Nicola Sturgeon Arrested

[briantrumpet]

I might do a reverse of what Starmer has done to Labour...

...but better and more thoroughly.

One of your raised eyebrows could work wonders.

 

[briantrumpet]

Free bikes for children was literally an SNP policy.

And yet you didn't vote for them? (Reading between the lines, obvs.)

 

[BoldonLad]

@Ian H as a Tory candidate would certainly be entertaining.

Maybe I missed one of your jokes, but, I did say not Tory

 

[briantrumpet]

Maybe I missed one of your jokes, but, I did say not Tory

It was one for @Ian H, and I was being silly (as normal).

 

[Shortfall]

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...murrell-snp-politics-sketch?CMP=share_btn_url

 

[Pblakeney]

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...murrell-snp-politics-sketch?CMP=share_btn_url

So the point here is that two people on high salaries without children or holidays could afford a Jag without questioning the cost?
I'd wager that there are people commenting on this with far more expensive cars.

 

[Shortfall]

So the point here is that two people on high salaries without children or holidays could afford a Jag without questioning the cost?
I'd wager that there are people commenting on this with far more expensive cars.

That's one take I suppose. She looked so shifty in the Kunnsberg interview I was waiting for her to tell us she couldn't sweat anymore.

 

[Ian H]

...I'd wager that there are people commenting on this with far more expensive cars.

I just use an ordinary laptop.

 

[briantrumpet]

I just use an ordinary laptop.

with Lotus installed?

 

[C R]

with Lotus installed?

I'll have nightmares for a week now.

 

[briantrumpet]

I'll have nightmares for a week now.

I carried on using Lotus 1-2-3 1997 until about 2010 or so (I think), as it did just as much as I needed it to. Now on Google Sheets, which sends out my invoices at the touch of a button, thanks to a non-AI extension.

 

[C R]

I carried on using Lotus 1-2-3 1997 until about 2010 or so (I think), as it did just as much as I needed it to. Now on Google Sheets, which sends out my invoices at the touch of a button, thanks to a non-AI extension.

I was thinking of Lotus Notes. 123 was great, but the transition to windows was not handled well.

 

[First Aspect]

Fellas, it was a Jaguar.

 

[icowden]

So the point here is that two people on high salaries without children or holidays could afford a Jag without questioning the cost?
I'd wager that there are people commenting on this with far more expensive cars.

I'd say so. They may well have had a conversation about which car etc, but he hasn't necessarily told her that he wasn't getting it on a PCP deal for £750 a month for example. A Dyson hair dryer for the home and one for the office / second home for Nicola might not have seemed *that* greedy if he staged them as a birthday present and a Christmas present. The coffee machines seem less likely. I suppose he could have gone down the "oh the office was getting rid of it because the contract ended - look it's hardly been used" route.

You could also see that she would be spending most of her time at the office as first minister and probably moving around, so new purchases *might* have been unnoticed.

Both of them were on about £80k per year which is high, but not millionaire-ville.

That's presumably what her brief will be arguing. Although it's £400k, by the time you take out the jag and motorhome you are down to £200k over 4 years, so an extra £4k a month on spends which feels slightly easier to hide.

 

[First Aspect]

I'd say so. They may well have had a conversation about which car etc, but he hasn't necessarily told her that he wasn't getting it on a PCP deal for £750 a month for example. A Dyson hair dryer for the home and one for the office / second home for Nicola might not have seemed *that* greedy if he staged them as a birthday present and a Christmas present. The coffee machines seem less likely. I suppose he could have gone down the "oh the office was getting rid of it because the contract ended - look it's hardly been used" route.

You could also see that she would be spending most of her time at the office as first minister and probably moving around, so new purchases *might* have been unnoticed.

Both of them were on about £80k per year which is high, but not millionaire-ville.

That's presumably what her brief will be arguing. Although it's £400k, by the time you take out the jag and motorhome you are down to £200k over 4 years, so an extra £4k a month on spends which feels slightly easier to hide.

I think the argument is that the sheer volume of purchases ought to have been noticed. But more so, as ex colleagues have said, her staggering incuriosity about party finances, as both leader and a person in the household where all the money was going.

She did, after all, try to muzzle anyone querying the party finances, and seems to have done so without them having been adequately scrutinized.