It is the gravy bus though, it was them or him, and once you’re on the gravy bus theres no getting off.
That speech, man…
“Before everything else, I’m a father”
“That’s why I’m throwing my kids under the bus on live tv.”
Stupid prick was happy to have the tax payer foot the bill too until he got rumbled.
Accidents happen, I can accept that.
If he held his hands up and said “My bad, I made a mistake, I will fix it” then I wouldn’t have an issue.
But he didn’t he stood up in parliament treating us like mugs telling us it was a legitimate work expense.
He tried to expense an £11,000 bill that he got by letting his family watch football on a work device.
That bill could have been avoided if he swapped SIMs as he was instructed.
It would have been avoided if he informed parliament as he was meant to.
It would have been avoided if he used his work device for work purposes.
I can forgive the causes.
What I can’t forgive is him claiming incompetence as a defence and so many people just accepting it and defending him
IT department told him to turn his Ipad hotspot on so he could use his Parliament phone. Son hacked the hotspot to watch the old firm game and didn’t admit it until Thursday when the time and date of the data use was published. I’ve got a teenager, exactly the kind of caper they get up to.
> However, he said that last week after the bill drew media scrutiny he discovered that others in his family had used data on the device.
Smell shite.
> Under questioning, the Scottish Health Secretary said the iPad itself had not been used by his children, but rather been used as a hotspot to allow internet access for other devices.
So it was used as a hotspot but he’d no idea, or no idea that would use up data, and at the very least didn’t think to mention that to whoever brought him the bill? The bill he agreed to use 3k of his own expenses budget to partly pay?
> Earlier, Humza Yousaf said his health secretary had “discovered” more information surrounding the 6GB of data he used while on a family holiday to Morocco.
The only thing he discovered was that nobody is buying this shite.
He found out about it in January but did nothing about it till this got leaked, so he’s had over 9 months to pay it back or feel sorry about it. He’s treating the public like mugs and there are plenty happy to let him away with it because of the party he is in.
The guy should resign or be sacked, I expect neither will happen.
Throughout all this, I’ve been pretty “devil’s advocate” on the matter.
Folk were defending him, folk were saying he’s guilty. We had no proof, until now.
The guy lied about it, saying it was for work. He also gave his kids access to a government device’s hotspot, which is surely a significant breach of policy.
Surely his position is untenable now.
Humza has made a fool of himself here
Giving him the complete benefit of the doubt that what he said is true, then we still have the issue of
* A minister, knowingly or not, allowing a third party to connect to a work device as a hotspot for non-work purposes and potentially accessing illegal and unsafe websites (have we confirmed if they watched the football through an official source or through an illegal stream as my understanding is that sky geoblocks streaming.)
* A minister failing to properly investigate the issue and misleading the FM, Holyrood staff, the public, and most importantly parliament
* A minister waiting nearly a week to correct the record of him misleading the public and parliament
* And all of these issues were ultimately caused by him failing to follow basic IT instructions for 10 months
This is a genuine mess. Yousaf surely cannot view this as an honest mistake to be moved on from. This not only raises issues of accountability, honesty, and competence but also security.
When you make Douglas Ross look like Perry Mason things are going badly.
>During that statement, Michael Matheson said he could not understand how he had racked up so much data roaming charges. He went on to say he could not explain the data usage.
>But of course, he did explain the data usage. He told this parliament when he claimed for expenses that it was a legitimate expense. He promised the parliament it was a legitimate expense. He gave this parliament written assurances, it was a legitimate expense.
>If it has now transpired that his son was watching football why did he claim he was doing parliamentary work?
>Can he say if he cannot understand at the time or could not explain the data usage, how he could 100% say to the parliament when claiming £11,000 of taxpayers’ money that he was doing parliamentary work? The two stories do not align.
Do his sons have the necessary DBS and other checks to ~~be thrown under the bus~~ use government property like this?
If he’s got nothing to hide then hand over the iPad that the tax payers have paid for.
This guy jfc. The cover-up is always worse than the crime.
His son didn’t submit the expenses claim for 11 grand.
What a slimey scumbag.
2 grand for 1.2 GB!? What the fuck
SNP Voters-“Aye but Westminster MP’s pure use mer data than us… FREEDOM!!! “…
What a complete and total piece of shit!
Could have used that money to put a deposit on a new campervan.
What a twat!
“And I’d have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for those meddling kids!”
