Did Peter Murrell’s embezzling cost Yes the 2014 independence referendum? – politicalbetting.com
Did Peter Murrell’s embezzling cost Yes the 2014 independence referendum? – politicalbetting.com
Peter Murrell was once at the heart of power in Scotland. He was SNP chief exec; his wife, Nicola Sturgeon, SNP leader & First Minister.Today, we watched Peter Murrell being handcuffed in court. Then we saw him taken away in a prison van, guilty of embezzling more than £400k. https://t.co/yYbqjtlEzw pic.twitter.com/j63HnvM9cE
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After all, easier to blame the failings of a criminal than to admit they put forward something people looked at and rejected due to its contradictions and confusions.
One could say spending £160 on a Folio Society history book and £200 on Fortnum and Mason advent calendars and over £2k on Lallique salt and pepper grinders and £57k on a Jaguar I Pace shows rather better taste from Murrell than the latest Nat whinge and propaganda. So some unionists may have some sympathy with his predicament. I couldn't possibly comment. Even though he of course has to face the consequences of his crime
Nobody at the SNP raised this to the police, it took a member of the public to make a complaint to the police.
The biggest employee unhappiness issue was when I hired a milk in firster.
People who drink tea/coffee are not to be riled, something as a non tea/coffee drinker boss I have learned to my cost.
1) Restore talking absolute gash about their prospects to try and harm Reform as much as possible
2) Restore actually harming Reform in Yarmouth-level numbers
Either way us good news for Burnham.
That tweet from Matt Badloser was prescient. If you vote Restore then Reform will lose and that means Burnham will win and then hold a GE and then Reform will lose and we're locked into "hard left" government until 2031.
Reform chief thinker saying they would lose to Burnham. Which in itself feeds back into the "what's the point in compromising to voting Reform when you could have the Real Thing instead" piece. If Reform will lose, why waste your time with them?
They actually remind me of the ones we had a school.
I once saw Bill Nighy doing his weekly grocery shopping in the basement. We Champagne socialists know how to live, I thought.
Makes my trips from Sheffield to London all the better
And there’s nothing like a statistically remarkable hot day in Britain to bring out the hordes on Twitter. Read any post by a meteorologist and there’s a deluge of commenters seemingly deeply upset that a weather professional is tweeting about the weather. And these days sprinkled lightly with stuff about chemtrails too.
I can think of 3-4 names of people who've been closely involved with my charitable Trust in the past who've done this, one who paid it back just before he was found out and would have been done for embezzlement.
On topic I doubt it, but what a sorry mess Murrell has landed his ex wife Sturgeon in and the wider SNP movement
Swinney has just been asked if the SNP will repay the money and he fudged the answer
I expect if I had arrived on the drive with a £100,000+ campervan my good lady would have wanted to know how it was funded, and also the appearance of luxury items in their home
No matter, it will be something she will be forever associated with fairly or not
I have noticed an uptick in the polls for labour but a corresponding one, if not greater, for reform so I would caution that Burnham may not the shoe in some may expect but I hope I am wrong
It's also wrong as how can you get the colour right if the milk is there...
As for the Reform-Restore rumble, it's Chesterton's guradrail in action. A guardrail is a type of fence, isn't it? Remove the taboo against right wing national populism and there's very little to stop you decending into actual hell. There will always be someone willing to outflank you.
Peter Murrell’s guilty plea today confirms that the Scottish National Party has been the victim of embezzlement of hundreds of thousands of pounds of funds provided by SNP members.
This is an admission of a terrible breach of trust and an overwhelming betrayal by the man entrusted to be the Party’s Chief Executive.
Today, I share the overwhelming anger felt by all SNP members.
I joined this party almost fifty years ago.
In that time, I’ve campaigned alongside thousands of dedicated SNP activists.
They worked hard to raise funds for this party, they campaigned tirelessly to deliver electoral success, and they have helped us become the party of government.
Those are the people in my thoughts when I talk about betrayal.
By embezzling from the SNP, Peter Murrell was stealing the hopes, the dreams and the aspirations of thousands of people all over Scotland
People who gave what they could, over many years, in the hope that it would help contribute to a better country.
