The SNP having a fondness for lying about their membership wouldn’t have come as quite such a shock to the Scottish press if they paid a little more attention to this website. Because we were pointing it out two and a half years ago.
It was in October 2020 that we told you how the SNP’s 2019 accounts revealed the party’s true membership figures weren’t the claimed 126,000 but more like 87,000.
You might think that Scottish political journalists would all be in a shark-like frenzy of excitement at the events of the last few days. But not over on The Guardian.
Apparently it’s all a bit too much for the delicate wee flowers.
We’ve just been leaked this footage, apparently taken by an alert traveller, of Nicola Sturgeon at Edinburgh Airport, reacting badly to receiving news that Peter Murrell has been “unavoidably detained” and won’t be making their rendezvous to Rio.
Hats off to the SNP. Every time we think that the party’s leadership election can’t get any more absurdly farcical, they pull something extra-mad out of the bag.
After this happened yesterday, it suddenly become “known” across the Scottish media that the SNP NEC was going to hold an extraordinary meeting in order to authorise the release of the membership figures after all three candidates demanded them.
Some of the country’s most senior hacks, including BBC Scotland’s Political Editor and the editor of the Daily Record, sombrely informed their readers of the development.
Cynicus on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “Izzie, just say it: “wheesht for Indy” You know you want to.” May 28, 15:26
Rev. Stuart Campbell on No Money Back, No Guarantee: ““It has previously been suggested by Wings, that he stole this money, then partially paid it back as ‘a loan’,…” May 28, 15:14
Tom Harrison on Friends Without Benefits: “You too can learn how fraud is done and dusted in public sector by SG, PS, CPS, CO and others…” May 28, 15:04
Mark Beggan on Friends Without Benefits: “The Special Needs Party are all pointing to police Scotland. Nothing more thorough than a police investigation! So nothing to…” May 28, 14:54
paul on Friends Without Benefits: “So she was also completely unaware of her husband’s enthusiasm for female underwear and makeup? A trip to specsavers is…” May 28, 14:45
Young Lochinvar on Friends Without Benefits: “Maybe Swinney and Dot Bain should release character witness statements for Tricky Nicky. That would be interesting..” May 28, 14:38
sydthesnake on Friends Without Benefits: “Big surprise JS vetoing an independent investigations, all it takes for evil to prevail is honest people turning a blind…” May 28, 14:27
Tommy B on Friends Without Benefits: “Fraser Nelson’s contemporaneous quote-tweet of the STV News tweet: https://x.com/FraserNelson/status/1264580180288442368 Which links to the tweet in question: https://x.com/STVNews/status/1264549224739373056 Curiously, the…” May 28, 14:21
Andrea on Friends Without Benefits: “Asking again, does anyone know or can anyone surmise why the investigation took years and years, given we are not…” May 28, 14:18
Alice Timmons on Friends Without Benefits: “You are SUCH a bitch. I’ve always loved that about you!!” May 28, 13:46
Colin Alexander on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “I’ve never agreed with the “Wha’s like Us” fantasy, that politicians in Scotland have better morals and are more competent…” May 28, 13:46
Erika Watson on The Final Robbery: “I don’t think it is a coincidence that the politicians and journalists who are prepared to lie to our face…” May 28, 13:39
Spartan 117 on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “Telegraph reporting that calls are growing to investigate PM further to ascertain if taxpayer funds were also defrauded. Electoral Commission…” May 28, 12:59
robertkknight on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “I can tell you what the SNP are going to do about it… NOTHING Except wring their hands and keep…” May 28, 12:55
Aidan on No Money Back, No Guarantee: “Bloomberg may have broke the story, but the analysis informing it which was apparently leaked has not been published, so…” May 28, 12:55
Jon Drummond on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “Sturgeon has proven herself to be no better than scabrous filth. What goes around comes around; her day will come…” May 28, 12:46
crazycat on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “That Spectator article is interesting. It not only shows Murrell’s spending pattern. It also claims that the SNP admitted it…” May 28, 12:37
MaryB on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “Izzie, you should read what Robin McAlpine has to say about it all today. You might find his comments a…” May 28, 12:30
Izzie on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “Are you saying Police Scotland are incompetent? They have investigated. If you are an SNP member you are a victim.…” May 28, 12:25
James on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “That would be ‘scot-free’. Ok? It doesn’t have a capital as it has nothing whatsoever to do with ‘Scots’.” May 28, 12:24
TURABDIN on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “A rather romantic interpretation. If the people fail to engage with being «raised up» what then? Ultimately, as Fanon came…” May 28, 11:57
Aidan on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “Do you think the former party chief exec going to prison for a 12-year campaign of embezzlement which has left…” May 28, 11:52
Spartan 117 on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “We had our say on 18th September 2014. You must have forgotten. Are you saying blatant corruption is acceptable because…” May 28, 11:51
James Barr Gardner on The Final Robbery: “Dented buoys an’ Aspro pouder ?” May 28, 11:46
Geri on No Money Back, No Guarantee: “Bloomberg also mentioned a staggering £177 billion excess profits for Energy firms. So there is more income down the City…” May 28, 11:30
Northcode on No Money Back, No Guarantee: ““Of course the ONS doesn’t take an institutional view of political questions…” Time for another packet of Tunnock’s Tea Cakes…” May 28, 11:28
Izzie on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “Im at a loss as to how this endless stirring and poking advances the Cause. The Unionists should be the…” May 28, 11:10
DavidT on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “The Spectator on X has posted a very good graph showing SNP funds spent by Peter Murrell over the years.…” May 28, 11:08
Alf Baird on All The Dirt From My Eyes: ““the workings of the state institutions in current-day Scotland” ..is indeed a subject requiring of careful consideration, especially given the…” May 28, 11:00
