The Final Robbery
So there it is. We did tell you so.
There will be no trial, no cross-examination, no explanation. The people of Scotland, the members and supporters of the SNP, the wider Yes movement, none of us will ever know what really happened. Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?
We’ll never find out how this could happen, for example.
But there we go. It’s more than six years now since Wings Over Scotland broke the story that hundreds of thousands of pounds were missing from the SNP’s accounts.
It’s five and a half years since our observation was proven right by the publishing of the party’s 2019 accounts, and its then-treasurer Colin Beattie responded by dismissing the allegation as a “social media conspiracy” and infamously said the money was “woven through” the accounts, presumably with invisible thread.
(Since despite this strident yet self-evident lie Beattie was released without charge, we must assume that he is innocent of any criminal wrongdoing and simply the worst, most jaw-droppingly incompetent treasurer an organisation ever had, unable to spot the best part of half a million quid vanishing into thin air on his watch.)
It’s more than five years since Wings exclusively broke the story that three members of the SNP’s Finance Committee had resigned after Murrell refused to let them examine the accounts to look for the missing money.
And since Nicola Sturgeon issued a dire warning to the rest of the NEC not to ask any awkward questions about the missing money or else.
And almost five years since then-SNP President Mike Russell furiously insisted that there was no money missing at all.
Parroting a line taken by Sturgeon two months earlier, in June 2021. (Perhaps some questions ought to be asked of those independent auditors at some point.)
It’s also more than five years since we told you (the following month) that the police were officially investigating our discovery.
And since Scotland’s media jeeringly rubbished the story.
(Including Liz Lloyd, now BBC Scotland’s go-to expert political analyst.)
It’s now more than three years since Murrell, Sturgeon and Colin Beattie were arrested in connection with the missing money.
And it’s more than three years since Murrell’s successor as chief executive of the SNP, and former Daily Record editor, Murray Foote predicted that the investigation would result in no charges.
It’s a little smidgen under three years since the former editor of Scotland’s only pro-independence newspaper, Richard Walker, said it was all a lot of fuss over nothing and probably some sort of dastardly Unionist conspiracy.
Everyone whose job it was to tell you the truth lied to you. Except us. Peter Murrell was caught and is in prison today solely because of our story of January 2020, which the “trained journalists” of the Scottish media all missed when it was staring them blatantly in the face.
David Leask, may the good Lord bless him, still insists he was right.
And now some small measure of justice been served, too little and too late. Murrell’s thieving left the SNP crippled and all but bankrupt, the “ring-fenced referendum fund” lost forever, the independence movement a broken shell, the greatest chance there’ll ever be of securing Scotland’s nationhood blown in a reign of squalid petty theft, and we won’t even get to know how it happened as his rich still-wife, somehow ignorant of it all even as the shiny fruits of Murrell’s deception piled up in her kitchen, saunters off into the sunset, laughing at all the gullible suckers she left behind.
It’ll be interesting to see what sentence Murrell’s guilty plea – which spares Sturgeon her usual turn as a forgetful witness – gets him. We know Natalie McGarry got almost two years for embezzling £25,000 in very similar circumstances, so one would like to think that swindling 16 times as much would result in a significantly stiffer term.
But Scotland is so crooked after almost a decade with Mr and Mrs Murrell and their loyal appointees in charge that we’re not getting our hopes up.
The final vindication is of course nice. But ultimately, readers, this is, and now always will be, an untold story.
In every possible way, from start to finish, you got swindled.
Such a shame that organising honey traps to ruin a man’s reputation, then slandering him & hounding him until his health was ruined, is not considered a crime worth investigating. RIP Alex, the only man who might have achieved Independence for Scotland.
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I’m a soft-core yoon. I disagree with that. The UK is going bankrupt, the Labour government can’t organise a piss-up in a brewery. Mainly because they may or may not want one, they don’t know. But even if they did know it they might follow the wrong process.
When the fan hitting starts anything is possible, stuff that looked tough happens. The big fact is the polling stays right near the 50% mark despite Oor Nick and Pete. It could quickly go up in the right sort of wrong circumstances.
And the voters of Scotland punished the openly corrupt SNP by…. returning them to office.
The Scottish people are getting the government they deserve.
Agreed.
A Reform supporter living in England would come out with such simplistic shite though…
It’s a pity so many Scots are still so influenced by the UK controlled mainstream media that actively chooses to keep Scots uninformed and in the dark on this and so many other matters.
Do you really think Scots would continue to vote as they do if Scotland had its own broadcasting media that actually kept folks properly informed to a similar level as the one man called Stuart that runs this site you’re commenting on has done so over the years.
Scotland, like the other devolved nations in this supposedly equal UK Union just had another election for its devolved parliament, but England didn’t, because it hijacks the UK parliament for its own. Us Scots can’t comment on the quality of parliament England elects because of the UK fudge that allows England to avoid electing its own devolved government.
Things could be worse.
It’s not like they sold honours, took cash for questions, sold blow jobs in the foreign office or opened a COVID hotline tae the treasury for all their mates to pile in with fake contracts making off with £15.3 BILLION!
That shit was just written off. No one served a jail sentence. No one panicked. No one had to pay it back except for us mugs. Yabadabadoo will have the video tho tae add tae his Eppy collection..haha
We haven’t heard about Reform & dodgy Crypto yet so we’ve that to look forward to..
The whole system is corrupt really. Why do political parties need fundraising anyway? It only leads to theft & corruption. Look at the USA, “democracy” costs literally billions buying elections, politicians, buying ads & rigging algorithms – that’s out the reach of many wishing to stand. Call me naive but why can’t everyone just have a certain amount & no billionaire donors? It’s just a racket.
As for auld nick, Nicky light fingers, Special agent “fae she was sixteen”
*Tolls bell*
“Shame! Shame! Shame!”
What a liar she is. She can fck right off with her feeling “trauma” The only people that have trauma out of this whole sorry episode are the relatives of the dead who left this shower of cnts money in their will. That’s real fucking “trauma” ya dolt! She’s as guilty as sin & we should remind her of it every time she rears her ugly mush. Real justice would’ve banged the two of them up after a very public trial with zero protection from her Overlords. We’ll just have tae wait on karma circling back for her..
“Yabadabadoo will have the video tho tae add tae his Eppy collection”
Of course, Geri. It’s always the Jews, isn’t it?
Odd though. For somebody so quick to see their involvement in everything, you’re remarkably careless about going public with it.
Careless, bold, foolhardy, suicidal. All of these.
Or perhaps just deranged, bigoted, blinded by hate.
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nanumaga
3 hours ago
I can only add a couple of points to the story from over the border which may not be getting much, or any, attention:
1. The amount which actually went missing from the SNP’s ‘ring-fenced’ account for donations to ‘IndyRef2’, was originally reported as £670,000, so there’s a £270,000 discrepancy in the reported £400,000 to which Mr Murrell has admitted to.
2. Amidst the lengthy descriptions of the many items listed as the ‘fruits’ of his embezzlement, I see no mention of the costs of the ‘Super-injunctions’ which are alleged to have been in place for both Mr and Mrs Murrell over some years, and may well still be running. Given that these are reported as costing some £50,000 per year, per head, I’d certainly be asking a few questions about these, assuming Police Scotland were inclined, and allowed, to do so.
