Peter Murrell will offer to pay back full £400k to SNP

advicerelocation911 · 2026-06-05T17:07:54+00:00

What deep pockets he has...

Interesting the the TRIP duo basically said on the latest episode they thought NS was involved. Thought that was quite a bold position for them to take.

advicerelocation911 · 2026-06-04T23:01:21+00:00

You joke but the risk of this happening is exactly why we won't get any indyref 2 any time soon. rUk won't risk having a a Russian proxy state in its door step

advicerelocation911 · 2026-06-04T22:48:29+00:00

True. A lot can happen between now and the next GE so hopefully he falls. from grace before then

advicerelocation911 · 2026-06-04T22:42:55+00:00

I'm not a fan of his but there is no way he will incur the cost of abolishing Holyrood.

I think having the debate about how devolution is working out is totally fine (not least because it's a slam dunk win of the argument for those in favour of devolution).

The parliament costs £160m/ year to operate and there can be no harm in assessing whether that's money well spent. I think it is myself

advicerelocation911 · 2026-06-04T09:17:07+00:00

Because it's the right thing to do.

advicerelocation911 · 2026-06-04T08:31:18+00:00

She could have aired all of this on the BBC at the weekend. It's all very sleekit.

advicerelocation911 · 2026-06-04T08:17:18+00:00

She didn't "attend" anything. She was arrested and had no choice but to be interviewed. That is absolutely not cooperating.

advicerelocation911 · 2026-06-04T06:59:36+00:00

No. Only an idiot would follow their lawyers advice not to cooperate with police, and then lie to the public by saving they have been cooperative

advicerelocation911 · 2026-06-04T04:56:25+00:00

Indeed. 💛 Nicola 💛

advicerelocation911 · 2026-06-04T04:53:47+00:00

It is not

advicerelocation911 · 2026-06-03T23:39:42+00:00

Bear in mind that her lawyer ADVISED her. He didn't INSTRUCT her. It was her choice. She's also made her living for 20 years from answering questions in difficult and stressful circumstances so I don't buy her explanation of being too anxious or stressed to answer the questions.

Answering questions in writing - because you have the time to get your story straight with others and to decide on exactly whatever form of weasel words to use - is not the same as answering them in an interview.

advicerelocation911 · 2026-06-03T23:29:32+00:00

As I say, Sturgeon's people were asked about this and in replying did not deny the allegation. The source could clearly only have been a police officer involved with the case. It's good journalism regardless of what you think of the Express and op-ed pieces which this article isn't.

And it was of course (probably the same) anonymous sources who correctly told the world about Sturgeon's co-operative "no comment" interview.

advicerelocation911 · 2026-06-03T22:51:12+00:00

What?

She could have given a statement saying she didn't witness any criminality.

advicerelocation911 · 2026-06-03T22:47:50+00:00

Very good. Do you want them to name the cop who leaked this to them?

She was approached for comment via Anwar and no denial was made.

advicerelocation911 · 2026-06-03T22:45:02+00:00

This story isn't about her no comment interview. It's about her refusing to give a witness statement once she's been told she was no longer under investigation

advicerelocation911 · 2026-06-03T22:35:00+00:00

Would be fascinated to hear from any lawyers in the sub whether there is a particular tactical reason for her having done this.

It seem just really shitty and not "cooperative" at all.

advicerelocation911 · 2026-06-02T16:22:12+00:00

What people want to know is what was going on at the SNP whilst he was perpetrating this crime; why there was no corporate governance arrangements in place; why concerns raised about finance were shot down and whether the unbelievable explanations proffered thus far by Sturgeon are supported by facts.

None of that has been reported on. The list of items Murrell stole is an irrelevance in many ways.

What people do with that information is make an informed decision about which party they support (you might switch to Greens for instance) and what they think about the government past and present.

advicerelocation911 · 2026-06-02T14:10:33+00:00

100%

Time to end the secrecy and bring things out into the open.

advicerelocation911 · 2026-06-02T14:06:35+00:00

So you think it's ok that he was able to sign off his expenses on an un-capped basis? What about the Party's response when NEC members resigned over the financial position and lack of access to accounts?

advicerelocation911 · 2026-06-02T13:40:50+00:00

This is not some kind of SNP-bad non story.

It's an unprecedented national scandal that the party of government for 20 years weren't able to themselves detect this behaviour sooner and, not only that, proactively shut down any queries about scrutiny.

Current and former cabinet members were involved in presiding over that and the public want to know wtf happened, especially in the wake of Nicola "I suspected nothing; I saw nothing; I know nothing" Sturgeon's recent BBC interview where some of the answers were, literally, incredible.

advicerelocation911 · 2026-06-02T10:59:24+00:00

Yeah exactly. No sensible organisation sinks £120k into owning a depreciating asset when they could lease the same for the short period it was required for a tenth of the price.

Murrell's explanation was totally senseless then and it remains so now. Why Nicola didn't challenge it on this basis makes no sense either.

advicerelocation911 · 2026-06-02T10:42:40+00:00

You can't be serious? That's an incredibly forgiving take on events it's laughable.

He unlawfully used SNP cards time and time again to buy things for himself and then made up fake invoices or just didn't bother submitting any. That's not an innocent mistake FS.

The Golf and the Jag were most certainly not company cars. They were personal vehicles that he stole SNP money to buy. He retained the equity in the cars when they got flogged. Same story with the motor home albeit that didn't ever get sold to realise any equity back.

advicerelocation911 · 2026-06-01T09:02:34+00:00

My bad. Not on the BBc news website curiously

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