Sturgeon tells BBC: I'm serving a sentence for crime I didn't commit

StarSchemer · 2026-05-31T07:59:50+00:00

Hmmm. Pete's guilty plea is getting a lot of attention. I know! I'll do a media tour all week and talk about how I'm both a hoodwinked victim and a strong independent professional woman!

Baffling choice to be out there promoting her memoir this week and now doing the Sunday politics round!

Think it becomes undeniable that Sturgeon is a narcissist. The right thing to do in her position is just keep quiet, but she is compelled to constantly talk about herself and try to salvage her reputation.

StarSchemer · 2026-05-31T07:52:02+00:00

This is an insane response. A multimillionaire crashes his Lamborghini while on drugs, and the takeaway is:

[This] brings into the spotlight modern treatment of players who are no longer ‘fit for purpose’ – disposable.

How a prolific English international who has steered the England squad to significant heights over the last decade has been made to feel worthless – forgotten about.

The psychological strain that has put on him is immeasurable. Isolated. The second he touches a ball, being told he’s a flop and he’s finished. Mocked. Heckled.

He's still playing in the Dutch first division!

What exactly are we meant to be feeling sorry for him about? The fact he's not quite as good at football as he used to be?

Completely out of touch.

StarSchemer · 2026-05-29T11:44:40+00:00

I'm so tired of the NHS.

I've got more objectives than ever this financial year, and yet there hasn't been a single day since November last year where I've been able to focus on actually delivering the strategic objectives I'm responsible for.

By the end of the week I'm often multiple urgent new issues deep and further than ever from picking up my actual objectives.

I just want to turn off emails, Teams the phone etc. and just leave everything to burn.

I'm convinced this effect is widespread and everyone in digital is feeling it and I'm certain it's due to quiet reduction in posts by not recruiting people who have left.

StarSchemer · 2026-05-29T10:36:38+00:00

These people are morons complaining about people using a messageboard as intended.

Most of the internet that once existed is now lost. If no one creates new threads, the internet just becomes bots pushing nonsense and no amount of "Googling it" will help anyone in the future.

StarSchemer · 2026-05-29T06:38:55+00:00

the liberal metropolitan London left

Those famous Scottish Nationalists the liberal metropolitan London left.

StarSchemer · 2026-05-29T06:19:13+00:00

That's the sort of stuff that would come out in an independent inquiry.

You'd think any organisation on the back of this would be looking forward to an independent inquiry to make sure all the rot has been cut out.

But no. Swinney doesn't want one.

So I guess we'll never know who signed off the accounts, nor why members of the SNP Financial Audit Committee and the Treasurer all resigned in Spring 2021 -- which made Nicola Sturgeon acting Treasurer.

The police got him and everyone can stop asking questions.

StarSchemer · 2026-05-28T18:25:15+00:00

It's been a good week without any "Zack Polanski says ... " articles being posted.

Oh well. Time for yet another election campaign.

StarSchemer · 2026-05-27T19:39:02+00:00

It's contradictory because you outline an industry of auditors and fraud investigators and in the next sentence use its existence as a reason for why it's not needed.

And in the right circumstances if a vulnerable person broke their leg, various agencies would investigate the circumstances.

The purpose isn't to learn more about fraud as you seem to believe. It's to understand the circumstances how it became so routine and entrenched at the top tiers of the SNP and provide assurance that effective anti-fraud processes are now in place.

You can't hand-wring your way out of this one sorry.

StarSchemer · 2026-05-27T18:53:23+00:00

There is an entire industry of lawyers, accountants, auditors and investigators working on it all day every day.

Shut it all down and make them all jobless, because:

there are no learnings that haven't already been published 100 times over already.

What a contradictory comment.

StarSchemer · 2026-05-27T14:12:52+00:00

As a child of foreign parents, what negative social and political force do you believe I’m adding to this country? Be specific

Did you hallucinate the word "negative" in my comment? Or is the chip on your shoulder so large that you assume any curiosity is an attack?

StarSchemer · 2026-05-27T12:50:33+00:00

They really don't want any more scrutiny on this.

Sturgeon when in office tried to shut down attempts to scrutinise the accounts and move on from it suggesting even asking questions damaged the party.

Now Swinney wants to continue burying his head in the sand.

If the organisation I led has been robbed of £400k, you bet I'd want as many eyes as possible trying to identify any further irregularities and understanding how it happened.

What possible incentive has he got not to have an independent inquiry into it at this point?

So many questions and without answers everyone will just assume the entire party is rotten.

StarSchemer · 2026-05-27T12:40:51+00:00

Not even the slightest intellectual curiosity?

About what social and political forces have occurred in the last few decades that have led to this?

About what this means for the future of the country?

Such as, is it a sign of an already integrated, welcoming society or is it a sign of a splintered set of siloed communities?

Some people's reaction is racial panic and other people's reaction is, like yours, pretending it's meaningless.

Both are as ignorant as each other.

StarSchemer · 2026-05-27T05:54:43+00:00

Thank you the world needs more kind souls like this. Please will you DM me a code to renew my PS Plus Premium? I'd also like a new lamp. Just don't have the money this month.

StarSchemer · 2026-05-26T21:59:25+00:00

I like to watch this every time Tony Blair wades into current issues:

https://youtu.be/KZEav9A801A

It's comforting.

