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The Ever-Changing Lie 27

Posted on June 09, 2026 by

We have an update, folks.

Because they don’t even care about keeping their bullshit straight.

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The Massive Face Of Truth 75

Posted on June 07, 2026 by

If you’d like to watch a 21-minute video of me banging on about Operation Branchform and whatnot to the Scottish Sun, click the image below.

If you’d rather not watch that, best not to click it.

In pursuit of clarity 128

Posted on June 06, 2026 by

Wings has today sent the following emails.

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The Chief Constable
Police Scotland
5 Fettes Avenue
Edinburgh
EH4 1RB

6 June 2026

Thank you for your (very swift) reply to my letter. However, I am afraid that it leaves more questions than answers.

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The Interesting Words Round 148

Posted on June 05, 2026 by

We received two emails today, just a few minutes apart. There are a couple of notable things about them. The first came from Claire Somebody at the Crown Office.

The second one, even more thrillingly, came from Service Advisor 1989847 at Police Scotland, which we assume is some sort of advanced crime-fighting robot.

In one of those emails, readers, is a three-word phrase that raised our eyebrows just about right off our heads. Before we chat any more, see if it jumps out at you too.

The Lord Of The Rings 78

Posted on June 05, 2026 by

John Swinney knows the rules. He can’t pretend he doesn’t.

So let there be no mistake about this: if Police Scotland and the Crown Office refuse to investigate the First Minister’s open public confirmation this week that a serious crime was committed by the SNP over the “ring-fenced” fundraiser money from 2017 and 2019, it will be beyond any fair dispute that Scotland is a corrupt banana republic where the powerful and the elite can simply do whatever they want, as brazenly as they like, and the law will turn a blind, uncaring eye.

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The Aims Of Justice 123

Posted on June 04, 2026 by

Wings has today sent the following letter to the named recipients.

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The Chief Constable
Police Scotland
5 Fettes Avenue
Edinburgh
EH4 1RB

Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service
25 Chambers Street
Edinburgh
EH1 1LA

4 June 2026

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Dear Chief Constable and Crown Office,

RE: REQUEST FOR CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION — ALLEGED
MISAPPROPRIATION OF RING-FENCED POLITICAL DONATIONS

I write to request that Police Scotland/COPFS open a criminal investigation into the alleged misappropriation of funds donated to the Scottish National Party (SNP) on the basis that those funds would be held and applied for a specific, designated purpose.

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For Me, But Not For Thee 40

Posted on June 04, 2026 by

Huh.

Well, that’s nice, isn’t it?

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Kings Of Crisis Management 49

Posted on June 04, 2026 by

If you subscribe to the theory that it’s better to fight 100 duck-sized horses than a single horse-sized duck, the SNP is knocking it out of the park today.

Because the papers just can’t make their minds up about the biggest story with which to attack John Swinney’s beleaguered party.

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Everything Is Awesome 27

Posted on June 03, 2026 by

You’ve had a few pretty gruelling pieces to get through in the last week or so, readers, so here’s something a little more light-hearted.

It’s from an episode of Broadcasting Scotland on 27 November 2020, a month after we confirmed our big story about the SNP accounts and the missing fundraiser money. In it, snug-toed SNP MP Pete Wishart opines that there really is nothing to worry about, and we should all just put our trust in the party.

We’ll leave you to judge whose opinion stood the test of time.

The Truth Does Out 54

Posted on June 03, 2026 by

Sometimes you have to wait a while for people to catch up.

But patience is everything, readers.

All things, we hope, come to those who wait.

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Up The Hill And Down The Slope 116

Posted on June 03, 2026 by

On Sunday, Nicola Sturgeon told Laura Kuenssberg that the SNP’s accounts “went up and down” as her excuse for not noticing that hundreds of thousands of pounds had suddenly vanished from them overnight.

Several things leap out immediately from that clip.

One, there absolutely very much WAS “something glaringly suspicious in the accounts that I should have seen” – the party she led had raised almost £700,000 in two “ring-fenced” fundraisers that wasn’t there any more, which ought to have made its leader at least mildly curious.

And two, attempting to fob responsibility off onto the independent auditors simply won’t wash. It’s not their job to determine whether the SNP has kept its political promises or not, their job is simply to match up money coming in against money going out and produce a set of numbers to show what it all adds up to. It makes no odds to them if it was spent on a party conference, a fancy motorhome or a 50-foot golden statue of Danny La Rue. All they can see is numbers.

(In any event the party’s longstanding auditors resigned in 2023 rather than risk being caught up in any more dodginess. It took months for the SNP to find anyone else willing to take the job on.)

But even leaving those things aside, if we’re going to learn anything about how The Great Indyref Swindle got to this calamitous point unchecked we need to examine just how hard Nicola Sturgeon had to look the other way to fail to see what was going on literally under her nose and literally in her own back yard.

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Pandora’s Campervan 102

Posted on June 02, 2026 by

To tell you the truth, readers, we’re suffering from a little bit of option paralysis at the moment, although happily not in the same way Peter Murrell is.

