Marvola The Memory Woman
The multi-statement meltdown that has been the unravelling of Nicola Sturgeon this week has been quite something to behold. Last night, for example, we swear our Twitter feed presented these two tweets one after the other.
But then we read something even more extraordinary.
Firstly, as Conor Matchett of the Scottish Sun noted, that is an extremely audacious interpretation of “full co-operation”.
But secondly, let’s take a moment to gaze in awe at what we’re being asked to believe here.
Nicola Sturgeon told the Salmond inquiry that immediately after being told the shocking news of criminal allegations of attempted rape against her predecessor, mentor and friend, she completely forgot the event and later lied that she hadn’t found out until days later.
We all witnessed her performances at that inquiry and then the COVID one, a phenomenal festival of forgetting at which almost every awkward question was met with a variant on “I don’t recall that”.
But now we’re being told that she somehow committed to memory SEVEN HOURS of non-stop questioning, went home and at some unspecified later date wrote a “detailed response” to all of it?
Pull the other one, hen, it’s got a £7300 jewel-encrusted Lalique bell on it.
Is she going to give that expensive camera to the SNP to sell it to recoup some of the money that was embezzled to pay for it? There’s also a market for designer handbags, so she could give those back too.
Hounded into the type of environment with which she has no familiarity. Allegedly. Oh, the irony.
The bravado of the ‘I’ve not got a care in the World’ canal pic replaced by the video of something akin to a rat skuttling around some chairs in a deserted town hall somewhere in County Kerry so as to avoid the attentions of a reporter and his camara man.
That’s the best kind of future that Nasty Nic can look forward to.
There’s no point chasing Sturgeon. She is perfectly practiced to brass it out.
It should be the hosts that are asked if they are embarrassed to be keeping company with her.
I enjoyed watching her being chased into that kitchen on Sky News yesterday. I hope this just gets much worse for her. Wish Alec was still alive to see it.
She did present herself well and indeed was articulate and successful but she has become a rather pathetic shambles to a degree that I never thought possible.
The “married” couple had a combined income of around £250,000 pre tax so they could well afford luxuries in life so why throw it all away by theft and deception.
Murrell will likely come out of prison as a penniless pensioner subjected to verbal abuse when walking the streets.
Who would ever employ him?
Who wouldn’t recognise him if he took a £2,000 pen into a pawn shop.
I wonder if he has a claim on half of Sturgeons money from her new book being listed under fiction in your local library.
So much amnesia about those perilous years when Sturgeon was all that stood between us Scots and a hideous, sudden death from Covid.
So little gratitude for those desperate days when so many of us tuned in daily to see and hear how Scotland’s Mammie was keeping us all alive and safe, while BoJo’s criminal carelessness was decimating the English (yay!).
As the cock crows thrice, those who assaulted and insulted anyone venturing the temerity to doubt Sturgeon’s saintly qualities, now queue up to declare “That was never me, I always knew from Day 1 she was a bad un”.
Online historians know the truth. For nothing submitted online ever dies.
All the posts, from all the posters, elevating Sturgeon to the pinnacle of Scotland’s pantheon, are all still there to be re-discovered.
“The moving finger writes. And having writ moves on.
Not all your piety, nor wit, shall bring it back to cancel half a line.
Nor all your tears wash out one word of it.”
[Quoting from memory. Apologies for any minor inaccuracies]
Having an outside perspective helps.
When NS was getting more familiar to us down south through appearances on TV election debates, many on the left / progressive side liked her, including me – she spoke so well, her sentences almost flawless with no fluffs or hesitation and seemingly off the cuff. And what she said was sound, great rhetoric about a better, kinder, fairer future and a nice line in putting down reactionary forces. Compared to people like bumbling, hesitant, inarticulate and slack-mouthed Boris Johnson, she was like a powerful Scottish goddess. People were jealous of this civic nationalist leading Scotland into a progressive heaven, so why wouldn’t you support independence too. Where was England’s equivalent?