3. As I have mentioned in past articles here, I’d expect that Mrs Murrell, in company with her old ‘mentor’, Alex Salmond, may have been the happy recipients of some very hefty bungs over ten years ago, from China Railway Engineering Company No 3, when this company was proposing a £10.0 billion investment in Scotland. I’d guess that they weren’t the only ones to enjoy the largesse of that company before the skids were put under the project after a damning report on their activities from Norway……
As per, the lamentable national press, both in Scotland and England, have always shown a marked lack of curiosity about the more egregious activities of the SNP.
Personally, I have always favoured ‘Wings Over Scotland’ which, whilst being very pro-cessession from the Union, has carried more revealing stories about crooked dealings in Bute House and Holyrood than the rest of the Fourth Estate put together.
Yesterday’s story is worth a look:
link to wingsoverscotland.com
Apart from ‘Wings’, the Scottish Daily Express is the more reliable of the Mainstream Clowns, and this chap is quite useful:
link to robinmcalpine.org
They are indeed. A combination of ignorance and apathy ensures that the utterly corrupted SNP are returned to power. There is no excuse for it and we richly deserve the next five years of dismal governance and dire policy decisions that will make everyone’s lives a misery. Will we ever learn? Nope, we’re proving beyond all doubt that we are too stupid for independence.
A little over £33,000 per year to be in something of a sham marriage with Sturgeon – I reckon he sold himself cheaply.
Wait a minute he admits to embezzling 400k plus from the SNP! What in the fuck happened to the 660k that wasn’t the SNP’s money?
So which spook agency is still protecting Sturgeon and keeping her out of a cell?
You are right to ask about the difference, even if it is only £660,000 minus £400,000….. but the reality is that people you thought were on your side did this to you, and everyone bar Rev Campbell who should have seen it chose not to. Ultimately, that is the internal culture within the SNP, and everyone knows that. And yet, people still vote for them….. !!
MI5
No embezzlement of funds charges reating to his period as CEO from 2001 to 2010.
He married Sturgeon in July 2010. His embezzling of funds began in August 2020.
That is entirely incorrect.
link to scottishdailyexpress.co.uk
Yes, fat finger. He began embezzling in August 2010, as far as the charges made show,.
I was curious that he is unlikely to have done criminal acts from 2001 to 2010 and began embezzling money very quickly after his marriage.
1. The SNP has the option now of suing Murrell for recovery of the money he has admitted stealing from the party. Will be interesting to see if party high heid yins take up this option.
2. Murrell has put his hands up to stealing £400,310.65. That still leaves £250,000+ missing from the funds that should have been held in party accounts. Where is it and is anyone looking for it?
Swinney was leader when Murrell was appointed CEO
Nope, the whole 600k is still missing. He’s nicked from the SNP but theres nothing that shows he just took from the 600k because we have never found out where it went.
The excuse of doing it to “bankroll a lavish lifestyle he craved but could not afford” is such nonsense.
The embezzlement amounts to an average of £35k per year, and for most of that period, him and Sturgeon would have had a combined salary in excess of £200k per year.
“The embezzlement amounts to an average of £35k per year, and for most of that period, him and Sturgeon would have had a combined salary in excess of £200k per year”
Ouch! I shudder to think what the tax take from a combined salary of £200k per year must be. Especially with the Scottish extra tax take on top.
Perhaps somebody should do the math. Find out if the extra Scottish tax would amount to £35K per year.
It would shed a whole new light on things if it turns out Murrell was just stealing back what the SNP government had stolen from him in the first place. Perhaps he was incensed at the SNP government’s profligacy and incompetence, funded on his dollar, and maintained by the SNP’s decisions to squeeze hard-working Scots ever more viciously.
Well done, Stu. Keep at it until the whole story is told.
We’re not going to get independence until it is.
£660k missing, £400k accounted for. What was deep throats advice in all the Presidents men?
Nicola Sturgeon has responded after her estranged husband Peter Murrell was remanded
She wrote on Instagram: “My reaction to the guilty plea tendered today by my former husband is difficult to put into words. I am angry, hurt, sad and very distressed about the impact of his actions on family, friends and the SNP.
“To be deceived and let down by a husband I loved and trusted has caused me acute pain. Why he acted as he did is, and always will be, beyond my comprehension.
“To be clear: I had no knowledge or suspicion whatsoever that he was using SNP funds for personal purposes. I am utterly appalled that he did so and cannot begin to understand why. That I was fully cleared after a thorough investigation underlines that these are not my crimes. I was misled just as others were.
“I know that there will be political discussion in light of what has happened, and I understand why. However, for me this has also been a profound personal trauma. I need to remain focussed on recovering from that and building a new phase of life. I will be making no further comment.”
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Absolute bollocks.
I’m positive that the money spent in Estee Lauder Cosmetics,
and Shetland Jewellery were not for him….
So should she be done for accepting goods knowing that the funds used to buy them was stolen??
You would think so.
Plus the video of her telling people not to question the finances; is that not effectively aiding and abetting, or perverting the course of justice?
Should have gone to specsavers
The COPFS didn’t prosecute the other two that were initially charged.
I suppose that doesn’t stop a private prosecution from an individual or individuals who have the inclination and monetary ballast.
Meanwhile Murrell and co still have the Salmond’s Misfeasance case being carried forward by the Gun man to look forward too (as well).
Not quite – Sturgeon and Beattie were not “initially charged.” They were arrested and interviewed, then released without charge.
You are correct, my oversight. The other two were arrested and then released without charge.
But I think my point, regarding the potential for private legal action, still stands.
Soon…anyone else thinking “take one for the team?”
At least the excessive and oppressive Scottish contempt of court restrictions should no longer apply! You can understand Mrs Murrell not wanting this to go to trial, but why would Mr Murrell not try to put up a bit of a fight?
Shorter sentence?
Too many other skeletons rattling around in his closet? I have heard tell of some VERY interesting photographs taken in a rather louche club in Portugal.
Perhaps he fancies being bummed senseless in the showers in the bar L
There was some speculation here the other day about why Colin Weir abruptly cut off the cash and walked away from the SNP, a party he had supported all his adult life.
Could the late Mr Weir have sensed something that the two members (besides Peter Murrell) of the SNP executive – Nicola Sturgeon and Colin Beattie- somehow missed?
Hats off to Wings and Sean Clerkin, defamed as a “crank” by MSM pseudo -journalists, for complaining and pursuing this.
A few minute ago Swinney was shedding crocodile tears of horror and
betrayal. In this Scottish soft fruit season it seems fitting to respond with: Raspberries!!
Since the evil Sturgeon has dropped Murrell right in it and washed he hands like Pontius Pilat I hope he takes her down as well now. We can but hope.
Just to be clear…did he actually loan them their own money?
That appears a highly plausible possibility.
I came here to ask that very question. Do we know what happened to that “loan” and why it was (allegedly?) made?
I hope that those especially SNP members can now see how their trust in the SNP Hierarchy was misused, for the future remember that the Country comes First not the Party !
When it comes to apologies from those who called anyone involved trying to find out what happened to the “Ring Fenced £600K” tra*tors, threatened them with violence and even death ! I don’t expect remorse from any of them, I don’t even believe they will call Peter Murell a “Tra*tor to Scotland”, he will be remembered as petty crook, tra*tors in Scottish History are air brushed out and forgotten.
