Nicola Sturgeon Arrested

[Beebo]

They were both quite old when they got married. Probably with health bank balances and independent financial arrangements.
They didn’t have kids, so their disposable income would have been large.
The money spent wasn’t massive, we aren’t talking about£5million. They are large purchases but nothing so outlandish that they would seem impossible.
She probably assumed that the jag and camper van were SNP property. I doubt he told her that he had purchased them as private property.

 

[AndyRM]

The party and it's members / donors are the victims.
Sturgeon is either blind, or stupid, but not a victim, though she is caught up in the mess.

She's been betrayed by her ex husband and will be dogged by this for the rest of her life, no matter what she does or says, she's not escaping this.

I reckon that qualifies as a victim.

Calling her blind or stupid despite the fact that an extensive investigation found that she's innocent and wasn't just looking the other way? Well, that's on the folk who won't take her at her word.

Personally I do.

Murrell has single handedly set the SNP back years, giving everyone who buys the "SNP baaaaad" line easy ammunition. He's a prick and I suspect he'll get off without the custodial sentence he deserves.

 

[First Aspect]

They were both quite old when they got married. Probably with health bank balances and independent financial arrangements.
They didn’t have kids, so their disposable income would have been large.
The money spent wasn’t massive, we aren’t talking about£5million. They are large purchases but nothing so outlandish that they would seem impossible.
She probably assumed that the jag and camper van were SNP property. I doubt he told her that he had purchased them as private property.

Why would the SNP need a Jaguar?

 

[Beebo]

Why would the SNP need a Jaguar?

Company car? For driving the CEO about.

 

[First Aspect]

Company car? For driving the CEO about.

That's very sweet.

 

[Dorset Boy]

Why would the SNP need a Jaguar?

Why would the SNP need a campervan?

 

[First Aspect]

Why would the SNP need a campervan?

Well quite. I think he passed that off as being for campaigning purposes. Although they'd have had to have been a close knit campaign team used to sharing a bed.

 

[AndyRM]

Why would the SNP need a Jaguar?

Prescott needed two.

 

[First Aspect]

Prescott needed two.

That was ministerial, it wasn't a Labour party Jaguar.

 

[AndyRM]

That was ministerial, it wasn't a Labour party Jaguar.

Brevity not your thing? No worries.

 

[icowden]

I must say I am surprised how many people have such completely independent and opaque finances, from their spouse. Don't any of you discuss large purchases before you make them, you know on the off hance they affect the other person?

Yes, my wife always discusses with me how I should spend my money

 

[Rusty Nails]

I can well believe Sturgeon knew nothing about it. As national leader she was clearly single-minded, and probably selfish, enough to have little interest in anything but her day job. Not necessarily an admirable trait but I can totally believe that she existed in her political bubble, and that her marriage was not one of those lovey-dovey unions where they discussed the latest purchases while watching Traitors on TV.

 

[Rusty Nails]

With this sort of thing I like to ask myself "Would they extend the same benefit of doubt to somebody they don't like?" Maybe someone like Nigel Farage? Probably not I think.

Or would they extend the same lack of doubt to somebody they like, maybe Farage and his £5m personal gift. Probably yes, I think.

People are not always logical when it comes to politics.

 

[First Aspect]

Or would they extend the same lack of doubt to somebody they like, maybe Farage and his £5m personal gift. Probably yes, I think.

People are not always logical when it comes to politics.

I don't think any political party or leader of a political party would escape unscathed from being married to someone who goes down for theft or embezzlement, whilst living in a house that contains the proceeds.

It is fine to sympathise on a personal level (which I do to some extent) but be concerned how it reflects on them professionally. Apart from anything else, Sturgeon robustly defended the SNP finances and pretty much black-balled anyone who dared ask. So she stuck her neck out on an issue she had a baked in conflict of interest on, and turned out to have been rather badly mistaken.

 

[AndyRM]

Yes, my wife always discusses with me how I should spend my money

Coke and hookers again is it @icowden? We've had this conversation before...

This thread has got me thinking about mine and my good lady's finances. The last conversation we had around what we'd consider a big purchase was for a trip to London and gig tickets to see Boyzone, around £500 for her to go down and take her mum.

We'd decided we couldn't really afford it and that was that. I thought nothing of it until recently she reminded me they were off to the gig.

"I thought you said that wasn't happening?"

"I used the bonus I got from work to pay for it, remember I told you?"

"Nope, but have a fab time."

Which is small scale stuff, anecdotal and not malicious (unlike Murrell), but that's why I find it not beyond the realms of possibility to understand how someone could be completely oblivious to personal financial arrangements.