seconds before this all started….. such a coincidence…..
The Financial Times did a great analyisis of this whole issue last year
>Ignore for a moment the fact it’s a story about the SNP. Imagine instead that it is about, say, a charity you’re considering a large donation to. You’re told that for the best part of a decade, the chief executive and the chair have been married. You know that the charity’s former treasurer resigned two years ago saying he did not have the necessary information to do his job.
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>Long before it was revealed last week that the charity’s auditors had in fact resigned six months ago, or the organisation’s current treasurer had been arrested, you would have become concerned that this was not a charity with any prospect of being featured in Good Governance Weekly.
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>That’s the political problem facing Humza Yousaf and the SNP more broadly. It’s not a question so much of what he knew, specifically, or what may or may not happen as a result of the police investigation the whole SNP is facing. (Treasurer Colin Beattie has now been released without charge, pending further investigation.)
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>The core issue is that we already had more than enough publicly available information to suggest that the SNP’s internal workings were not fit for purpose and were badly in need of reform.
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>Of course, it doesn’t help that Yousaf’s public handling of it has been, to put it mildly, suboptimal. (Do yourself a favour and read Rob Hutton’s blindingly funny sketch on it all over at the Critic.)
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>But the problem is deeper than Yousaf’s approach to the affair. Neither he, nor any of the politicians who could credibly replace him as leader — not Kate Forbes, not Angus Robertson, not John Swinney, not Màiri McAllan — can avoid the fact they are, at best, stunningly incurious and at worst actively complicit in an organisational model that is so far from best practice it would need to recruit Nasa to reach it.
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Story text:
The husband of former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been charged in connection with the embezzlement of funds from the Scottish National Party.
Peter Murrell, 59, was taken into custody at 09:13 on Thursday and was questioned by Police Scotland detectives.
He was previously arrested as a suspect on 5 April 2023 before being released without charge.
Mr Murrell resigned as the party’s chief executive in March 2023.
He was charged at 18:35 after further questioning by Police Scotland detectives investigating the funding and finances of the party.
Mr Murrell has been released from police custody.
Sturgeon herself next. The SNP in ruins. Superb.
🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
But but but but Michelle Mone Tories whatabout 🙁
Sean clerkin setting off these events.
We live in a simulation 😂
Let’s gooooooooo FUCK SNP
Really disappointing. Not an SNP fanboy by a long shot, but they had the ability to offer a better type of politics.
There’s something seriously wrong with politics in the UK as a whole and it needs urgent reform and overall.
Every major party is swamped by this sleaze and rather than using it as SNP/Tory/Labour bad we need to realise something is broken.
It’s becoming increasingly obvious just why Nicola ‘i know nuffink’ Sturgeon resigned.
So, people still think Sturgeon stepped down because she was tired?
Right good, get him to fuck and take Nicola with him.
Then we can put that useless era behind us and get on with finding an SNP leader that actually wants independence.
r/Scotland in shambles
Ofcourse, will await due process. But, as a long term SNP voter, I’m disappointed. Leading this party in Scotland is already perilous enough – even more the need to dot the i’s and cross the t’s. Something is a miss. Guilty, or not guilty, they should know better.
I’m sure it’s all just a big unionist misunderstanding.
He might throw her a campervan to save himself.
Well well well
such a weird coincidence that nicola stepped down 5 seconds before this all started….. such a coincidence…..
The Financial Times did a great analyisis of this whole issue last year
>Ignore for a moment the fact it’s a story about the SNP. Imagine instead that it is about, say, a charity you’re considering a large donation to. You’re told that for the best part of a decade, the chief executive and the chair have been married. You know that the charity’s former treasurer resigned two years ago saying he did not have the necessary information to do his job.
>
>Long before it was revealed last week that the charity’s auditors had in fact resigned six months ago, or the organisation’s current treasurer had been arrested, you would have become concerned that this was not a charity with any prospect of being featured in Good Governance Weekly.
>
>That’s the political problem facing Humza Yousaf and the SNP more broadly. It’s not a question so much of what he knew, specifically, or what may or may not happen as a result of the police investigation the whole SNP is facing. (Treasurer Colin Beattie has now been released without charge, pending further investigation.)
>
>The core issue is that we already had more than enough publicly available information to suggest that the SNP’s internal workings were not fit for purpose and were badly in need of reform.
>
>Of course, it doesn’t help that Yousaf’s public handling of it has been, to put it mildly, suboptimal. (Do yourself a favour and read Rob Hutton’s blindingly funny sketch on it all over at the Critic.)
>
>But the problem is deeper than Yousaf’s approach to the affair. Neither he, nor any of the politicians who could credibly replace him as leader — not Kate Forbes, not Angus Robertson, not John Swinney, not Màiri McAllan — can avoid the fact they are, at best, stunningly incurious and at worst actively complicit in an organisational model that is so far from best practice it would need to recruit Nasa to reach it.
[SNP revelations also expose those who sat idly by](https://www.ft.com/content/3c711d43-e7ec-40b1-9186-0c8b44151de4)
‘Why would the Tories make us do this?’
There isn’t enough popcorn in Scotland for this shitshow.
Westminster fault.
Tories 2024