Strange how the Media failed to question how Peter Murrell qualified for Legal Aid, no investigation into properties used by him in this country and abroad.
His mother’s property is waiting for him when he is released from gaol !
Could or would the SNP sue him for cash in years to come ?
I was fortunate to have my cash returned, was it legal for Hamza Yusuf to block any further repayments a few weeks later ? Why did the Media not pick up on that ?
I’m not great conspiracy lover but there is clear evidence of a change for the worse when the Sturgeon took over a FM.
Firstly the failed attempt to destroy the reputation of Alec Salmond and the follow up targeting Murray and Hirst.
Then the near obsession of pushing the highly unpopular and vote loser woke episode.
Followed by the years of the negative press relating to Murrel and his theft of SNP funds.
The result since the Sturgeon took office is the deliberate destruction of the SNP left penniless with its reputation as a party of honesty and integrity in ashes, penniless.
All this started after the ‘14 referendum.
Who is the beneficiary of this.??
Job done.
Any private Scottish citizen whose money is still missing – do you have the money to undertake a private prosecution? It would probably be heard in about 2032.
Vindicated. ( mike drop )
Ginger “Branchform’s over and the SNP is still standing” as if this is something to be proud of. The Betrayal of Scotland’s cause continues and the money train continues for those who claim to want Independence in name only. Until Scots waken up to the truth and who the SNP really represents and the scroungers who keep asking for money to support the cause are happy for the SNP to carry on as if nothing has ever happened, same on you, you don’t represent me and i’m willing to bet he’s never ever given to any Indy fund.
JFC.
Today’s outcome reminds me of Jeremy Thorpe admitting all sorts of things under oath knowing that he would be immune from future prosecution for them.
Murrell did steal lots of money from the SNP, but he did not act alone – how about the supplier who sold the Party and “conference” IT equipment to a far greater value than any sensible business would ever consider spending?
Kudos to the esteemed Reverend!
Nemisis Benn says:Jeremy Thorpe admitting all sorts of things under oath knowing that he would be immune from future prosecution for them.
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“This statement is historically inaccurate; Jeremy Thorpe did not testify or admit to any incriminating actions under oath during his 1979 Old Bailey trial. In fact, acting on the advice of his defense counsel (George Carman QC), Thorpe chose not to give evidence at all in his own defense.
His refusal to take the stand meant he completely avoided being cross-examined by the prosecution regarding mysterious financial transactions, remarks about wanting Norman Scott dead, and evidence of homosexual affairs”
You are only a victim if you are of have been an SNP member or fundraiser. No public funds were lost. Now excuse ne I have cavassing to do we have a by-election to win.
What by election?
“The 18 June polls in Aberdeen South and Arbroath and Broughty Ferry have been triggered after the two MPs in the seats were successful in the Holyrood election.
Stephen Flynn, the SNP’s former Westminster leader, won Aberdeen Deeside and North Kincardine, vacating the Aberdeen South Westminster seat.
Meanwhile, Stephen Gethins moves on from the Arbroath and Broughty Ferry seat and now represents Dundee City East in the Scottish Parliament.”
How about the £2million cost to the taxpayer?
I’ll vote for Reform to stop the SNP.
I think the victims are the whole nation of Scotland who have been taken for a ride by their corrupt ruling party of many years, and not to mention the party’s ex-leader, wife of this part chairman and criminal, who she lived with for years and who has responsibility and oversight of all important matters, and other senior figures, some directly responsible for finance, whose apparent complete ignorance of all of this is insultingly beyond belief. You really think any sane person would think she suspected nothing?
Your head in the sand / patronising nothing to see here is even annoying me 250 miles south of the border (and though small beer, my taxes also help fund the SNP via the block grant)! It is also indicative of the ongoing problem – cover up, deny, belittle, deflect, cry crocodile tears; anything but the truth.
Your comment is correct. Almost.
You pay f*ck all to Scotland in taxes. The ‘block grant’ as England patronisingly calls it is merely some of our own money back
This bollocks was debunked years ago.
No public funds were lost
Just the small matter of £2.7m Brachform has cost.
Small change.
What’s the bill for the failed jam jar return scheme? Well into the tens of millions, isn’t it.
It’s all Scottish tax payer’s money, Lynne – a practically inexhaustible resource, now we have permitted our governments to tax everything we do, from taking a sick dog to the vets, through buying food to feed our families, through heating our homes, to insuring our homes against burning down.
And at the end of the financial year, both of these failures, Branchform and Jamjars, are lost in the rounding errors on the bottom line.
The real crime here, and one so widespread and unavoidable we no longer even notice it, is that an unaccountable government steals a slice from virtually every single time any of us ever does anything.
Apart from breathe, perhaps.
Izzie, are you proceeding to support SNP candidates in the Bye Elections? Even an English nationalist would have to recognise such action as irresponsibility of the worse sort: any possible presumption of integrity is sacrificed by support for the SNP. The typing problem would be minor compared with mental/ethical deficiencies.
What goes in the Whore of Parliament’s piss stained precincts
link to blogs.lse.ac.uk
may i interest you bloody revolution? not today thanks.
the brits are pathetic patsies and love it.
REFORM….a private ltd company…cheers!
Sturgeon took over the party and from the begiging she and she alone has not only destroyed Independence but what the SNP once stood for and the best she can do sail on a canal as if nothing has happened, hasn’t peter Murrell be a fool.
I ask any decent Scots who really wants Independence why or why would you want to work with the SNP or its leadership.
On a basic salary of £80,000 a year and all the french benefits that comes with the job and being newly married in 2010, in the same year the stealing starts. Interesting I would have though with having a further income it would have STOPPED.
The reality is the UKG wants to protect the SNP because the SNP is protecting the union.
Now we will never know which of the alphabeties were given “gifts” to compensate them. Well done Rev you called it 100% right.
Seats, places on quangos, assistance with setting up companies and funding for those companies, political preference, promotions, pay rises
So glad I never gave this shower a single penny of my hard-earned cash.
Both my wife and I regularly donated to SNP and Indyref2.
I’m old enough to remember the great coffee machine scandal of 2015, which according to some reports on stv news today, is where some of the fraud money was spent…
link to wingsoverscotland.com
How the SNP’s auditors never uncovered any of this over a ten year period is both startling and suspicious.
Robin McAlpine has a forensic analysis on his blog entitled ‘ The Protection Racket: why is Sturgeon free tonight? It’s a good read.
Ouch. That is a good read and impossible to argue against. Thanks for mentioning it.
Well done Stu!! yet again WELL DONE!! seriouosly, without you, we would still be in the dark about these things. we would wait a long time for the spineless Scottish media to expose this.
You are 100% right – this plea bargin is to keep the SNP inner circle safe!
As Lloyd Quinnan said, this will go down as one of the darkest chapters in our history. Betrayal indeed!
My brother in law who’s English calls Sturgeon, Teflon.
Just like Johnson, Farage and Trump. Compare to Starmer (whatever you think of him) where every misdemeanour is shouted from the hill tops, landing real, damaging blows.
I am genuinely baffled by the supine nature of the media in Scotland on this. We are constantly told here they are nearly all unionist shills, yet on Sturgeon, even the SNP? Surely now is the time to ask some serious, hard-hitting questions and take no fobbing off any longer?
“genuinely baffled by the supine nature of the media in Scotland”
Keep an eye on the by-elections being fought in under a month’s time.
