Nicola Sturgeon Arrested

[Xipe Totec]

After Murrell's arrest she said she would cooperate fully with the police. I took this to mean police enquiry. I do actually support the right to remain silent, but I just ask Sturgeon's staunch supporters how she squares the circle of saying she would "Fully cooperate with the Police" but then exercised her right to refuse to answer questions during a 7 hour interview.

I can't speak for anyone else but in the main it may be the full written statement she subsequently submitted, added to the fact that if the police inform you that 'you have the right to remain silent' - then remaining silent is fully cooperating with them. Although your assertion that you "do actually support the right to remain silent, but..." would quite strongly suggest that you might wonder if this should be a selective 'right'.

To be clear I'm not any particular fan of NS, or any other politician, for that matter - her broad political aims & those of the party she formerly led align with mine, and as FM she did a demonstrably better job of leading a country than any of her Westminster contemporaries could ever hope.

The level of hostility, disgust & disdain she provokes in some, simply by existing, is however off the fucking scale to the level of incomprehensibility, and I'm increasingly convinced sexism every bit is as close to the surface in this discourse as racism has shown itself to be elsewhere - even among some who would like to tell themselves they're on the Left. Take a moment to have a fucking look at yourselves while you rabidly try to blame a woman for the criminality of a man.

 

[AndyRM]

Oh dear chaps, once again you seem to have gone for the angle of putting words into mine which I haven't said.

Get a f*cking clue.

The SNP, Scotland and Nicola Sturgeon are the victims here.

Because of Murrell's systematic betrayal.

I don't know how to make that any clearer.

 

[Dorset Boy]

Who is blaming her for the criminality of her husband?
That's a Scottish mist.

 

[Psamathe]

After Murrell's arrest she said she would cooperate fully with the police. I took this to mean police enquiry. I do actually support the right to remain silent, but I just ask Sturgeon's staunch supporters how she squares the circle of saying she would "Fully cooperate with the Police" but then exercised her right to refuse to answer questions during a 7 hour interview.

I (genuinely) don't know the timing but did she agree to "cooperate fully with the police" in the context of Murrell's arrest but then decline to answer questions after she was arrested. ie very different from answering about Murrell than answering defending yourself once arrested. When accused of nothing is very different from after you have been accused and arrested.

But maybe that wasn't the timing, I didn't follow it that closely.

 

[AndyRM]

Who is blaming her for the criminality of her husband?
That's a Scottish mist.

You're either a Darkplace fan or woefully ignorant.

 

[First Aspect]

Oh dear chaps, once again you seem to have gone for the angle of putting words into mine which I haven't said.

Get a f*cking clue.

The SNP, Scotland and Nicola Sturgeon are the victims here.

Because of Murrell's systematic betrayal.

I don't know how to make that any clearer.

Only sweary aggressive Scottish people, usually white males from the central belt about 5ft 7" or less, can possibly have a clue about Scotland.

That much was clear to me from the two decades I spent there, unless I happened to agree.

 

[AndyRM]

Only sweary aggressive Scottish people, usually white males from the central belt about 5ft 7" or less, can possibly have a clue about Scotland.

That much was clear to me from the two decades I spent there, unless I happened to agree.

View: https://youtu.be/_9o3YCBGLt0?si=7Emy2e7H5mqcdvql

 

[Rusty Nails]

After Murrell's arrest she said she would cooperate fully with the police. I took this to mean police enquiry. I do actually support the right to remain silent, but I just ask Sturgeon's staunch supporters how she squares the circle of saying she would "Fully cooperate with the Police" but then exercised her right to refuse to answer questions during a 7 hour interview.

It would be interesting to know under what circumstances she was interviewed/questioned.
I will state at the outset that I do not really trust the police as I once may have, and if she thought, or her solicitor told her, there was a possibility that they were looking for some complicity rather than just her knowledge of her husband’s thieving then I do not blame her for her ‘no comment’ strategy.
Complete honesty is not always the best policy under every circumstance imo…even for a politician.

 

[Xipe Totec]

Only sweary aggressive Scottish people, usually white males from the central belt about 5ft 7" or less, can possibly have a clue about Scotland.

That much was clear to me from the two decades I spent there, unless I happened to agree.

Wow.

You must feel so much more comfortable, happy & safe back 'ome in BrexitLand.

 

[icowden]

Who is blaming her for the criminality of her husband?

I don't think anyone is blaming her per se, but people are asking questions as to how someone who has been at the top of her game as a Politician, who seems quite intelligent, who is a former solicitor didn't notice that her husband was syphoning off quite a large amount of money, and why she wasn't so keen for the SNP finances to be looked at closely.

Whilst the Police confirmed in2025 that she was not under investigation and would not face any charges, that's likely to have been because they didn't have sufficient evidence to charge her with anything. It doesn't mean that she was unaware that her hubby was doing dodgy stuff, although she might have been.

The no comment interview was apparently on the advice of her legal counsel.

 

[briantrumpet]

That much was clear to me from the two decades I spent there, unless I happened to agree.

I reckon you're a bit sore you're now getting asked in Cornwall if you're Scottish.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Murrell is an inconsequential nob. Absolutely.

As it turns out he was consequential. Hence where we are now.

 

[First Aspect]

Wow.

You must feel so much more comfortable, happy & safe back 'ome in BrexitLand.

People in the West Country are certainly friendlier I'm afraid. it is really quite striking. It's more like the Highlands and islands, and bits of the Borders (although it's a bit 6-toed down there for my liking).

I'd happily retire back in Scotland, but not to the central belt.

Probably it's a rural/city thing in the main. However I was very rural in Scotland and people were still fairly cnuty and aggressive.

 

[First Aspect]

I reckon you're a bit sore you're now getting asked in Cornwall if you're Scottish.

I still have a SE accent. I'm no less an incommer here than I was in Scotland.

Though friendly, it is quite parochial here. Swings and roundabouts.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Probably it's a rural/city thing in the main. However I was very rural in Scotland and people were still fairly cnuty and aggressive.

As the moral of the tale of two travellers goes…’Wherever you go, you take your own attitude with you. We don't see the world as it is; we see it as we are.’