The endless torrent of revelations following on from Murrell’s conviction a week ago isn’t just fascinating in its own right – it also forces numerous historical issues to be seen in a new light. At any given second there are half-a-dozen different articles we could be writing, but also so many to read that it’s hard to find the time.

We suspect this matter is going to run and run all through the summer silly season because there are simply so many angles and so many unanswered questions.

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    • crazycat on The Ever-Changing Lie: “They can identify them; when I sent them 2 reference numbers for donations I made in 2017, they knew that…Jun 9, 17:56
    • Hatey McHateface on The Massive Face Of Truth: “Does he say what kind of vehicle? Surely the campervan will be coming up at auction soon.Jun 9, 17:50
    • Hatey McHateface on The Ever-Changing Lie: “Who’s best to tell us where the missing money is, then, Alf? Cesaire, or Memmi?Jun 9, 17:47
    • John Cleary on The Ever-Changing Lie: “And that is why you will never get her. It’s a protection racket. The racket collapses when it fails to…Jun 9, 17:45
    • Sven on The Ever-Changing Lie: “None which we could conveniently blame on others.Jun 9, 17:40
    • robertkknight on The Ever-Changing Lie: “For the sake of shits’n’giggles… Let us look at what that “quote” says… “We’ll use the money for the purpose…Jun 9, 17:39
    • agentx on The Ever-Changing Lie: “Was there no crime in Scotland before colonisation?Jun 9, 17:20
    • Alf Baird on The Ever-Changing Lie: “The psychodynamics of Scottish independence would seem important here, not least because colonialism ‘is based on psychology’ (Cesaire). A key…Jun 9, 17:02
    • Glenn Boyd on The Ever-Changing Lie: “Really, they should have stuck to the Father Ted Defence: “Now Dougal, the money was just resting in my account!”Jun 9, 16:27
    • Lynne on The Ever-Changing Lie: “Tied up in vehicles, cruet sets & other fancy goods, maybe…Jun 9, 16:18
    • Iain More on The Ever-Changing Lie: “I wont be moving on until Nicola MI6 Sturgeon isin a cellJun 9, 16:08
    • lothianlad on The Ever-Changing Lie: “Well done for holding them to account Stu!! Without you, they would get away with this fully. Now they are…Jun 9, 15:40
    • Anthony Little on The Ever-Changing Lie: “Indeed. It’s a question our “investigative” MSM seems to have overlooked. Online I’m getting SNP members simply wanting to “move…Jun 9, 15:37
    • agentx on The Ever-Changing Lie: “Are the Electoral Commission going to publish that all the accounts submitted from 2010-2022 are fraudulent and insist that the…Jun 9, 15:29
    • Andrew F on The Ever-Changing Lie: “Isn’t that bloke about to be sentenced? Hasn’t the media made a big point of banging on about how he’s…Jun 9, 15:22
    • Randolph Kleinman on The Ever-Changing Lie: “I think “woven through the accounts” meant tied up in working capital.Jun 9, 15:16
    • sam on The Ever-Changing Lie: “I think it is an admission that the funds were used improperly. The Electoral Commission might be taking note. Anyone…Jun 9, 15:10
    • joe on The Ever-Changing Lie: “has anyone explained why it wasn’t put into a separate ring fenced account from the beginning, if its gone straight…Jun 9, 15:07
    • J Robertson on The Ever-Changing Lie: “My personal favourite has to be Beattie’s “woven through the accounts” bull. Can’t decide whether that reflects his stupidity or…Jun 9, 14:42
    • Effijy on The Ever-Changing Lie: “How about the money has been in Ginger Bottle Deposits the whole time? Time to stop digging that hole they…Jun 9, 14:29
    • Andouillette on The Ever-Changing Lie: “All of the above? Maybe we should just cut the crap and give the SNP a collective lobotomy, after all…Jun 9, 14:07
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    • robertkknight on The Ever-Changing Lie: “Honestly…you couldn’t make this shit up! Well, in saying that, it appears that the SNP are quite capable of making…Jun 9, 13:31
    • Scran on The Ever-Changing Lie: “I’ll tell you what l want. What I really, really want. STURGEON For all her betrayals, broken promises and lies.Jun 9, 13:15
    • Alf Baird on The Massive Face Of Truth: “Aye James, the people need to understand that the path to freedom cannot come via the colonizers laws or his…Jun 9, 13:12
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    • Andrew Kidd on The Ever-Changing Lie: “Murrell was stealing before the Indyref fund was set up.Jun 9, 13:04
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    • Randolph Kleinman on The Ever-Changing Lie: “Speaking as a chartered accountant: part of the problem is that the SNP accounts have not shown a detailed reserves…Jun 9, 12:52
    • A. Hadenough. on The Ever-Changing Lie: “why is he only paying 400k back when 600k + went missing. Where’s the rest?Jun 9, 12:47
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