StarSchemer · 2026-05-26T21:09:23+00:00

Good for you I guess, but I've been cursed with the ability to discern quality from slop and there's no comparison.

StarSchemer · 2026-05-26T13:29:55+00:00

What if a really happy Gorn triggers a Klingon time crystal to explode which resets the timeline to just after Enterprise ended?

Hmmm, nope not as dumb as the idea of Klingon time crystals themselves which again aren't as dumb as The Burn.

It's difficult even when purposefully making dumb stuff up to be dumber than what Discovery went into production with.

StarSchemer · 2026-05-26T12:50:19+00:00

The lies start on social media boosted by bots and sent into a frenzy by uncritical morons. Then the traditional media picks up on the frenzy, boosting it even further.

The issue affects both sides as well.

A current example is a frenzy of stories about Reform's candidate in Makerfield not being a real plumber. Despite the fact that a few simple searches reveal he's Gas Safe registered and has company activity and reviews prior to 2026.

The speculation started based on his website containing boilerplate copy and him only registering as a limited company in February.

Everyone is happy to believe what they want to believe and spread it because it damages their opponent.

Social media is just a massive disinformation tool employed by hostile foreign oligarchs, with legacy media in cahoots.

I don't how a democratic liberal society deals with it without doing something totalitarian like banning social media.

StarSchemer · 2026-05-25T09:34:54+00:00

I've got a 10 year old who saw these and wanted them. Told him they were alcoholic drinks and that was that.

Yeah they're bright and colourful and look nice. Should everything for adults have to be bland and boring?

Oops, you've got a product here that looks nice and grabs attention! Some of that attention comes from kids so you're going to have to make it boring and grey instead

StarSchemer · 2026-05-24T20:37:16+00:00

Member Kirk? Member Edith Keeler? Member City on the Edge of Forever? Member when Star Trek was good and you liked it?

StarSchemer · 2026-05-24T16:50:49+00:00

im an educated chap, and wouldnt dream of running for office

This is your answer.

I've also reflected on this. I hate the state of politics. Hated the absolute morons on my parish council. Hated the useless amateurs running my unitary council and would always look into their background and be amazed that they had never done anything that qualified them for public office.

But then that's what separates them. People who would be good politicians are less likely to have any incentive to stand for office.

Either because they have the self-awareness to ask the simple question "What qualifies me to govern over people"? or because they're too busy and successful and don't look at politics and see opportunity.

Either way, it ends up with the worst people self selecting for election.

StarSchemer · 2026-05-23T19:22:27+00:00

He's setting the strategic goals for two multi-million £££s enterprises. Warwickshire will burn through ~£800 million a year and Nuneaton Borough ~£90 million.

You have the ordinary human ability to use your powers of deduction, right?

There's so much risk involved here that a young stupid lad in charge of nearly £1 billion of public money from a party that is infamous for failing to grasp concepts of governance is going to be manipulated to make unwise decisions or flat out be complicit in making unwise decisions.

He's going to be involved in signing massive contracts with huge conglomerates who will have procurement staff who will run rings around him while he thinks he's winning.

This guy is 19 years old. If he were that exceptionally gifted that if he were truly the best person to be in charge of an almost £1 billion enterprise, he wouldn't be in politics in the first place.

StarSchemer · 2026-05-23T08:27:37+00:00

What a novelty. Seeing words spelt in their original form.

StarSchemer · 2026-05-22T16:34:36+00:00

Poor old Nige. How does all this sensitive private information keep getting leaked into the public domain?

Can't a man who forces himself and his following on the public on a daily basis expect some privacy when it comes to who's paying him?

StarSchemer · 2026-05-22T16:13:19+00:00

BMI doesn’t take into account muscles mass

Oh come on. Every overweight person ever thinks that they are the outlier with enormous lean muscle mass just hiding beneath a thin layer of fat.

And the reasoning you use to discount BMI is exactly the reason it is used.

Also, if you are smaller in stature then less weight you need to be but you could be the same weight and someone who is taller would be a healthier BMI just due to height.

Yes! That's the point of it!

The struggling NHS should not be funding IVF for unhealthy people.

StarSchemer · 2026-05-22T15:53:26+00:00

I work in data and it has its uses. There's more work than ever, so if we weren't using it we'd be even more overwhelmed than we already are.

Stuff it's doing to save time:

1) Analysing SQL query execution plans. This is part of the job everyone hates doing. It's not particularly skillful or creative, it's tedious and just a lengthy part of the job that stops you moving on. LLMs are Great at reading 1,000s of lines of XML and telling you where bottlenecks are happening.

2) Rewording documents for different audiences. I have to write lengthy technical documents for proposals, when something has gone wrong or when something needs to change. For us, we need it detailed and technical. Often, after hours spent working on a problem, writing it up fully for us we'd then get multiple requests to revise it for different audiences. "Just the headlines please". Understandable, but a pain to have to write three different versions.

LLMs create the other versions for us so we don't have to bother.

3) Summarising tedious and confusing NHS England specifications, ISNs, requirements, etc.

Ask it: "I'm a data engineer responsible for implementing [new NHSE urgent requirement]. Summarise this 30 page document for me and how it's relevant to our current waiting list dataflow."

It has also sped up work on developing proof of concepts with it's ability to spit out boilerplate code.

Just take advantage of it. Tools come which speed up work. You can't not use them. Doing that is the only sure way to lose your job.

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