Nicola Sturgeon Arrested, Peter Murrell Charged

[Eddie Hitler]

2 hours ago, Hedgecutter said:

It was all over the BBC News channel yesterday tbf.  Correspondent standing two feet in front of some poor police officer trying to stand still and not pick his nose or whatever.

That said, although not BBC, I tuned into Talk Radio for a laugh the other day (good to see how the other side think on occasion) and there was some phone-in caller who said something along the lines of "I'm sick to my back teeth of hearing about Scotland.  Don't they realise there are just as many people living in Yorkshire as there are in Scotland".  Union of nations, aye? 

Fair enough observation although it would of course hardly be the first time someone up here had said they were sick of hearing about e.g. London!

And, to be fair, I suspect northern English/Welsh/etc etc often same the same.

[Granny Danger]

22 minutes ago, Suspect Device said:

reminds me of the Billy Connolly joke.

A large hole appeared in Sauchiehall street today.

Police are looking into it.

I think you’ll find that Congressman George Santos first told that joke.

[Billy Jean King]

1 hour ago, virginton said:

Scottish journalists and above all  PE have been investigating and writing about Murrell's Ted Crilly handling of the £600k for months, if not a year or two now. The resignation of the SNP's internal whistleblowers was a long time ago too. 

That you chose to bury your head in the sand does not actually mean that the allegations only 'surfaced' this week and that the circumstances are completely obscure. 

Utter bollocks. Most of the UK has been rooting for Boris Johnson and co. to be charged by the police and prosecuted for their misconduct over 'Partygate'. If Rishi Sunak and Douglas Ross were personally implicated in a potential criminal offence tomorrow I would be laughing all day long. 

This smacks of special (and particularly pathetic) pleading. 

Eh ? I'm making exactly that point, it's been in the public domain since the allegations were made. Absolutely no argument from me there and no idea where you get that I'm burying my head in the sand to it. Totally bizarre response presumably misquoting me ???

[Alert Mongoose]

2 hours ago, DeeTillEhDeh said:

It's not good enough for the SNP (and the wider independence movement) to measure themselves against Tory misdemeanours - they need to be better than that.

I get where you are coming from with regards to specific misdemeanours. Whilst we remain so inextricably linked to the finances of the UK, it seems to me to be perfectly fair to benchmark against Westminster.

[Scary Bear]

1 hour ago, Thorongil said:

20 cops searching the house again today. 

Wonder what is actually going on.

20? They’ll be falling over each other.

[ScotiaNostra]

imo, Its that constant oh the tories are worse has allwoed the SNP to drop standards

The tories should be called out but when it becomes an easy way to deflect the snps own poor policy, ways of working or generally just taking voters for granted. That isnt helping indpendence or the SNP in the long term

[Granny Danger]

1 hour ago, Thorongil said:

20 cops searching the house again today. 

Wonder what is actually going on.

20?  If they find the money that’s £30k each!

[Lex]

 

Edited April 6, 2023 by Lex

[Ludo*1]

It's Jackie Baillie that thinks there are bodies in the garden:

 

[Molotov]

4 hours ago, TheScarf said:

Since when has the BBC given a f**k about Scotland or Scottish politics?  

The independence referendum? They seemed happy then to promote one side of the argument to influence the outcome to suit their agenda.
Tory cnuts. 

[Molotov]

10 minutes ago, Lex said:

 

Still waiting for you to provide evidence of “corruption & criminality”.

[John Lambies Doos]

46 minutes ago, Lex said:

 

Arsehole

[ScotiaNostra]

1 hour ago, Ludo*1 said:

It's Jackie Baillie that thinks there are bodies in the garden:

 

is magpie code for a couple of tea leafs

Edited April 6, 2023 by ScotiaNostra

[itzdrk]

2 hours ago, Lex said:

 

Someone's turned up to hang about outside Sturgeon & Murrell's neighbours house with a fleg? 

Pathetic 

[bennett]

1 hour ago, John Lambies Doos said:

Arsehole

Lex is ok, that's not needed.

[Trogdor]

40 minutes ago, ScotiaNostra said:

is magpie code for a couple of tea leafs

The police should really have called it Operation Magpie.

I'm surprised no one mocked up a t-shirt with a mugshot of Murrell like Trump was trying to sell earlier in the week.

[54_and_counting]

3 hours ago, ScotiaNostra said:

imo, Its that constant oh the tories are worse has allwoed the SNP to drop standards

The tories should be called out but when it becomes an easy way to deflect the snps own poor policy, ways of working or generally just taking voters for granted. That isnt helping indpendence or the SNP in the long term

It clearly has helped the SNP as they have stayed in power now for over a decade with little to show for it

Everytime something bad happens up here they simply point to a bigger squirrel in the basketcase down south and the votes keep flooding in for them

f**k do they even want independence, at least the now they can stay in power and blame down south for anything and a good chunk of their followers will believe in no matter what, 

[carpetmonster]

3 hours ago, Ludo*1 said:

It's Jackie Baillie that thinks there are bodies in the garden:

 

Jackie seems awfully cheerful; do you think she misheard him and thought he said ‘big pie’?

[Trogdor]

23 minutes ago, carpetmonster said:

Jackie seems awfully cheerful; do you think she misheard him and thought he said ‘big pie’?

Mods, fat shaming. 

[ScotiaNostra]

Do you think it could be that someone in SNP threw Murrell to the wolves after the new leadership came in, maybe coming in and seeing some possible wrongdoing and deciding feck this we need to distance ourselves from this and flag it now or we will get taken down with it later if we dont?