[Abernathy]

Will I be called an Imperialist English bampot if I question the nepotism, is it really wise to permit a wife and husband to be leader and treasurer of a political party?

Well, we already know you’re a bampot , but no, it’s not wise at all. It’s a bloody terrible idea, as Sturgeon & Murrell have demonstrated. Call me cynical, but I can’t help but be a little skeptical that Sturgeon was completely oblivious of her husband’s - ahem- illicit acquisition practices. As to the cause of their marriage break-up, well, who knows ?

[Oboogie]

Half a million spread over 12 years is fuck all to people as rich as them, so it's possible she knew nothing, but that doesn't mean she didn't. We may never know for sure.

[Boiler]

luxury wristwatches

I don't "get" this thing some blokes have for "luxury wristwatches". A ten quid Casio will fulfil the role of telling the fucking time perfectly, unless...

[davidjay]

Of all the luxury brands there are, watches is the one I understand least. If smart clothes or fast cars are your thing fine, look smart and drive fast. But no matter how much it costs, to me a watch is always a watch. It looks no different and tells the time exactly as well no matter how much it costs.

[Abernathy]

Agreed. Once you start to spend more than say, about a hundred quid for a watch, you’re out of the world of function and into the world of vanity.

[The Weeping Angel]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2027k1ev3zo

Nicola Sturgeon has told the BBC she feels like she is "serving a sentence for a crime I did not commit" after her estranged husband admitted embezzling £400,000 from the SNP, the party she led for years.

In an exclusive interview with Laura Kuenssberg, Scotland's former first minister refused to apologise for the scandal and struggled to hold back tears, recalling gifts from Peter Murrell that turned out to have been purchased with stolen money.

Sturgeon told the BBC: "I am not responsible for the crimes that my former husband committed and I'm not going to apologise for somebody else's crimes."

She has consistently denied any knowledge of Murrell's wrongdoing, committed between 2010 and 2022.

The former first minister was not charged following a police investigation.

Sturgeon was SNP party leader between 2014 and 2023 and in that role shared responsibility for monitoring the party's accounts.

[Boiler]

<insert Jimmy Hill meme here>

[Tubby Isaacs]

Well, this really isn't going well for the SNP or the John Swinney. There are two strands here really. One is the embezzlement by Murrell- he wasn't involved, but present while people were asking awkward questions. He's digging himself into holes by saying the controls were fine, then saying, yeah, well they failed. And today he's making out that money ring fenced for an independence campaign was fine to be spent by the SNP on normal politics (with no independence campaign). A former MSP drily points out Swinney has in the past shown a rather less liberal interpretation of ring fencing when it's money from his government going to LAs.