So today, I am horrified. I am betrayed.
But I am also resolute about the future.
I returned to the SNP Leadership a couple of years ago because I could see that the party that I loved was not in the best place.
I promised that we would get back on track.
A key part of that has been the process to strengthen our governance structures and party finances.
That has been an ongoing process over a number of years.
The party now has a modernised backroom operation which, as we saw in the election result, is highly effective at supporting campaigning around the country.
The SNP is resolutely focused on the priorities of the people of Scotland, and our new government is hitting the ground running.
We are the party on Scotland’s side. We are taking action on the cost of living, improving our NHS and we are determined – more than ever – to lead Scotland to a brighter, independent future.
(He worked it out with a pencil.)
Pencils are essentially free. Like coat hangers they breed. I never buy them and have hundreds. I am waiting for the fraud squad to demand an explanation.
(Pencil drawing must be one of the most under rated art forms of all. Wonderful. Sadly I am no good.)
This is usually for innocent reasons- like tired physics teachers who need a couple of goes at a problem to iron out all the mistakes.
I'm sure that there's an innocent reason in this case as well. Must be.
https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/nature-and-biodiversity/habitats-directive_en
It also makes me laugh how the people here who are most critical of Faragist charlatanry and ill-preparedness for government are the most gung ho about 'Just ignore the damn regulations!!' - I mean really guys, pick a lane.
(TSE will now ask: What is a book?)
Shoutout to the staff at Wakefield History Centre who are fantastic. Call down to the Archives in Kendal where the remaining staff do their best but the service has been destroyed firstly by Cumbria and then by Westmorland and Furness
I just went to an interesting talk on this. The suggestion is that Leonardo was only able to develop his ideas thanks to the recent invention of cheap paper. He produced at least 5000 pages of doodles. No-one was able to ideate in this way before due to the expense of parchment and you also wouldn't work this way now.
Still, it's the thought, eh?
Using coins.)
The thing about both the bat tunnel and £70m nuclear power plant fish disco is that neither are required under EU regs; they represent a disproportionate response to achieving species protection.
The emotive arguments on both sides are no doubt a lot of fun, but a very large proportion of them could be avoided by a more pragmatic approach.
The UK is particularly bad at that, for some reason.
(Note btw that the link you paste includes detail on the EU having a look at the regs to see if they can make them more pragmatic.)
I have no idea where I saw the report.
(Edit: Yes I do. Mark Pack blogged about it in 2016:
https://www.markpack.org.uk/143476/indelible-pencils/ )
It’s incredible that we’ve never had a Gen X president and if we play our cards right we can skip the paint chip generation entirely
https://x.com/growing_daniel/status/2058469815950671899
Most of their customers apart from us researchers are trainee solicitors who pay a surcharge for having the copy authenticated. I did point out to one that it made more sense NOT to have them authenticated, calendar the images properly when at home, send the results to the other side and ask if there was anything they disputed. If there was then go back and get an authenticated copy and send the other side the bill.
The dream was gone. Their careers were now stuck in a system with Westminster as the top tier.
There was no prospect of the huge scope for grift on a new national scale. So a whole lot of "fuck it" set in.
What do you call a man with a pencil on his head? "H.B"
By the way, said museum suggests the humble British pencil won both world wars and the Cold War - apparently the British pencil has always been superior to the German pencil.
Like booking at the Premier Inn and being told, sorry, due to refurbishment works you actually have to spend the night in a cardboard box under the footbridge instead.
For the same price.
Well, let's play - I mean if he doesn't get a majority Farage can always on the Conservatives to prop up his Government, can't he?
Anyway, answer the point: how have Spain built a lot of high speed rail since this came in if it’s such a problem?
Edit: beaten by @williamglenn
The Conservatives certainly won't support Labour, they might support Reform but more likely would vote bill by bill
Is it as likely the Conservatives would offer C&S to a minority Reform Government as it would for the LDs to offer C&S to a minority Labour Government?
I think to assume that is to think simplisticly and what will happen after the votes have been counted could be very different.