But there was a problem which grew quite quickly for me. For reasons I still cannot quite put my finger on, her high-flown and powerful rhetoric started to grate. When questioned a bit harder about detail, it wasn’t really there and she showed some resentment at being pressed on it; she started to fall back on the ‘Westminster bad’ excuse for not being able to put her vision into action, or why when she did, it was falling into trouble. I realised that her rhetoric was basically all she had, there was no substance; ‘policy’ detail was the rhetoric – her brilliant soundbites were the policy, that were somehow then to be simply translated into fully-fledged plans and actions. This rarely happened, for the obvious reason it is the wrong way round.
Put simply, she was all talk and no substance, which when combined with a tetchy arrogance about being probed about that substance and why stuff was failing, I began to find her kind of creepy and untrustworthy, her language weirdly threatening, her moral outrage empty and a distraction technique, her ‘progressive’ grandstanding pathetic.
My friends kept the faith for years longer though, so it was almost like you needed to somehow see behind the veil to see the problem.
Good post, Southernbystander.
The torrents of vituperation unleashed on the heads of anybody who dared to question the religious orthodoxy of her saintliness are etched in my memory.
Bigoted tribalism of the most ignorant kind.
Bringing, of course, its usual baggage with it. How can the logically rational take seriously the baying of the same mob who used to worship the ground she stood on?
I well recall one of the infrequent posters on here declaiming how he would choose to take a bullet intended for her. It doesn’t get much more delusional than that.
I guess his pension is untouchable, even after the costs of the last few years, and any potential claw back.
With the current regime clingin on, I cannot see the party pushing hard for their money returned, rather preferring it was swept under the carpet.
Any idea how generous the SNP is – it must stuck in their craw a bit that the eclected politicians are on a deal boosted by pensions worth an extra 30%, if the party workers only get 5%.
Could the fact that his salary dropped over the last decade, be because he chose to pack away a much higher pension contribution?
Workplace & Private Pensions
General Protection: Private, personal, and workplace (defined contribution) pensions are protected by the Pensions Act 1995. Trustees cannot simply withhold your pension because you have been convicted of a crime.
Exceptions: The primary exception is if the member has a court order against them requiring them to pay back money they stole or embezzled from their employer, or if the court enforces a confiscation order under the Proceeds of Crime Act (POCA).
She obviously took to heart that old saying:
‘If you can’t stand the heat, GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN’!
Must have been roasting in there …..
A few articles:
If the Guardian is turning against Sturgeon, her #METOO defence isn’t going to wash:
link to archive.is
A criminologist is saying that Sturgeon genuinely didn’t know of Murrell’s wrongdoings but in doing so, he doesn’t paint a good picture of Sturgeon as a person, both incompetent in her job being and petty towards people in her party:
link to archive.is
The question is why was she not prosecuted too.
She signed off the accounts. She was the recipient of stolen goods.
Why did the COPFS agree to a plea bargain to remove over £27k
of personal female goods. Things like cosmetics, female attire and the like.
Plead guilty and we’ll remove the ‘ embarrassing ‘ ill gotten goods from the list.
Unlike the huge motor home thst Surgeon didn’t see, or the uber expensive coffee machine in a kitchen she didn’t go in, its a bit different trying to deny sight or knowledge ill gotten goods like knickers, clothes, cosmetics, jewelery
Sturgeon is now exposed to be the sour vicious utterly corrupt charlatan that she is. A failed solicitor who defrocked due being found guilty of conduct unbecoming of a solicitor she very much grew into that mould as the evidence of her political career now exposed.
Sadly, we need an honest prosecution service to bring this women to account.
Big Daddy: “What’s that smell in this room? Didn’t you notice it, Brick? Didn’t you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room?”
Brick: “I’m ashamed, Big Daddy. That’s why I’m a drunk.”
Big Daddy: “Think of all the lies I got to put up with! Ain’t that mendacity? Having to pretend stuff you don’t think or feel… You’ve got to live with it. There’s nothin’ to live with but mendacity. Is there?”
Tennessee Williams
And ne’er a truer word was said.
The question is why was she not prosecuted too.
She signed off the accounts. She was the recipient of stolen goods.