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Cant believe he’s thrown his sons under the bus.
It is the gravy bus though, it was them or him, and once you’re on the gravy bus theres no getting off.
That speech, man…
“Before everything else, I’m a father”
“That’s why I’m throwing my kids under the bus on live tv.”
Stupid prick was happy to have the tax payer foot the bill too until he got rumbled.
Accidents happen, I can accept that.
If he held his hands up and said “My bad, I made a mistake, I will fix it” then I wouldn’t have an issue.
But he didn’t he stood up in parliament treating us like mugs telling us it was a legitimate work expense.
He tried to expense an £11,000 bill that he got by letting his family watch football on a work device.
That bill could have been avoided if he swapped SIMs as he was instructed.
It would have been avoided if he informed parliament as he was meant to.
It would have been avoided if he used his work device for work purposes.
I can forgive the causes.
What I can’t forgive is him claiming incompetence as a defence and so many people just accepting it and defending him
IT department told him to turn his Ipad hotspot on so he could use his Parliament phone. Son hacked the hotspot to watch the old firm game and didn’t admit it until Thursday when the time and date of the data use was published. I’ve got a teenager, exactly the kind of caper they get up to.
> However, he said that last week after the bill drew media scrutiny he discovered that others in his family had used data on the device.
Smell shite.
> Under questioning, the Scottish Health Secretary said the iPad itself had not been used by his children, but rather been used as a hotspot to allow internet access for other devices.
So it was used as a hotspot but he’d no idea, or no idea that would use up data, and at the very least didn’t think to mention that to whoever brought him the bill? The bill he agreed to use 3k of his own expenses budget to partly pay?
> Earlier, Humza Yousaf said his health secretary had “discovered” more information surrounding the 6GB of data he used while on a family holiday to Morocco.
The only thing he discovered was that nobody is buying this shite.
He found out about it in January but did nothing about it till this got leaked, so he’s had over 9 months to pay it back or feel sorry about it. He’s treating the public like mugs and there are plenty happy to let him away with it because of the party he is in.
The guy should resign or be sacked, I expect neither will happen.
Throughout all this, I’ve been pretty “devil’s advocate” on the matter.
Folk were defending him, folk were saying he’s guilty. We had no proof, until now.
The guy lied about it, saying it was for work. He also gave his kids access to a government device’s hotspot, which is surely a significant breach of policy.
Surely his position is untenable now.
Humza has made a fool of himself here
Giving him the complete benefit of the doubt that what he said is true, then we still have the issue of
* A minister, knowingly or not, allowing a third party to connect to a work device as a hotspot for non-work purposes and potentially accessing illegal and unsafe websites (have we confirmed if they watched the football through an official source or through an illegal stream as my understanding is that sky geoblocks streaming.)
* A minister failing to properly investigate the issue and misleading the FM, Holyrood staff, the public, and most importantly parliament
* A minister waiting nearly a week to correct the record of him misleading the public and parliament
* And all of these issues were ultimately caused by him failing to follow basic IT instructions for 10 months
This is a genuine mess. Yousaf surely cannot view this as an honest mistake to be moved on from. This not only raises issues of accountability, honesty, and competence but also security.
When you make Douglas Ross look like Perry Mason things are going badly.
>During that statement, Michael Matheson said he could not understand how he had racked up so much data roaming charges. He went on to say he could not explain the data usage.
>But of course, he did explain the data usage. He told this parliament when he claimed for expenses that it was a legitimate expense. He promised the parliament it was a legitimate expense. He gave this parliament written assurances, it was a legitimate expense.
>If it has now transpired that his son was watching football why did he claim he was doing parliamentary work?
>Can he say if he cannot understand at the time or could not explain the data usage, how he could 100% say to the parliament when claiming £11,000 of taxpayers’ money that he was doing parliamentary work? The two stories do not align.
Do his sons have the necessary DBS and other checks to ~~be thrown under the bus~~ use government property like this?
If he’s got nothing to hide then hand over the iPad that the tax payers have paid for.
This guy jfc. The cover-up is always worse than the crime.
His son didn’t submit the expenses claim for 11 grand.
What a slimey scumbag.
2 grand for 1.2 GB!? What the fuck
SNP Voters-“Aye but Westminster MP’s pure use mer data than us… FREEDOM!!! “…
What a complete and total piece of shit!
Could have used that money to put a deposit on a new campervan.
What a twat!
“And I’d have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for those meddling kids!”