Nicola Sturgeon Arrested

[Mr Celine]

Have you guys never moved address since 1993?
You have to get a photo card if you move.

No and I've no intention of moving either.

It's £20 to voluntarily replace it with a photo licence. I did consider that when planning my first post-brexit trip to Europe as no one could tell me if my licence was still valid. UK advice was to contact the embassies of the countries concerned.
I was going to see the TDF in the Vosges, via the Newcastle - Amsterdam ferry, with a possible return via friends in Arnhem. I emailed the Dutch, Belgian, Luxembourg, French and German embassies. The Netherlands said yes, Luxembourg said yes (but only replied 6 months later), Belgium and Germany said 'ask the DVLA' and France said 'we don't respond to emails'.

 

[Shortfall]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c362gx5px47o

Do any of the SNP supporters here have a view on this?

 

[laurentian]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c362gx5px47o

Do any of the SNP supporters here have a view on this?

. . . I've had a flick through the 107 pages of items he bought. He had an unhealthy interest in pens (expensive ones), sawing horses (!), knives and Le Crueset products . . . it's a very odd list

 

[First Aspect]

. . . I've had a flick through the 107 pages of items he bought. He had an unhealthy interest in pens (expensive ones), sawing horses (!), knives and Le Crueset products . . . it's a very odd list

I actually had a Le Crueset salt dish delivered to my house by mistake in about 2018. Amazon just said sorry but didn't want it back.

I think I know who it belongs to.

 

[AndyRM]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c362gx5px47o

Do any of the SNP supporters here have a view on this?

The only thing really saving the party right now is the lack of any credible opposition.

Labour and the Conservatives are a joke, as are the Lib Dems.

The Greens are utterly insane, and Reform/Restore will get nowhere because they only care about England.

It's a sh!te state of affairs, and I don't think there's any kind of obvious or easy solution, other than taking Burrell to Forres so he can visit The Witches Stone.

 

[First Aspect]

The only thing really saving the party right now is the lack of any credible opposition.

Labour and the Conservatives are a joke, as are the Lib Dems.

The Greens are utterly insane, and Reform/Restore will get nowhere because they only care about England.

It's a sh!te state of affairs, and I don't think there's any kind of obvious or easy solution, other than taking Burrell to Forres so he can visit The Witches Stone.

I had imagined your solution would be independence, so that the same group of people running the country now can be free to run the country.

 

[Pblakeney]

I had imagined your solution would be independence, so that the same group of people running the country now can be free to run the country.

That is an interesting issue. Would the SNP have any relevance in an independent Scotland? What would be their prime policies?
Hmmmm.

 

[First Aspect]

That is an interesting issue. Would the SNP have any relevance in an independent Scotland? What would be their prime policies?
Hmmmm.

Well they'd use the leaf as currency, and all become immensely rich.

 

[First Aspect]

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/ukne...d=6a216600658f4fde8261010b395f5665&ocid=hpmsn

This is so slapstick. We will find out that John Swinney has slipped on a wobbly ladder and spilt a bucket of paint on someone next.

 

[AndyRM]

Sounds like a hate crime. Bring back The Maiden.

 

[Shortfall]

. . . I've had a flick through the 107 pages of items he bought. He had an unhealthy interest in pens (expensive ones), sawing horses (!), knives and Le Crueset products . . . it's a very odd list

The link relates to Swinney's admission that funds donated to the party and which were ring fenced to run any future independence referendum were in fact spent on day to day running of the SNP. It's nothing to do with Murrel's shopping habits but equally indicative of how the leadership shows contempt for ordinary members and supporters.

 

[AuroraSaab]

Murrell has been given 5 years 3 months. Judge made clear it was in part a deterrent sentence.

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...nced-embezzlement-snp-scottish-national-party

Odd that it says Murrell has enough of his own money to repay the stolen £400k. Could be house proceeds that he previously didn't have I suppose, but it does beg the question as to why steal money when you had enough dough to buy most of the things you spent it on anyway. Because you can and because you thought you could get away with it is the answer, I guess. His comments do hint at a kind of compulsion once he'd started.

 

[C R]

Murrell has been given 5 years 3 months. Judge made clear it was in part a deterrent sentence.

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...nced-embezzlement-snp-scottish-national-party

Odd that it says Murrell has enough of his own money to repay the stolen £400k. Could be house proceeds that he previously didn't have I suppose, but it does beg the question as to why steal money when you had enough dough to buy most of the things you spent it on anyway. Because you can and because you thought you could get away with it is the answer, I guess. His comments do hint at a kind of compulsion once he'd started.

Rich people don't stay rich by spending their own money. He just wasn't sufficiently clever about it.

 

[spen666]

Murrell has been given 5 years 3 months. Judge made clear it was in part a deterrent sentence.

https://www.theguardian.com/politic...nced-embezzlement-snp-scottish-national-party

Odd that it says Murrell has enough of his own money to repay the stolen £400k. Could be house proceeds that he previously didn't have I suppose, but it does beg the question as to why steal money when you had enough dough to buy most of the things you spent it on anyway. Because you can and because you thought you could get away with it is the answer, I guess. His comments do hint at a kind of compulsion once he'd started.

You ask the question with a rational logic - greedy people do not always act rationally, but act often on compulsion or because they can

 

[AuroraSaab]

Yes, I suppose once he realised how easy it was he couldn't resist. I wonder what the very first item was. It'll be something like stationery or food. Starts with a pen, ends up with a motor home.

He got legal aid because his assets were frozen but presumably they will be released now to repay the £400k plus interest. Don't know if you have to repay legal aid once those circumstances change.