Why did the COPFS agree to a plea bargain to remove over £27k
of personal female goods. Things like cosmetics, female attire and the like.
Plead guilty and we’ll remove the ‘ embarrassing ‘ ill gotten goods from the list.
Unlike the huge motor home thst Surgeon didn’t see, or the uber expensive coffee machine in a kitchen she didn’t go in, its a bit different trying to deny sight or knowledge ill gotten goods like knickers, clothes, cosmetics, jewelery
Sturgeon is now being exposed to be a sour vicious utterly corrupt charlatan. Its a wonder her new book is not called ‘ Jackinory ‘.
And let us not forget the failed solicitor who defrocked due being found guilty of conduct unbecoming of a solicitor. Looking back one sees all to clearly what was next to come.
Sadly, we need an honest prosecution service to bring this women to account. We need also to find out who has been protecting her.
It may be worth remembering that, typical of colonial societies, and especially those territories deemed strategic in geopolitical and trade terms, criminal conduct can be ‘authorised’ and therefore permitted if it is considered necessary:
– in the interests of national security (of the colonial power);
– in the interests of the economic well-being of the United Kingdom.
So basically any action, criminal or otherwise, can and was authorised and undertaken by the colonial power in order to keep a UK colony haud tight.
Hence Elkins ‘legalized lawlessness’ as the norm in the British empire and its remaining rump.
Lets also remember that colonialism is itself considered ‘a crime against humanity’.
link to legislation.gov.uk
Aye, Alf, those Venus razors would have been authorised in Whitehall.
No doubt whatsoever that the Deep State sees the necessity of Scotland’s leader presenting with a neatly coiffured bush. How else could we be “held tight”?
See thon Swinney’s bonce? Somebody needs to dig deep. There’s a story there, I’m sure. No way can that be maintained without the underhand manipulations predicted by Fanon, Cesaire, Elkins, etc.
Get on the case, Alf!
Some people think you are a bit of a crank Alf. The more astute amongst us KNOW you are.
Murrell stole money that was not his. His wife! benefited from his crime by receiving goods. She also did her best to stop others from questioning the financial condition of the Political Party she was the leader of and even went as far to state that the finances were in order. FACTS.
In your warped mind this is all due to ‘Colonialism’, as is everything that is wrong in Scotland. You are as bad as the WGD types who parrot that after Independence ‘everything will be just fine’ and we will all be awash with cash as the ‘missing’ £150 billion, per year, your figures,is distributed amongst the populace. The wee ‘Mickey Mouse’ Independence Parties will see to that, as where else is an honest, competent Government going to come from?
How can any sane, educated person take anything you write seriously. Mind you……….they don’t.
In fairness, the learned Professor’s input concerning the ferries provide an oasis of sanity.
Yes Alf, in a colony the arms of the colonial state can authorise and do initiate anything whatsoever.
Every thing from extrajudicial killing of folks deemed a political risk to the state to the turning upside down of the police, prosecution service, media and mechanisms of governance. It is what colonial masters do.
They did not call the Northern Ireland Troubles that for no reason. “Troubles ” is a quite anodyne descriptor whereas the reality was ” a Dirty War ” but that descriptor does not meet the public tag line.
All part of the administration of colony.
Aye, Alf.
Postcolonial theory tells of how colonies suffer from a kind of moral inversion.
For in the colony:
According to theory this inversion is what makes the system feel both stable and yet at the same time brittle — stable because it is ruthlessly enforced, brittle because it depends on constant justification and secrecy.
I think us Scots can certainly claim that we get a wee taste of that sort of moral inversion here in Scotland.
Fit are ye like, Northy?
Ye foregoat tae plug Alf’s book!
“Law becomes a mask for power”
Oh aye. Murrell’s trial, guilty verdict and eventual sentencing will prove beyond all doubts that he got away Scot-free.
Ah, but haud oan noo. You actually want to try and sentence somebody you have already judged as guilty in your ain heid.
A Scottish parody of the WW1 court martial in BlackAdder.