If they return SNP MPs to WM again, you’ll have your answer.
It’s tribalism that underpins Scotland’s woes, not colonialism.
That’s why the needle on the Indy support dial hasn’t budged in 15 years.
Because the SNP, under Sturgeons leadership & intake, are all unionist shills.
It’d be like ratting on a pal if they’d to actually type something. We all know the media aren’t journalists these days either but government mouthpieces.
The Lord Advocate should not be sitting in cabinet. That needs fixing immediately cause they look just as bad as all the others in this saga & dragged their feet.
Hark to the tinkle of the royal wee.
“We all know the media aren’t journalists these days either but government mouthpieces”
Nice apostrophes though.
Do they still provide soap on a rope? My brother used to ask me to send him women’s mags, so being a good brother I sent him woman’s own instead.
So John Swinney professes to be ‘shocked’ and ‘betrayed’. But he’s been at the centre of the SNP for many, many years. And he didn’t realise that there was anything wrong. Really??
It’s a really unsettling thought, isn’t it? The lack of answers definitely fuels that feeling of being misled.
This old ditty comes to mind:
Lavender’s blue dilly dilly
Lavenders green
When I am king dilly dilly, you
shall be queen..
The mere sight of that narcissist swanning about on holiday boils my piss. Even now the cultists are sending her best wishes. Grrrr…
I almost fell off my chair the other week when I saw Colin Beattie getting reelected.
Criminal or off the charts incompetent, neither should have been a winning look.
The BBC reports “Murrell’s clothing purchases included £75.55 on a men’s “slouch pouch onesie”.”.
I don’t even want to think about it. I’m sure Nicola won’t remember it.
That’s the size small.
The size XL is £99.99.
Mickey Mouse First Minister
Mickey Mouse Governing Party
Mickey Mouse Parliament
Mickey Mouse Judiciary
Overall…
A big black rat infested shit hole of a country not worth a damn, thanks to the British political classes out for them and them alone.
Rot in jail/hell Murrell…even though your ‘handlers’ will no doubt ensure whatever time you do spend languishing behind bars will be the easiest time possible.
Indy for Scotland!
SNP Out!
“Mickey Mouse First Minister
Mickey Mouse Governing Party
Mickey Mouse Parliament
Mickey Mouse Judiciary
Overall…
A big black rat infested shit hole of a country not worth a damn, thanks to the SNP and all the folk who STILL vote for them !!!
And…..
Rev Stu… you’re a credit to your profession, unlike so many lazy barstewards whose dead tree scrolls aren’t worth the cost of the ink, let alone the paper.
PS
Anyone fancy a laugh, go over to Wee Ginger Fud… the cult of Saint Nicla is strong in that one 😉
What I find unbelievable is how did he think that he’d get away with it? What on earth was he thinking? Was he mentally ill?
Frank, what are your reasons for thinking that Murrell expected to “get away with it.”?
What better way to undermine Independence for Scotland? The Murrell story is not yet complete. Unfortunately, i have insufficient understanding to anticipate the next stage.
So where is the £600,000 raised by public donation for independence?
Will we ever know?
The 400,000 Murrell admitted to thieving is almost certainly part of the 600,000. The rest of it was probably spent on election expenses because, otherwise, the SNP were skint.
Lying grifting charlatan bastards. Everyone one of the Scottish Nonce Party and those who follow them; may they rot in eternal hell. Given the effort I have previously put in I am now totally out of it. Yet the nodding donkeys remain in their thousands. Scotland is so fucked it is beyond measure.
Alex Salmond handed over the Scottish government to a woman who (according to her statement) couldn’t figure out what was going on in her own house.
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Seriously well done on your forensic research Stu.,
I see that the Scot-Grifts-Cash chancer Jimmy The Crowdfund Weaver is trying to purloin readers from your Wings Over Scotland Blog by defaming you again.
James Kelly does not know it yet, but when he ringfenced funds under (alleged) false pretences for paying polling companies and political analysis and then spent OTHER PEOPLES’ MONEY ON A HOLIDAY FOR HIMSELF he crossed a legal red line.
Wee Jimmy Riddle & Fiddle has definitely followed in Murrell’s footsteps, albeit on a pathetic level as NOBODY OF CONSEQUENCE IS BUYING WHAT JAMES KELLY IS SELLING.
Can’t write too much here, but Kelly is about to get his time in the spotlight and if there is any justice in this world, maybe share rooms with his SNP hero Peter Murrell.
Kelly really is a pompous, stalking ,daft wee no-mark who would have gotten away with his free holiday grift on those Amadans donating to his poll buying blog if he had realised posting photos of himself on the holiday he paid for from “woven” crowdfund money misappropriated, was a self-incriminating bad idea.
The daft wee tvvatt should just shut up and fluck off.
I do not want my taxes to pay for James Grifty-Kelly to get free accommodation and free meals with his new room-mate Peter Grifyt-Murrell.
“The truth is like the sun. You can shut it out but it ain’t going anywhere…”
Mark Beggan says:
25 May, 2026 at 4:39 pm
“The truth is like the sun. You can shut it out but it ain’t going anywhere…”
So where is it during the night ?
IDIOT !
Ok @Fakename.
Never by a second hand car.
“So where is it during the night ?”
Erm.
It’s the Earth that moves. It revolves on its axis. The Sun goes nowhere.
Galileo sorted that out several hundreds of years ago.
Are you seriously claiming you hadn’t heard?
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Seriously well done on your forensic research Stu.,
I see that the Scot-Grifts-Cash chancer Jimmy The Crowdfund Weaver is trying to purloin readers from your Wings Over Scotland Blog by defaming you again.
James Kelly does not know it yet, but when he ringfenced funds under (alleged) false pretences for paying polling companies and political analysis and then spent OTHER PEOPLES’ MONEY ON A HOLIDAY FOR HIMSELF he crossed a legal red line.
Wee Jimmy Riddle The Fiddle has definitely followed in Murrell’s footsteps, albeit on a pathetic level as NOBODY OF CONSEQUENCE IS BUYING WHAT JAMES KELLY IS SELLING.
Can’t write too much here, but Kelly is about to get his time in the spotlight and if there is any justice in this world, maybe share rooms with his SNP hero Peter Murrell.
Kelly really is a pompous, stalking ,daft wee no-mark who would have gotten away with his free holiday grift on those Amadans donating to his poll buying blog if he had realised posting photos of himself on the holiday he paid for from “woven” crowdfund money misappropriated, was a self-incriminating bad idea.
The daft wee tvvatt should just shut up and fluck off.
I do not want my taxes to pay for James Grifty-Kelly to get free accommodation and free meals with his new room-mate Peter Grifyt-Murrell.
Well, postcolonial theory (Fanon) warns us that a dominant national party elite that has been ‘co-opted by colonialism’ quickly opts for ‘neutrality’on the matter of independence and thereafter ‘behaves like a gang’, much as we see, in order to maintain its deceit of the movement, which is ‘taken up a blind alley’.
The only thing missing from the Rev’s excellent analysis is the realisation that what we see is the workings of a long established colonial justice system that always ‘protects the interest of the coloniser’ (Memmi).
link to yoursforscotlandcom.wordpress.com
What took you so long, Alf?
