Nicola Sturgeon RESIGNS (+ ALLEGEDLY Crooked + FOUL LANGUAGE + HUSBAND CHARGED)

It's a surprise she's left as suddenly as she has. I presume time will tell if it had anything to do with the police handing in a report investigating the missing £600k from SNP party funds the day before she resigned (there's recently been a lot of eyebrow raising at her husband, who's SNP party chair, lending the party £100k and her claiming to have not known anything about it) - I'm guessing legal reasons are holding back the press from speculating much about that angle.

Regardless of how that washes out though, she really wasn't in a great position at all internally in the SNP. Stephen Flynn (the party's new Westminster leader) isn't an ally of hers and basically dethroned his predecessor Ian Blackford (who is/was her ally) against her will. Her pledge to run the next SNP general election campaign as a de facto independence referendum had gone down v badly internally and had MPs who would ordinarily be considered loyal to her/close allies, like Stewart McDonald, writing papers speaking out against it publicly (historically a massive no-no / close to unheard of in the SNP, which is notorious for how strict its whip is on party discipline).

She was in a seriously bad place in terms of having a lot of the party going against her expressed election strategy (one of the most essential prerogatives of a leader), and it feels exceptionally convenient for her (plus a lot of people/media outlets opposed to trans rights) that her resignation is being framed as to do with the recent GRA reform attempts, or her just chucking in the towel cos she'd had a long run.
 
Penelope said:
It's a surprise she's left as suddenly as she has. I presume time will tell if it had anything to do with the police handing in a report investigating the missing £600k from SNP party funds the day before she resigned (there's recently been a lot of eyebrow raising at her husband, who's SNP party chair, lending the party £100k and her claiming to have not known anything about it) - I'm guessing legal reasons are holding back the press from speculating much about that angle.

Regardless of how that washes out though, she really wasn't in a great position at all internally in the SNP. Stephen Flynn (the party's new Westminster leader) isn't an ally of hers and basically dethroned his predecessor Ian Blackford (who is/was her ally) against her will. Her pledge to run the next SNP general election campaign as a de facto independence referendum had gone down v badly internally and had MPs who would ordinarily be considered loyal to her/close allies, like Stewart McDonald, writing papers speaking out against it publicly (historically a massive no-no / close to unheard of in the SNP, which is notorious for how strict its whip is on party discipline).

She was in a seriously bad place in terms of having a lot of the party going against her expressed election strategy (one of the most essential prerogatives of a leader), and it feels exceptionally convenient for her (plus a lot of people/media outlets opposed to trans rights) that her resignation is being framed as to do with the recent GRA reform attempts, or her just chucking in the towel cos she'd had a long run.
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Meh.

If she wanted to, she could have survived all of that. She couldn't be arsed and has decided to go.
 
Well, I'm sure she could have, but whether there'd have been much dignity or strength in it is another matter... we've already seen a model of trying to cling on when the sharks are clearly starting to circle lately. It's to her credit if she's decided to go out rather than do that, and it speaks to her political nous that she's done it at a time and in a way that not many people are talking about how vulnerable her position internally was.
 
At least she managed to put the bins out.
 
It seems like a really boring crime as well. As far as I understand, he is alleged to have moved £600,000 that was ringfenced for independence causes to a different account for general SNP campaigning, and then later moved £600,000 back. However, he refused to give SNP accountants records and they resigned, and it is possible that an account in question is a joint account between him and Sturgeon.
 
None of it really adds up. There was that £100k he loaned the party, which Nicola claims she was unaware of. Maybe they’re the sort of couple who keep their finances separate, but you’d think the Chief Exec might let the party leader know in this circumstance considering it’s his wife?
 
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A statement from Ruth Davidson:

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Labour absolutely rubbing their hands at this - they'll totally see a comeback as on the cards in Scotland now.
 
What’s with the TENT?

Where they having a BBQ when they were raided?
 
The tent is so the police have somewhere onsite to catalogue any potential evidence they're taking for further investigation.
 
ZenGiraffe said:
It seems like a really boring crime as well. As far as I understand, he is alleged to have moved £600,000 that was ringfenced for independence causes to a different account for general SNP campaigning, and then later moved £600,000 back. However, he refused to give SNP accountants records and they resigned, and it is possible that an account in question is a joint account between him and Sturgeon.
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If they're looking for bodies, who the fuck BURIES BODIES in the front garden. And with that LOVELY NEW BUILD there can't be too many bodies. Maybe one or two.
 
Maybe they’re just digging foundations for an extension to the conservatory?
 
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