Michty, Northy, how recently it seems that you were bloviating oan here aboot the moral superiority of the Scots!
But there’s one certainty in all of this, on which I would bet every bawbee I can call my own.
If or when Sturgeon faces a trial, and is found guilty, never will you come back on here, hold up your hands, and say “sorree, I called it wrang”.
Not even in some concocted pseudo language you will try to pass off as Scots.
“Ye foregoat tae plug Alf’s book!”
Doun-Hauden: The Socio-Political Determinants of Scottish Independence (Kindle Edition – £4:99) by ALfred Baird
There. Sorted.
‘foregoat?’
A’m thinkin’ anely an Inglis wid spell the braw Scots word ‘forgat’ thon wey.
And it’s scot-free nae Scot-free.
The term ‘scot-free’ has bugger aw tae dae wi the Scots.
It’s frae the late Old English ‘scotfreo’ meaning “exempt from royal tax”… derived from scot (n.) “royal tax” + freo “free”.
There. Thrie thyngs sortit in the wan post.
Another but rather amusing Sturgeon article from the Mail:
link to archive.is
Richard Littlejohn: “ Wee Burney …..would only offer a repeated ‘No Comment’, like some Glaswegian gangster being given the Third Degree on Taggart.”
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That is a disgraceful comment by Richard Littlejohn.
Just when you think it has hit rock bottom, The Daily Heil finds hidden depths.
Littlejohn should apologise to every Glaswegian gangster – with only one exception: the former MSP for Glasgow southside (who is a blow-in dissembler from Dreghorn).
Where has Shauny Boy gone? Have just found his youtube channel suddenly is empty?! (?) : (
I was wondering about Shauny Boy as well. You’d think these shenanigans would be up his street.
I would expect her solicitor would have been there, so probably he took notes.
I have to say this is the one but of the story I wouldn’t criticize saint Nicola about, as it is a right not to answer and one mustn’t imply guilt by it.
Did she fully cooperate with the investigation? Well, that is a meaningless stock phrase, isn’t it.
The thing is, when she turned her chair to face the wall, did her lawyer do the same as well or were they left sitting looking across the table at quality polis Toshan for seven hours?
Or, did they turn her chair to face the wall for her?
She couldn’t drive, cook, shop and Lord knows what else so could she actually move a chair on her own?
Was she told to say no comment as it was snappier than seven hours of versions and variations of “I don’t remember”?
Should the lawyer actually have put her seat in the corner and put a conical white hat with the letter “D” on it on her? Things might have gone quicker..
How do we know she authored the “detailed” reply. Where was pal Val at that time eh?
We needs ta know!!
What a pantomime..
Even Toom Tabard would be black affronted by the queen of gimcrack.
I hope her library shelves fall on her.
Another article. This one that says Nicola Sturgeon’s past use of luxury Montblanc pen was attributed by her then spokeman as part of “gifts from a relative”
Whether that “relative” was Murrell is irrelevant in the eyes of the public. There are so many irregularities in this whole sordid affair that it’s hard not to believe the worst.
It’s like that episode from Only Fools and Horses where before a police raid to his house, he has to get rid of everything because he can’t remember what is legal and what isn’t.
link to archive.ph
Some people prefer kitchens and some sandwich bars , just the hidey hole of personal choice – I do hope there is no hiding place in reality, too much swept under the carpet leaves very large lumps.
There comes a moment in every colonised nation when the mask slips.
When the co-opted elite — the ones who claim to speak for the people — are seen for what they are: a shield for the power that truly rules over us.
And when folk see it — really see it — something in them shifts.
Because a people wake not to the drone of lectures or great political speeches, but when the truth stands naked in front of them.
When they realise the elite does not represent them.
When they see that the elite is protected by the coloniser.
When they understand that the elite profits from their silence and obedience… and fears their awakening.
In that moment, the elite loses whatever legitimacy it might once have had in the eyes of the people.
And when the elite loses legitimacy, the coloniser loses its shield — the buffer it hides behind.
And once that buffer is gone, the trick is visible.