Murrell steals hundreds of thousand of pounds. His ‘wife’ simply did not see any of the new purchases. Treasurer and other office bearers resign as Murrell refused to reveal to them the SNP accounts.
One set of Auditors resign, obviously for reasons totally unrelated to fraud!! and new English ones, based in Manchester, appointed. Both sets of Auditors ‘signed off’ on the accounts. No one in the SNP hierarchy thought anything was amiss. Swinney is shocked.
The trial was delayed until after the recent Scottish elections and held on a Bank Holiday. Dorothy Bain would have, of course no input into this before she departs.
All parties that were involved, with the possible exception of the Manchester based Auditors are Scottish yet the learned professor claims that it is all due to his favourite subject-Colonialism. Nothing like this could ever happen in an Independent Scotland! How naive can some people be?
Meanwhile, over on the WGD site, which is NOT a site promoting Independence, it is a site promoting the SNP, all is already forgiven. Saint Nicola of Sturgeon and the rest of the SNP hierarchy are all totally innocent and knew absolutely nothing about the Parties finances because St. Nicola told them they were fine and she would not entertain any further comment. Anyone who raised their head above the parapet was swiftly removed.
To gain Independence and for it to work, the WGD nutters and the Wings of Scotland nutters would have to combine and convince the ‘non believers’ that it would be in Scotland’s best interests financially and morally. An honest, competent Government would be paramount with the real, not the imagined, financial/economic, moral case presented to the electorate. It never happens. Is anybody confident that it will?
England is holding Scotland back is the cry. I am sorry to disappoint, but it is Scotland who is holding Scotland back. How can any sane educated person think other wise?
Got that, everyone?
English-appointed civil servants and Vauxhall Cross are benign agents, and do nothing but good in Scotland and the pretend parliament. Move along there.
Nicola Sturgeon, John Swinney, Colin Beattie, Kirsten Oswald, Murray Foote, David Leask, Tom Gordon, Mike Russell, Callum Steele, Pete Wishart, your boys took a hell of a beating.
I’m curious why you’re including Calum Steele in that comment. He was the only one of those you mentioned who supported Stu.
The marital home must be worth about £450,000 so he would get half of the equity.
If the mobile home and Jag are still around they must be worth £100,000.
He is sure to have money invested or in a bank.
Most of that money should be recovered.
Does he have any gold fillings?
“Lynsey Bews
BBC Scotland political correspondent
The list of items bought by Murrell also includes DVDs of the first few seasons of the Danish political drama, Borgen, purchased back in 2012 and 2013.
Nicola Sturgeon was known to be a fan of the show, which featured a female prime minister, Brigitte Nyborg, running a coalition government.
In 2015, Sturgeon – at that point just a few months into her tenure as first minister – told the media she “may have re-watched Borgen once or twice”.
She also suggested the show’s leading actress, Sidse Babett Knudsen, could play her in a film of her life.”
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Interesting.
Jeez, is that narcissistic or what , me me me.
They are all ("Tractor" - Ed)s , sell outs , hing oots.
They are getting off lightly, instead of ("Tractor" - Ed)s gate.
Shamefull, disgraceful.
It’s treachery on the citizens, treachery to the country.
They have to be gone.
A full citizens enquiry. With prosecutions and reparations.
Joanna Cherry has called for John Swinney to be replaced as Scotland’s First Minister and leader of the SNP. Swinney has also stated the SNP will not reimburse this money back to the people it was stolen from so really this money has been stolen twice once by the CEO and now the SNP.
I donated money to this fund, isn’t it time to start a legal challenge to recover our money and compensation from the SNP, If I was a legal firm who deals with no win no fee I would peruse this.
I hope the SNP is going to apologize Sean Clerkin bring this crime to light along with the SNP membership and The Rag. I wondered if you’ll be talking to Sean Clerkin, REV.
The only problem with replacing Swinney is, who do you install in his place? It’s not as if there’s a wealth of witty, intelligent and articulate political powerhouses to choose from within the honking carcass of the SNP :/
There lies the problem, who do you trust? I really don’t like SF but some how I reckon if he was leader, JC would return back to the party and he would want her to play a major roll if this happened I would consider re-joing if there was a real goal to deliver Independence, which we will not ever see under SW.
If only the Muppets had been investigated as much as Mr Farage. This would never have happened. This would never be allowed in Scotland.
Michael Paterson, 59, pled guilty at the High Court in Edinburgh of embezzling funds of £1,087,444.47. from Aberdeen City Council between 2006 and 2023 …
Michael Paterson a former employee of Aberdeen City Council pleaded guilty to embezzlement has been jailed for four years.
Prosecutors raised a proceeds of crime action, and more than £167,000 will be seized from Paterson – with £104,000 being paid back to Aberdeen City Council from the funds recovered.
A total of £417,523 has already been recovered by Aberdeen City Council from Paterson’s pension fund.
From being detected, arrested, sent to court, sentenced by court, sent to jail ……all completed in under 2 years !
I guess there is a different law for different folk considering the faffing around an about with Peter Murrel ! Andrew Mountbottom Winsor Tie is another example of this !
Hey Rev, has anyone (except on here) given you any credit at all over this? I certainly haven’t seen any.
“Since despite this strident yet self-evident lie Beattie was released without charge, we must assume that he is innocent of any criminal wrongdoing and simply the worst, most jaw-droppingly incompetent treasurer an organisation ever had, unable to spot the best part of half a million quid vanishing into thin air on his watch…”
I realise that this is sarcasm, but there must be an actual explanation. It makes sense to conclude that the useless lying shite was given a free pass because he was assiduously keeping his handlers informed of every single thing that the Murrells were up to.
Reminiscent of Dugdales “yer too thick to know what ye were saying” judges summary in its case against the site host..
The fact that the wee ugly inside and out poisoned dwarf is still parading about with her lesbian train, unconcerned about her (husband) hahahaha just reinforces the sick country that Scotland and her legal system has become
It is inconceivable that the treasurer and the leader of the party are not being charged with gross incompetence of financial irregularities within a political party
As senior officers they are responsible for ensuring that the finances are NOT used improperly or fraudulently, especially when both of them have been so publicly outspoken and forceful in their insistence that there has been NO IMPROPRIETY or misuse of funds
FFS Beattie’s public announcement that everything is in order, nothing to see here guv and sturgeon’s RABID insistence that “no one mention the finances”video is proof positive that either they were BLATANTLY LYING and covering up for the bald eagle fraudster or they were in cahoots
What kind of makeup does beattie wear and is the poison dwarf into sado
Scotland is now in the big league of corrupt one party states.
Nah. No third-world country plays in the big league.
The big league contains but two countries anyway – the Orcs and the Covid Spreaders. They’re not accepting promotions from the amateur game.
They’re the only two sticking to international law despite severe provocation that’d test the patience of saint.
Just shows how topsey-turvy yer world view is. Not Trump who is corrupt as fck & insider trading & being all Del Boy with his trump crypto coins & fake IOY knock off phones LOL!
China won’t be the Wests problem for much longer anyway as it untangles itself from the US. $95 billion less trade & Chinese investors investing in their own markets instead of the US. Nae need for $s exchange.
See what happens when you fck about with international payment systems, pocket other countries reserves & generally act like a bully boy? A classic case of fck about – find out.
Who knows, those seeds they gifted Trump may grow a money tree.
