SNP rocked by discovery of intimate texts revealing two politicians’ torrid lockdown affair – at the same time the party insisted Scots stayed home
by 1-randomonium
SNP rocked by discovery of intimate texts revealing two politicians’ torrid lockdown affair – at the same time the party insisted Scots stayed home
by 1-randomonium
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>The secret relationship is said to have carried on during the Covid pandemic in 2020, when the SNP forced the rest of the country to stay at home under tough lockdown restrictions.
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>It echoed former UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s affair with an aide the same year, when he was caught on CCTV breaching Covid rules and was later forced to resign.
>The heartbroken husband also revealed the betrayal was made even worse after he was warned he could not make any details public.
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>A source close to the story said: ‘There were a lot of rumours about the affair and the politician’s other half was well aware of them, but they didn’t want to do anything without evidence.
>’It all came to a head with these texts.’
>There are fears within the party that any scandal over an affair would deal a damaging blow to the SNP’s electoral hopes at the ballot box next year.
>….
>The SNP was approached about the lockdown-breaching affair today, but declined to comment.
>Details of when and where the extramarital relationship between the pair took place are now considered to be a matter of public interest, especially if Scotland’s lockdown rules were broken.
On the face of it this is exactly the same sort of scandal as the ones that forced Johnson and Hancock out.
What makes it spicier is that, allegedly, one of these two politicians is First Minister and SNP leader Humza Yousaf. Though for legal reasons no name has been released yet.
*If* this turns out to be true Yousaf will probably end up having the shortest ever tenure as First Minister.
With no names these sort of stories may as well be fiction. If you haven’t got enough evidence or public interest argument to name someone then don’t publish the story.
Another daily mail article with hopelessly vauge gossip and no reasonable citations. I would not be surprised if this all turned out to be complete bullshit.
If politicians were breaking lockdown rules then that’s surely public interest. It impacted Hancock, and affected Johnson and Sunak.
>The man, who has asked not to be named, **told the Mail**: ‘The affair wrecked my marriage. **I’ve thought long and hard about going public about this, but I feel I can’t**.
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What a shock, people are trying to defend this.
It’s a blatant abuse of power and breaking the rules. Both politicians should be named and shamed.
Keir Starmer could take an 8 month long holiday in the Bahamas return 2 weeks before the general election and still win a majority at this rate.
I wonder if those brutal poll predictions for the SNP can drop even further!
There’s the story for politicians and political wonks to scurry about passing gossip around all weekend I guess
Genuine question, if all the politicians aren’t staying home, aren’t afraid of the virus why should we have been?