The rotten, filthy and corrupt colonial arrangement stands exposed.
Fanon called this “the unmasking of the national bourgeoisie.”
And once the mask slips, the people begin to stir.
With this latest Murrell fiasco, in a long line of various Scottish Government fiascos, It looks like England’s Holyrood mask of ‘better together’ and ‘partners in union’ and ‘Great Britain’ and a ‘United Kingdom’ hasn’t just slipped, it has fallen off completely and lies smashed and in pieces at the foot of Arthur’s Seat.
Sae richt, Northy.
Didn’t Fanon fulminate about the false consciousness of the colonised, imposed on them by the oppressing colonialists, forcing the co-opted elites tae shave their bikini lines?
Search his collected works for references to “Venus” and report back. Quick as you like, now.
“the truth stands naked in front of them”
“loses its shield — the buffer it hides behind”
“once that buffer is gone, the trick is visible”
“once the mask slips, the people begin to stir”
Man, Northy, I can see you’re enjoying yourself, but just be careful you don’t take it too far!
And nae stirring oan here. There may be minors reading.
Shut up and eat your porridge.
Squirming Swinney what a mess.
“Nicola Sturgeon, the former Scottish first minister, will be at the Hay literary festival this afternoon.”
Her recovery from extreme trauma and the worst week of her life seems to be going well.
Did Sturgeon ever give gifts to Murrell?
She was the one with the higher salary after all, and would always push for female empowerment.
Peter gave her luxury handbags, jewelry, etc, that were all very personal, as well as fitting out her library, kitchen and no doubt the rest of the house and garden. Did she never feel in anyway obliged to contribute at all, or sent the odd present in the opposite direction?
Was there never so much as a conversation either to stop the spending or at least let her pay her share?
Or did she, and the place was packed out with even more tastelessly gaudy tat than we read just from the court docs?
Accounts showed Peter Murrell, the party’s chief executive, took home £79,750 a year as of May 31, 2021.
Sturgeon claims they had a very high combined income. However she also states that they had separate bank accounts.
If they had separate accounts how can she say that Murrell himself could afford all the expensive goods on his income only and that’s why she never queried it?
This is getting incredibly cringeworthy. Trumpian levels of stonewalling and denial.
Wee Nicola Knew.
Who else did?
Wouldn’t it be interesting to know:
i) How many SNP MSPs under Murrell’s CEO-ship of the party were issued with an SNP credit card. Was it, say, one?
ii) Whether an audit was ever taken of any SNP leader’s expenses claims.
I’m interested to know if an SNP credit card is as multi-functional as the one Mr McColl borrows to slash the boy’s throat in The Equalizer 2.
Ouch! That must have stung.
Interesting name for a black guy – McColl. Black people obviously aren’t in denial of the history of Scottish colonialism in the Americas.
Unlike some indigenous Scots on here.
Wait a minute.. she did go in the kitchen on a *daily* basis, we have proof:
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Ahh, Wings… You never let us down.
Although, I’m not sure the title of the article survives scrutiny. I mean, are we sure she did?
This… from a story in the Daily Express:
Swinney – smiling and wiping sweat from his brow – said, “phew!” in response.
Didn’t you say “phew” too, Northy?
There’s several orders of magnitude more difficulty to selling the Scottish voters practical, workable, improving, Indy policies than there is to bleating about the ramblings of Fanon, etc.
Heck, you should know that better than most!
It’d be interesting to know if that house of theirs is in joint ownership, and if they could be forced to sell it, in an attempt to retrieve at least some of the money. Not sure what the law is about the sale of assets, joint or otherwise, to retrieve stolen money. Does anyone out there know if there are any provisions for the retrieval of money that were appropriated by fraud?
Drunk on the illusion of power that comes from the posioned challice.
Im also tempted to say…. Poor Nicola!
How The SNP betrayed Scotland
If the money stolen was the property of the SNP, what happened to the £700,000 Independence Fund which wasn’t the property of the SNP?
What account is it woven into? Nicola’s?
See the dodgy pop man is keeping very quiet about his pals in the corrupt SNP