> Although the former minister was hit with one of the harshest punishments that Holyrood’s standards committee has ever dished out, it turns out that Matheson has still accepted £12,712.25 of resettlement grant money. Holyrood’s rules allow for cabinet ministers to receive 90 days’ pay when they leave the job and despite calls for Matheson to forgot the payment, the Falkirk politician — who tried to get taxpayers to pick up the tab on his £11,000 roaming bill — accepted it.
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> And while charges of dishonesty have been levelled at Matheson over the whole debacle, he has now been branded a hypocrite too — after remarks he made in the early 2000s came to light where he, um, called for an end to ‘golden goodbyes’ himself. How the tables turn…
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> Although the former minister was hit with one of the harshest punishments that Holyrood’s standards committee has ever dished out, it turns out that Matheson has still accepted £12,712.25 of resettlement grant money. Holyrood’s rules allow for cabinet ministers to receive 90 days’ pay when they leave the job and despite calls for Matheson to forgot the payment, the Falkirk politician — who tried to get taxpayers to pick up the tab on his £11,000 roaming bill — accepted it.
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> And while charges of dishonesty have been levelled at Matheson over the whole debacle, he has now been branded a hypocrite too — after remarks he made in the early 2000s came to light where he, um, called for an end to ‘golden goodbyes’ himself. How the tables turn…
[I don’t think this was wide of the mark](https://www.reddit.com/r/Scotland/s/mM67K6ZfT2)
A true man of the people
So he gets to keep what he stole in the first place, with a bit of interest?
That’ll teach politicians not to steal from us!
He really is a perfectly unprincipled wanker, isn’t he?
Common practice
Utter contempt shown by him, a complete crook of a man.
Organised crime
Who needs enemies when John Swinney got good friends like him
steals and then gets rewarded and the snp are defending him
So…taxpayers basically footed the bill regardless?
What is it with politicians and seemingly not having any integrity?