Aye, the planets are all aligning for regime change. Just not the one he hoped for…
There’s no need to rub Patrick Thistles nose in it.
A Third world hick with lots of oil.
Good post, Geri.
Don’t all those posters wanging oan aboot stolen money grind yer gears though? They could be shilling for poot and Xi instead. Make themselves useful.
Loving your quip about international law. Who knew that international law allows you to cook up a deadly virus in a lab, carelessly let it escape, lie about it until there’s a world-wide pandemic that kills hundreds of thousands, impoverishes millions, and costs the world’s population trillions of dollars between them?
They should do it again, maybes call it the Geri Pox.
Shiteface,
Every accusation is an admission from you. It was the West who cooked up that virus.
The EU has already grilled a banking economist who gave evidence about Central Banks wanting to stray into the business of personal banking, surveillance & where they can issue individual sanctions. That virus was to hail in a whole new era of digital ID, vaccine passports for their data gathering centres & to test just how compliant the public would be to lockdown.
Plus, they were about to hit yet another banking crash.
You should watch round the world parliament TV & UN TV. You may educate yourself.
Whatever shit they have cooking in those 40+ labs in U is allegedly enough “to wipe out the whole of Europe if it falls into the wrong hands” according to another senate grilling Nuland over funding for U.
I’d say the unelected dictating Nazi dwarf working on behalf of Perfidious Albion is the wrong fucking hands wouldn’t you? Trust old Blighty to be in cahoots with the most corrupt & depraved country in the entire world.
You might like to live in the dark but other people like to actually follow world events. You wouldn’t look such an eejit if you did the same. It’s the West that are the terrorists & their Hegemony & thieving around the globe is coming to an end.
Sorry, Geri, I only just noticed you took a tinkle on the site at 10:02 AM.
Would it be fair to describe it as a right, royal wee?
But I’m intrigued. That banking economist they grilled. Did they eat him all at one sitting, or was there enough left over for sarnies the next day?
Oh, and when you wrote “banking”, was that a typo?
I just wish Alex had been here to see this day
Tonight, in one of the gentlemen’s clubs in St James’ London, Mainwaring, Cholmondley-Warner, Carruthers, St John Smythe and the other members of the hidden establishment will probably be holding a celebration dinner.
Job done, another custard pie in the face of the SNP – a couple of by-elections just made that big harder to win.
Further evidence, that party could not run a bath – the cause of Independence for Scotland put back another decade or so, and England can continue to milk our resources.
Renton was correct – it is shite being Scottish.
“it is shite being Scottish”
I think what Renton really meant to say, had Irvine Welsh and other Scottish intellectuals on the left understood that our reality is not simply due to being working class, was that: “its shite being colonised”.
What we see in the current case and in the political and institutional management of Scotland by external actors is all part of the colonial statecraft playbook; it is what Colonial Intelligence Apparatus looks Like:
link to decolonise.scot
Maybe you get to revise Welsh, Alf, when sales of your book exceed sales of his.
Then there are the film rights and the box office takings. You getting many calls from producers/directors?
Slight correction. ‘It is shite being Alf Baird’. It is always helpful to blame others other than ourselves.
However there is some good news. Calvin Cheeseburger the Third has completed his inventory of the paper clips at the UN and is now devoting his full attention to freeing Scotland, ably assisted by the stunning Debbie Lee Frisco. The trivial matters in the Middle East, Eastern Europe, Cuba, Greenland and half of Africa have been put on hold. I expect an announcement any day now. Isn’t it exciting?
Two sneering, servile unionists there. Both paid by the post.
Chas @ 9.49
Bad enough that it may be so without you wishing it!
You Scotchland hating cringing Unionists really are a bunch, and no mistake..
That was a very interesting read, Alf, thanks. That site is now bookmarked, and its name has resonance for obvious reasons.
PM was originally charged with stealing £460K. He admitted to £400K today. I recall that he generously ‘lent’ the party £107K. The party paid back about half. £460K less £400K is £60K. Half of £107K is about £60k. Perhaps this accountsvfor the difference?
Well, hearty congratulations. You did indeed tell us so, in detail and with all the facts in place. A totally awesome piece of investigation
Robin is angry and why not everyone has devoted their lives to the SNP and Independence. I’d have a read at what Robin Mcalpine has to say.
link to robinmcalpine.org
Anyone with an ounce of integrity should be angry as to what’s happened to the SNP over the past decade.
Anyone who is deluded enough to think Swinney will make a difference conveniently forgets that as a useful idiot of the British State, he can’t sit down unless someone from Westminster tells him how he can find his own arse.
Agreed, Robin is on fire.
The next Through A Scottish Prism should be interesting.
Why is there no mention of the 600k referendum fund?
Alf Baird @ 9.02pm:
Professor, Renton did, later in his famous rant, admit: “We’ve been colonised by wankers”.
True.. and we are kept in that state by the actions of self serving, conscienceless wankers. Sturgeon being the worst of them in recent times.
““We’ve been colonised by wankers”.”
Indeed, a ‘famous rant’, and spot on.
Matches anything by Burns, even.
Well said Irvine Welsh… and Renton fae Leith.
There’s an aspect to that kind of thinking, Professor Baird, that obviously eludes you.
If we take the usual meaning of wanker, as in an ineffectual, weak, contemptible person, a squalid low life, one of life’s failures, to be either pitied or scorned, what does it say of the so-called colonised Scots when these degenerates seemingly still rule us with an iron fist?
What pejorative description could you apply to a nation supposedly held in thrall by pathetic, contemptible losers?
Of course we’re not colonised by wankers. I very much doubt we’re colonised at all, although I do get that you’ve gone too far down that cul de sac to ever reverse course now.
But if we are colonised, it’s not wankers that defeat us at every turn.
Get a grip, man.
What ” obviously eludes you” Hatey, is that:
– colonialism is “obscured by assimilation” (Fanon), and;
– there is “an associated pathology” and hence development of a “colonial mentality” resulting from colonialism (Memmi);
– which leads to the assimilated native viewing their own people/culture “through the eyes of their procurer” (Fanon).
In other words, the native elite and other groups “co-opted by colonialism” become colonialists themselves.
Or what some term “unionists”, and in some cases “loyalists”.
This has always been about who controls the message. If you’re looking for justice, then take control yourself. Let’s raise an action of count, reckoning & payment against the office holders in the SNP; asking a court to order those officials to account for the funds received from the membership and what happened to those funds?
This has always been about who controls the message. If you’re looking for justice, then take control yourself. Let’s raise an action of count, reckoning & payment against the office holders in the SNP; asking a court to order those officials to account for the funds received from the membership and what happened to those funds?
Candidate for being killed by hammers.
Hi – I am a casual reader of your column ever since the Alex Salmond’s trial. I would like to draw attention to an article on todays BBC Scotland”s website by Glenn Campbell where he adds Alex Salmond’s name to a list of people who have been convicted of crimes.
‘To that unsavoury list we must now add the name of Peter Murrell -‘
This is an egregious statement.
Well done Stuart Campbell and Sean Clerkin. If it weren’t for yous pesky kids, he would probably got away with it.
link to dailyrecord.co.uk
“dont worry peter – that dot bain will get ya aff … ”
did peter and nikki have a joint bank account, like married couples do?
