We’ve had another email from the Crown Office. Stand by for a surprise!
Well, that seems fair enough: other than the fact that almost £700,000 in “ringfenced” fundraiser money is (still) visibly missing, and the fact that the First Minister of the country and the leader of the party the money was entrusted to has publicly admitted it was misappropriated, there’s insufficient evidence that anything untoward happened to it. Panic over, everyone. Nothing to see here. Carry on with your day.
Great news, everyone – Scottish Labour has finally worked out how to talk to the people of Scotland. This video featuring the party’s MP Melanie Ward just appeared on the Scotland Office’s LinkedIn page, and it explains the complexities of the interlinked Scottish and UK economies in terms that the UK government hopes all of you awful thick Jocko plebs might be able to understand. Enjoy.
And tomorrow morning, do remember to eat your cereal, won’t you?
The contempt for the Scottish public being openly shown by public servants paid from the public purse to answer to the public has at this point reached such endemic levels that we’re not sure an acceptable level of trust can ever be salvaged.
The reply above is not just evasive, not even just pathetic, it’s insulting – not just to us, but to every citizen of Scotland.
Not done with celebrating defeat in an imaginary UDI yesterday, The National has gone with another big polling-based front cover today, and the party’s woke young stormtrooper drones are beside themselves with malignant glee.
The National runs headlines like this quite often.
The sort-of newspaper doesn’t actually have a sports section – it just publishes The Herald’s – but if it did you have to wonder what it would look like.
It’s sometimes tempting to believe that transactivists, and in particular the extra-loud attention-seeking type, are simply mad and/or stupid. But that’s not always the case, because this sounds like some actually pretty cunning work.
Ever-alert Wings readers will be aware that for the past three and a half years or so I’ve been the target of a campaign by disgraced former policeman Lynsay Watson, who over that period has relentlessly attempted to get me arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned for knowing – and saying – that human beings can’t change sex.
(As we’ll learn during this article, I am far from unique in that experience.)
Watson has made numerous ludicrous, vexatious complaints to various police forces about me – a particularly memorable one being when he reported me last September for “perverting the course of justice” because I’d tweeted a link to a fundraiser for someone being persecuted by another transactivist – as well as trying to extort tens of thousands of pounds from me with threats.
Yesterday, though, he finally found some police officers gullible enough to listen.
Apologies for the slightly shonky quality of this video, readers, which is due to the fact that ITV are such monumental self-sabotaging clowns that it’s not actually possible to screencap any sort of digital broadcast of theirs – screw YOU, viral content! – so we had to do this by videoing our iPad with our iPhone.
Ouch. And speaking of monumental self-sabotaging clowns, Scottish Labour.
JessieLAN on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “Would have been much better if she had used a battered sausage and two pickled onions.” Aug 27, 00:59
John Cleary on This Other Earth: “Hi Robert. I find it difficult to imagine what sort of “incompetence” you mean. What would it look like?” Aug 26, 23:51
Ross Weir on This Other Earth: “Time to reinstate law and order to Scotland, happy to help with a crowd funder!” Aug 26, 23:30
Effijy on This Other Earth: “It’s another Dugdale farce where justice can be bent, broken and covered up if and when required.” Aug 26, 23:13
Scotspine on This Other Earth: “So, its clear. COPFS is covering Swinney’s SNPs back.” Aug 26, 22:03
James Che on This Other Earth: “And Scots law was to remain the same, some treaty. Who would have thought it. A hoax, from start to…” Aug 26, 22:00
James Che on This Other Earth: “Indeed Scotland has no crown to have a Scottish Crown office in Scotland as under the English parliament acts it…” Aug 26, 21:48
Angus on This Other Earth: “Can you start the threatened action now?” Aug 26, 21:46
Skip_NC on This Other Earth: “If they’d said that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute any individual for embezzlement of the ring-fenced funds, it would…” Aug 26, 21:26
Willie on This Other Earth: “Lets be quite clear the Police are corrupt. Events with regard to how they prosecute some but utterly disregards others…” Aug 26, 21:12
Prudence on This Other Earth: “This can’t be allowed to be buried… the teflon coating is seriously depressing whatever side of the Yes/No argument you…” Aug 26, 20:36
gm on This Other Earth: “David Davies has had our respect for years.” Aug 26, 20:31
Mark Beggan on This Other Earth: “The elites fear of fears is appearing stupid in front of the plebs.” Aug 26, 20:05
Lollysmum on This Other Earth: “Unbelievable just unbelievable!” Aug 26, 19:47
Andy Wiltshire on This Other Earth: “That doesn’t surprise me, but maybe the IC could make this new (non)development publicly known.” Aug 26, 18:55
Campbell Clansman on This Other Earth: “They’ll NEVER admit to their own “mistake.” And they’ll never release the evidence that would show they didn’t prosecute due…” Aug 26, 18:46
Ian Smith on This Other Earth: “Can you ask police to investigate misconduct in public office by the Crown Office? The fact there is insufficient evidence…” Aug 26, 18:46
Hatey McHateface on This Other Earth: “Guardian reporting “Channel 5 drama to examine how Nicola Sturgeon’s estranged husband stole SNP funds”: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/aug/26/channel-5-drama-nicola-sturgeon-peter-murrell-snp Strikes me it would…” Aug 26, 18:36
Iain mhor on This Other Earth: “They keep admitting, in writing, that they have evidence a crime was committed, the crime of embezzlement. This is beyond…” Aug 26, 18:32
Wally Jumblatt on This Other Earth: ““there was insufficient evidence of any other criminality in relation to the investigation into allegations of mismanagement or misuse of…” Aug 26, 18:18
Dave on This Other Earth: “Off topic, but I took great satisfaction from seeing a copy of Sturgeon’s ‘Frankly’ relegated from ‘half-price’ to ‘clearance’ in…” Aug 26, 18:09
Robert on This Other Earth: “maybe I’m missing something: but if the Crown Office opinion is that the money was spent (rather than ring-fenced) due…” Aug 26, 18:08
Confounder on This Other Earth: “Stupefyingly corrupt, stupefyingly incompetent, or both.” Aug 26, 18:02
twathater on This Other Earth: “The condescension ingrained in that letter is palpable , these jobsworths are so up themselves that they believe they are…” Aug 26, 18:02
Chas on You’ll Have Had Your Supper: “You forgot about Che or Cheyne who produces endless amounts of drivel, all saying the same thing.” Aug 26, 18:01
robertkknight on This Other Earth: “Chequebook and pen poised, so to speak.” Aug 26, 17:56
Gille Brighde on This Other Earth: “The Crown Office is well aware that politicians lie all the time. It is therefore terrified that prosecuting Swinney and…” Aug 26, 17:49
Chris B on This Other Earth: “Right. Here’s a thought at the mention of good yins when talking about MPs and MSPs. I’ll declare an interest.…” Aug 26, 17:30
