Police face questions over timing of arrest raid at Nicola Sturgeon’s home
Questions about the timing come after the “‘Ee dun’ nuffink wrong” and “Where’s your evidence?” and even after “But the Big Boy did it and ran away” in the list of useful excuses.
There won’t have been any need for a conspiracy between the police and the SNP. It’d be a case of the police knowing which side their bread is buttered, and not rocking the SNP one party State boat would be the best way for any senior police officer to keep his job and pension. Ergo there won’t have been any ‘Hold off until after the party election’ request/demand made, all those in the loop of making that decision would know what was required without having to be told.
The phrase “nine bob note” springs to mind, As in bent as…
It’s the best the lefty meeja can come up with.
I’m always amazed that everyone was encouraged to hate the BNP (I lived in Welling at the time and was scare stiff of some of them) but the SNP are seen as just lovely traditional patriots by said meeja, at least until fascist Sturgeon grew that silly moustache and went bonkers. (OK I lied about the moustache). Corrupt thieves who couldn’t run in drinking party in a place of ill repute.
Speaking from the departure lounge at Terminal 3 Heathrow, where she was waiting to board a flight to Rio di Janieres, Ms Sturgen said that she had ” No idea” that there was a police investgation pending.
Grist
There’s a great line from the Sweeney2 film, where Regan describes his boss ( played by Denholm Elliot).
“He was so bent, his own picture wouldn’t hang straight.”
Remember, there is no separation of powers in Scotland, and no real adult oversight of what’s going on.
The police are up to their necks in intrigue, and the prosecution service is about as politically bent as you can imagine this side of the Danube.
From what I understand about the allegations is that the only question around timing is that the arrest should have happened a few years ago.
And why does Scotland’s independent legal process have the power to extend their sub judice law to England? Didn’t they make the case that Scotland wasn’t covered by England’s sub judice law?
I heard that the money was only resting in his account.
I don’t doubt the SNP is as corrupt as the Labour hegemony that preceded them. At the next election we may well see a return to Labour – and a resumption of business as usual.
Bernie – no, more.
Almost unbelievably, the SNP is more corrupt than Labour ever was. They’ve gone mad up there with the political weaponisation of the criminal justice system, the massive jobs-for-the-girls network of SNP patronage at taxpayers’ expense, and the endemic culture of secrecy. It’s not as far from Tartan North Korea as you might think.
If we had a legitimate British government they would shut Holyrood down today and have all its members arrested, then turn that monstrous carbuncle in Edinburgh into a lion sanctuary.
The £600,000 might be a trap for the SNP and Ms. Sturgeon’s Beard, but the bigger fraud is where the COVID-19 funds paid by UK Gov to the Scottish Government have gone, since not all of that was paid to Scottish Business et al.
The total funding amount was around £14 billion, so the change from that ain’t exactly something you can lose down the back of the sofa.
Grist: To be fair, they did kick the Gaelic nationist mentalists who wanted violent insurrection à la IRA out… in the 1980s. (Although they seem to have been quite welcome in the 2014 “Yes” campaign. But it was totally not the SNP in a Zorro mask. Not at all. Completely different thing altogether, officer.)
“Remember, there is no separation of powers in Scotland, and no real adult oversight of what’s going on.”
Yep. Even the Cabinet aren’t real Ministers, apart from the FM himself. The whole “Scottish Government” is basically still the old Scottish Office, divided into “Directorates” (hmm, that sounds familiar…) over which the “Ministers” have no direct oversight. I had no idea until I looked into it a year or two ago. It’s a bizarre setup, giving the FM vastly more “presidential” power than the UK Cabinet.
The irony of the whole thing being that some kind of Assembly was originally proposed back in the ’60s, by the Tories, to address reform of the legal system in Scotland. The reason they then opposed it in ’97 was that by that time it had feature-crept its way to being a legislative unicameral “Parliament”, and legal reform had been completely forgotten about. It’s been there for nearly 25 years now, and it still hasn’t done anything about it.
Steve: Amen to that. At first, I was prepared to go along, albeit reluctantly, with the Tory line that it’s here, we didn’t want it, but we might as well make the best of it. But no. It’s rotten to the core. Like the EU, it’s fundamentally broken; reform is not an option. It has to go.
100% ^THIS.
It’s not exactly the first time we’ve closed a devolved assembly because it was no longer fit for purpose of those it allegedly represented. We did exactly that with the Northern Irish Parliament at Stormont 50 years ago.
The Scottish Parliament is a talking shop and the Scottish Government a vast bureaucratic waste of time and money that produces far worse outcomes for Scotland than the pre-devolutionary settlement ever did.
On every measure Scotland is doing worse under devolution than beforehand, the only winners being the political pygmies of the Scottish Parliament and above all the corrupt denizens of the SNP.
It’s long past time to repudiate devolution, send in the Serious Fraud Squad, prosecute the offenders and demolish both the Scottish Parliament and government buildings and salt the earth whereupon it stood.
It’s not about disenfranchising the Scots, it’s about removing the ticks and cockroaches that infest devolutionary government and place themselves above the Union, Westminster and Downing Street.
Ditto Wales.
At least the SNP are competent enough to be corrupt, the Welsh government are just incompetent
Exactly, JG. I’m not against the devolution of power. Quite the opposite: the less centralisation of power the better, as far as I’m concerned. But Holyrood isn’t devolution; it’s centralization on a slightly smaller stage. “Strathclyde writ large”, as we predicted in the ’90s, with all the concomitant graft and corruption. Shut it down and bring back the Burghs.
“It’s long past time to repudiate devolution, send in the Serious Fraud Squad, prosecute the offenders and demolish both the Scottish Parliament and government buildings and salt the earth whereupon it stood.”
Nah, just let the buggers go. No point wasting money on trying to clean the place up, we end up paying for everything regardless. Just cut them adrift and the lack of funds will force them to do the work of cutting out waste themslves.
the prosecution service is about as politically bent as you can imagine this side of the Danube.
As the Danube flows mainly west-east, I wonder which side we’re on? Not that it matters much, there’s plenty of corruption on both sides.
The police are digging up the garden as a result of a tip-off – they have been told that it holds the corpse of Scottish Independence.
See Craig Murray (craigmurray.org.uk) for more info…
(He’s being a bit reticent following his recent gaol time for annoying Krankie, but read between the lines. And, yes, he’s leftie as f**k but also a genuine libertarian and honest chap IMO)
@Gareth. Wings over Scotland is an interesting blog on this subject
“Wings over Scotland is an interesting blog on this subject”
The guy behind Wings is the person who broke this story over 2 years ago, and was studiously ignored by all the ‘real’ media.
He also lives in Bath.
Bathonians for the win, eh?
Yeah, fair play to Campbell. He’s still an insufferably egotistical arse, but credit where it’s due.
@Bloke near Worcester
Yes, visit his site occasionally too 🙂