“takes one for the team” (in a manner no one believes) the judas goat
sturgeon – a notorious control freak who micromanaged everything (despite not keeping a diary nor being able to remember anything) and ran “independent(!) thinkers” out of the party, becomes utterly incurious when hubby won’t let her use the laptop and/or tells her “don’t look in my files c:\peter\snp\money”
– this is what makes it all stink, the cops have just decided “this far and no more” – wee peter is going to be the patsy, take a deal, and – we shall see how “severe” his sentence is. I bet the sneaky wee cunt has plenty stashed (it will be in nikki’s name).
note how – when they just don’t want to do something – they can spin it out forever
but its a general thing – starmer is on the rentboys, farage gets 5M gifts from crypto bros for no reason (like he wants to push crypto, thats a coincidence), and trump seems to have started a war simply to do some insider trading; its like the french aristocracy – no taxes and no laws can touch them
holyrood needs a new monument at its front – a fully functioning guillotine
– it will be the new tradition for all MSPs to kiss the blade at their swearing in; when they do so they will see in small writing “remember who you work for”
The guillotine is purely symbolic of course; no one would ever use it for real.
– woodchippers are far more effective.
they should make murrell serve it out in a womens jail, where he can share knitting recipes with isla bryson
SNP into admin, assets sold off, bought up by a trainers tycoon and they start again, contesting local councils
Since I was young, Scotland was solidly Labour, and they were corrupt bastards. Unfortunately, it appears that the modern SNP inherited their instincts and here we are today. I’m of the opinion that the massive amount of bollocks that they have promoted in the media have just been a distraction to distract us from their looting the state. Anyone fancy to dissuade me from this conclusion? I’d love to hear a convincing rebuttal.
I asked Google AI: “If it transpires that Sturgeon was the benificiary of his embezzlement, can any of the assets she received be confiscated from her and returned to the SNP by way of compensation?”
The answer was;
“Yes, any assets Nicola Sturgeon received that derived from the embezzlement can be confiscated and returned to the SNP as compensation, even though she has been cleared of criminal wrongdoing.Under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (POCA) and Scottish criminal procedure, an individual does not need to be guilty of a crime to lose assets that were funded by criminal activity.
The two distinct legal pathways available to strip these assets from her and compensate the party operate as follows:
1. The Criminal Confiscation Pathway (“Tainted Gifts”)
If the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) determines during Peter Murrell’s financial assessment that he used embezzled funds to buy assets for Sturgeon or transferred money to her, these are legally categorized as “tainted gifts”.
The Mechanism: The financial value of these gifts is added directly to Murrell’s personal confiscation order.
The Recovery: If Murrell cannot pay the order using his own sole assets, the court can grant an enforcement receiver the legal power to seize the specific physical assets, cash, or property from Sturgeon.
The Defense: Under POCA, an innocent recipient cannot block confiscation simply by claiming they did not know the money was stolen. The assets can still be stripped unless she can prove she paid full, fair market value for them using her own independent income.
2. The Civil Recovery Pathway (Non-Conviction Forfeiture)
If authorities choose not to pursue the assets through Murrell’s criminal order, they can initiate Civil Recovery Proceedings directly against the assets held by Sturgeon.
The Mechanism: This process is entirely separate from criminal charges. It is an action brought against the property itself rather than the person holding it.
The Legal Standard: The court only needs to establish on the “balance of probabilities” (that it is more likely than not) that the assets in Sturgeon’s possession were obtained through Murrell’s unlawful conduct.
The Outcome: If proven, the court will issue a recovery order, forcing Sturgeon to surrender the assets.
How the Money is Returned to the SNPPOCA heavily prioritizes victims of crime over state asset seizure. The mechanisms to route the recovered funds back to the Scottish National Party (SNP) include:
[Recovered Assets from Sturgeon]
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[Court Enforcement Officer]
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[Court Compensation Order] ???? Paid Directly to the [SNP]
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[Scottish Consolidated Fund] (If standard confiscation, via application)
Court-Ordered Compensation: Under Scottish law, when Murrell is sentenced or faces his POCA hearing, the court can pair the confiscation order with a Compensation Order. This legally mandates that the first tranches of any money clawed back from Murrell (including via his tainted gifts to Sturgeon) must be paid directly to the victim — the SNP — to cover their £400,310.65 loss.
The Restitution Principle: If assets are seized via civil recovery, the enforcement authority can petition the court to restore the property directly to the SNP, as the party is the demonstrable, lawful owner of the funds that were originally embezzled.”
I am not a lawyer and the usual Google AI disclaimers apply.
Not forgetting that every Scottish city and major town contains at least one well-connected family who will recover the money quickly and easily, with no tiresome paper work needed.
They’ll want their “finder’s fee” in cash. Used notes.
If the Murrell/Sturgeon junta couldn’t keep their sticky fingers off a mere 600k in the SNP’s accounts, what have they done with the 50 billion a year Scottish budget.
Every institution in the country – legal, academic, business, media, health, civil service, umpteen quangos, the lot have been hollowed out and filled with woke sycophants.
Who would have thought that Jack hand-the-money-back McConnell could claim the moral high round?
I’m a unionist, unreservedly. However I have great respect for the Rev’s journalistic brilliance. I have always had a modicum of respect for proponents of independence who had a vision of Scotland run along the lines of democratic accountability and integrity. The realpolitik however and sadly an understanding of the real world has highlighted the complete and bankrupt state Scotland could have become if Indy had come to fruition. The SNP are an unbelievable corrupt, venal, perverse and criminal gang epitomized by the execrable Sturgeon. The numpties who vote for these cretins are fueled by a hatred of England. Sturgeon herself should be held accountable but it would appear that her baldy, tubby and beardy hubby is taking the wrap. Vile people.
Olster
2 “words”.
– Boris Johnson -.
They are ALL self serving scum.
“I’m a unionist, unreservedly”
The UK is what’s known as an ‘imperial union’ (Elkins).
Which makes Scotland and any other annexed territory subordinate to English law.
Also known as colonialism.
Which means a ‘unionist’, to be frank and open, is really a colonialist, unreservedly.
Careful there, Alf, your hatred of England is exposed.
As with so many nationalist Scots, there was never a peep out of you when Scotland and the other “annexed territories” were subject to EU law from Brussels.
In fact, a sizeable majority of our so-called Scottish nationalists still pine to rejoin the EU today. And will enthusiastically support any party that make that pledge to them.
To be admirable, and indeed honourable, Scottish nationalists HAVE to be crystal clear that Scotland will never be subordinate to any external law whatsoever.
Otherwise, you’re just accepting or rejecting controlling hegemons on the basis of personal animosities and bigotry.
You’re all confused there with the usual diversions, Hatey:
It is colonialism that is described as “hateful racism” (Cesaire).
And where the oppressed (doun-hauden) native “only becomes a nationalist to free his people” (Fanon).
Meantime, look at the mess the coloniser/colonialists and colonial administration/institutions make of a colony, where nothing ever goes right and nothing ever seems right!
RANK AMATEURS compared to what goes on in the Wasteminster environs. Having been «at it» since the Norman conquest and the Domesday inventory of England’s assets,the centuries of experience in concealment in plain sight and «done nothing wrong mateism» kicks in.
England is a backward looking fiefdom of property base entitlement starting with its tawdry ruritanian monarchy.
It has never been a friend of Scotland, even from Saxon times. With a partner like that Scots must truly be suffering from existential dysphoria of major proportions.
Alex Salmond was right about EVERYTHING.
Goodnight Mr Murrell.
Sturgeon KNEW!
It’s been a great day. Wings over Scotland. Journalist of integrity. Class. And intellect. Honesty. Truth and light.
The Salmond conspiracy is next.
She’s going down.
Sturgeon knew!
Tessa Jowell professed to have had no idea that David Mills had remortgaged their house. At least unless you believed that, then you ought not to believe the even more incredible protestations of Nicola Sturgeon. Although not in court, it will all come out now, so to speak. Peter Murrell played a central role in the attempt to frame Alex Salmond, whose constituency office Murrell had been running more than 30 years ago, when he had stolen the then substantial sum of £500 from SNP funds. Salmond knew that Murrell was having difficulties, so he replaced the money and said no more about it.
As others have said, it was a paltry sum compared to what both were legally earning throughout the period but it is going to haunt Sturgeon in the years to come.
Such innuendo that she didn’t know about this is the stuff of legends for print media slow news days and TV interviewers looking for easy publicity.
Magnus Linklater in the Times today pays due credit to the Rev. for his investigative journalism:
“The conviction of Peter Murrell for embezzling more than £400,000 from the SNP’s campaigning funds brings to an end an investigation that reaches back to October 2020, when questions were first raised about the use or misuse of party donations.
Why, asked Stuart Campbell, the man behind the Wings Over Scotland website, did the SNP’s 2019 accounts have only £97,000 in its bank account, when the party faithful had raised close on £700,000 to further the cause of independence? Had this “supposedly ring-fenced” money from two successful crowd-funding campaigns simply “vanished into the maw of the party machine?” he asked.”
It may be the end of the investigation, but not the end of the questions.
What Sturgeon said about Salmond in 2021:
“The behaviour complained of was found by a jury not to constitute criminal conduct and Alex Salmond is innocent of criminality, but that doesn’t mean the behaviour complained of didn’t happen and I think it’s important that we don’t lose sight of that.”
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Applying the same logic – Sturgeon may well not have been prosecuted, but that doesn’t mean that the behaviour complained of didn’t happen.
I might as well stick my tuppence worth of pointless verbiage intae this place alang wi the rest o ye while ma pot o tea infuses, I suppose.
It isn’t as if the soap opera called “The Murrells” hasn’t been done a thousand times before in various sizes and shapes and plots.
Ever since Scotland was invaded by England in 1707, and more recently when England’s Labour Party (formed in 1900) came to dominate politics in Scotland, the Scots have been ripped-off and treated as fools (victims is perhaps a more fitting term) by those meant to govern them openly, honestly and fairly.
Anyone who thinks a ‘Scottish’ devolved government – a tricksy, Trojan horse of a government foisted on the unsuspecting Scots already dazed from 300 years of being treated like dogs by England – was going to operate any differently from any other English imperial outpost in Scotland’s three hundred year old colonised history is a fool.
And anyone who thinks, or ever thought, Holyrood’s parliament is a parliament of Scots for the benefit of Scotland and the Scots is a double-fool.
Triple-fool status is reserved for those Scots who thought Holyrood was actually going to deliver a real Scottish Government with the powers of a real government.
I was unsurprised at the ‘revelation’ Mr Murrell is a petty criminal… any phrenologist worth the name would have spotted his thieving tendencies immediately just by the shape o his heid.
It is quite possible that if Ms Sturgeon were to suffer a severe bout of alopecia we might see a similar pattern hinting at criminal tendencies on her treicherous bonce.
I think it odd that folk focus on Mr Murrell’s white-collar criminal activities and Ms Sturgeons betrayal of indigenous Scots and don’t consider why the twa o thaim felt so comfortable, so untouchable, so absolutely far above Scots law in their respective unlawful and anti-Scots roles.
I suspect they were, and still are, under the protection of a bigger, badder criminal beastie, a fallen, evil empire that rewards its wee lackeys with a bit of coin and bling and a fancy title or twa… like those wee meerkats that clean lice and such frae warthogs in return for their protection.
Perhaps one of the first actions of an independent Scotland’s cleaned-oot judiciary might be the issuing of criminal warrants, both domestic and international, for those who are currently ‘living it up’ at Scotland’s expense.
I wonder what Mr Murrell has been promised in return for his noble sacrifice – perhaps a two-year suspended sentence and a paternal slap on the wrist from a friendly judge, or six months of house arrest in some expensive, leafy street nestled deep in the heart of invisible imperial London, or perhaps some other non-consequential ‘punishment’ before heading off for a well-deserved pat on the back and an emotional, though secret, re-union with his devastated, traumatised, ‘shaken to her core’ wife.
I do love happy endings, both in real-life and in fiction.
The final episode of the “The Murrells” promises to deliver that very thing… well, for the Murrells, anyway, if not for the rest of us.
Naw, Northcode.
The amount took is substantial. The impact on the community and wer pretendy pahlmint is substantial.
Minimum 5 years in pokey.
You are young, Sam, and hae little knowing in the ways of ‘The Empire’… I am old (189 years last week… and not a birthday caird fae the wan o ye) and ken weel its evil and convoluted and twistit ways.
A five-year sentence might be the lie, the illusion of justice, sold to the public, but mark my words, young Sam, Murrell will ‘serve’ a mere fraction of that time in a ‘real’ prison, before being lost in the system and forgotten.
Forgotten, and then moved to a luxury yacht operating as an MI6/MI5 joint (MI11) secret safehouse somewhere (Cannes – pronounced KHAN, as in Kublai ) on the Mediterranean sea.
Oh, my, you youngsters – how your innocence amuses me.
We can be sure of one thing, Northy.
If you are categorically wrong on this, as you so often are, you won’t be fessing up and apologising.
I guess you and the lying crims at the top share a few personality traits in common. Is Murrell maybes a Pict?
There is much that could be said in response to this long-running, tawdry affair – and much has been said already, by far better placed people than I.
Well, here’s my contribution:
“…. urgh.”
These characters are truly revolting. Yuk.
Didn’t the court say something about living a lifestyle he couldn’t afford.
Since he had been on a six figure salary for 20 years, and no obvious large outgoings, surely he ought to have been able to afford it reasonably comfortably, perhaps take a wee loan, since the missus has a gold plated £60k+pension for life.
Or what were his other large expenses?
Dented buoys an’ Aspro pouder ?
As so many have said on here your investigation and reporting on this has been nothing short of magnificent Stu. Thank you for your relentless effort in exposing the truth which would likely have been buried deep by this corrupt SNP bunch. And of course you make the main stream jpurnos look like the muppets they mostly are.
This thieving began while Alex was still the leader. More generally, how could the SNP system have let the thieving happen in the first place?!
As Pushkin Famously observed,
“Where there is a trough, there will the pigs be also”…
I salute wings, always a top notch read and putting the rest to shame.
Well done sir!
I don’t think it is a coincidence that the politicians and journalists who are prepared to lie to our face about basic biology are the same ones who are happy to lie, or actively overlook the lies, about everything else. And I don’t think it’s a coincidence that journalists – like Rev Stu – who just can’t go along with the lie about biology are the ones we can trust to pursue the truth elsewhere doggedly. It’s clearer than ever this is a litmus test. I will never vote for anyone who says a man can become a woman, because if they lie about that I can’t trust them on anything.